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Warriewood, New South Wales, Au

I co-founded FreightInsure in 2022 to change the freight delivery game by making insuring freight as easy as 'point-and-click'. Partnering with the global Lombard insurance group and HDI Specialty SE, FreightInsure provides an embedded insurtech solution to significantly simplify the way goods-in-transit insurance is distributed and purchased, at scale.

Sydney, 2000, Au

Insurtech Australia is the national, not-for-profit industry association dedicated to nurturing startups and innovation in Australia's insurance sector. I am passionate about Australia's ability to become a world leader in insurtech and to developing the ecosystems, partnerships and capital markets focus to enable Australian innovation globally.

Sydney, 2000, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Seamless open banking digital mortgages. Enter borrower details once and receive pre-approved mortgage offers from Australia’s leading banks and mortgage lenders - instantly.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

BizCover is a high-growth insurtech scale-up, Australia's largest online commercial insurance marketplace for small and medium sized businesses, with global operations in New Zealand, USA and South Africa* Led and closed the sell-side $135m strategic investment by Austbrokers Group Limited in BizCover in February 2020* Led the entry of BizCover into the South African market* Responsibility for M&A and strategic ventures, including negotiation of venture agreements and key commercial arrangements* Delivery of capital management to meet organisational strategic and operational needs including bank loan facilities, capital raisings and treasury* Designed and implemented employee remuneration frameworks including employee equity programs* Matured the Finance and Analytics functions through people, process, systems and controls* Developed and governed the enterprise cybersecurity strategy* Embedded Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Robotic Process Automation across the organisation

Sydney, Au

ASX-listed zipMoney is a leading player in the Australian digital retail finance industry, offering point-of-sale credit and digital payment services to the retail, education, health and travel industries. zipMoney’s platform is entirely digital and leverages big data in its proprietary decisioning engine to deliver real-time consumer responses.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Development and lecturing of Financial Risk Management course in Masters of Applied Finance at the Macquarie Applied Finance Centre, focusing on credit, market, operational, balance sheet and liquidity risks, governance and ethics, using ISO 31000 framework. Member of Risk Management Advisory Group.

The CEDC is an Australian clean energy fund that provides revenue certainty to utility-scale clean energy projects and their financiers through the use of structured derivatives.Established and responsible for enterprise risk management framework.

Austin, Texas, Us

Votiro Cybersec protects organisations and governments from external cyber attacks by applying patented Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) cybersecurity technology to cleanse all incoming files and email messages, neutralising undisclosed and zero-day exploits. ASX-listed Senetas Corporation purchased strategic stake in Votiro in late 2018.

Virtu is a higher education institution that offers diploma level qualifications in Design and Business through face to face, online and blended delivery channels. Acquired by APC Design School in 2018.

Active investor and deal-maker at boutique private equity fund manager focused on growth oriented mid-market companies.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Australia's largest peer-to-peer personal lending platform.General manager with a span of control across all organisational functions. Supported 10x revenue growth and execution of hiring plan that doubled headcount over a 6 month period.Introduced and embedded Agile operating methodology and program management function.

London, Greater London, Gb

Leadership of the strategic and cultural change management program that transformed Investec's Australian credit risk appetite post Global Financial Crisis, including credit risk management framework.Established and managed the credit & collections team, policies and risk appetite for the start-up Asset Finance & Leasing business in Australia, growing finance book from zero to $190M over 24 months.Created and implemented Investec’s Environmental, Sustainability & Governance policy.

London, Greater London, Gb

Executive responsibility for the Board Australia Risk & Capital Committee, including credit, market, liquidity, balance sheet, capital, operational and legal risks, and establishment of enterprise risk appetite statement.Executive responsibility for Investment Committee and Investment Review Committee.Member of Credit Committee, Credit Risk Review Committee Watchlist Committee, Investment Committee and Investment Review Committee; Permanent Invitee of Capital Committee, Operational Risk Committee, Assets & Liabilities Committee, Market Risk Committee.

London, Greater London, Gb

Primary responsibility for all wholesale, corporate, institutional, treasury, securities broking, asset leasing, equity derivative: lending decisions and approvals, loan workouts and collections, credit models, policies and risk appetites, and derivative exposures (interest rate, FX, commodities, equities).

London, Greater London, Gb

Originated, structured and executed complex project, corporate and asset finance transactions exceeding $6 billion in aggregate as transaction team leader, adviser, lender, underwriter, arranger and principal, across a range of products including senior, mezzanine, junior and bridging debt, leases, risk participations, syndications, investments and joint ventures, and across a range of industries including power, clean energy, biofuels, oil & gas, mining, infrastructure, transport and rail, in Australia and globally.Established and managed Investec's wind power development joint venture with Windlab Systems, a CSIRO spin-out company, growing over five years to 3,500 MW of projects under development in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by 2010, a team of 8 professionals, an annual expense budget exceeding $15 million and aggregate profits over that time exceeding $60 million.

Masters Of Business Administration (Mba)(Exec)

Graduate Of Company Directors Course

Masters Of Applied Finance, Applied Finance And Banking

Bachelor Of Science (Advanced), Mathematics

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