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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Andrew Pridham
Managing Director & CEO of Moelis & Company
Over 25 years of experience in investment banking and was most recently Executive Chairman of Investment Banking at JP Morgan Australia, where he completed many major M&A, equity raising and other advisory transactions and played a leading role in the significant growth of JP Morgan’s Australian business. Prior to his six year tenure at JP Morgan, Andrew spent 12 years at UBS where he held senior roles including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and Head of Investment Banking for Australasia. He was also a member of the UBS Global Investment Banking Management Committee.
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About Moelis & Company: Moelis & Company is an investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base.
Steve Weston
Co-founder and CEO of Volt Bank
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About OurMoneyMarket, Volt Bank: Volt Bank is a bank that makes your life easier, not harder.
Luke Bunbury
Co-Founder & Deputy CEO of Volt Bank
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About Volt Bank: Volt Bank is a bank that makes your life easier, not harder.
Andy Taylor
Founder & CEO of Douugh
Founder & CEO at Douugh. Serial technology entrepreneur, passionate about disruption through platform innovation. Andy gets results by breaking conventional boundaries and coming up with innovative solutions that solve real problems through software. He is a disruptor and consumer champion. In 2015, Andy was nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He holds a BBS in Marketing Communications.
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About Douugh, SocietyOne: A smart bank account, helping people live financially healthier.
Stephen Moss
CEO & Founder of BlackCitrus
Stephen is the founder & CEO of Black Citrus, an investment firm owned by the Boston Group of Companies based in Sydney with offices through Asia and Iran. Over the past 3 years BlackCitrus has invested in over 21 seed and growth tech opportunities and plan to complete a further 9 investments this year. BlackCitrus have raised over $30m within the early stage tech space through and an impressive advisory board focused on strategic investment. Prior to BlackCitrus Stephen was a personal investor and Director in COzero, a BRW Fast 100 business (#1). Post investment, Stephen facilitated a part-sale to Nippon Gas in Japan as strategic investors and the business is currently entering a Pre-IPO round with revenue’s over $200m. Prior to Cozero Stephen was a Director of Moss Capital (now Eleanor Investments ASX:ENN). Stephen is a supporter of numerous charities and recently won the 2012 Australian Innovation Award for developing iOS/Android applications for charities. Stephen also has a passion for the environment and has acted as a Delegate of the United Nations within the UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations and as a member of the Hong Kong Government’s clean air council. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Economics, Masters in Finance, and recently completed his MBA at Macquarie Graduate School of Management
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About BlackCitrus: BlackCitrus is a venture capital and technology firm that invests in online-based businesses.
Damir Cuca
CEO & Founder of Basiq
Internet executive with over 18 years of experience, including general management of organisations, corporate development, product development, business operations, and strategy. CEO at Basiq, the best aggregation platform for acquiring financial data. We provide secure access to hundreds of financial institutions through a simple set of RESTful APIs. Visit https://basiq.io Prior to Basiq, was CEO of Syple Technologies. Primary responsibilities was the running of the company, account management and management of all operations. Previously served as CEO of Automait Dealer Systems, a CRM product for the automotive industry. Responsibilities included sales, product management and running of the company. Specialties: general management, corporate development, product development, business operations, strategy and product marketing.
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About Basiq: Basiq is an aggregation platform for acquiring financial data that provides access to financial institutions through APIs..
Greg Symons
Founder and CEO of Clearmatch
Greg Symons is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SocietyOne and founder of ClearmatchTM. A driven lifetime entrepreneur, Greg has been highly focused in business start-ups in the financial technology space. Greg’s specialty is in developing web-based, industrial grade financial banking and origination systems. With ClearmatchTM, he continues to pioneer disruptive and globally relevant P2P investment and lending platform models for both consumers and institutions. Prior to co-founding SocietyOne in 2011, Australia’s pioneering and largest consumer finance marketplace (peer-to-peer) lender, Greg was based in New Zealand where he and his technology team developed the first online retail lending system in the country in 2000. Greg continued to evolve the platform into a comprehensive banking solution when it was licensed to a number of banks and finance companies in South Africa, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. ClearmatchTM is now a unique SAAS-based direct investment/borrow market ecosystem solution that powers SocietyOne and other finance market companies. Greg is married to Clare and has three children.
