Anthony Aboud
Chief Change Officer
ME Bank
As Chief Change Officer, Anthony leads “Ellen” - the ME business unit which is focused on helping ME make the changes necessary to support its significant growth ambitions.
Anthony joined ME in March 2011 after 15 years with GE Capital. He has led strategic projects, including an IT re-platform, and was responsible for the GE customer centricity roadmap. Formerly the ME Chief Operating Officer, Anthony founded the ME Ellen business unit in 2015. He has Master Black Belt certification in the Lean Six Sigma methodology and is currently finishing his Masters of Management
Kareem Al-Bassam
General Manager
PayPal Credit Australia
Kareem Al-Bassam is a payments industry veteran with more than fifteen years in global financial services. In his role as PayPal's General Manager of PayPal Credit Australia, Kareem leads PayPal’s credit business, including PayPal Working Capital, launched in late 2014. With PayPal since 2011, he has held several leadership roles in Business Development, Innovation and Delivery in California and Sydney. Prior to PayPal, Kareem led S1’s (now ACI) profitable Payment Services group, one of the largest US bill payment consolidators. Prior to S1, Kareem worked with NetSpend (now TSYS) and Card Tech Limited (now TSYS too) in an innovation capacity with postings in Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Simon Andrews
Chief Operating Officer
ING DIRECT
Simon joined ING DIRECT Australia in 1994 in the Treasury team. He progressed through various roles before becoming Executive Director at ING DIRECT Australia.
In 2005 Simon moved to ING DIRECT UK holding the role of Chief Risk Officer before moving to TMB Bank Thailand in 2009. He joined TMB Bank as COO with executive responsibility for Technology, Operations and Corporate Services across the Wholesale, SME and Retail customer segments.
In October 2013, Simon was appointed COO at ING DIRECT Australia, overseeing IT, Operations, Delivery, Enterprise Information and Facilities.
Sunil Aranha
Chief Executive Officer
Thincats
Sunil Aranha – Chief Executive Officer and Director, has 25 years of international and local SME sector banking experience with general management roles within Citibank, EFIC and Commonwealth Bank.
Tim Banner
Director
Vanguard Australia
Tim Banner is a Director at Vanguard in Australia and has been working with the Vanguard Method since 2002. During the past 10 years Tim has consulted extensively in the public and private sectors in both Australia and New Zealand.
Previously Tim spent 20 years in the UK within the Financial Services industry; during that time, he held various leadership roles.
Tim’s background includes leading change in a range of organisations from large multinationals to local government departments. He has proven experience in using the Vanguard Method to help leaders study their organisation from a customers’ perspective and as a system. Helping them lead their organisations to massive improvements in service, efficiency, revenue and morale.
Martin Barrett
Managing Director
Auswide Bank
Martin has a 29 year career across diverse banking institutions both nationally and internationally. This includes senior executive roles in retail, commercial, corporate and specialist banking areas. He most recently held the position of State Manager (Queensland and Western Australia) at St George Bank. He has also acted as Regional Manager of Clydesdale Bank in London and Manchester.
Martin commenced his current role with Auswide Bank Ltd (formerly Wide Bay Australia Ltd) in February 2013 and is responsible for overseeing the company’s operations and business strategy. Auswide Bank was Australia’s 10th listed bank.
Martin and his leadership team immediately embarked on an aggressive 3 year strategic plan to reform and re-energise the company. This includes building the dedicated 3rd party broker and business banking channels, improving products, increased capability in technology and achieving ‘bank status’- a goal which was realised in April 2015. Auswide Bank recently gained a 20% equity stake in Peer 2 Peer lending and announced a proposed merger with YCU.
Martin holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Murdoch University and an MBA from The University of Western Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and the Chief Executive Offi cer Institute. On a personal note, Martin enjoys spending time with his family who relocated to Bundaberg. He is also a keen bike rider for fi tness and pleasure.
Pascal Bourgeat
Director of Behavioural and Cognitive Science
Ipsos Australia
Pascal Bourgeat, Ph.D. (Consumer Behaviour) is Director of Behavioural Science at Ipsos in Australia. He designs research and works with private and public sector clients and Ipsos teams in Australia and around the world on a range of behaviour-related issues: CPG consumers and shoppers, customers of service sectors, users of public services like health and transport, environment and resources, social and public services, patients, healthcare professionals and more. Pascal is based in Sydney.
