Trade group FinTech Australia has two new board members following its AGM, with Tiimely chief threat and compliance officer Jodi Ross and Tractor Ventures CEO and cofounder Jodie Imam signing on as administrators.
Chair Sarah Gorman mentioned the candidates nominated this yr have been all girls 2024.
“Each Jodi and Jodie deliver a wealth of expertise and differentiated experience to the Board, as we develop the worth we ship to our members, whether or not that’s supporting our members to assist unlock funding; supporting our members on their very own development journey, or how we develop our coverage impression in opposition to a posh and evolving regulatory setting,” she mentioned.
Ross is a frontrunner driving client empowerment by regulatory and know-how innovation, with greater than 20 years of expertise in lending, competitors, regulatory frameworks, compliance, regulation and threat administration, together with senior roles spanning the ACCC and federal Treasury. She additionally has experience in AI-driven lending applied sciences and the Shopper Information Proper regime.
Jodie Imam
Imam was appointed by the Board in informal emptiness. She has greater than 20 years’ expertise in entrepreneurship, enterprise capital and various income based mostly financing fashions for tech-enabled firms together with roles with Tractor, a enterprise debt funder. She has additionally held roles at SBE Australia, Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship, Startmate and Innovation Bay.
FinTech Australia CEO Rehan D’Almeida mentioned the board is a brains belief for the affiliation.
“Not solely do they handle our governance, however they proactively be certain that we preserve our positions as essentially the most trusted and impartial voice of the fintech business,” he mentioned.
“I stay up for working with each Jodie and Jodi in serving to the organisation higher symbolize its members and handle a few of the key challenges going through the fintech sector.”
Ross and Imam be part of current board members:
Sarah Gorman, Head of Progress & Advertising at DAS, Chair of FinTech Australia
Brian Collins, Normal Accomplice and Co-Founding father of Triple Bubble, Deputy Chair of Fintech Australia
Christian Westerlind Wigstrom, Founder and CEO of Monoova, Treasurer of FinTech Australia who has been reappointed for a second time period
Vinnie D’Alessandro, Founder at Raishio
Dominic Pym, Co-Founding father of Up, Euphemia
Michael Saadat, Worldwide Head of Public Coverage at Block; together with non-executive administrators
Harry Godber, Head of Coverage and Technique, Tech Council Australia
Cathryn Lyall, Accomplice, Seed Area VC and Director at Swyftx.
