At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Australia based CFO’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Steven Stamboultgis
Chief Financial Officer of Novatti Group
Steven Stamboultgis is the Chief Financial Officer at Novatti. He has over 25 years’ experience gained in FMCG/manufacturing and Financial Services. With both a practical and innovative approach to problem-solving, Steven brings a range of skills and attributes to Novatti team. Recently, Steven was Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for Urbanise.com Ltd. As CFO at Praemium Ltd, Steven was a member of the team that helped Praemium list on the ASX. Steven holds a Bachelor of Business (accounting), Master of Commercial Law and is a certified practicing accountant.
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About Novatti Group: Novatti (ASX:NOV) is a leading digital banking and payments company that enables fast, simple, and secure payments.
Anna Harper
CFO and Head of Markets of Clearmatch
Anna Harper is the CFO and head of markets at Clearmatch. Prior to joining Clearmatch, she worked at SocietyOne as a CFO. Anna started her leadership career with JP Morgan Chase.
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About Clearmatch: Clearmatch is a marketplace treasury where loan originators can access competitive funding from fixed income investors real-time.
Steve Mylonas
CFO & General Counsel of Valiant
Steve Mylonas is the CFO and general counsel of Valiant Finance.
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About Valiant: Valiant is a marketplace that offers business and commercial financial services online.
Chris Bayliss
Co Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Judo Bank
Chris is a co-founder and CFo of Judo Bank. He is passionate about SME’s and the centrality of relationship banking.
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About Judo Bank: Judo is a lender powered by the latest tech that provides personal services to SMEs

Todd Richards
CFO / Company Secretary of iSignthis
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About iSignthis: iSignthis Ltd is the global leader in dynamic, remote AML/CFT KYC enhanced due diligence identity proofing.
Tony Taylor
CFO of Xinja Bank
Tony Taylor is the Chief Financial Officer of Xinja Bank.
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About Xinja Bank: Xinja Bank is an Australian digital neobank offering transactions and savings account products delivered through a mobile app.
David Washbrook
Co-Founder & CFO of Look Who’s Charging
Experienced Founder, Entrepreneur & Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Strategy, Independent Business Reviews, Management, IPOs, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Over 15 years’ experience working with a wide range of businesses ranging from multi-national listed entities to high-growth PE/VC backed companies to tech start-ups. Strong business development professional, Fellow of the ICAEW & graduated from the University of Bristol (BSc Mathematics).
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About Look Who’s Charging: Look Who’s Charging is a global first business that saves people, merchants, and banks time & money by identifying who’s charged a card.
Sean O’Donoghue
CFO of Cuscal
Sean joined Cuscal as Chief Financial Officer in August 2014 overseeing the company’s financial functions, process improvement and strategy team. Sean brings extensive hands-on management experience working for over 30 years in senior financial roles in Australia and internationally with businesses in banking, wealth management, property and the entertainment sector.
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About Cuscal: Cuscal deliver innovative, reliable, secure payment solutions for businesses.
Sean O’Donoghue
CFO of Cuscal
Sean joined Cuscal as Chief Financial Officer in August 2014 overseeing the company’s financial functions, process improvement and strategy team. Sean brings extensive hands-on management experience working for over 30 years in senior financial roles in Australia and internationally with businesses in banking, wealth management, property and the entertainment sector.
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About Cuscal: Cuscal deliver innovative, reliable, secure payment solutions for businesses.