Executive Team

Based in Sydney, Andrew Russell has 20 years of experience in the finance and technology industries. Formerly CEO and Managing Director of ASX-listed SaaS technology firm, Class Limited (Class, formerly ASX – CL1), he led the business through a change strategy which included acquiring and integrating four companies in less than two years. Class delisted in February 2022 following its acquisition by Hub24 Limited. Prior to that, Andrew was founding Executive Director and Executive General Manager, Financial Services, REA Group.

With proven success in planning and deploying robust corporate strategies to establish new lines of business, Andrew has a strong background in identifying and implementing market entry and growth strategies.

He holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), part of City, University of London; a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Macquarie University, Australia; and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course. He has completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s ‘Innovative Technology Leader Program’ and Harvard Business School’s ‘Authentic Leadership Program’.

Appointed: as a NED February 2023 and Group CEO and Managing Director July 2023

Neil Montford has over 20 years’ experience in senior finance roles, including within ASX-listed companies. For the past 11 years he has held several senior leadership posts at Fidelity International, latterly as CFO of Asia Pacific, and prior to that led the Finance functions for two of Macquarie Group’s operating divisions. At the start of his career, Neil worked at Deloitte for six years in the UK and Australia.

Based in London, Adam Warwick has worked at the cutting-edge of IT in the finance sector for the best part of two decades and has extensive experience in change management, IT strategy and transformation projects.

As Bravura’s Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTO), Adam is responsible for establishing a forward-looking product framework to support the business’s worldwide client base, both now and in the future. He also leads in managing the company’s Research & Development teams and ensuring its cloud-based delivery mechanism is implemented successfully across the company’s global client portfolio.

Before joining Bravura, Adam was Quilter’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). Before that, he held roles at various leading financial firms, including HBOS, Zurich Insurance Company, and Aviva, as the company’s CIO in the UK and Ireland.

Based predominately in London, Yaiza Luengo has more than two decades of experience driving large-scale global transformation programs for some of the world’s largest financial service organisations.

As Bravura’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Yaiza is responsible for creating global strategic initiatives and ensuring that client work is delivered in close partnership with Bravura’s regional Managing Directors through developing commercial governance processes and tools. She will also be responsible for growing Bravura’s market share with clients in both APAC and EMEA, resource utilisation, and global programme management.

Before joining Bravura, Yaiza was Chief Strategic Change Officer at Spanish fintech WiZink, where she was responsible for leading its digital change program. Prior to that, she was Global Head of Transformation for Refinitiv, which has client companies in 190 countries. She has held several senior roles at global financial service firms, including at Barclays, RBS and HSBC, where she delivered a global transformation and change programme across its retail, corporate, private and investment banking divisions.

Based in London, Chris Spencer has more than two decades worth of experience in motivating, inspiring and developing teams to affect positive business change, including process re-engineering, business development and transformation.

As Managing Director of Bravura’s EMEA region, Chris is responsible for driving the region’s proposition development and leading its sales and account management teams to grow existing and future client revenue and margin.

Prior to joining Bravura, Chris served various companies in the financial services and pensions space as Managing Director, including IFDS Financial Services and most recently, Embark. Before then, he was Head of Client Services at UK-based advisory firm Govett Investments and spent ten years at Fidelity cutting his teeth working across the asset management and brokerage divisions.

Based in Sydney, Paul Dunn has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector – having worked for major banks, life companies and global consulting firms. Throughout his career, Paul has held senior leadership roles in business development, account management, corporate consulting and operational administration.

Paul joined Bravura in September 2018 and is responsible for leading sales growth in the APAC region across current and future customers.

Paul’s previous role was with ANZ where he worked as the National Manager – Institutional Relationships, responsible for all major ANZ superannuation clients. Prior to this, Paul was the Head of Sales at ING Australia. He has considerable experience building effective teams and sales processes associated with the delivery of superannuation, investment and insurance solutions to major corporates.

Based in Sydney, Duncan has over 20 years of business and human capital experience, including an extensive track record building and implementing people strategies across multiple markets in tech. Before joining Bravura, Duncan spent three years as Chief People Officer of FujiFilm Business Innovation (formerly Fuji Xerox). Prior to this, he spent eight years based in New York, working in senior global HR and talent management roles with Pearson Education and American Express.

Duncan has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and an MBA from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is an established leader in the Australian HR space. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Australian CHRO Forum and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. As an industry leader, Duncan will be invaluable to Bravura as we undertake transformation and other important people initiatives.

Based in Sydney, Justin Morgan brings substantial experience driving effective transformational change and solving complex business issues, particularly at the intersection between finance and technology.

Through his extensive executive and management consultant background, Justin leads the Group’s strategy, investor relations and marketing functions and plays a key role in implementing the business’ three-year strategic and annual operating plan. He is also responsible for growing the business’ strategic partnerships across the globe including M&A for new opportunities.

Before joining Bravura, Justin was with global management consulting firm, Kearney, where he was Vice President. Prior to this, he held senior-level roles at several multinational businesses – including American Express, AMP and Suncorp in London, New York and Sydney.  

Shezad Okhai was appointed Chief Commercial Officer of Bravura on 15 August 2023. Prior to joining Bravura, he was Chief Investment Officer at Pinetree Capital, an investment and merchant banking firm focused on the technology sector. He also spent more than 10 years with Constellation Software, a leading acquirer and operator of vertical market software companies where he built his expertise in capital allocation and vertical market software operations.

Appointed: As a NED April 2023 and as Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Director August 2023
Board Committees: Human Resources Committee

With over 14 years’ experience as a lawyer gained in private practice and in-house at Bravura Solutions, Melissa provides high value strategic advice and works with the business to manage legal risks. Melissa has assisted with the company secretariat function at Bravura Solutions since its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 2016 and was appointed Company Secretary in June 2023. Melissa has broad company secretariat and corporate governance experience.