has been criticised for being heavily concentrated in Sydney<\/a>, Fintech Australia\u2019s committee is \u201cin keeping with the organisations\u2019 national footprint\u201d and draws from four different states.<\/p>\n“It was critical to us that Fintech Australia be a genuinely national representative body,” Cant says.<\/p>\n
“It has been representative of the geographical diversity of fintech from day one and it’s our objective to only increase that.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be part of a truly national startup representative body and we\u2019ll be working hard as a committee to continue to attract fintech ventures from around the country,\u201d Petris adds.<\/p>\n
Cant says he\u2019s excited to get started as president of the group and to help further the momentum of fintech in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such a driven group of members and a highly engaged committee to accelerate the growth of fintech in this country and make Australia the leader in our region,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
“In an organisation that has so many great entrepreneurs in it all we need to do is harness the collective energy.”<\/p>\n
Fintech Australia\u2019s founding committee:<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Simon Cant<\/strong> (president): co-founder and managing director of Reinventure
\u2022 Charlotte Petris<\/strong> (vice president): founder and CEO of Timelio
\u2022 David Ball<\/strong> (secretary): Australian director and country manager of Yodlee
\u2022 Nick Motteram<\/strong> (treasuer): co-founder and managing director of On-Market BookBuilds
\u2022 Alex Scandurra<\/strong> (governing committee): CEO of Stone & Chalk
\u2022 Stuart Stoyan<\/strong> (governing committee): founder and CEO of MoneyPlace
\u2022 Jack Quigley<\/strong> (governing committee): founder and CEO of CrowdFundUp<\/p>\nFollow StartupSmart on<\/em> <\/em>Facebook,<\/em> <\/em>Twitter,<\/em> <\/em>LinkedIn<\/em> <\/em>and<\/em> <\/em>Soundcloud.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A national body representing fintech startups has elected its inaugural founding committee and put forward three key issues that need to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}