About

86 400 CEO Robert Bell has extensive leadership experience in financial services across Australia and Asia Pacific, his most recent role being General Manager, Product and Service at Cuscal. Prior to this he was CEO of Big Sky Building Society & Australian Unity Banking, and held multiple senior leadership roles at ANZ including CEO positions at both ANZ Japan and ANZ Fiji. Rob’s commitment to building a genuine alternative to the big four banks is the driving force behind the 80+ strong team at 86 400.

Matthew Chan joins 86 400 excited by the opportunity to change the Australian banking landscape and as COO is responsible for ensuring that the bank’s ‘engine room’ runs smoothly. With an extensive banking career, Matt brings a wealth of experience in leadership and management of frontline enablement, operations and project management across diverse geographies in Asia, Pacific and Australia.

Originally from Western Australia, Matt has completed a Bachelor of Science (honours) and worked as a Geologist before transitioning into financial services. He has completed a Master of Applied Finance and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute Australasia. Matt’s considerable experience will be invaluable to ensure 86 400 delivers a truly different, digital banking experience.

Christina is responsible for leading the legal and company secretarial activities of 86 400. She has 20+ years’ experience across legal, corporate advisory and governance roles and prior to 86 400 held legal and company secretarial roles at a number of financial services providers, and a senior lawyer role at a large commercial law firm. Christina brings her extensive experience to support and make a difference to the 86 400 business.

As CIO Brian Parker takes on the role of building the technology to deliver our digital bank. In his prior role as General Manager at Cuscal, Brian identified the opportunity to build a digital bank and developed the business case for 86 400.

He brings with him a proven track record of successfully implementing technology to build businesses as both a CIO and COO. He was a key member of the design authority that delivered the New Payments Platform and delivered the first HCE mobile payments App in Australia.

Brian is no stranger to banking, having been part of the technology team that launched Citibank in Australia and as CIO built the technology to launch and grow ING Direct. He is a technologist at heart and takes pride in developing teams that deliver value to customers by leveraging technology and challenging the status quo.

86 400 CFO Belinda Hogan is an accomplished finance leader and banking executive. She has experience across multiple functions including management and financial accounting, treasury, credit and banking operations, taxation, governance and collections. Belinda is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). She has completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Business Law), Bachelor of Arts (History), an executive leadership program from London Business School and is currently completing a Master of Business Administration.

Belinda is passionate about delivering an exceptional customer experience and brings her extensive experience to make a difference to the 86 400 business.

In addition to serving on three ADI Boards, Guy has extensive Risk Management experience gained with a variety of institutions in Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia including direct involvement with three banking start-up operations in the UK and South Africa. Most recently Guy was CRO for CBA’s International Financial Services Division and had previously been the CRO for the CBA’s Business and Private Banking portfolio in Australia. Guy arrived in Australia as Global Head of Credit and Risk at AMP in 2001 and his experience spans retail, SME and Corporate banking. He is a passionate believer in digital banking and the opportunities it brings to reshape the Australian retail banking experience.

With two decades of retail banking experience, Travis Tyler takes on the CPMO role at 86 400. Leveraging experience across the customer life cycle and most recently running the digital business for Westpac Group, Travis’s passion for the customer and working at the digital edge positions him well to help build the first truly customer obsessed bank. Working with a world class technology team, Travis aims to reinvent everyday banking and deliver new experiences to customers to truly improve their whole financial world.

Anthony Thomson is the founder and former Chairman of not one, but two disruptive banks in the UK. Metro Bank, the UK’s first new bank in 150 years and Atom Bank, the UK’s first bank for mobile. He’s raised in excess of $1billion in capital over the course of his career and is a highly respected financial services expert worldwide. He has served as the Goldman Visiting Professor for Innovation and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and is the co-author of No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs A New Kind of Marketing. As Chair of 86 400, he will bring his extensive experience in the financial industry and a hunger to shake up the banking landscape in the Australian Market.

Akiko Jackson has more than 25 years of leadership and advisory experience in financial services across Australia, Japan and the US. She is highly experienced in equity raising (including Initial Public Offering), post-merger integrations, digital transformation and turning around businesses using her extensive experience in organisational capability development, strategy development, risk management and large-scale transformation.

Craig is one of the founding Directors of 86 400 that lead the team who developed the business case to bring a better banking experience to Australia. Craig joined Cuscal as its Managing Director in December 2008 and has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, with particular expertise in digital banking and payments. Craig is also a Director of NPP Australia Limited, and a member of the Australian Payment Council.

Belinda serves as the CFO of Interactive, Australia’s largest privately held IT services organisation. She has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector, the majority of which has been with Macquarie Capital in both Principal Investments and M&A advisory to the Telecommunications, Media and Technology industry sector in Australia, the USA and Asia. She has worked with clients and investee companies ranging from early stage technology ventures to Fortune 500 companies.

Paul is the Chair of Cuscal Limited, Australia’s leading independent payments provider. He has almost forty years’ experience in banking and finance including the inaugural Chair of NPP Australia Limited, managing director roles with Mortgage Choice, Permanent Trustee and Heritage Building Society as well as senior executive roles with Westpac in Sydney and London. He runs his own consultancy business specialising in strategy formulation, executive coaching, and board governance.