Board of Directors
Julian Challingsworth, CA, FCPA, GAICD
Chief Executive Officer
Qualifications: MSc Organisational Consulting, GradDip IT, B.Bus (Acct) RMIT
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.
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).
Kurt Hansen
Non-Executive Director
Qualifications – Grad. Dip. Engineering.
Kurt has over 20 years of IT industry experience driving sales and delivery transformation and impressive business growth across many IT and Security organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
Kurt is currently the CEO at Pure Security. Previous roles include executive, senior management and operational positions at Check Point Software Technologies, F5 Networks, AirData, Symbol Technologies, Telstra Wholesale, Cisco Systems, and Ericsson. Prior to commencing his corporate career, Kurt worked as a general service officer in the Royal Australian Signal Corps.
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