Headquarters:
Level 49, 25 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW
Year founded:
2010
Number of employees:
184 (211 including contractors)
Phone:
0418 236 404
Email:
fiona.crawford@creditorwatch.com.au
Website:
creditorwatch.com.au
LinkedIn:
au.linkedin.com/company/creditor-watch
“We drive an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture that empowers our people to get things done and to deliver results”
Anjanette Murfet,
Accolade Wines
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Patrick Coghlan
Chief Executive Officer
Fiona Crawford
Chief People and Culture Officer
Joseph Vartuli
Chief Technology Officer
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Patrick Coghlan is the CEO of CreditorWatch. In 2010, he became one of the three founding employees and helped to shape the innovative product that CreditorWatch offers today. His knowledge and experience have led him to become an industry thought leader, regularly presenting at conferences and providing commentary and insights for the media. His leadership qualities have enabled him to play a key part in developing CreditorWatch’s values and culture, for which the company has won multiple awards, including the Australian Financial Review’s Best Places to Work and Great Place to Work certification.
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Patrick Coghlan
Fiona Crawford is a people- and results-focused professional with over 20 years of HR, training and coaching experience across a range of industries, delivering HR initiatives that are innovative, agile and data-driven to provide stakeholders with measurable ROI. She has worked on start-up HR functions, cultural change programs, M&A, strategic and operational HR initiatives, delivering group-wide HR projects, and managed extensive coaching and training programs.
Crawford believes the key to successful employee engagement and advocacy is the alignment of behaviours, branding and organisational strategy. She is also a two-time medal-winning Olympian in softball, an International Softball Hall of Fame inductee and a media commentator.
Chief People and Culture Officer
Fiona Crawford
With nearly two decades of experience in the technology sector, Joseph Vartuli leads the engineering and development of CreditorWatch’s premier credit management and risk tools. The number of people in the engineering team has increased twentyfold (2,000%) since Vartuli joined in 2018 and his work now informs some of the most influential business leaders and policy makers in the country, including Federal Treasury and many ASX-listed companies.
With a bachelor and honours degree in information technology from the University of Sydney, he has led high-performing teams to deliver some of the most cutting-edge technology projects in the country.
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Joseph Vartuli
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David Kirton
Chief Financial Officer
David Kirton is an accomplished finance executive with extensive experience managing the financial, commercial and operational sides of businesses, including finance, strategy and business planning, performance management, business analysis, investment evaluation, program management and delivery, business transformation, sales operations, business assurance and governance. He has a significant strength in developing and executing strategy for growing and improving overall business performance and transformational change and reform within complex structures.
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Christy Thiel
Senior Director, Clinical Affairs
Christy Thiel has been managing clinical affairs for APAC and has completed both my Master’s Degree in Public Health and Master’s Degree in Health Law through the University of Sydney. She started her career as a diagnostic radiographer for nine years before moving into a clinical research coordinator role at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Thiel then joined corporate life with Stryker in their orthopaedic research department. After two years, she moved to Smith + Nephew, where she worked for over seven years, gradually moving into the role of regional clinical operations manager for the ANZ, JAPAC and emerging markets region. Thiel's medical background assisted her in better understanding the environment in which we conduct our clinical trials and interacting with medical staff and personnel.
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Christy Thiel
CreditorWatch is a leading Australian data and technology company that provides businesses with access to unique data and innovative credit risk management products.
Using the CreditorWatch platform, businesses can confidently manage their commercial relationships, improve productivity and reduce exposure to financial risk and bad debt.
As a commercial credit reporting bureau, CreditorWatch offers a complete suite of credit reporting products and data insights covering the entire customer lifecycle, from customer onboarding and credit decision automation to monitoring, credit risk management and automated collections.
The CreditorWatch Advantage
Unique data: 90% of CreditorWatch customers use the platform exclusively, which means its credit reporting data is one of a kind.
Coverage: Users can access information on any business in Australia, including trusts, partnerships and sole traders.
Customer focus: CreditorWatch’s customer-led product development puts the customer at the forefront of everything it does. As a result, the company has an industry-leading NPS of 45.