Recently Pascal has shared a behavioural perspective at events in Australia and overseas on:
- Behaviour change in the digitised urban environment,
- Transport choices and driverless vehicles,
- Navigating customers in financial services,
- The future of marketing in a digital environment,
- Attention to Zizzle: the A to Z of behavioural science,
- Behavioural science and ethics,
- Behaviour keys in a changing retail environment.
David Brennan
Executive Director and Head of Innovation
Kikka Capital
David graduated university with a Bachelor of Commerce and subsequently was RG 146 registered. He was introduced to the corporate finance industry in an assistant analyst role. After working for several years in the events management industry he decided to return to his long-term interest in the financial industry. In 2013 David and his team entered the Australian Credit market and built a highly efficient full service online loan origination platform to allow underserviced Australian customers fast and frictionless access to personal finance.
David and his team have been at the forefront of the Australian Financial Technology industry, introducing a previously unseen level of technology integrated directly into the online loan decisioning process whilst always focusing on the most enhanced user experience for the customer.
As CEO of Kikka he leads this pursuit for automation in the lending process and is responsible for executing the corporate strategy of the company
In July 2015 David was announced as the AICM Western Australia, Young Credit Professional of the Year.
In 2015 David was nominated for the Business News 40 under 40 award and the WA today entrepreneurs and innovators award.
Ismail Chaib
Chief Operating Officer
Open Bank Project (Germany)
Ismail Chaib is Chief Operating Officer at TESOBE / the Open Bank Project, a financial technology startup which provides open APIs to financial institutions such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and BNP Paribas. Prior to that, he cofounded the Algerian award-winning tech startup SMSBridge and transformed it into the leading SMS platform in the country.
Ismail launched the German chapter of MakeSense, a global network supporting social entrepreneurs and helped shape it into a worldwide community of more than 20.000 SenseMakers in 100 different cities. He is also an ambassador of the UN Foundation programme +SocialGood and advices the Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Ismail graduated from the University of Nice, France with a Master Degree in IT Project Management and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algeria with an Engineering degree in Computer Science. He currently lives in Berlin.
Mike Cutter
Executive GM, Credit Risk & Advisory Services
Veda
Mike joined Veda in March 2015 with an extensive career in financial services, spanning more than 25 years, both in Australia and abroad. Mike’s roles have included time at National Australia Bank, CRO at ANZ (Australia), CEO at GE Money Australia & New Zealand and CEO of OAMPS Insurance Broking.
Mike has knowledge of Comprehensive Credit Reporting from international markets and has been one of the original champions of CCR in the Australian market.
Mike has held numerous directorships and chairmanships with WesFarmers, ANZ and GE. He is a senior fellow of Finsia, has been Director of the Women’s Cancer Foundation since 2006 and served as a director of the Australian Finance Conference until 2009 and National Insurance Brokers Association until 2014.
Clint Davis
Chief Technology Officer
Incredo
Clint Davis: Digital Disruptor, Innovator, Technology Evangelist.
The Incredo Group specialises in disruptive financial technology (FinTech) and digital agency services for the banking and finance sector. Incredo’s flagship product, Incredo Analytics (IA) provides lenders electronic proof of income (ePOI) and credit decisioning policies to control compliance, improve decision speed and increase assessment accuracy.
Clint acts as Incredo’s CTO, leads the Group with research and development in leading edge technologies and has a keen eye for identifying gaps in market offerings and opportunities to further Incredo’s suite of products. With a focus on creating IT driven solutions for clients, Clint drives the modernisation of customers’ systems and processes across their entire organisation. Clint has 4 years servicing the finance industry and 10 years in technology innovation and software development projects.
Kevin Davis
Research Director
Australian Centre for Financial Studies
and Member
The Financial System Inquiry Panel
Kevin Davis is a Professor of Finance at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining Melbourne in 1987, he was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Adelaide.
His primary research interests are in the areas of financial institutions and markets, financial engineering and corporate finance. He is co-author/editor of sixteen books in the areas of finance, banking, monetary economics and macroeconomics and numerous journal articles and chapters in books.
Kevin is on the Board (and previously Chairperson) of the Melbourne University Credit Union, and the Board of SIRCA. He has developed and presented numerous training programs for banks and businesses. He has undertaken an extensive range of consulting assignments for financial institutions, business and government, including preparing a report for the Federal Government on Financial System Guarantees.
