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  • Helping People Succeed in a Digital World

  • Gerd Schenkel

    Appointments that shaped me
    Senior Partner - Kearney
    NED - Helia (ASX:HLI)
    Chairman - Credit Clear (ASX:CCR)
    Executive Director, Telstra Digital (ASX:TLS)
    Founder and CEO of UBank
    Creator of BELONG
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  • MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS

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    Ensuring success of complex transformations

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    Engaging Boards on Data & Analytics

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    The Velocity Code - agile operating models

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    Staying ahead in digital

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    Joining Genworth Board

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    "Tough at the Top"

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    Kearney research on forced CEO exits

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    Kearney appoints Gerd Schenkel to Australian partnership

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    Eureka Report Podcast about Credit Clear (ASX:CCR)

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    Credit Clear jumps 31pc on ASX debut

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    Bank to the future podcast

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    ADMA Brave Marketing Podcast

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    Appointment as Chairman of Credit Clear

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    Appointment to Federal Government's SME Digitisation Task-force

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    Digital Roundtable

    Multiple articles

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    Telstra aims for more digital transactions

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    Telstra calls on Master of Robotics to rewire its malfunctioning internet home page

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    Telstra to bet millions on digital

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    Telstra wants to get more customers online

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    Telstra to expand online service and add more than 100 new stores

  • Helping Organisations Succeed in a Digital World

    Current appointments

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    Senior Advisor

    Formerly: Senior Partner

    Financial Services/ Telco & Digital/ Technology/ Advanced Analytics

    Since 2021

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    Non Executive Director

    A mortgage insurance provider listed on ASX (ASX:GMA)

    Since 2021

  • Helping Organisations Succeed in a Digital World

    Past appointments

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    Chairman

    A fintech listed on ASX (ASX:CCR) 

    2019-2022

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    Chief Executive Officer

    A payment fintech with a banking license (ASX:TYR)

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    Executive Director - Telstra Digital

    Established and lead one of Australia's largest digital team and program

    2011-2016

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    Project Leader

    Based in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York

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    General Manager Customer Strategy & Cross-Marketing

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    Founder and Managing Director

    Launched Australia's largest home-grown digital bank for National Australia Bank

    2008-2011

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    Director Strategy (Australia)

  • Reading (listening) list: Exploring our reality

    My favourite blogs, podcasts and books

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    Are we living in a simulation?

    Elon Musk makes the case

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    How do we break the simulation?

    George Hotz has a plan

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    How does the universe work?

    Genius Stephen Wolfram explains

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    Is reality real?

     

    Maybe not ...

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    Do we have free will?

    Sam Harris' concise summary

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    Is there a god?

     

    Richard Dawkins says "no"

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    What is conscious-ness ?

    Annika Harris summarises

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    Parallel universes and reality

    Brian Greene takes you on a journey

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    From Big Bang to Quantum fields

    Frank Wilczek - a modern day Einstein

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    Superintelligence - Future of AI

    Nick Bostrom

  • Reading (listening) list: Business

    My favourite blogs, podcasts and books

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    How to negotiate

     

    Learn from hostage negotiations

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    Latest goss in digital

     

    Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

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    Products that don't suck

    Clayton Christensen

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    Opinions about digital

    Scott Galloway unfiltered

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    Daily tech news

     

    Wall Street Journal

  • Reading (listening) list: Current issues

    My favourite blogs, podcasts and books

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    Universal basic income

    Andrew Yang

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    Where our society is going

    Sam Harris

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    Legendary documen-taries

    Louis Theroux

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    Celebrating the Apollo program

    13 minutes to the moon

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    Daily (US) news summary

    Up First - NPR

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    The story of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spy

    The Bomb - BBC

  • Industry news

    Leadership in a Digital World

  • Academic training

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    Columbia Business School

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    New York

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    University of Sydney

    Visiting Scholar: Robotics

     

    At the Mechatronics department, I wrote a thesis on control architectures of mobile robots.

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    Northwestern University

    Graduate Engineering Studies: Robotics

    I completed graduate coursework in Engineering and wrote a thesis on "Passivity of sampled control systems". Some of this work was published in Academic journals, here and here. These papers were cited over 600 times.

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    Universität Stuttgart

    Master of Science

    (Engineering/ Robotics)

    I obtained my Master degree in Engineering.

  • Some of the things I did at Tyro.

