Andrea Marani is an accomplished financial executive with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at FinClear, where he oversees daily operations and drives strategic initiatives. Marani's career journey started in South Africa, where he worked in audit and financial accounting roles before moving to London to work in financial controller positions at JP Morgan, Bankers Trust, and Rabobank. He then joined the team that started Global Trader/GT247 and sold it to Purple Capital in 2007. He immigrated to Australia in 2008 and held operational roles at Wilson HTM and Shaw & Partners before joining OpenMarkets in 2013, where he worked with the founders to build the company from a startup to a top 15 ASX Market Participant and the second-largest digital broker to CommSec. He has also held various senior management and executive positions at companies such as Rabobank, Bankers Trust, JP Morgan, and Investec.

Marani is highly influential, with strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. He is a dynamic people manager who inspires and leads in a transparent environment and has a proven track record in developing strategy, managing change, and driving process improvement. He studied Matric at St Stithians College and earned his B Compt in Accounting and Auditing from the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.