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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 Lending 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.
Nathan Walsh
Co-Founder & CEO of Athena
Nathan is a fintech entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in financial services and top tier consulting in Australia and New York. He was a founder of nabtrade, NAB’s online investing platform, and has significant experience leading innovative digital businesses.
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About Athena: Athena is an Australian home loan platform that helps to get better home loans.
Anthony Nantes
Chief Executive Officer of Wisr
Anthony is a former CEO and Senior Executive specialising in Strategy, Innovation and the delivery of transformation projects. His general management experience includes exposure across multiple sectors as a Senior Leader, Investor, Board Member and Strategic Adviser. Anthony is also Chairman of the Board for the WEAVE, a Sydney based NGO operating for almost 30 years.
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About Wisr: DirectMoney launched a major company rebrand to Wisr offers a unified service platform that provides retail investment and lending services.
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.
Katherine McConnell
Founder, CEO & Chair of Brighte
Katherine is the CEO and Founder of Brighte, a leading Australian fintech that provides a marketplace and on-the-spot finance for home energy improvements. Before starting Brighte, Katherine worked for 16 years in investment banking and financial services. Fourteen of those were at Macquarie Bank where she was a founding member of their Australian energy leasing business. Katherine also previously worked as an economist in the Commonwealth Government’s Department of Finance and as a policy analyst at the Federal Treasury. Katherine has been recognised as Fintech Leader of the Year 2018 (Finnie Awards, Australian Fintech Awards) and her business, Brighte, has also been widely recognised for its success. She holds a bachelor degrees in Japanese, and economics and management, and a masters of applied finance from Macquarie University. Katherine enjoys spending her free time at home in Sydney with her husband and their two boys. Their house has solar panels and a home battery.
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About Brighte: Brighte is a sustainable energy technology platform, offering sustainable energy financing solutions and energy for the home
Daniel Foggo
CEO of Plenti
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About Plenti: A more rewarding financial world. Helping everyone to make the right choices — about the choices that count
Paul Morton
Founder & CEO of Lannock Strata Finance
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About Lannock Strata Finance: Lannock Strata Finance is the leading lender to strata corporations in Australia.
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.
