2024 Award Judges

First Round Judges

  • Anhar Khanbhai

    APAC PR Lead, Wise

  • Ashima Chaudhary

    Vice President Head of Business Development, Mastercard

  • Ben Ford

    Head of Enterprise Sales, Tiimely

  • Betty Sun-Lucas

    Specialist Fintech Director (Trade, Investment and Landing Pad), Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)

  • Brian Collins

    Deputy Chair, FinTech Australia & Principal, Audacity Ventures

  • Cathryn Lyall

    Non-Executive Board Member, FinTech Australia & Co-Founder, Seed Money Australia & Seismic Foundry

  • Christopher Kirk

    Group Chief Executive Officer, Stone & Chalk

  • Christian Westerlind Wigstrom

    Board Member, FinTech Austraoia & Co-Founder & CEO, Monoova

  • Daniel Knight

    Partner, K&L Gates

  • Danielle Smith

    Head of Financial Partnership ANZ, Xero

  • Dimitrios Salampasis

    Global FinTech Thought Leader & Senior Lecturer, FinTech Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • Dirk Steller

    Founder & Managing Partner, Seed Space Venture Capital

  • Dominic Pym

    Board Member, FinTech Australia & Co-Founder, Up

  • Gaurav Johri

    Senior Adviser of Trade & Investment, Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)

  • Harry Godber

    Independent Director, FinTech Australia & Head of Strategy, Flare

  • Jacqui Bloom

    Growth & Investment Director, Startupbootcamp

  • Jazz Osvald

    Solicitor, King & Wood Mallesons

  • Kellie Morton

    Board Member, FinTech Australia & Chief Legal Officer, Birchal

  • Laura Mercurio

    Chair, HerTechPath

  • Lauren Capelin

    VC BD, Amazon Web Services

  • Lisa Gostinski

    Member Services Manager, FinTech Australia

  • May Lam

    Chief Information Officer, Australian Payments Plus

  • Malia Forner

    Partner, EY

  • Michael Saadat

    Board Member, FinTech Australia & International Head of Public Policy, Block

  • Natasha Prévot

    Co-Founder & Director, TechVisa

  • Nikita Le Messurier

    Startup Advisor, Amazon Web Services

  • Nick Kavass

    Head of Policy, FinTech Australia

  • Rehan D'Almeida

    Chief Executive Officer, FinTech Australia

  • Sarah Gorman

    Chair, FinTech Australia; Head of Growth & Marketing, DAS (Digital Agriculture Services)

  • Simone Joyce

    Co-Founder & CEO, Paypa Plane

  • Tori Rudolph

    Strategic Partnerships Manager, FinTech Australia

  • Vanessa Ronan-Pearce

    Strategic Projects Lead - Payments, Payments NZ

Second Round Judges

  • Andrew Ward

    Co-Founder & CEO, liquidise

  • Art Honeysett

    Lawyer, Allens

  • Arvind Swami

    Senior Director of Financial Services — Asia Pacific, RedHat

  • Bradley Delamare

    CEO, Tank Stream Labs

  • Brenton Charnley

    Head of Open Banking ANZ, Mastercard

  • Carolyn Breeze

    CEO, Scalare Partners

  • Cath Whitaker

    Director, Strategy & Risk Programs, Auto & General

  • Charlotte Petris

    Founder & Director, GoodforB

  • Cheng-Yun Tsang

    Associate Professor, Monash University Faculty of Law

  • Chris Titley

    Founder, Sub11

  • Dan Teper

    Partner of M&A and Head of Fintech, KPMG Australia

  • David Kreltszheim

    Partner, Cornwalls

  • David Le

    Head of FinTech & Ecosystem Partnerships, 1835i

  • David Marsh

    Principal Industry Consultant (Payments), Endava

  • Dylan Burke

    Partner, DLA Piper

  • Giulio D'Andrea

    CEO, Clima

  • Hannah Glass

    Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons

  • Hugh Richards

    Principal, Latimer Partners

  • Jacqui Duncan

    General Manager - NSW, Stone & Chalk

  • Jaime Lumsden

    Partner – Funds and Financial Service, Hamilton Locke

  • James Sibbick

    Director of Mastercard Identity, Ekata

  • Jo Ruitenberg

    Partner, Hamilton Locke

  • Joseph Robins

    COO, Archa

  • Karan Kanchan

    Director, Business Development of Banking & Financial Services, ProbeCX

  • Katrina Donaghy

    CEO and Co-Founder, Civic Ledger

  • Linda Minassian

    Executive of Sales & Go to Market, NAB Merchant Services

  • Mark Zmarzly

    Startup and VC Business Development Manager, AWS

  • Marnie Baker

    Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited

  • Matt Dowling

    Investment Director Australia, Lighter Capital

  • Matthew Cunneenn

    Partner, Data & Analytics, RSM

  • Minty Tafesse

    Principal, International Tax and Transfer Pricing, RSM

  • Nick Munro

    Head of Innovation & FinTech, Westpac

  • Nigel Stewart

    Country Manager - Australia & New Zealand, OneSpan

  • Paolo Rueda

    Sales Manager Oceania, Thales

  • Paul Warren-Tape

    GM Global Risk & Compliance, IDVerse

  • Samantha Hoo

    Senior Manager of Visa Digital Partnerships, Visa

  • Stephen So

    Head of Analytics and Innovation & Strategy Lead, Lander & Rogers

  • Tanya Ward

    Finance Executive and Chartered Accountant

  • Tim Aman

    Partner in Charge — Audit & Assurance NSW, BDO

  • Vaughan Petherbridge

    Partner, Gadens