Most recently, the Federal Government appointed Kevin as a part-time member of the Australian Competition Tribunal. He is a Senior Fellow of Finsia and a Fellow of the FTA and of the AMI Institute, and a member of the Economics Society Australia, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Asian Finance Association.
John de Bree
Managing Director
Capify Australia
John joined the company in 2010 as head of the Australian operation and pioneered the alternative lending market in Australia. John is a highly successful leader with a proven track record in achieving strong profitability, winning new business and developing and growing existing business at a senior level.
John has over 25 years experience in senior management roles with major financial service companies including American Express, Mastercard Worldwide, St. George Bank and Diners Club.
Bernard Del Rey
Chief Executive Officer
Capital Preferences (USA)
Bernard is a global financial services and marketing leader with the vision, experience, and know-how to usher clients through today’s most complex growth opportunities and market challenges. He advises CEOs, CIOs and senior distribution executives by leveraging his exceptional understanding of how to manufacture growth and improve commercial results in complex markets.
Bernard is founder and CEO of Capital Position Ventures—the industry’s premier positioning, growth strategy and global marketing firm, whose clients span North America, Europe and Asia.
Leigh Dunsford
Cofounder and Director
Waddle
Leigh Dunsford has over fifteen years’ experience in asset based lending and management. Prior to his current position as Co-founder of Waddle, he was a Director of two non-bank private funding businesses including establishment of a contributory mortgage fund. Additionally, Leigh also founded an international trade finance provider facilitating cross-border transactions between OECD countries.
Matthew Gijselman
Head of Government, Regulatory & Industry Affairs
Australian Retail Credit Association
Matt provides leadership in the development and implementation of ARCA’s government, regulatory and industry strategy to secure positive strategic and reputational outcomes.
Matt has led the political engagement strategy to support a growing acknowledgement of the role of credit risk systems to the broader economy with government and other key stakeholders, as seen in the support for the credit reporting reforms themselves, and in both the Financial System Inquiry outcomes and the recent Productivity Commission inquiry into data access.
Matt has developed and managed an ongoing strategy of engagement with regulators to ensure ARCA is seen as a trusted and specialised peak body. Evidence of this strategy includes ARCA developing the legislative instrument fundamental to the operation of the credit reporting system; and in the finalisaton of the Principles of Reciprocity and Data Exchange (PRDE) after a contentious consultation. The PRDE is the industry self-regulatory instrument that provides rules around reciprocity and data exchange in the credit reporting system. Matt now leads a team rolling out the PRDE, and the Australian Credit Reporting Data Standard (ACRDS).
Peter co-founded zipMoney in 2013 with over 20 years of experience in the retail finance industry. As a consumer finance specialist and responsible manager he has overseen high volume credit businesses in multiple regulated environments. zipMoney is a leading player in the digital retail finance industry. with an entirely digital platform, leveraging big data in its' proprietary decisioning engine to deliver real time credit responses.
Axel Grosse
API Server Solution Lead APAC
Axway
Axel is responsible for Axway's API Management solution across Asia Pacific. Through his career of close to 5 years with Axway, Axel has worked with many of the region's leading organisations and financial institutions, particularly in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, and has overseen major implementations with customers as they embark on their digital transformation journeys. Prior to Axway, Axel worked in Germany with Vordel and was the chief engineer driving the API Gateway adoption in the market before Axway’s acquisition in 2012. Axel has also spent 10 years at Oracle, covering the Middleware and Integration stack.
David Joyce
Customer Centricity Specialist and Author
Vanguard Australia
David Joyce is a leading authority on organisational change. He is also a well-known international public speaker and author of the book “Theories of Work: How we design and manage work”.
Prior to emigrating to Australia, David worked as a leader in various organisations in the UK. Today, as an interventionist, he works with Executives, Senior Managers, and Front-Line teams, helping them to understand and improve organisational performance from a customer’s point of view.
With particular focus on the service industry (which he differentiates from manufacturing), David’s ideology, the Vanguard Method, has enabled results that are nothing short of remarkable: organisations have seen their Net-Promoter Scores jump by 60 points or more, efficiency increase by as much as 40% and sales improve by similar amounts.
