Chief Executive Officer, Board Chair, and Non-Executive Director with over 30 years driving enterprise performance, payments infrastructure, and digital commerce across regulated markets. Delivers boards a distinct dual-lens capability: experience combining APRA (ADI and FAR) and ASIC (AFSL and ACL) licensing and oversight, complex regulatory remediation, and Board, Audit, Remuneration and Risk Committee governance with whole-of-business execution experience across a ~$1B AUD turnover network serving ~9.5M customer accounts, including ~600K business accounts. Qualified Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) with extensive statutory directorship experience across multi-entity corporate structures.
PayPal Australia Pty Limited
— CEO, VP Global Entity Management & Executive Director
Oct 2023 – Present
- Executive leadership and whole-of-business accountability for PayPal’s Australian group of entities, driving a ~$1B AUD turnover business across a two-sided network of ~9.5M customer accounts, including ~600K business accounts. (Prior tenure: MD & Senior Director roles, 2016–2023).
- Maintained PayPal Australia as the industry benchmark for consumer trust, steering the entity to win Roy Morgan’s Most Trusted Brand in Cards, Payments & Loans for five consecutive years (2022–2026).
- Concluded a multi-year regulatory transformation and governance uplift that successfully finalised PayPal Australia's Enforceable Undertaking with AUSTRAC, institutionalising robust compliance architectures.
- Designated Responsible Person, Responsible Manager, and Accountable Person under APRA Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) and ASIC Australian Financial Services (AFSL) licences and the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR), ensuring enterprise compliance, operational resilience, and internal controls.
- Member of the Board and active contributor to the Audit, Remuneration and Risk Committees, governance of licensing, risk exposure, AI and cybersecurity postures, and direct regulatory engagement.
PayPal Credit Pty Limited
— Chair of the Board
Sep 2020 – Present
- Provide fiduciary oversight, strategy, and risk stewardship for regulated consumer credit operations and business lending across Australia with ~$340M in assets, including ~$270M of loans.
- Chaired the board through the successful acquisition and implementation of PayPal Credit’s Australian Credit Licence (ACL), establishing comprehensive responsible lending and ASIC statutory compliance frameworks.
- Govern credit risk appetite frameworks, lending compliance postures, capital allocation, and statutory reporting.
- Steered product governance underpinning market-leading customer trust, sweeping the 2026 Finder Customer Satisfaction Awards across all BNPL categories.
Hyperwallet Systems Australia Pty Limited
— Non-Executive Director
Oct 2023 – Present
- Oversee corporate governance, cross-border payments compliance, and entity-level operational risk frameworks.
Upplft Pty Limited
— Advisory Board Member
May 2025 – Present
- Advise executive leadership and founders on workforce technology scaling, enterprise go-to-market strategy, and governance.
Prior Statutory Directorships
— Cashcard Australia | First Data Resources Australia | BWA Merchant Services
2013 – 2014
- Served as Statutory Director across First Data operating subsidiaries, governing national ATM switching networks and acquiring entities.
Indue
— General Manager, Strategic Sales
2015 – 2016
- Led strategic client acquisition across government, retail and banking sectors.
First Data Corporation
— VP, Financial Services & Product Management
1996 – 2014
- 18-year executive progression leading merchant acquiring, card processing, and switching infrastructure divisions in Australia and across APAC.
Risk & Audit
Accountable Person under FAR; ACL licensing, AUSTRAC remediation, APRA/ASIC compliance architectures, risk appetite, responsible AI and cyber resilience.
Strategy & Technology
Two-sided network economics, $1B P&L scaling, payments and digital modernisation, platform monetisation, and ecosystem growth.
Governance & Nominations
Board Chair, Statutory Director duties, multi-entity corporate structures, and stakeholder trust.
People & Remuneration
Regulated accountability mapping under FAR, executive culture, succession planning, and ethical leadership.
GAICD — Australian Institute of Company Directors
Master of Marketing — Charles Sturt University
Bachelor of Commerce — University of Wollongong