Technology + Financial Services Executive

I build and scale technology businesses in financial services.

Executive leader combining technology, commercial and financial-services expertise to build organisations, products and businesses from idea to market.

Experience across a range of executive roles including CEO, COO, CFO and Chief Commercial Officer.

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Built & scaled

3 Technology Organisations

Modern API-led technology

Global scale

Cover Genius · TrueLayer

Global high-growth businesses

Enterprise

Mastercard · MetLife

Global financial-services technology

Credentials

Stanford · GAICD · Chartered Accountant

Innovation · Governance · Commercial Acumen

My role

Since 2026

Vice President, Head of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Australasia

Mastercard Australasia

Leading business development and strategic partnerships across the Australasian division.

What I excel at

Expertise in depth

01Go-to-MarketTaking products, propositions and businesses from strategy through to market.02Product DevelopmentTurning customer, market and technology opportunities into products people want to use.03Business DevelopmentCreating strategic partnerships, commercial opportunities and new growth.04Cross-Functional LeadershipBringing product, technology, commercial, regulatory and other functions together around a common outcome.05Industry DevelopmentBuilding communities, platforms and ecosystems that help emerging industries develop.

My expertise

Expertise in depth

I have worked across two primary domains: technology and financial services.

Technology

I built and scaled three technology organisations, grounded in modern architecture and API platforms, all within regulated financial services.

I helped build the strategy, the team, the product and the commercial proposition from the ground up. The technology was API platforms and ecosystems shipped into markets that carry licensing, compliance and risk obligations.

2018–2020

Cover Genius

COO & CFO

Joined early and developed the market expansion strategy that became the foundation for XCover, now licensed or authorised in 60+ countries and all 50 US states. Cover Genius is valued at US$1.9 billion.

2020–2022

TrueLayer

Chief Executive Officer, ANZ

Brought a global open banking business into Australia as its first international market, building and launching the regulated Australian business.

2023–2026

Mastercard

Open Finance & Developer Experience, Australasia

Built the Australian open banking business from the ground up: strategy, team, product and commercial proposition, grown over 3.5 years into a market leader.

Technology expertise

Financial Services

My career spans fintech, payments, 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 am comfortable where financial complexity, governance, risk and commercial decision-making meet.

BankingPaymentsFintechFinancial infrastructureOpen BankingOpen FinanceInsuranceRegulated markets

Financial services expertise

Industry Development

I help build the communities, platforms and ecosystems around the businesses I operate.

I helped found and build two national industry organisations designed to bring startups, financial institutions, technology companies and industry leaders together around a shared agenda.

Founder & CEO · 2017–2020Insurtech AustraliaEstablished the national insurtech association and built it into the industry’s primary representative body: members, events, research and partnerships with insurers, regulators and startups.Co-founder · 2021–presentOpen Finance ANZThe community for open banking and open finance across Australia and New Zealand, and the home of the first Open Banking Ecosystem Maps for both markets.

Standards bodies

Both organisations were at the front of setting technical and policy standards for the open banking industries.

Data Standards Advisory CommitteeRepresentative · 2021–2026Payments NZ API CouncilMember · 2023–2025

Industry Development

Thinking

My perspectives on technology, financial services, product and the future of work.

Open financeAccelerating Aotearoa New Zealand’s Open BankingLinkedIn Open financeCDR Across the Ditch: What can New Zealand learn from Australia’s open banking journey?Medium · 2022 OperatingWhy you need a Growth COOMedium · 2020

All writing

Building

I am exploring AI, learning technology and new ways of working through my own development projects.

Separate from my professional work: I am vibe coding and building software that are passions of mine and seek to help advance financial inclusion, education and personal productivity.

Kelda FinanceA private, local-first finance manager for households: net worth, budgets, bills, mortgage, super and insurance in one view, with no data leaving the device.PigglePocket money for little savers: a private, ad-free savings app for ages 4 to 8, splitting every coin across Save, Spend and Give jars.

See what I build

Selected media

All press & media

QuotedAustralian Financial ReviewMastercard’s call to save open bankingOn what open banking needs to become commercially viable in Australia.QuotedCapital BriefMastercard and Equifax launch open banking credit score initiativeCoverage of a partnership built under the open banking business I led.OpinionAustralian Financial ReviewThe future of open banking rests on innovationMy own argument for where the market has to go next.

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Get in touch

I welcome conversations on technology, financial services, building regulated businesses and the industries forming around them.

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