Melanie Willis is an experienced Non-Executive Director and currently serves as Chair of QBE AusPac (ASX:QBE) and is on the Boards of Challenger Limited (ASX:CGF), PEXA Limited (ASX:PXA) and PayPal Australia. Melanie chairs the Risk Committee at Challenger and Audit and Risk at PEXA and Remuneration and Audit at PayPal Australia.
Melanie’s experience as a Director includes global fin tech and platform players, building new revenue streams for businesses facing disruption, transitioning businesses from singular product focus to a broader purposed led strategy, offshore expansion and mergers and acquisitions.
Melanie has a strong connection to the start-up community acting as an Adviser and Advocate. She is an Investor and Advisory Board member on the facial recognition company, Noahface, prop tech investment group, Taronga Group Ventures, and an Investment Committee member of venture capital group, Tidal Ventures. She is an Adviser to The Big Issue on growth strategies and investments.
Melanie was NSW Chapter Chair of Chief Executive Women and Chair of the Education Committee for the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) 30% Club.
Melanie has held a number of senior leadership roles including CEO, NRMA Investments, with responsibility for NRMA’s $900m Investment portfolio, tourism and leisure subsidiaries and venture fund (including investments in Sendle, Airtasker and Campify), Group strategy and innovation. Prior to this she was CEO of a consumer credit start up and held senior executive roles in corporate and structured finance at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust.
Her core skills include strategy, innovation, mergers and acquisitions, investment, capital allocation, finance and risk.
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