Leadership

Andrew Walsh

Managing Director

Andrew took the role of Managing Director in October 2009, after seven years as General Manager of the IRESS Wealth Management division, overseeing the growth and direction of our wealth management business in Australia and internationally.

Andrew founded XPLAN Technology (XPLAN), and from 2003 managed the transition of XPLAN from an independent organisation to a fully integrated division of IRESS Market Technology. Prior to IRESS, Andrew worked extensively in the actuarial, financial planning, and technology industries.

Stuart Bland

Chief Financial Officer

Stuart joined IRESS in 2001. Prior to this, he held a number of senior management positions in a range of industries including telecommunications, biotechnology and the wine industry. These senior roles were commercial, financial and M&A focused. Previous to this, Stuart worked at Coopers & Lybrand for nine years, primarily in their corporate advisory area.

Peter Ferguson

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Peter joined IRESS in June 2011. He has many years' experience in international legal and commercial appointments in the financial technology sector, with prior international and domestic appointments including seven years with Nasdaq OMX, located in Stockholm and later Sydney, GBST and SIRCA.

Kirsty Gross

General Manager - Products, Sales and Marketing

Kirsty is responsible for the Product and Account Management teams, and ultimately all client relationships. She is also a specialist in the IRESS trading systems. Kirsty has been involved from the preliminary stages in the marketing and support of IOS.

Kirsty has over fifteen years experience in the information vending industry, including roles with Equinet, Knight Ridder Financial Inc. and IRESS Market Technology. Prior to this, she worked in broking at McIntosh Securities. Kirsty has extensive knowledge of the broking industry and the equities and derivatives markets.

Aaron Knowles

Product Manager - Wealth Management

Aaron is responsible for the strategy, direction and product lifecycle for IRESS' wealth management software, and manages a team of product managers and analysts who look after the various individual products and research services that make up the division.

Aaron joined IRESS in 2004 and has held various positions in client relationship and product areas prior to his current role. He has over thirteen years' experience with wealth management software and prior to joining IRESS held positions with AXA, National Australia Bank and Legal & General (UK). 

David Walker

Chief Technical Officer

David is responsible for the management of the software development team, network and systems architecture groups. He plays a key role in the design and continued evolution of IRESS Market Technology's software architecture and technical direction.

David worked for IRESS Market Technology between January 1995 and August 1996, developing the first release of the IRESS product. He briefly moved to Tracker Software in August 1996 where he worked on the redevelopment of its contract management software before returning to IRESS Market Technology in April 1997.

Jason Hoang

Chief Operating Officer - Asia

Jason assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer - Asia in August 2010, after a combined period within the group of five years as National Sales and Marketing Manager of the IRESS Wealth Management division, overseeing the growth and direction of wealth management business.

As co-founder of XPLAN Technology with Andrew Walsh, Jason assisted in the transition of XPLAN from an independent organisation to a fully integrated division of IRESS Market Technology. Prior to IRESS, Jason worked with Mercer in the Financial Planning division, and as National Sales and Marketing Manager at Vision FPS.

Jason Rudy

General Manager - Financial Markets Asia

Jason joined the IRESS web products division of IRESS in July 2002, and has since held various management roles covering web products, portfolio products, account management, sales and product management. Combining this experience, Jason moved into his current role to build the business in Asia and to focus on the portfolio and web product areas globally.

Prior to joining IRESS, Jason worked as an IT Consultant for Pitcher Partners Accountants, and held various roles within Estar Online Trading, where he implemented IRESS products for the online trading community.

Adam Rudy

General Manager - Operations Australia

Adam joined IRESS Market Technology in 1996. His current role as General Manager – Operations encompasses three departments: Help Desk, Market Data (Database) and Operations. The Operations department is responsible for all aspects of the production and development networks.

Adam is also ultimately responsible for customer satisfaction in terms of the timeliness of market data, speed of the trading products and the amount of uptime of server services.

Tizzy Vigilante

General Manager - Wealth Management Australia

Tizzy is responsible for managing the distribution of Wealth Management clients in Australasia, supporting them in the use of our software solutions. Tizzy believes that client service is fundamentally about building relationships based on respect, and she leads by example all the client facing divisions of the business.

Tizzy joined IRESS from VisiPlan in 2007. Prior to working at IRESS, she spent eight years with IWL Ltd, four years as Executive General Manager.

Jim Davies

President and Chief Executive Officer - Financial Markets Canada

Jim has over twenty five years’ experience in the financial information and IT services markets. He has held several executive positions with North America’s leading news and information service providers.

Prior to joining IRESS Canada, Jim was Managing Director of Reuters Canada. Before Reuters, he served as President and COO of Kasten Chase Applied Research. From 1996 to 2000, he was employed by Standard and Poor's in New York and held the positions of Executive Managing Director, Capital Market Services, and President and CEO of the JJ Kenny Company. From 1983 to 1996, Mr. Davies held various senior positions with Dow Jones Telerate.

Ashley Mendelowitz

Chief Executive Officer - Peresys

With over fifteen years' financial markets experience, Ashley founded Peresys in 1997. Previously, as GM Operations at the SA Futures Exchange, he played a leading role in managing the implementation of automated trading in the derivatives markets in South Africa.

In addition to maintaining long-standing key customer and partner relationships, Ashley's main focus continues to be shaping Peresys' strategic direction.

Phillipe Moretonas

Managing Director - Wealth Management South Africa

As an agent for one of the leading life companies in South Africa, Philippe developed the Spotlight Interactive product. This was the first software solution to address the real needs of financial advisors in South Africa. In 1994, Philippe founded Spotlight Interactive as an independent supplier of wealth management technology solutions. IRESS acquired Spotlight Interactive in 2007, at which time Philippe took up his current role with IRESS Wealth Management. Since this time, Philippe has focused his efforts on the strategic direction and initiatives for the Spotlight and IRESS Wealth Management brands in South Africa.

Prior to this, Philippe managed the Natal consulting operation of Decision Information, eventually presiding over the Cape operation.

Mark Thelwell

Managing Director

Mark joined IRESS in 2011 to lead the UK Wealth Management division. Mark founded AT8 Group with Mark Loosmore and Nigel Smith in 2006, an e-commerce consulting company specialising in financial services.

Mark has 28 years experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry, holding management roles in Sales & Marketing, Compliance and IT. Notably, Mark managed the merger between AXA and Sun Life, and was COO at Focus Solutions Group, helping to float the company on the LSE with an AIM listing.