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    Finovate

    The Tyro team demos out integrated product suite

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    Australian Financial Review

    Afterpay and Tyro announce SME payments partnership

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    Business Insider

    A PayPal exec just defected to Australian fintech startup Tyro​

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    CMO

    Tyro appoints first executive brand and marketing leader

    Channel Ten Eyewitness News

    30 December 2016

    We love it when SMEs win :)

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    The Australian Newspaper

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    Yahoo Finance

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    Inside Small Business

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    The Australian Newspaper

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    Sky News / Switzer TV

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    Daily Telegraph

  • MAKING THE MOST OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY.

    Telstra CEO Andy Penn about "becoming a world class technology company"

    at the 2015 Australian Digital Summit

    More presentations and panels from the 2015 Australian Digital Summit

    Telstra CEO David Thodey about "becoming a digital organisation"

    at the 2014 Australian Digital Summit

    More presentations and panels from the 2014 Australian Digital Summit

    On a panel about "startups vs. corporates"

    at the 2014 Australian Digital Summit.

    Taking Leadership in a Digital Economy

    Our views about how Australian organisations can make the most of the digital economy.

    Telstra's Digital Evolution

    Telstra's digital transformation journey.

    Some of the things we've done for our Telstra customers.

    Telstra CEO David Thodey about digital potential.

    How we get our customers involved at Telstra.

  • SOME PRESENTATION MATERIAL

    Sharing Telstra's digital transformation journey.

    Hosted a panel at the 2015 Australian Digital Summit.

    How we think about the Digital Revolution

    Interview about Design Thinking.

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    Fireside chat at Sydney CDO Club conference.

  • MEDIA COVERAGE

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    Kearney research on forced CEO exits

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    Kearney appoints Gerd Schenkel to Australian partnership

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    Eureka Report Podcast about Credit Clear (ASX:CCR)

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    Credit Clear jumps 31pc on ASX debut

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    Bank to the future podcast

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    Credit Clear pushing ahead with IPO

     

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    ADMA Brave Marketing Podcast

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    Appointment as Director to Partners in Performance & Launch of PIP Digital

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    Appointment as Chairman of Credit Clear

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    Appointment to Federal Government's SME Digitisation Task-force

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    Google, Facebook and Amazon outpace older companies in race to get onto S&P 500

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    Telstra in online push for sales, service

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    Digital Roundtable

    Multiple articles

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    Telstra aims for more digital transactions

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    Telstra calls on Master of Robotics to rewire its malfunctioning internet home page

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    Telstra to bet millions on digital

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    Online sales bonanza clicks for Telstra

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    Telstra's Digital boss has a message for everyone who thinks they can mess up in business: 'Failure is not OK'

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    Telstra working on ‘Uber-like’ system to improve maintenance calls

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    Telstra wants to get more customers online

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    How Telstra plans its digital makeover

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    Telstra takes major step on Digital First path

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    Telstra Wants You To Control Your Account Notes Someday

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    Telstra to expand online service and add more than 100 new stores

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    NAB goes online to reach people allergic to banks

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    NAB unveils UBank

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    Video interview (Fund Forum, Monaco)

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    Telstra, Target leading on social media customer service

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    Can dinosaur brands survive digital revolution?

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    Being too late in digital more costly than being too early

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    Telstra launches customer apps for Facebook, iPhone, Android

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    NAB launches UBank

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    BCG Alumni interview

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    Deloitte report - case study

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    Quick wins, culture and technology behind Telstra's digital strategy

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    Enterprise must shake core to be innovative: Telstra

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    Why ‘Failing Fast & Moving On’ Is Actually Very Dangerous: Telstra Digital Boss

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    Passivity of a class of sampled-data systems: Application to haptic interfaces

  • Some news we published at Telstra

    Five years of digital transformation.

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  • OTHER ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH

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    The Australian Digital Summit

    Co-founder.

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    Telstra's startup accelerator

    I was on the inaugural Advisory Board of this new accelerator, launched in 2014

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    Telstra's "digital" broadband provider

    I led the design and launch of this new business in late 2013

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    International shopping platform

    I helped source the initial investment in 2011

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    Electronic prescribing provider

    I was on the team that launched the original business, then called "Amicore". This started as a JV of Pfizer, Microsoft and IBM in 2001

    Launch press release

     

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    API Finance

    I lead the $300m acquisition by BankWest.

  • TALK TO ME :)

     

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  • FUN

    Vietnam motorcycle tour 2015

Copyright 2014 Gerd Schenkel

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