LIXI Limited (LIXI) is an Australian, member-based not-for-profit company that develops data message transaction standards for the Australian mortgage processing industry, and promotes efficiency improvements.
LIXI operates under the Constitution of LIXI Limited with the following objectives:
Shane Rigby
CEO
Qualifications: PhD, BE(Hons)
Shane has demonstrated a passion for delivering business value through the use of technology. His background in banking and technology has framed his vision for LIXI’s future.
Shane joined LIXI in July 2015 as Chief Technology Officer after holding a series of financial services and banking technology roles internationally. In June 2017 Shane transitioned to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
Shane is a strong technology leader, having proved himself as a business analyst and developer before successfully leading program delivery across multiple areas in a global bank. He was responsible for the finance regulatory reporting platforms across Asia-Pacific as well as dealing with the regulatory issues surrounding the off-shoring of resources around the globe.
Shane is passionate about technology and how new technologies can solve business problems in exciting and often unexpected ways. He has strong experience in understanding how teams interact with the technologies they use, and driving greater productivity with the careful application of technology solutions.
Stephen Moore
Chairman, LIXI Board of Directors
CEO, Choice Aggregation Services
B. Bus - Finance & Marketing
Stephen is a Financial Services professional having over 25 years experience in leadership across distribution, product, operations and strategy, uniquely within wealth management, banking and finance broking.
Companies include ING, MLC, NAB including the start-up of UBank. Since 2010, Stephen has been CEO and Director of Choice Aggregation entities and a Director of BLSSA, Australia’s largest ACL holder for brokers. Stephen continues to strive to make a significant to our industry being active with the MFAA and as a Director of LIXI.
Stephen has a real appreciation of technology and the role it plays in driving efficiency and business effectiveness across the value chain.
Martyn Beer
Head of Client Delivery, Lending Technology - IRESS
Qualifications: B.Bus
Martyn Beer has more than thirty five years of experience in senior roles with Australian Finance and Technology Industry service providers.
His experience includes 15 years' strategic and operational management in the lending businesses of Midland Bank, Colonial State Bank, BankWest, Liberty Financial and Guardian. For five years, Martyn was an independent introducer to aggregators and funders of retail and commercial mortgages. He has also spent over 15 years driving technology strategy and delivering technology solutions to the FSI at Adaptra Group, Sandstone Technology, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and most recently, IRESS Ltd. Martyn also independently consults to start up technology businesses, and FSI clients to maximise results from direct to consumer and financial intermediary lending distribution.
Michael Culican
General Manager - Group's Supplier Management, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Qualifications: Masters of Business Management
Michael is a senior leader with 25 years’ experience in Financial Services both in Banking and Insurance and is currently the General Manager for the Group’s Supplier Management at the CBA.
Prior to this role, Michael was the Chief Operations Officer for the CBA Lending Operations and he led the operations functions at Aussie Home Loans, a subsidiary of CBA where there was a focus on driving efficiencies and customer service enhancements.
Michael joined the CBA in 2010 and previously also worked at NAB and IAG.
Richard Hilliard
Head of Digital Transformation, Aussie Home Loans
Qualifications: BSC (Hons), Management Science
As Head of Digital Transformation at Aussie, Richard is responsible for broker and customer facing applications including Toolbox and its integration with panel lenders. In his 4 years at Aussie he has gained deep experience of the mortgage broker market and technology required to support it. Richard is leading an integrated team in transforming the customer experience and scaling operations through the application of technology and digital assets and has deep experience of applying LIXI to mortgages and other product applications in the aggregator space.
Paul Lahiff
Chairman, NPP Australia Limited
Qualifications: BSc, FFINSIA, FAIM, MAICD
Paul has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry including Managing Director of Mortgage Choice. Paul is currently the Chairman of NPP Australia Limited, overseeing development of a new platform to enable fast, data-enriched and simply addressed payments services for Australian business and consumers.
Paul acted as the Chairman of the LIXI Board 2012-15, and prior to that Paul provided consulting advice to LIXI, particularly in the area of strategy facilitation and effective governance.
Paul also serves as Chairman of Retail Finance Intelligence and is a director of AUB Holdings.
Paul holds a BSc Agr from Sydney University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Martin Lam
Co-Founder & Operations Director, Lendi
Qualifications: BSc & MA in Finance
Martin is currently the Head of Innovation, Operations, and Risk at Lendi, Australia’s leader in online home loans. Martin has been instrumental in pioneering the direct to consumer home loan experience. Martin leads the program of work aimed at redefining how consumer data is collected and utilised in the lending industry both for loan applications as well as responsible lending requirements.
Martin holds a BSc and an MA in Finance, specifically focusing on Banking.
Neill Rose-Innes
General Manager - Distribution, Mortgage Choice
Qualifications: Dip Information Technology
Neill has 30 years' experience in information technology, management consulting and business leadership. Throughout his career, Neill has held various executive roles in lender, direct distribution and third party distribution companies, including RAMS, Greenway and Mortgage Choice. Roles include: the GM Operations and CIO, during which time he was responsible for the technology and operational efficiency of the various businesses.
Neill appreciates how important it is for the industry to adopt common standards to improve the proposition for all constituents, and at the same time, improve LIXI member return on investments. LIXI, as the industry body, has the opportunity to assist in facilitating these outcomes, so long as adoption across the industry is broad and the standards are adhered to and supported.
Mike Thanos
Director, Lending Technology Services (LTX)
Qualifications: B.Com, LLB (HONS), Law, Accounting & Finance
Mike has 20 years’ experience in the mortgage industry. As a co-founder and leader of mortgage technology and BPO businesses LTX (Lending Technology Services) and IDS (Insight Data Solutions), he has followed his passion for applying technology to solve industry problems.
Mike was instrumental in the founding of LIXI when he, John Grant and Barry Thomas first conceived the organisation in 2000. He served as a Director of LIXI between 2004 and 2012 and has chaired or served on several Sub-Committees and Working Groups. Mike continues to believe in and support LIXI's mission as an independent, collaborative enabler of industry efficiency.
Simone Tilley
National General Manager of Retail Broker Distribution, ANZ
Qualifications: B. Agri Sci (Hons)
Simone Tilley is National General Manager of Retail Broker Distribution at ANZ. She was formerly National Manager Commercial for ANZ’s Regional Bank, whilst double hatting as State Manager Victoria and Tasmania covering both commercial and agribusiness customers. Prior to this role she ran Global Agribusiness Strategy for ANZ’s Institutional Bank.
Simone holds a Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Science (Hons), Post Grad in Price Risk Management, Agricultural Commodities and represented Australia as a Young Rural Ambassador on a fully paid bursary travelling East to West of Canada, reviewing agribusiness across the supply chain. Simone recently attended the MIT Executive Program in the USA.
She has had a successful career running large and complex businesses with a focus on driving change and achieving significant business performance turn around. Her banking career spans 20 years across Commercial, Corporate, Institutional and Retail divisions where she has also spent 4 years running her family businesses.
For people interested in guiding the direction of LIXI, the current Board invites and welcomes applicants from member organisations to nominate for a Board position.
Applications will open mid-September and will be announced to the Nominated Representative of each Member organisation. Nominations of candidates for election as Director are to be received at the LIXI postal address or via sending a scan of the completed signed Director Nomination Form via email.
Only one nominee per current financial LIXI member is allowed. This nomination must be seconded by a representative of a different, currently financial, LIXI member. If there are more nominations than positions to fill, an election will be held at the AGM in November. Please refer to the attached summary of LIXI Director Obligations, and the LIXI Constitution for further information about the process and expectations of the position. If you would like more information please contact Louise Harper.
Updated: 14th July 2018