Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report – 2022Payments System Board

Wayne Byres

BEc (Hons), MAppFin (Macquarie)

APRA-appointed member

Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Member since 9 July 2014
Present term ends 30 October 2022, upon resignation as Chair of APRA.

Wayne Byres has brought a wealth of experience and knowledge of prudential supervision and banking practices. He was appointed as a Member and Chair of APRA from 1 July 2014 for a five-year term, and was subsequently reappointed on 1 July 2019 for a further five-year term. His early career was at the Reserve Bank, which he joined in 1984. He transferred to APRA on its establishment in 1998 and held a number of senior executive positions in the policy and supervisory divisions. In 2004, Mr Byres was appointed Executive General Manager, Diversified Institutions Division, with responsibility for the supervision of Australia’s largest and most complex financial groups. He held this role until the end of 2011, when he was appointed as Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, based at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. Mr Byres is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and is a signatory to The Banking and Finance Oath.

Other roles

Member – Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Member – Bank for International Settlements Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision
Member – Council of Financial Regulators
Member – Trans-Tasman Council on Banking Supervision

Gina Cass-Gottlieb

BEc (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Sydney), LLM (Berkeley)

Non-executive member

Member from 15 July 2013 to 14 July 2018

Reappointed from 1 August 2018
Present term ends 31 July 2023

Gina Cass-Gottlieb has extensive expertise in competition law and economic regulatory advice and in the regulation of payments in Australia. Ms Cass-Gottlieb was appointed Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on 21 March 2022. Prior to this, Ms Cass-Gottlieb was a senior partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s competition and regulation practice, advising and representing corporations, industry associations, government and non-government agencies. She has over 25 years’ experience, including advising in relation to access arrangements in a range of sectors across the economy. Ms Cass-Gottlieb attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a Fulbright Scholar.

Other roles

Chair – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Director – Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation

Scott Farrell

BEc (USyd), LLB(Hons) (USyd), PhD (UNSW)

Non-executive member

Member since 23 March 2022
Present term ends 22 March 2027

Scott Farrell has more than 25 years’ experience in financial markets and financial systems law. In 2016, Dr Farrell was appointed to the Australian Government’s FinTech Advisory Group at its formation and in 2018 was appointed to be co-Chair. Dr Farrell has led a number of reviews for the Australian Government, including the Review into Open Banking in Australia in 2017, the Inquiry into Future Directions for the Consumer Data Right in 2020 and the Review of the Australian Payments System in 2021.

Other roles

Partner – King & Wood Mallesons
Adjunct Professor – School of Private and Commercial Law, University of New South Wales
Member – Industry, Innovation and Science Australia
Member – Ministerial Advisory Council on Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

Deborah Ralston

BEc, Dip Fin Mgt, MEc (UNE), PhD (Bond)

Non-executive member

Member since 15 December 2016
Present term ends 14 December 2026

Deborah Ralston has more than 25 years of board-level experience in education, banking, superannuation and fintech sectors. Dr Ralston has held senior leadership and research roles in Australian universities, most recently as the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Studies. Her expertise in public policy is reflected in appointments to the federal government’s Retirement Income Review Panel, the Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement Framework Advisory Committee and as inaugural Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Digital Finance Advisory Board. Dr Ralston is currently a Professorial Fellow at Monash University Business School, with research interests in financial regulation and superannuation and is a Fellow of CPA Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Other roles

Professorial Fellow – Monash University
Chair – Advisory Board, Household Capital
Director – SuperEd Pty Ltd
Director – SMSF Association
Member – Advisory Board, Connexus Institute
Member – Future Fund Board of Guardians

Greg Storey

Non-executive member

Member since 1 August 2018
Present term ends 31 July 2023

Greg Storey is an experienced cards and payments industry professional, with specialist knowledge in the evolution and operation of debit cards, credit cards and payments systems. He was Vice-President and Head of Visa Checkout, Asia Pacific from 2012 to 2016. Mr Storey had over 20 years’ experience with Visa, spanning the rollout of numerous VisaNet-related solutions and services, product and strategy, micropayments solution (Payclick) and Visa Checkout (and V.me) products across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his roles at Visa, Mr Storey worked at St. George Bank in various cards and payments roles, as CIO of an independent payment solution provider, and established and oversaw merchant point of sale and ATM switching operations.

Catherine Walter AM

LLB (Hons), LLM, MBA (Melbourne)

Non-executive member

Member since 3 September 2007
Present term ends 2 September 2022

Catherine Walter brings substantial experience and expertise in financial services and corporate governance across many industry sectors, including banking, insurance, funds management, health services, medical research, education, telecommunications and resources. Mrs Walter is a solicitor and company director, who practised banking and corporate law in major city law firms, culminating in a term as Managing Partner of Clayton Utz, Melbourne. She was a Commissioner of the City of Melbourne and for more than 20 years has been a non-executive director of a range of listed companies, government entities and not-for-profit organisations. Mrs Walter was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 for her service to Australian society in business leadership. In the 2003 Australia Day Honours, she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to business, particularly as a director of a range of public companies, to the arts, to the law, and to the community through the Melbourne City Council. Mrs Walter is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Other roles

Chair – Helen Macpherson Smith Trust
Chair – Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance
Director – Australian Foundation Investment Company
Director – Barristers’ Chambers Limited
Non-executive Member – Export Finance Australia