Luis Guerra

Associate Director of Engineering at OakNorth

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Luis Guerra is Associate Director, Engineering - AI Enablement & Lab at OakNorth, the leading digital bank for entrepreneurs. He leads several of the initiatives behind the bank’s move to becoming an AI-native organisation. He runs AI Enablement, which gives engineering and business teams across the bank the tools, practices and governance to use AI safely and well. He also runs the AI Lab, which designs and builds agentic systems that take on real engineering and banking work. Alongside this, he leads forward-deployed engineering in OakNorth’s lending business: AI engineers work inside credit and operations teams to turn their ideas into tools running in production. He also helps shape the bank’s AI strategy.
Before joining OakNorth, Luis worked in financial services at BNP Paribas and Deloitte. He then joined a healthtech start-up, where he helped build and launch an AI product for optimising NHS medical rotas from its early stages. Having lived and worked in Denmark, France and Portugal, he brings an international perspective and a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation.