David Gelbak

David is Chief Country Officer for New Zealand at Latitude Financial Services.

In this role David has responsibility for all New Zealand business operations as well as Latitude's product portfolio including Sales Finance, Credit Cards, Personal Loans and Genoapay.

Prior to this role David was the Managing Director - Commercial and Partnerships at Latitude, with commercial responsibility across the product portfolio as well as commercial functions including Product, Business Development, Marketing and Digital across Australia and New Zealand.

David has also been a General Manager at Latitude and GE across the consumer portfolio range as well as leading the digital practice and held the role of Chairman of the GE Innovation Committee ANZ. David has 22 years' experience in General Management, Sales, Digital, Product and Marketing roles and is also active in the not-for-profit sector as a former Non-Executive Director of febfast and the Youth Substance Advocacy Service (YSAS).

David attended Monash University graduating with a Bachelor of Business Marketing and a Diploma in Advanced Market Research from The Market Research Society of Australia.