Board of Directors

Libby Roy has over 20 years of experience in leadership roles in highly regulated technology driven businesses including payments, credit cards, financial planning, superannuation, travel and telecommunications.

Libby joined the board of Bravura as an Independent Non-Executive Director in April 2020 and was appointed as CEO in August 2022. Prior to her appointment as CEO, Libby spent over two years as the Managing Director, Business for Optus. Before Optus, Libby spent five years as the Managing Director of Paypal, led the Corporate Superannuation business at AMP and ran the IPAC financial planning business at AXA. Libby also held several senior divisional roles across Asia Pacific with American Express after she left strategy consulting with Booz.Allen.

Libby holds an MBA from University of New South Wales and a B.A.Sc from Curtin University and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Chief Executive Women.

Based in Sydney, Neil Broekhuizen has over 23 years of experience in private equity with Investcorp and Bridgepoint Capital in Europe and Ironbridge in Australia.

Since co-founding Ironbridge in 2003, Neil has helped grow the business into a leading Australasian private equity manager. Neil has sat on the investment committee of Ironbridge since inception.

Neil has a BSc Honours degree in electical engineering from Imperial College, London and is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Neil is a Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Monash IVF Group and the privately held Re.Group.

Based in London, Peter Mann was previously Vice Chairman at Old Mutual Group. Peter was integral to the delivery of that organisation’s growth strategy.

Prior to that, he held a number of senior roles including CEO of Skandia, one of the United Kingdom’s largest retail platforms, which was acquired by Old Mutual in 2006, and also CEO of Bankhall, an independent financial adviser network. In his role at Skandia, Peter laid the foundations for expanding the retail platform into the leader it is today. At Bankhall, Peter supported significant revenue growth and steered the company to profit, implementing several new services for existing members across various business lines.

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, he was Founding Executive Director of REA Group Financial Services following its acquisition of Mortgage Choice.

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’.

Based in Perth, Russell Baskerville has more than 20 years of experience in leadership, digital business development, transactions and governance in the IT sector. He is founder and Managing Director of IT solutions provider Empired Limited, which he built into one of the largest and most respected digital services firms across Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to joining Empired, Russell was a founding member of Tusk Technologies Pty Ltd, as well as a founder of Procom Solutions Pty Ltd and Procom Holdings Pty Ltd. He is currently Chairman of ASX listed Elmore Limited (ELE), One Click Group Limited (1CG) and a number of private companies, as well as on the board of directors of Procom Holdings Pty Ltd and BigRedSky Limited.