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About Clearmatch, SocietyOne: Clearmatch is a marketplace treasury where loan originators can access competitive funding from fixed income investors real-time.
Natalie Nguyen
CEO of Hyper Anna
With a Design Computing background and seven years’ experience with data science and data commercialisation. Natalie was the analytical lead for non-food vertical at Quantium – most innovative vertical in 2015. She led the commercial team for Servcorp, grew profitability by 3x in managed regions. With start-up at AIS, Natalie led marketing & enrolments, grew from 0 to the first 200 students.
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About Hyper Anna: AI-powered data insights meets interactive storytelling in real time.
Joseph Healy
Co Founder and Co-CEO of Judo Bank
Joseph is a career international banker with 32 years’ experience in Australia, UK/Europe and Asia. He has held Executive positions at some of the world’s leading banks including NAB, ANZ, CIBC World Markets, Citibank and Lloyds Bank. As Group Executive/Divisional CEO, NAB Business Banking from 2008-14, Joseph was responsible for leading Australia’s largest Business Bank and SME franchise. A member of the Group Risk Committee, Joseph chaired the Divisional Risk Committee overseeing a loan portfolio of $220bn. At ANZ, Joseph developed a ‘Wall St. to Main St.’ strategy bringing advisory and Development Capital including private equity capabilities to the SME market. At Citi, Joseph had extensive credit and market risk experience and held senior risk management roles. Joseph has extensive customer, risk and business management experience, together with success in starting new businesses. Joseph holds a number of academic credentials including MSc (Finance), MBA, MSc International Management (China), MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies and MBA (Banking) degrees from University of London, London Business School and University of Nottingham in China. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and authored a textbook ‘Corporate Governance & Shareholder Wealth Creation’ (2003). Joseph is an Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland Business School, a Director of Football Federation Australia (FFA) – he won five international caps at youth level for Scotland – and was a member of the expert panel advising the Deans of Australian Universities on finance course content at Bachelor and Master Degree levels. Joseph has a lifelong passion for Soccer, having played internationally at youth level for Scotland. He also collects The Economist and has every copy since 1976. A keen author, he has published a book called ‘Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth Creation’ (2003) and already has another in the pipeline due out this year.
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About Judo Bank: Judo is a lender powered by the latest tech that provides personal services to SMEs
David Hornery
Founder and CEO of Judo Bank
David Hornery is the Founder and CEO of Judo Bank.
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About Judo Bank: Judo is a lender powered by the latest tech that provides personal services to SMEs
Darren Younger
CEO, BRICKLET of Lakeba Group Pty Ltd
I am the Chief Growth Officer of the Lakeba Group. Established in 2015, Lakeba is an established technology innovator, or “Reverse Incubator” recognised for developing an innovative business platform for conceiving, creating, and commercialising at scale, disruptive, digital solutions. Based in Manly, Australia, we have a global team of over 150 people with offices in Italy, India, USA and UK.
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About Lakeba Group Pty Ltd, Quixxi: Lakeba Group is a privately held global venture catalyst firm.
Mike Giles
CEO & Co-founder of Ignition Advice
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About Ignition Advice: Ignition Advice is a global advice platform , deploying solutions across the key verticals being Insurance, Pensions and Investments.
Paul Weingarth
Co-Founder & CEO of Slyp
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About Slyp: Slyp is a Company creates smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Kieran Martin
Co-Founder and CEO of CheckVault
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About CheckVault: CheckVault provides a secure service, where client funds are held by a trusted specialist custodian.
Ben Pearson
Chief Executive Officer of Mainframe Cloud
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About Mainframe Cloud: Mainframe Cloud simplifies the deployment, installation & development of mainframe software.
Jon Sutton
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Queensland
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About Bank of Queensland: Welcome to our Pinterest! BOQ is one of Australia’s most dynamic and innovative financial institutions.
Stuart Grover
Co-Founder & CEO of Look Who’s Charging
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About Look Who’s Charging: Look Who’s Charging is a global first business that saves people, merchants, and banks time & money by identifying who’s charged a card.
Ranin Mendis
CEO of LoanDolphin
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About LoanDolphin: LoanDolphin is a loan bidding marketplace where banks and brokers compete to win your Home Loan.
Hugh Morrow
Founder & CEO of SuperEd
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About SuperEd: SuperEd engages on helping fund members in planning for their retirement income.
