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Link DigitalChief Executive Officer

Nov. 2022GlobalLink Digital is a leading open information technology company committed to providing innovative solutions that enable our clients to better manage and share their data. From data workflow development and dynamic visualisation systems to bespoke data catalogues and open data portals, we offer a comprehensive range of services that meet each client's unique needs

REAL Social ImpactCIO, Co-CEO and Board Member

Jan. 2015 - Nov. 2022Sydney, AustraliaCo-CEO and CIO developing new products and ethical supply chains across the South Pacific. Product development of new technological solutions around E-Trade, Logistics and international market access. Key Contributions: • Completed a number of funding rounds in both Donor, Equity and Debt funding. Funding rounds raised $10M+ for a number of start-up organisations. • Created an impactful organisation that has delivered a clear social impact across 4 countries; Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu delivering significant impact to 100,000 participants. • Implemented a new Learning Management System (LMS) to deploy to artisans across the Pacific. • Built PNG’s first automated WhatsApp national callout specifically aimed at users in low-bandwidth environments. • Built an E-Commerce product management platform for both technical and physical products. • Proof of concept paper delivered for GSMA around the creation of a blockchain supply chain and impact storytelling platform. • Global revenue of $1M from market access and e-commerce B2B and B2C market participation. • Strong experience in social impact funding and social investment. • Excellent understanding of delivery and measurement of social impact including the UN SDG’s. • Extensive experience with multilaterals including contracts with USAID, DFAT, Government of PNG. • Building partnerships with other social impact organisations including World Bank, Asian Development Bank, CARE International, Oxfam and USAID. • Mentored a number of social impact organisations CEO’s, including start-ups in the social impact measurements space, social media and complex platforms.

Crestone Wealth ManagementPlatform Director

Jun. 2016 - Oct. 2017Sydney, AustraliaResponsible for getting the highly complex Avaloq platform implementation into production and testing environments. This is one of the largest platforms integrations within the Australian Wealth Market

CIO in the BoardroomCIO Advisory, Platform Delivery and Innovation Consultant

Aug. 2015 - Nov. 2022Sydney, AustraliaProvide senior executive consulting focused on CIO Advisory, Agile implementation, Innovation and product strategy through innovative IT and business strategies. • GrowthBuilt, Sydney: CIO Advisory role, preparing GrowthBuilt platforms and process to facilitate 50% revenue growth other next 2 years. Platform scan to review and consolidate operational platforms to reduce expenses and improve support. • National Client, Nationwide: CIO Advisory role restructuring their internal accounting / GL system to allow for future growth. Platform scan to review and consolidate operational platforms to reduce expenses and improve support. • Afiniation - Co-Founder and Board Member • Scrunch - Advisory Board Member (https://scrunch.com/) • REAL Group - CIO and Board Member (https://https://www.linkedin.com/redir/suspicious-page?url=www%2erealsocialimpact%2ecom%2F%29 • Crestone - Platform Director (https://www.crestone.com.au/) • SuiteBox - Technical Adviser and Investor (https://www.suitebox.com/) • TechBeach - Advisory Board Member • 2am Awake - Board Member and Technical Adviser (http://2amawake.com/)

BT Financial GroupHead of Advice, Integration & Private Wealth Systems

Jun. 2013 - Jun. 2016As Head of Technology for the Group’s $1Bn Private Wealth and Advice business, a member of the executive leadership teams for Private Wealth, Advice and Technology, I have strategic responsibility for the direction of the Advice and Private Wealth Business, manage a $20m budget and lead 110 direct reports and 50 matrix reports. • Head of Technology for the $1B BT Private Wealth and Advice business • Member of the leadership team for Private Wealth, Advice and BT Technology. • Project sponsor for over 10 projects, including 2 Westpac trophy projects. • Over 110 reports, including Project, BAU and Support staff. • $20M+ budgetary responsibility and FTE management. • Reporting directly to the BT CIO

