Executive leader across IT, Cyber, Digital, AI and Marketing. 20+ years of delivering business results and transformation.
Executive technology and marketing leader with more than 20 years across financial services, higher education and global banking. I run IT, cyber, digital, AI and marketing as one connected function: the platform, the risk, and the customer-facing channels that sit on top of it. Recent work includes designing and building Nectaria, an in-house multi-agent AI platform for mortgage brokers; cutting IT operating cost by 65% over four years; and taking a brand to #1 across social platforms in its sector. A people-focused leader who builds high-performing teams through a positive culture: empowering individuals, encouraging collaboration, and developing skills and creativity. A customer-focused relationship manager, hands-on when it matters, and a direct communicator with boards, regulators and engineers alike.
Outside work: Cricket · Rugby · Squash · Guitar · Bass · Didgeridoo · Fishing · Film editing and production
Strategic planning and implementing IT operation frameworks, technology transformations, technical architecture, enhanced support models, strategic roadmaps, and policies and controls for emerging IT trends. Managed enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, Windows and Linux server, virtualisation, networking, storage, voice, and data centres.
Expert-level knowledge and application of AI technologies: design, development, and implementation of agentic AI applications, AI agents, and multi-agent platforms with shared memory and data infrastructure. RAG, CAG, agentic AI, infrastructure as code, GitHub automation, CI/CD into Cloudflare, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Expertise in using Claude, Claude Code, Gemini, ChatGPT, Groq, Mistral, and Microsoft Copilot.
Experienced CISO and cybersecurity architect. Designed and implemented cybersecurity technology, processes, and controls to enhance cybersecurity maturity in highly regulated businesses. Highly skilled at cybersecurity architecture, enterprise architecture, cyber operations, cyber incident response, threat modelling, and cyber awareness training. Adept social engineer.
Omni-channel marketer with a technical focus. Lead generation, web, social, video and podcast production, SEO, and digital marketing optimisation.
Financial management of P&L, cost control, budget forecasting, CAPEX/OPEX, and financial reporting.
Delivering large, complex technology and cyber programs. Skilled in time and task management, Agile, Scrum, and PRINCE2 methodologies. PRINCE2 certified.
Managed 3 teams covering the Security Operations Centre APAC, Identity Management, Technology Risk, and IT Service Management for over 1,200 APAC staff, with 24/7 support for a 48,000-person global bank.
Responsible for all aspects of infrastructure management and support services, managing 2nd and 3rd level infrastructure support across server, data centre, network, and cloud technologies.
Designed, built and maintain a $0-operating-cost full-stack web solution for an Australian retail deals website that automatically collects sales and discounts from thousands of retailers and presents them in one searchable place. Designed the end-to-end automation behind it: retailer emails, deal feeds and a nightly automated browser sweep of retailer sites feed AI pipelines that extract, verify and publish each deal to the site. AI output is tightly controlled, and a secondary AI agent reviews the evidence each night through a quality escalation ladder. The platform also posts a daily “top deals” card to Instagram and Facebook and monitors itself, alerting me if any scheduled job fails. System design, deployment and maintenance.
A private, on-device AI Chrome extension for web content extraction. Integrated with Google Docs and Google Drive for multi-document content storage and logging, personal notes, and automated RSS information, with whole-of-document AI summarisation.
Designed, built and maintain a $0-operating-cost full-stack web solution for an independent Australian home-energy consultancy. The site runs a two-stage customer journey: intake forms each feed an automated backend that notifies the consultant, logs the enquiry and sends the customer a branded acknowledgement with a reference number. Designed a five-layer anti-abuse and security model for the forms, set up a browser-based content management system so the consultant can publish articles without touching code, and had the whole thing independently security reviewed against OWASP and NIST guidance. Hosted entirely on serverless infrastructure with automatic deployments.
A repeatable, scriptable website-audit pipeline. Eleven stages cover discovery (robots, sitemaps, crawl), DNS and RDAP, TLS (Qualys SSL Labs), security headers and vulnerability scanning, reputation (urlscan.io), responsive screenshots across viewports, SEO and indexability, accessibility (WCAG via axe-core plus contrast checks), Lighthouse performance, and multi-page regression. Evidence lands as machine-readable artifacts that an AI coding agent synthesises into a client-ready report.
Coverage of Nectaria, the in-house multi-agent AI platform built on YBR's proprietary data and unveiled at the Next Level conference. Kevin is quoted on shaping the platform around problems brokers were already flagging.
Nectaria, YBR's multi-agent AI platform: records client calls, maps key details to client profiles, suggests coaching improvements and searches policies across lenders. Kevin: “We started with common pain points for our brokers and looked to build solutions that didn't yet exist.”
Nectaria's AI agents record calls, populate client profiles, flag missing information, and give brokers compliance feedback and coaching. Kevin: “We've also challenged brokers who've tested the software to break it and be as critical as possible. That's meant we've been able to quickly adapt Nectaria to provide real value to our network.”
Quoted on the reality that any web presence is scanned hundreds of times a day by bots looking for vulnerabilities, and what brokers should do about it.
“You don't belong in the broking industry if you don't take your customer's cyber security seriously.” On cyber risk for brokers and their clients.
Season finale guest: leadership in cyber security, building secure and resilient strategies for organisations, and practical advice for staying safe online.
Launched and produced under Kevin's digital and marketing remit; #1 for the sector on YouTube and podcast platforms.