Headquarters:
Level 26, Queen and Collins, 376-390 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Year founded:
2016
Number of employees:
550
Phone:
13 JUDO
Email:
media@judocapital.com.au
Website:
judo.bank
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/judobank
“We drive an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture that empowers our people to get things done and to deliver results”
Anjanette Murfet,
Accolade Wines
JUDO BANK
Chris Bayliss
CEO and Managing Director
Frank Versace
Chief Risk Officer
Lisa Frazier
Chief Operating Officer
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Chris Bayliss is CEO and a cofounder of Judo. He is a career international banker with more than 40 years of experience across all facets of retail and business banking in Asia-Pacific, UK and Europe. His career has spanned many global banks and markets, including executive positions at Clydesdale/Yorkshire Bank, Bank of New Zealand, National Australia Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
Bayliss is the chairman of the Retail and Business Banking Council FINSIA, a fellow of FINSIA and an associate of the UK Chartered Institute of Bankers. He also has a Financial Services Master of Business Administration from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK.
CEO and Managing Director
Chris Bayliss
Frank Versace has more than 20 years of experience in the banking industry, with experience running large relationship distribution businesses such as ANZ Mobile Lending and the Northern Melbourne Region for ANZ Business Bank. He was Judo’s chief relationship officer prior to assuming his current role.
Versace has obtained extensive risk experience over his career across various disciplines, including a deep understanding of transactional credit risk, portfolio risk management, risk strategy development and policy design. He is a chartered banker with the Chartered Bankers Institute in Scotland and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from Monash University.
Chief Risk Officer
Frank Versace
An experienced business executive, company board director and start-up entrepreneur, Lisa Frazier has more than 25 years of international experience across the banking, investing, media, telecom and technology industries. She joined Judo Bank as chief operating officer and is responsible for the “engine” of the bank – product, data, technology, digital and operations.
Frazier holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Illinois, USA) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Chief Operating Officer
Lisa Frazier
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General Counsel and Company Secretary
An accomplished general counsel and company secretary with more than 20 years’ experience, Yien Hong started her career as a credit analyst at Macquarie Bank and then trained with Herbert Smith Freehills before becoming a managing associate at Linklaters in London. Yien has held senior legal roles at Deutsche Bank, National Australia Bank and more recently as general counsel and company secretary at Growthpoint Properties Australia. Yien has served as a nonexecutive director with YWCA Housing and YWCA National Housing, as well as for subsidiary boards and is currently a director of the Australian Arts Orchestra.
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Andrew Leslie
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Leslie joined Judo Bank in October 2019 and has more than 18 years of experience in banking, finance, strategy and corporate advisory. Since joining Judo, Leslie has helped lead several of the bank’s private funding rounds and its initial public offering on the ASX. Prior to this, he had an executive banking career at Morgan Stanley, where he advised clients in Australia, Asia and the UK on mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and strategic projects in the financial services, mining and infrastructure sectors.
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Andrew Leslie
As a unique specialist pureplay SME business lender, Judo Bank is committed to the craft of SME banking to support the businesses that represent the Australian economy’s engine room. The bank’s purpose is simple: to be the most trusted SME business bank in Australia. Not the biggest, but the best, with a vision of building a worldclass SME business bank.
Judo Bank believes that each SME is unique, and that each deserves a relationship with their bank that is built on a deep understanding of their business, professionalism, trust and exceptional customer service – something that has been lacking in the banking industry for decades.
Judo Bank has long felt that SMEs were being left behind or taken for granted by the rest of the industry that prioritised mortgage lending, industrialised their operating models and fundamentally diminished their relationship proposition in a market with no real competition. The bank is proud to be a founder-led organisation with high levels of equity ownership across the company, which underpins a strong owner’s mindset and a challenger culture.
“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”
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Accolade Wines
Jess Lantieri
Chief People and Culture Officer
George Obeid
Chief Third-Party Officer
Polo Guilbert-Wright
Director, Government Affairs
Simon Williams
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Jess Lantieri has more than 15 years’ experience in people and culture roles across diverse industries, including FMCG, global information technology, foreign direct investment and professional services. Lantieri brings to Judo a global perspective on best practice people and culture strategies, having spent much of her career working in the US and the UK and in global P&C roles with accountability for teams in Asia, Europe, North America and New Zealand. She holds a double bachelor’s degree in commerce and international studies from the University of Adelaide and postgraduate certification in human resources management from Coventry University, UK.
Chief People and Culture Officer
Jess Lantieri
Prior to joining Judo Bank and establishing the bank’s third-party proposition, George Obeid held numerous senior roles at ANZ Banking Group over his 20-year career. He is a chartered banker with diverse banking experience in risk, leadership, corporate and commercial relationship banking roles. Obeid prides himself on building and developing strong sales leaders with deep market knowledge and risk management experience, while also enhancing and growing relationships within the business community. He is president of the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia’s Commercial and Asset Finance Forum, and a chartered banker with the Chartered Bankers Institute in Scotland.
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George Obeid
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.
Director, Government Affairs
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 Shah
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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Through maintaining an employee engagement score of 80 per cent, Accolade strives to create a welcoming and diverse environment where talent is excited to come to work every day.
“At Accolade Wines, we create an organisation where employees will realise their potential, helping us to realise ours. We are a global company that thinks, acts and moves at the speed of a start-up. Our focus is on fostering a dynamic, performance-driven, celebratory culture,” says Murfet.
· 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
· Day-to-day shout-outs – to award outstanding work, employees can exchange earned points for gift vouchers of up to $150
· Quarterly Stars Award – employees demonstrating core values have the chance to win $500
· Annual Hero’s Celebration – manager-nominated and peer-voted awards where outstanding employees earn a $5,000 bonus
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