I specialise in building and scaling technology businesses in financial services.
Technology and financial services is where I have built a depth of expertise across a diverse range of executive roles, markets and products.
Technology
I have built and scaled three technology organisations, grounded in modern architecture and API platforms, all within regulated financial services.
I built these organisations, platforms and products from the ground up. The architecture in each case was connected infrastructure: API platforms, data access and partner ecosystems, shipped into markets that carry licensing, compliance and risk obligations.
My experience
Built the Australian open banking business from the ground up over 3.5 years: strategy, team, product and commercial proposition, on Mastercard's open banking platform following the Finicity acquisition. Delivered Australia's first Consumer Data Right pilot in the rental sector.
Launched a global open banking API platform into Australia as its first international market, including the regulated local entity, product localisation and the first customers.
Scaled an API-distributed insurance platform across three continents. The market expansion strategy became the foundation for XCover, now licensed or authorised in 60+ countries and all 50 US states.
What I excel at here
On modern architecture, API platforms and what changes in an industry once its infrastructure becomes programmable, plus first-hand experiments with AI in Build.
Read the writingOpen Finance ANZ convenes the technology companies, banks and startups building on open data infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand.
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Financial Services
I have built my career inside regulated financial services: fintech, open banking, insurance and high growth technology companies.
I have launched new markets, built regulated businesses and worked with founders, financial institutions and global technology companies in Australia and internationally. A Chartered Accountant by background, I operate comfortably where financial complexity, governance, risk, controls and commercial decision-making meet. Open banking and open finance are a deep specialism within a broader financial-services career.
My experience
Vice President, Head of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for Australia and New Zealand, working with financial institutions, technology companies and partners across payments and financial infrastructure.
Built and led the regulated Australian open banking business, supporting large banks, financial institutions and global technology companies through the Consumer Data Right regime.
Executive roles across insurance distribution and the national insurtech association, spanning underwriting partners, regulators and startups.
What I excel at here
On where financial services goes as data, payments and identity converge, and what regulated innovation actually requires from the people building it.
Read the writingInsurtech Australia and Open Finance ANZ were both founded to develop the industries this experience sits in.
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Leadership & Execution
How I turn opportunities into outcomes.
Beyond my technical skills I am experienced in bringing together teams in complex and fast moving environments.
Go-to-Market
Taking products, propositions and businesses from strategy through to market.
Product Development
Turning customer, market and technology opportunities into products people want to use.
Business Development
Creating strategic partnerships, commercial opportunities and new growth.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Bringing product, technology, commercial, regulatory and other functions together around a common outcome.
Industry Development
Building communities, platforms and ecosystems that help emerging industries develop.