Security: CreditorWatch is ISO 27001- and 27017-certified, demonstrating its dedication to security and trust.
Scalable and stable: The CreditorWatch system is 100% cloud-based, built on the AWS platform, ensuring customers have enjoyed an average uptime of 99.95% over the last three years.
“From our wineries and operational sites to our corporate offices and beyond, we want everyone at Accolade, regardless of their gender, to have equal opportunity to realise their potential”
Anjanette Murfet,
Accolade Wines
James Barrett
Director, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies
Maneesha Pillay
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Polo Guilbert-Wright
Director, Government Affairs
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
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James Barrett started his career in sales in the pharmaceutical industry and progressed to hold positions in finance and marketing, before moving to medical devices, which he has been in for the past 16 years across large multinationals and local distributors in a range of roles, including sales and marketing management, business and therapy development, country director and finally business unit director across both Australia and New Zealand. Barrett holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Lincoln University.
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James Barrett
Maneesha Pillay brings over 16 years of extensive experience in regulatory and quality, dedicated to ensuring compliance, and contributing towards making innovative technologies available to patients in a dynamic and evolving industry.
After completing her studies in public relations, she embarked on a marketing career with a decade-long tenure in broadcasting. Following this, she shifted her career trajectory towards regulatory affairs in the medical device industry, obtaining qualifications in Regulatory Affairs, Quality Management System Requirements (ISO 9001), Certified Lead Auditor (ISO 13485), Health Science – Nutrition, and an Executive MBA.
Maneesha is driven by commitment and passion in advancing healthcare and improving patient outcomes through regulatory excellence, with a demonstrated history of regulatory success.
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Maneesha Pillay
Polo Guilbert-Wright has over 17 years of experience working in government relations, public policy and communications in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. He has worked for and with state and federal governments throughout his career across a range of sectors, including within the medical technology sector, which has been involved in some of the most challenging reforms in the past decade.
Prior to Edwards Lifesciences, Guilbert-Wright worked for MTAA, and the UK government and Home Office. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and degrees in Arts/Law from the University of New South Wales.
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Polo Guilbert-Wright
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Straying away from traditional approaches to performance management, Accolade Wines seeks to enable employee performance through continuous, meaningful conversations and clear sprint objectives.
“These help to keep our people focused on the work that matters most in a fast-paced, ever-changing industry. Accolade Wines offers continuous development projects so our people can continue to grow,” says Murfet.
In a standout feat, Accolade has drastically reduced its gender pay gap to just 0.9 per cent. Through rigorous benchmarking and data-backed decision-making, the firm has plans of hitting zero.
Murfet explains, “From our wineries and operational sites to our corporate offices and beyond, we want everyone at Accolade, regardless of their gender, to have equal opportunity to realise their potential.”
To promote employee engagement, Accolade’s leadership team recognides the hard work its people put in through peer-to-peer recognition programs, wellbeing subsidies, exclusive discounts and savings, bonus incentives for high performance and monetary rewards.
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GCHHS’s vision is to have the best health outcomes in Australia, based on being a leader in sustainable, compassionate and highly reliable health care. The purpose of GCHHS is to provide excellence in sustainable and evidence-based healthcare that meets the needs of the fast-growing Gold Coast community.
The organisations ‘Always Care’ philosophy underpins its values of integrity, ‘community first,’ respect, excellence, compassion and empowerment. ‘Always Care’ is the commitment every employee makes every day to ensure person-centred care is at the heart of everything they do, based on the belief that the simplest acts of compassion can have the greatest impact.
· Global Office – work up to two weeks from anywhere in the world
· Loyalty Leave – earn an additional leave day for every year of employment
· Go Beyond Day – a day for employees to donate time to a charity of their choice
· Enhanced Parental Leave – updated parental leave policy including six weeks of secondary carers’ leave
· Accolade Birthday – a day off to celebrate each year an employee spends with Accolade
· building a diverse workforce
· creating sustainable capability
· being an equal opportunity employer
· valuing and empowering people to enhance culture and improve efficiencies
· recognising its peers
· creating a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
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