Gareth Gaston

Gareth Gaston is the Chief Product Officer of Candescent, where he leads product strategy and innovation across Candescent’s digital banking platform. He has over 25 years of experience driving large-scale digital transformation in financial services.

Before joining Candescent, Gareth served as Chief Product Officer, Enterprise Digital, at U.S. Bank, where he advanced the bank’s digital leadership, launching a new mobile app and voice assistant recognized as industry-leading. He later expanded digital capabilities across all business lines, building shared platforms for authentication, money movement, account opening, and open banking.

Gareth has also contributed to industry-wide innovation as Chair of the payments advisory board that launched Zelle and as a founding board member for Akoya. He holds an MBA from the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program (NYU Stern, London School of Economics, and HEC Paris) and an honorary doctorate from his undergraduate alma mater.