Board of Directors
Robert Langford
Non-Executive Director and Chairman
Qualifications – BSc Computing
Robert has 40 years of I.T. experience having started his career with Royal Insurance as a COBOL programmer. He graduated from Chisholm with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing. He progressed through roles in system design and architecture and in 1988 moved to Mobil oil in Europe as SAP oil industry Coordinator. Since returning to Australia in 1993, he has held roles as SAP consulting manager in Melbourne and then in private consulting businesses. Robert has built and sold a number of businesses from Storage King centres to software companies. As well as his current position with Tesserent he owns and operates a very successful tourist resort on Phillip Island
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Julian Challingsworth
Chief Executive Officer
Qualifications – MBA Organizational Consulting, BBA, GradDip IT.
Julian served as a Managing Director and Partner of The Litmus Group for over 10 years and a board member of PPB Advisory. Julian was a Director of Cordence World Wide a global consulting partnership with 2,800 consultants across 60+ locations. Julian worked with the international team to develop sales and growth strategies for the 8 member firms.
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Gregory Baxter
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – BSc MBA
Board member since 2015. Greg is currently Global Head of Digital at Citibank, leading Citi’s digital transformation across businesses and geographies.
He specialises in the development and delivery of digital strategy, corporate innovation and business transformation.
He has held senior business, consulting and technology roles across Asia, Europe and North America, with a track record of high-impact business results. Previously Gregory was a Partner and U.K. Board member at Booz & Company (formerly Booz Allen Hamilton), where he held leadership roles across the financial services, public sector and digital practices.
Prior to this he was a senior project and product manager with IBM, delivering large scale systems integration projects in financial services and managing the product lifecycle of leading market solutions. He is a regular speaker on digital strategy and technology, and the impact of disruptive innovation on business. Greg is a council (board) member of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), a leading international affairs think tank.
He holds a BSc from Monash University and a MBA from the University of Melbourne, and has been a guest lecturer on strategy at the University of Oxford, New York University, and American University (Washington).
Stefano (Steve) – Bertamini
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – BBA MBA
Board member since 2015. Steve is currently Chief Executive Officer of Al Rajhi Bank, a bank with total assets in excess of US$70 billion.
Steve previously held the position of Group Executive Director and CEO for Global Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered Bank.
Prior to this Steve’s roles included: Group Executive Director and CEO Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered Bank; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of GE North East Asia; Chief Executive Officer and President of GE (China) Co. Ltd; Chief Executive Officer of GE Australia and New Zealand; President of GE Capital Asia; and Managing Director of GE’s Consumer Finance business in Asia.
Steve has a BBA, Finance and Management from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA, Finance and International Banking from University of North Texas.
Steve Caswell
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – BSc (Monash), Grad. Dip. Mgt. (RMIT), Dip. Ed. (Rusden State College), GAICD.
Steve is an experienced Chief Executive Officer and Director working largely in the management consulting industry. Steve established an IT Consulting company of 12 in 1995 taking it to 300 employees and to a NASDAQ listing. He is experienced in Strategic Planning, Corporate Governance, Business Planning, and Business Transformation having worked across organisations such as Mobil Oil (globally), Adacel Ltd, Brightstar Pty Ltd and Software Consulting Services Pty Ltd.
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