AHEAD OF THE PACK

David HancockChairman

David has over 30 years of broad experience in financial services, including as CEO of listed insurer Tower Insurance Limited, Executive General Manager at CBA and senior management roles at JPMorgan across Asia. David recently retired from his role as an Executive Director and Group Head at Afterpay Touch Group Limited.

David FerrallCEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR

David is a highly experienced financial services executive with more than 30 years in financial and investment markets. He has built and managed businesses in Australia, Asia and Japan for companies including CBA, Shinsei Bank, JPMorgan and Citigroup.

Chris HarrisDirector

Chris has over 35 years’ experience in the trading and clearing of securities in Australian and overseas investment markets. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas’ Australian stockbroking and investment banking operations in 2000. In 2002 he was a founding director of LINWAR Securities where he was Chief Operating Officer until 2012 when LINWAR was taken-over by ANZ Banking Group.

Chris BarterDirector

Chris is a seasoned venture investor and accomplished finance leader with a long track record of building profitable businesses and generating strong returns.
Prior to co-founding King River, Chris has long been a dedicated global venture capital investor. He launched two fund management platforms along with partners that collectively raised in excess of US$600M, and has led investor syndicates in multi-stage software ventures via CKA Capital and other entities resulting in 28 early to mid-stage investments.

Chris spent the first nineteen years of his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Partner and was based in Frankfurt, London and Moscow. He was Co-Head of the European Financial Institutions Group in the Investment Banking Division, and in that role co-founded a funds management business which today commands a multi-billion dollar market valuation.

In addition to FinClear Chris serves on the boards of Ariadne Australia (ASX-listed), CNG Fuels and on the advisory board of GreenSync. He also serves on the President’s Leadership Council at Brown University.

Chris obtained a BSc in Physics from Brown University and an MSc in Physics from Harvard University.

Alex FergusonDirector

Alex Ferguson is an experienced financial services professional at Magellan Financial Group. As part of the Capital & Advisory team he is responsible for corporate and product initiatives and advising on Magellan’s principal investments. Prior to joining Magellan, Alex spent 10 years specialising in corporate finance and advisory in roles at the Commonwealth Bank in Australia and Societe Generale in London. Alex has a Bachelor of Applied Finance (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from Macquarie University.

Tracey Ah HeeDirector

Tracey has over 20 years global experience in data, analytics and customer experience transformation. She has held senior executive roles at PwC Australia, corelogic International and at KPMG in New York, where she built and led the Data Analytics and Customer Experience group for financial services, consulting to some of the world’s leading banks, insurers and wealth management organisations.

She has also built startups into multimillion dollar businesses and has worked in Apac, US, Europe and Africa.

Tracey has a BCom majoring in commercial law from Rhodes University, South Africa and an MBA from MGSM in Australia.