Company
Leadership
Our management team has extensive payments and financial services experience in multiple international markets.
Alastair Wilkie
Chief Executive Officer
Alastair is an experienced financial services executive specialising in banking and payments coupled with a background in information technology and business development. Alastair has over 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles across Australia, Europe and North America.
Prior to joining Change, Alastair was Founder and Chairman of companies driving digital disruption in the financial services industry. He was Chief Operating Officer at ASX listed, EML Payments, and Executive General Manager at Indue, an approved deposit taking Institution providing aggregated banking services to the Australian payment system. Alastair has held senior executive roles at Monteray Group, Bull Information Systems, Vision Consulting and ExploreIT.
He has a Diploma in Management Studies from W.L. College in Scotland and studied Business Administration at the Executive Management Institute, ESSEC in Paris.
Jennifer Mateer
Chief Commercial Officer
Jennifer is a results-focused executive with over 15 years of experience in working with Fintechs, Payments and SaaS products.
With proven strengths in leading and building high-performing teams, Jennifer has an advanced level of commercial acumen and is skilled in the creation and execution of business strategies to drive and deliver business growth.
Prior to Change, Jennifer held senior roles at international payments technology and software provider, Global Payments.
Clayton Fossett
Chief Operating Officer
Clayton has over 20 years of experience in fintech, financial services, technology and consulting. He has been Chief Operating Officer at Change Financial since it was established and has been instrumental in the company’s journey through building and launching its payments and card issuing platform. During his tenure Clayton has built and managed Change’s engineering, compliance, customer support and marketing teams. He has forged partnerships with issuing banks, card companies, and other networks as well as key industry service providers.
Prior to joining Change, Clayton was at Yahoo! for 10 years, where he held several senior operational finance roles supporting paid search, display advertising and subscription businesses within the United States (US), and globally. Clayton has also worked at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, First Boston, Deloitte, and Freddie Mac.
Clayton holds AB and MBA degrees from Harvard University.
Tony Sheehan
CEO
Tony is a highly experienced, strategic and influential finance executive with more than 20 years of international experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, operations and sales and marketing roles, across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining Change, Tony held senior roles at Global Payments Australia / New Zealand, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. During his time there Tony led and managed accounting, financial performance and reporting, compliance, legal, operations, as well as sales and marketing. Previously Tony worked at Queensland Treasury Corporations, LJ Capital, Macquarie Group and PwC.
Arnold Lee
Chief Technology Officer
Arnie is a highly experienced executive focused on people and technology. He has spent over 20 years leading technology teams across a range of sectors such as IT, logistics and financial services; including an 11-year tenure in London working in banking and energy commodity trading.
He has an in-depth knowledge of the payments space, and a strong track record in building high-performing teams.
Prior to joining Change Financial, Arnold held senior roles at Wirecard. Arnold has also worked at Paymark, Trayport, Royal Bank of Scotland, and BNP Paribas.
Executive team
Tony Sheehan
CEO
Tony is a highly experienced, strategic and influential finance executive with more than 20 years of international experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, operations and sales and marketing roles, across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Jennifer Mateer
CCO
Jennifer is a results-focused executive with over 15 years of experience in working with Fintechs, Payments and SaaS products.
With proven strengths in leading and building high-performing teams…
Arnold Lee
CTO
Arnie is a highly experienced executive focused on people and technology. He has spent over 20 years leading technology teams across a range of sectors such as IT, logistics and financial services; including an 11-year tenure in London working in banking and energy commodity trading.
Board
Geoff Sam, OAM
Chairman
Geoff is a highly experienced company director and currently serves as Chair of Earlypay Limited (ASX:EPY). Prior to his appointments to ASX listed companies, Geoff undertook numerous Chief Executive positions at Adelaide based hospitals. He is currently the Co‑Founder and Director of HealtheCare Australia Pty Ltd, a privately owned health care company comprising a portfolio of 18 hospitals.
Geoff holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) and a Master of Health Administration from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Arts (Economics and Social Studies) from the University of Manchester UK and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Tom Russell
Executive Director
Tom has more than 15 years’ experience as an investor, corporate advisor, director and executive working across a range of industries with a focus on growth companies in the technology, finance, industrial, energy and resource sectors.
Working with both listed and unlisted emerging companies, Tom is highly experienced in raising capital, setting business strategy, executing M&A and takeover transactions, managing operations, as well as launching technology platforms.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and a Bachelor of Economics (Quantitative Methods) from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Ian Leijer
Non-Executive Director
Ian is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in financial analysis, corporate transactions, business strategy and business management. He was CFO and Company Secretary for over 10 years of former ASX listed company Avatar Industries Limited which operated globally in a number of diverse industries including mining services, electronics distribution, fabrication of building products and printing. Ian started his career with Price Waterhouse specialising in corporate transactions and valuations before joining a boutique investment bank.
Ian currently works with a number of entities on business analysis, capital raising (debt & equity) and general management. Ian also holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Michael H. Giles
Non-Executive Director
Michael is a veteran fintech entrepreneur and financial services executive with more than 20 years of experience founding, scaling, and leading innovative brokerage and clearing businesses. He is currently the Founder & CEO of Interchange Financial Technologies Inc., a vertically integrated financial technology company. Michael has launched and exited several pioneering fintech ventures, starting in Melbourne, Australia in 2004.
Michael holds a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology, completed graduate studies in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the RPI Lally School of Management, and earned a Diploma in Financial Planning (Financial Services) from FINSIA.
Our processes
Corporate governance
The Board of Change Financial Limited is responsible for implementing and maintaining a culture of strong corporate governance. The Board also establishes and monitors key performance goals, and is committed to maximising performance, generating Shareholder value and financial returns, and sustaining our long-term growth and success.
With these goals and objectives in mind the Company’s Corporate Governance policies and procedures have been developed with reference to the Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance Council’s recommendations.
Whistleblower Policy
Change Financial Limited is committed to the highest standards of conduct and
ethical behaviour in all of our business activities and to promoting and supporting a culture of
honest and ethical behaviour, corporate compliance and good corporate governance across
the Company. As part of that commitment, the Company has established this Whistleblower
Policy, in compliance with applicable laws and practices.