University of South Australia

Scotch College

Strategic Business Advisor at Q2

I help banks and credit unions get the most from their Digital investments and ideas.
As a leader in the Q2 Advisory Services team:
1) I help FIs create Digital programs that are based on their strategic goals;
2) I help FIs understand and plan so they take the right products and services to market;
3) I act as mentor and advocate for the FIs Project Management teams to help make sure projects are deliveredwith maximum efficiency and attention to the important details;
4) I ensure FIs have planned well for their digital investments with specific programs around marketingcommunication, product planning, contact center efficiency and product marketing activities.

Strategic Business Advisor

I helped Credit Unions understand their Digital and Omnichannel strategic goals and needs, from theevaluation of current systems, to the delivery of their next-generation Digital Program definition, followed byvendor selection and negotiation.

CU Engage

Strategic Digital Consultant

I advised Financial Services vendors, integrators and institutions on how to design, plan and build their nextgeneration platforms, based on my consulting experience and market knowledge. This covered areas likeDigital Banking, Mobile Banking, Social Media integration, Alternative Payments, Card Linked Offers andEewards, and Data Analytics.

I determined the unique needs and perspectives of customers, then created and presented strategies,solutions design, programs of work and business cases on how to achieve their goals.

Mindful Insights

Principal Consultant

Principal consultant and site lead at blue-chip clients, providing management consulting services. 

Assisted clients to improve their corporate performance by communicating regularly with key stakeholders about their portfolio of programs and projects, and proposing solutions.
Managed teams of software developers and business analysts in developing solutions for project and program management.

DWS Advanced Business Solutions

National Manager of Customer Solutions responsible for consulting with multi-national organisations and large government departments on portfolio, program and project management strategies and tools.

IPMO Pty Ltd

National Manager: Customer Solutions

Principal Consultant in the Adelaide, South Australia office, providing management consulting services to SDM's Financial Services and large Government clients.

Working in complex, multi-project environments as a preferred Consultant, responsible for actively initiating, managing and delivering the programs of work and the project required to deliver those programs.

This included researching, providing and presenting competitive intelligence, and industry trend analysis, so strategies could be formulated and implemented. This analysis typically included data provided by the client.

DWS Advanced Business Solutions purchased Strategic Data Management and integrated the companies between Q1 2008 and Q1 2009.

Strategic Data Management

Successfully re-structured and re-organised the sales and marketing functions for this
start-up/small business in the Finance and Business Management package market.

Partnered with SAP to bring the Business One Finance Management product to market in
South Australia. This included planning and managing the end-to-end sales process..

Advance Business Consulting

Strategic Marketing Manager

Responsible for re-branding and re-positioning this Financial Services solution provider. This included product & portfolio management consulting to Superannuation / Pensions providers to give them a transactional capability and single customer view, delivered to both the web and call center channels.

A significant achievement was the conception, development and delivery of Essential Clearing House payments solution.

The company was ultimately successfully sold to the global organization Bravura Solutions, a supplier of superannuation, pension, life insurance, investment, wrap, private wealth and transfer agency software and related services.

Essential / Bravura Solutions

Product Strategy Manager

Senior Product Manager of the Corillian Voyager Platform, at the time the most widely used Internet Banking platform in the USA with 25% market share in terms of users. The product was used in 5 of the top ten and 25 of the top 100 financial institutions.

Responsible for the product quality, product roadmap and product delivery. With all contracts being custom projects, was responsible for providing system integration guidance, as well as migration analysis and planning.

Corillian Corporation

Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager for IBM platforms, with particular focus on appropriate software solutions and strategies to suit Financial, Telco and Government vertical market segments. Responsible for creating and presenting strategies for blue chip corporate clients, based on enterprise software products, and then planning program roadmaps to implement these solutions.

Senior Product Marketing Manager and NUMACenter Architect

Worked with large customers to define business success criteria, followed by production of demonstrations, benchmarks and prototypes to meet these goals;

Sequent Computer Systems, Ltd

European Product Marketing Manager

Created test suites for complex software products, including SCO Xenix, Unix and Open Desktop, and Windows NT 3.1;

Technical support for key Higher Education and Government customers and departments.

David Brebner