Judo Bank is an Australian Challenger Bank focused on small and medium-sized enterprise lending.

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Judo Bank

Andrew has over 14 years’ experience in Investment Banking and Corporate Advisory, most recently as Executive Director, Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, where he led the build-out of the Melbourne office. Andrew has advised clients on over A$50 billion of mergers and acquisitions transactions, capital raisings and strategic projects, spanning financial services, mining, infrastructure and industrials sectors.

Prior to his role with Morgan Stanley, Andrew worked at a start-up that was funded and later acquired by the Toll Group. He has recently been consulting with a range of corporates and start-ups in the consumer retail, financial services, biotech and property sectors.

Andrew is passionate about mentoring young professionals. He has worked overseas as a student teacher, led campus recruiting at Morgan Stanley for over a decade, and recently co-founded Aced It, a start-up that helps young professionals secure roles in finance and commerce.

In his spare time, Andrew plays the cello, is a CrossFit athlete, enjoys hiking, and loves architecture and design.

Andrew graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) and a Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies), and recently completed a Senior Executive MBA at Melbourne Business School.


Andrew Leslie

An accomplished general counsel and company secretary with over 20 years' experience, Yien is focussed on getting the deal done right and to find a way to say "Yes".

Starting her career as a credit analyst at Macquarie Bank, Yien trained with Herbert Smith Freehills before becoming a managing associate at Linklaters in London. She has held senior legal roles at Deutsche Bank, NAB and more recently as General Counsel and Company Secretary at Growthpoint Properties Australia Limited. Yien currently serves as a non-executive Director with YWCA Housing and YWCA National Housing.

Yien holds an LLB (Hons), BCom and BA from the University of Adelaide and has recently completed the AICD Company Directors’ Course.

Yien also has long term aspirations to practice more yoga, to reacquaint her knees with running and to read more books.

Yien Hong

Lisa Frazier is an experienced business executive, company board director and start-up entrepreneur. Lisa has over 25 years of international experience across banking, investing, media, telecom, and technology industries.

Lisa joined Judo Bank in April 2021 as the Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the “engine” of the bank – Product, Data, Technology, Digital and Operations.

Lisa has spent a decade in financial service in roles such as leading the Innovation Group at Wells Fargo in San Francisco, an enterprise-wide organization devoted to accelerating the company’s delivery of next-generation, customer-inspired products, and establishing and leading the Digital team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia responsible for Digital products and channels.

Lisa was also Founder and CEO of a media start-up in San Francisco. Lisa is an active member of the startup ecosystem advising companies on growth.

Earlier in her career, Lisa was a Partner at McKinsey & Company in New York and San Francisco, a Non-executive Director of OFX Group and a Digital and Technology Advisor to Australia & New Zealand Banking Group's Board.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Illinois USA, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance, and Investment from FINSIA and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lisa Frazier

Frank started his career as a graduate within ANZ’s business bank. Since then he has accumulated over 15 years of banking experience across commercial & Retail Banking. His career has included being National Sales Manager for ANZ Mobile Lending and District Executive for ANZ Commercial, as well as being part of the Business & Financial Services division at Macquarie Bank, responsible for the development of credit policy, origination and distribution of banking product.

Frank Versace

Chris is a career international banker with 38 years’ experience. His career has spanned many global banks and markets, including Barclays, HBOS, Clydesdale / Yorkshire Bank, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), National Australia Bank (NAB) and most recently Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. A truly rounded banking executive, Chris has experience in Business Credit Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Back Office Operations, Technology, SME Business Banking and Personal Banking Sales and Service.

As Executive General Manager of NAB Retail Banking (2010-2012), Chris led a team of 7,500 bankers across circa 800 branches throughout Australia, covering Personal and Small Business Banking. As the Global Head of the Personal Banking Segment at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for a portfolio covering 60,000 staff across over 40 countries, banking over 12 million customers. In this role, Chris was responsible for consolidating 40+ individual country strategies into one global bank strategy (supported by a unified CVP, global products, systems and channels).

In SME banking, Chris draws on his direct experience as a SME credit analyst (Barclays Bank / HBOS 1990-1995), SME Relationship Manager (Yorkshire Bank 1995-1999), Head of SME Credit (Clydesdale Bank 1999), Chief Risk Officer, including SME credit (BNZ 2002-2004), Head of SME Banking (as part of COO portfolio – Yorkshire Bank 2004).

Chris has developed a strong personal brand as a developer, motivator and leader of people. His leadership style has been profiled by Gary Hamel in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ 2009, Unshackling Employees from Head Officer Control), Gary Hamel’s 2012 book “What Matters Now” and also by Julian Birkinshaw’s book “Becoming a Better Boss”. Chris is an Associate of the UK Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB) and has a specialised Financial Services MBA from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

On a personal level, Chris enjoys an active life. His favourites sports include tennis and skiing. A fan of the great outdoors, Chris finds time in New Zealand a real treat, especially when he can enjoy this with like-minded friends.

Chris is a Fellow of Finsia and also currently the chairman of the Finsia Retail and Business Banking Council.

Chris Bayliss

Joseph is a career international banker. He has held executive positions at NAB, ANZ, CIBC World Markets, Citibank and Lloyds Bank.

As Group Executive/Divisional CEO, NAB Business Banking from 2008-14, Joseph was responsible for SME, Corporate, Financial Institutions, Institutional, Private Banking and Asia.

From 2004-2007, Joseph was ANZ’s Managing Director, Global Client Relationships. Joseph spent 12 years at Citi, where he had extensive credit and markets risk training and held senior risk management roles. Joseph has deep customer, risk and business management experience, together with success in starting new businesses. Joseph holds an MSc (Finance), MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience, MBA, MSc International Management (China), MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies and MBA (Banking) degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London Business School, Kings College, London and the University of Nottingham in China.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and a Fellow of FINSIA. Joseph has authored three books: ‘Corporate Governance & Shareholder Wealth Creation’ (2003), ‘Chinese Firms Going Global – Can They Succeed?' (2018) and ‘Breaking the Banks – What went wrong with Australia’s banking?' (2019). Joseph was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland Business School and was a member of the expert panel advising the Deans of Australian Universities on finance course content at Bachelor and Master Degree levels.

He was a Director of Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2010-2018 and has five international football caps for Scotland at youth level. He is currently a Director of the Australian Finance Industry Association (AFIA).

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