Arca Board
Peter Wilson AM
Independent Director & Chairman
Peter Wilson joined the ARCA Board on 1 July 2020. Peter is also the Independent Director and Chairman of ARCA subsidiary the Reciprocity and Data Exchange Administrator.
Peter is Chairman of the Power and Water Corporation, and Indigenous Essential Services in the Northern Territory. Peter was Director and Immediate Past President and Chairman of CPA Australia from 2017-2021. Peter was Chair of the Australian HR Institute from 2006-20, and non-executive director of Vision Super from 2012-2022. Peter was made a Life Member of each of the Australian HR Institute (2019) and CPA Australia (2022).
He holds roles as Independent member and Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee at the Office of the Auditor-General in Western Australia, and the Audit & Risk Committee for the Portfolio of the Premier of Western Australia. He has also been appointed Chair of the National Drug and Alcohol Foundation from November 2021
Peter has held senior executive roles in the Commonwealth and Victorian Treasuries, and Group Executive roles at ANZ, Amcor Limited, and as CEO of Energy 21. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 for services to workplace relations and safety and community service and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2004.
Andrew Cutting
Andrew’s is the Executive Manager at Westpac and is responsible for the organisations supply of Comprehensive Credit Reporting. Andrew brings to the Board over 30 years’ experience in the Credit Risk and Collections sector within a diverse range of businesses covering Banking, Telecommunications & Financial Services which has provided him with extensive experience in general & strategic management practice.
Andrew has held a number of senior roles including guidance of large infrastructure & regulatory change initiatives for Westpac Banking Corporation. Andrew has also had a decade long association with the Australian Retail Credit Association representing Westpac since 2011.
Ben Nicholls
National Australia Bank Limited
Ben is the Executive of Product and Portfolio Management, Home Ownership at NAB. Ben joined NAB in in 2021, with 20 years of financial services experience including time spent at both CBA and Westpac, across roles in product management, pricing, credit policy and decisioning system management, digital banking, as well as new product development.
Ben holds a Bachelor of Information Science and a Masters of Business Administration
Brad Davis
Bank of Queensland Limited
Brad is the General Manager of Market Risk, Credit Models & Insights at BOQ and is responsible for all risk analytics across the Group including credit risk decisioning and Comprehensive Credit Reporting. Brad joined BOQ in 2021 and has previously had a long career in consulting focussing on risk analytics for clients in Australia, Asia and Europe. Brad is passionate about using data and analytics to enhance business processes and improve customer outcomes.
Fiona Lawrence
Fiona is a compliance and legal regulatory specialist. With over 25 years’ experience in Australia and overseas in compliance, legal, risk and corporate governance roles, Fiona has held senior roles in a number of financial institutions including Bank of Queensland, Barclays Investment Bank and Macquarie Bank. Fiona has worked as a regulatory specialist in global law firms and at regulatory bodies and has experience in Comprehensive Credit Reporting and the regulatory aspects of credit decisioning.
Fiona was appointed to the Board in November 2024
Jason Humphrey
Jason is a risk professional with over 29 years’ experience. Jason is currently Chief Risk
Officer ANZ Australia where he has worked for the past eleven years. In his current role
Jason covers Op risk, commercial, retail lending, Loan Mortgage Insurance, Suncorp risk
integration and Digital risk.
Prior to that Jason was Head of Retail Risk for ANZ in New
Zealand for three years, and before that performed a number of roles including Head of
Retail Risk for GE Money over 10 years with responsibilities across markets including
NZ, Australia, and Asia. Jason also has significant risk management experience in the
telecommunications sector.
Joe Seychell
Joe is the Chief Risk Officer at Athena Home Loans. Joe has worked in the Financial service sector for 25 years holding a number of Senior Risk/Credit/Technology related Roles in both the domestic and offshore environments.
Joe has deep experience in managing large operational teams with a key focus on driving technology and managing change to the benefit of the consumer and working with regulators and key stakeholders to achieve that aim. As the CRO for Athena Home Lending he is leveraging the power of data to allow efficient/effective operations and business decisioning in the Credit domain.
Kari Mastropasqua
Equifax Pty Ltd
Kari Mastropasqua is a forward thinking analytic professional with 15 + years’ experience in the field. She is a people focused leader who creates impact through being market led, evolving organisation capabilities and educating on the power of data and analytics to drive better decision making. As a leader of large teams she places high importance on rallying a team around a strong vision, creating a culture that encourages innovation with purpose and building strong relationships through trust and transparency.
Kari’s career started in academia where she taught undergraduate statistics. It is here she honed her communication skills in making the complex seem easy. In the commercial setting Kari has held several roles from analytic solution development, analytic consulting through to senior management across a variety of sectors including financial services, utilities, insurance, airlines and retail. In each of her roles her approach has been agnostic and not from a particular specialism. Her focus is on identifying and understanding the market problem then helping her customers to better utilize data assets to drive value through analytics.
In her current role as EGM Data & Analytics A/NZ she leads a team of 75+ data and analytic professionals who provide insights that make a difference to Equifax clients across the region.
Mark Brudenell
Latitude Financial Services Australia Holdings Pty Ltd
Mark joined Latitude Financial in November 2018 and was appointed Executive General Manager Risk in May 2023 and Acting Chief Operating Officer in January 2024. As EGM Risk, Mark is responsible for ensuring that all risk types are effectively managed by Latitude and its people through robust governance and risk management practices. Previously he was Chief Risk Officer (reporting to the CFO), General Manager Group Risk and Chief of Staff.
Prior to Latitude, Mark had an extensive career in public policy where he was responsible for developing and executing major policy and reform initiatives as Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia. He previously worked as an Adviser to the Minister for Communications and Senior Adviser to the Queensland Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts.
Tom Clayton
Macquarie Bank Limited
Tom Clayton is the Head of Retail Credit Risk at Macquarie Bank, leading a team that manages credit strategy, analytics and policy for Macquarie’s Home Loan and Credit Card businesses.
Tom has lived and worked in Australia for the last 15 years and prior to this worked for Barclays Bank in the UK and South Africa.
Tom holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham and a postgraduate degree in Systems Analysis and Design from City University of London.
Tristan Taylor
Experian Australia Pty Ltd
Tristan Taylor is General Manager of Experian’s Credit Services business in Australia and is responsible for the effective operation and growth of the Credit Bureau. As a challenger bureau, Tristan leads teams focussed on growing the supply of data from credit providers, building and supporting credit products, educating and assisting consumers, delivering analytics projects and operating in a compliant and secure manner.
Tristan has been with Experian for 17 years and has held leadership roles across the UK and Australia. Prior to joining the Credit Services business, he has led advisory, product and delivery functions to deploy Data Management and Data Governance initiatives in organisations spanning Government, Financial Services, Utilities, Telcos and Retail. LinkedIn profile >>