CommSecProgram Manager

Jun. 2012 - Dec. 2012My Wealth an online portal which promotes wealth management, share trading and the fosters and supports an online community engaged in share trading. With accountability for all aspects of the end-to-end delivery of the My Wealth program, led a team of 60 project managers, business analysts, developers, architects and testers, and managed a $40m budget. • Delivered the program within 6 months against an originally estimated 18 month timeframe and reduced costs by 50% by adopting Agile methodologies to streamline the design and build phases. • Managed internal and external global design resources to ensure exceptional standards in the delivery of the user interface and that the bank’s demanding quality standards were met. • Led the delivery of the key interface with internal banking and trading applications as a part of the minimal viable product. • Drove the changes required for the program to be delivered to ensure clear prioritisation of internal and external vendor projects. Required securing agreement to priorities across a very large and complex business.

National Australia BankSenior Project Manager - NabTrade

Mar. 2010 - Jun. 2012Instrumental roles in the delivery of the first new online trading solution delivered in Australia in 10 years: designed to revolutionise online trading in Australia by providing unprecedented levels of knowledge to users. Stream Lead – Trading Led teams in Sydney, Melbourne and Wellington to deliver the critical real-time trading solution. The trading stream has shown little progress and needed to prove delivery. • After progress on the Trading Stream had stalled, led the turn-around of the trading engine program by influencing the bank to switch to a new market leading main vendor to enable the delivery of the program within only three months. • Ensured the accurate and timely delivery of detailed re-architecture requirements to vendors, ensured that the change management strategy was clear to all parties and ensured Board-level agreement to the change. • Re-developed and led the testing strategy to enable the re-testing of the platform to be completed in three months. • Retained full control and focus on the SDLC process with 30 disparate vendors. Stream Lead – User Experience Delivered a market leading user experience for the NabTrade application. • Managed up a team of up to 35 Testers, Business Analysts, subject matter experts and Project Managers to lead the gap mitigation project deliver front and back office requirements to build vendors. Involved dealing with the practical changes required to deliver a program against exceptional quality expectations and testing a full user experience in an Agile development environment with minimal resources. • Main point of commercial, SDLC and technical management, with responsibility for testing the user experience and ensuring that the four vendors delivered high quality code. • Ensured that the first round of testing was completed by the testing team through a practical risk-based testing regime.

CoreFilingAustralian Country Manager

Aug. 2007 - Jan. 2011Established the business in Australia. Managed up to 17 local and international concurrent projects. As lead XBRL consultant, worked with government and blue chip clients. • Positioned the firm to become a trusted partner with the Australian and NSW Governments for XBRL consulting and software. In working with the Australian Department of the Treasury, the Tax Office and various agencies in the NSW Government, streamlined the process of data modelling from the traditional government waterfall approaches to Agile. • Managed relationships for several major government agencies and blue chip companies to build brand within Australia.

Cayman Islands Monetary AuthorityHead of Application Development

Dec. 2004 - Sep. 2007VB.NET Re-development For a five-year program of projects to comprehensively refresh the organisation’s inadequate existing technology: • managed two analysts and five developers and internal support teams • Managed the program budget, staffing, planning and user expectations • analysed business requirements and the requirements of the validation process using Agile techniques • mapped IT solutions to the organisation’s insurance, mutual funds, banking, finance, management reporting and infrastructure business processes • managed the migration from VB6 to .NET and the upgrade MS SQL to MS SQL 2005. Established a cross-industry IT working group to enable the Cayman Islands hedge fund industry provide feedback on the Authority’s IT projects and was a leading member of the industry working group for mutual funds. Project Manager / Technology Lead E-Reporting System This $4m project was the first offshore XBRL e-reporting project, the largest such offshore project and the Authority’s largest ever project. It was completed on time within budget to enable reporting on more than 10,000 global mutual funds. The new system replaced a paper based system which provided digital copies of the fund reports and meta-data and information about compliance undertakings. • Developed the RFP documents and, as technology lead for the Project Working Group, short listed prospective vendors, negotiated and awarded the contract. • In managing the vendor, ensured that development tasks were completed within budget, on time and to the required standards. • Managed the integration between legacy systems and the E-reporting system. • Managing virtual team of up to 20 individuals