Ranin Mendis
Co-founder
LoanDolphin
Ranin has worked for the Westpac group for over 8 years over three different brands St George, Westpac, and BT. Post his departure from the Westpac group, armed with the knowledge, firsthand industry experience and customer insights he co-founded LoanDolphin, who is now backed by H2 Ventures and a resident of Stone and Chalk Sydney
Jonathan Miller
Director
Bit Trade Labs
Jonathon is director of Bit Trade Labs, a boutique blockchain solutions consultancy and of Select Field, a full service digital studio. He holds an honours degree in political economics and runs an indie record label, but exercises the force of his creativity as a digital consultant with specialist understanding of product development and blockchain technology
Martyn Norman
Head of Lending
Bank Australia
Martyn has over 26 years banking experience, working with Bank Australia and its predecessor credit unions.
Martyn has a Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University in Melbourne with majors in Finance and Information Systems.
He has held the roles of Lending Manager at Bank Australia since 2003, and Head of Lending since 2013. Martyn leads a team of 53 staff in lending with responsibility for the entire lending function including origination, product development and strategy, risk and compliance, settlements, and sales.
Martyn has been instrumental in developing the Bank’s online capability and has participated in industry working groups for electronic conveyancing and comprehensive credit reporting.
Bank Australia is Australia’s first customer owned bank. It has branch locations in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. Head Office is in Kew, Melbourne. Bank Australia has 360 staff and assets approaching $4b.
Dan O'Neill
Chief Process Officer
Commonwealth Bank
Dan is the Chief Process Officer for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), leading the Process Architecture and Digital Operations functions. In addition to leading a team of Process gurus, Dan is responsible for defining and embedding the end to end Process Management and Improvement strategy across the CBA Group.
With over 25 years’ experience in Financial Services heading up large scale operations and technology teams, Dan has led substantial operational, organisational, and technological change programs for national and global banks in the UK, Singapore and Australia.
Dan’s experience on multiple executive leadership teams, and passion for process optimisation, has seen him become a recognised thought leader on operational, organisational and cultural change.
Prior to his current role, Dan led the consolidation of lending processing centers for CBA and Bankwest, meeting the needs of retail, corporate and institutional customers by creating the first multi-product, multi-brand lending processing service for the CBA Group.
Ian Pollari
Non-Executive Director
Stone & Chalk
Ian is passionate about technology and its application to financial services (Fintech). This includes authoring Australia’s first local study into its potential opportunities, “As a firm we really want to play our role in shaping and influencing how the financial services sector evolves in the future.” Ian was gratified to see KPMG’s recommendations in the report given critical weight. “We suggested the creation of a Fintech hub, that would facilitate collaboration between diverse stakeholders and now there it is in Bridge St, Sydney (Stone & Chalk).” It also reflects his love of doing new things, “innovating, pushing the boundaries of our firm and making sure we’re looking over the horizon”. It is about harnessing our global knowledge, sharing our point of view and working with our clients to co-create the future. Ian has spent more than 15 years serving the banking industry. Prior to joining KPMG, he worked at Telstra Corporation in Strategy for Business & Government. It was his work there that piqued his interest in financial services, ultimately leading to his current position.
Jack Quigley
Founder, CrowdfundUP
Board member, Fintech Australia
Jack Quigley is the Founder and Managing Director of Australia's leading real estate crowdfunding platform, CrowdfundUP. Over the past 12 months, CrowdfundUP has financed over $10M (AUD) in Australian real estate transactions.
Jack left his role as a Corporate lawyer to found CrowdfundUP in 2013. Jack's corporate law knowledge has enabled him to play an influential role in shaping the Australian alternative lending and crowdfunding industries. He has been on the forefront of regulatory reform working closely with the Australian Government and various Government departments to ensure the Australian economy benefits from FinTech innovation. Jack has a keen interest and knowledge of crowdfunding, alternative finance, and financial technology.
Jack has become a leader in the financial technology industry, regularly speaking at events and conferences across the country, representing the industry as a Director of the Australian FinTech Association and educating people on the future of disruptive and innovative technology.
Deborah Ralston
Chair
Digital Finance Advisory Committee, ASIC
Deborah Ralston is a Professor of Finance at Monash University and Cluster Leader Monash-CSIRO Superannuation Research Cluster. Previous appointments include Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of Business Law and Information Science at the University of Canberra, and Director of the Centre for Australian Financial Institutions at the University of Southern Queensland. Deborah’s academic background is in economics and financial management and she has taught in the areas of economics, corporate finance, credit risk management, financial statement analysis and financial institutions management.
