Managerial finance
Board packs, budgeting, capital conversations, and integrity in the numbers.
Experience
Prior experience is the through-line.
FinanceSignal.ai is built on roles lived — managerial finance, commercial growth, SaaS scale, systems and process, KPIs, compliance and risk, and board decision-making. AI and joined-up data are the forward look; this page is the spine.
Stance
Credibility first; then the thesis.
I have moved between pure finance seats and roles that also owned revenue, people operations, and enterprise sales. That mix is why I care about multi-system data and practical technology: you cannot partner well on growth or risk if the picture of the business is fragmented.
Timeline
Roles that shaped how I think.
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Fire and Safety Australia RTO 22250
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
CFO for a national organisation of over 300 professionals across Australia, spanning medical and emergency response and emergency safety training. The business trains roughly 35,000–40,000 people a year and delivers around 12,000 medical and emergency response shifts.
- Finance leadership for a high-trust, safety-critical operating environment.
- Partnering across a distributed professional workforce and training delivery model.
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EdTech Group
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Short tenure as Group CFO in the education technology sector.
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Criteria Corp
APAC and Global Enterprise Sales; member of the executive management team in a private-equity ownership context. Four direct reports across Sales, Pre-Sales, Support, and Partners.
- Regional commercial leadership after prior Revelian / Criteria journey.
- Enterprise sales, partner, and support coverage across APAC.
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Revelian
Brisbane · SME SaaS · HR industry
Long-run leadership across finance and revenue in a SaaS HR business. Key contributor to the sale to US private equity in 2020, then continued in a VP regional capacity.
- Finance: board reporting, R&D tax, budgeting, and working with financiers.
- Revenue: enterprise sales and customer success.
- People: HR operations for around 55 people.
- Governance: legal, risk, QA, and IP; monthly board cadence.
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Furitechnics
CFO role with preparation for a US global acquisition.
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Webb Group
Grew a wholesaling group from 15 to 33 electrical branches plus plumbing; headcount from about 120 to 300+ employees; sustained roughly 30–40% annual growth. Led a team of 17 and mentored 37 branch managers.
- Scale finance and commercial discipline through multi-branch expansion.
- People leadership and mentoring across a growing branch network.
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Stockford
Foundation years in professional accounting practice.
Themes
What carries forward into FinanceSignal.ai.
Commercial growth
Revenue ownership, enterprise sales, and growth that has to survive scrutiny.
SaaS & scale
Process, KPIs, and systems that hold when the organisation gets larger and more complex.
Risk & compliance
Legal, QA, IP, and controls as part of how decisions get made — not afterthoughts.