About
Our vibrant network supports Australia’s thriving payments system.
Australian Payments Network champions the payments system. We enable competition and innovation, promote efficiency, and control and manage risk to deliver improvements for all users of the payments system.
With a strong focus on collaboration, our role includes:
- inspiring innovation
- facilitating self-regulation
- coordinating system-wide standards
- policy development
Our network includes more than 150 members and participants and we welcome involvement from all organisations with a significant interest in payments.
Membership
We bring together a diverse range of organisations to help payments thrive.
There are four broad membership categories:
- Participant members: organisations that directly participate in the payments system
- Operator members: commercial operators of payment systems, technology companies
- Affiliate members: suppliers of goods and services to card issuers, acquirers and schemes
- Payment service provider members: technology companies that facilitate payments functions relating to the electronic payment of money in Australia
Meet the Board
Meet our Executive Team
Andy White
Chief Executive Officer
Andy has over 25 years’ international experience, incorporating roles at the Bank of England, LCH.Clearnet and the Australian Securities Exchange. He is a graduate of Oxford University and AICD. Andy also holds advisory roles on the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, Emerging Payments Association Asia, and the editorial board of the Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems.
Paula Gilardoni
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Paula has over 20 years’ experience advising on legal, regulatory and strategic matters in the payments industry. Prior to joining AusPayNet, she was General Counsel at a payments fintech and a partner at KPMG Law and Gilbert + Tobin before that.
Lynette Hickey
Chief Financial Officer
Lynette brings over 20 years of finance and business management experience to AusPayNet. She has held various senior management roles within PwC, predominately the Assurance and Business Advisory Group working with start-ups through to large multinationals. Most recently Lynette was the CFO for the Converga Group.
Rajat Jain
Chief Strategy Officer
Rajat has over 20 years of payments industry experience in strategy and transformation roles. He was a Partner at Deloitte before joining AusPayNet, and led their payments practice in Australia from 2017-22. Prior to that, he served at American Express in the US, Australia, and Singapore for over a decade, including as Head of Strategy for A/ NZ and as Head of Consulting and Business Transformation for APAC & Japan. Rajat is a merit-listed Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Lauren Johnson
Chief People and Culture Officer
Lauren has spent over 15 years in leadership roles in both business facing and people & culture capacities. She has spent the last 10 years in executive HR management, partnering with leaders to shape the people agenda. Most recently Lauren was the Human Resources Director for a global quantitative financial trading organisation.
Luke Wilson
Chief Operating Officer
Luke has worked in the payments and financial services industries throughout Asia Pacific. He has held executive roles across various functions including operations, customer acquisition and relationship management. Luke’s experience in these industries spans 20 years, most recently as Chief Customer Officer at Indue and prior to that in various executive roles at Experian and First Data.
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