Her research interests include the impact of financial regulation, the strategy and management of financial institutions and regional economic development. She has published widely in these areas and is a co-author of the text Financial Institutions Management.
Deborah is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and the CPA Australia. Deborah is the Chair of ASIC's Digital Finance Advisory Committee. Deborah was formerly a Director of Heritage Building Society 1992-2003 and is currently a Director of the listed mortgage broking company Mortgage Choice.
Deborah was the Executive Director of ACFS from 2009 to 2015.
Glenn Riddell
Chief Operations Officer
RateSetter
Glenn Riddell is Head of Operations, Australia at RateSetter, one of the world's largest peer-to-peer lenders. Glenn has broad experience building disruptive finance platforms, and has been involved in the peer-to-peer lending industry since 2007. He started his career as a consultant, advising listed and private companies, not-for-profits and startups on strategy and technology.
Danielle Szetho
Chief Executive Officer
Fintech Australia
Danielle Szetho is CEO of Fintech Australia, the National Fintech Industry Association. Danielle previously held management roles in Design, Product, Business Transformation, Data Analytics and Commercial for leading Media brands such as News Ltd, Fox Sports and Fairfax Media.
Danielle holds an MBA (Executive) and a Bachelor of Digital Media degree from UNSW.
Stuart Stoyan
Chief Executive Officer
Money Place
Stuart Stoyan is founder and CEO of Australian marketplace lender MoneyPlace. MoneyPlace provides consumer loans and launched in late 2015, becoming Australia’s second fully licensed marketplace lending platform. Comprised of a team of former bankers who understand the risk inherent in lending, MoneyPlace aims to take the friction out of borrowing and investing for all Australians. Stuart is a leading member of Australia’s fintech community and has helped shape National fintech and innovation policies. Stuart is a Board member of Fintech Australia (the national industry association) and a member of the Government’s Fintech Advisory Group.
Nicholas Thorpe
General Manager Risk – Broker Partnerships, Digital and Direct
National Australia Bank
Nick has held this role since November 2015 and is accountable for oversight of both Credit Risk and Operational Risk for Broker Partnerships, the Digital & Direct Business and Marketing. Prior to his current role Nick held the position of Head of Credit for Personal Banking Risk and Head of Group Regulatory Affairs.
Nick has had over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, predominantly in finance, risk and treasury roles with NAB and General Electric.
Nick holds a Bachelor of Economics and is a Chartered Accountant and is married with three children.
Bruce Treloar
Chief Executive Officer
LIXI
Bruce is the CEO of LIXI Limited, an entity that develops and manages data messaging standards for use in the mortgage lending industry. Bruce has worked within the banking and finance industry for most of his career as an external auditor, internal auditor, project director and senior relationship manager. He was the banking industry representative on the National Electronic Conveyancing Systems (NECS) Steering Committee, where he chaired the Banks Conveyancers Lawyers working group. In addition, he has consulted to a number of participants in the mortgage lending and payments industry.
Bruce holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney; is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Governance Institute of Australia.
Leo Tyndall
Chief Executive Officer
Marketlend
Leo’s experience in the financial services sector is particularly extensive. Recently he was the Head of Capital Markets Asia Pacific for UniCredit, one of the largest banks by assets in Europe. Prior to founding Marketlend, Leo was engaged by a number of public companies to assist in raising capital to fund their financing of receivables. He has also been a director at National Australia Bank and part of the treasury team at RAMS Home Loans. He has also worked in Japan and Hong Kong for a number of years.
In the legal field, Leo holds a Bachelor of Law (Hons.) and is a nationally accredited mediator and qualified barrister.
Andy Weir
Chief Information Officer
Bankwest
Andy is a member of the Bankwest Executive Leadership Team, and is responsible for setting and driving the organisational strategy. His remit also extends to technology, operations and change management. He has over 20 years’ leadership experience in delivering major strategic and organisational change in both Europe and Australia.
Andy has led a number of transformational culture changes across Bankwest including the national retail expansion program, creating one of Australia's most innovative distribution networks. He also played an integral role in establishing an activity-based working culture and led the Bankwest and Commonwealth Bank of Australia integration program.
He is a driving force behind Bankwest's productivity agenda with the aim of creating one of the most agile and customer focused technology divisions in the world
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