Our board

Jason Phillips is Protecht's Chief Executive Officer. Having previously served as group Chief Finance Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Jason is experienced in leading strategic initiatives to meet aggressive profit and growth targets. 

Jason brings over 20 years of global leadership experience in finance, operations, and SaaS growth strategy. Before joining Protecht, he held senior roles at Equifax and American Express across Australia, the United States, and Europe, with a focus on financial leadership, pricing strategy, and business transformation. Jason has a strong track record of driving sustainable growth, improving operational efficiency, and building high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.

At Protecht, Jason has been instrumental in scaling the business and expanding its global footprint, with a focus on customer success, technology innovation, and operational excellence. His customer-centric approach and commercial acumen have helped position Protecht as a leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions for organisations worldwide.

Jason holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Colorado College.

David Bergmark is Director and Strategic Advisor and co-founder of Protecht. David’s vision and passion is to use technology to drive best practice risk management and embed risk management within each one of Protecht’s clients.

He has been the driving force behind the Protecht ERM system and integrating our thought leadership capabilities into the product to provide a consistent and seamless risk management experience for our customers.

David started out in the audit division of Price Waterhouse in 1990, handling clients such as Macquarie Bank and Bankers Trust. By 1994 he was Risk Controller for Carrington Securities - a financial markets trading company.

In 1996 David left Carrington to head up the Risk Management Department at IBJ Australia Bank (IBJA) where he was responsible for the development of all risk disciplines at the bank – market, credit, liquidity and operational.

David Tattam is GRC Thought Leader and co-founder of Protecht. David's vision is to redefine the way the world thinks about risk and to develop risk management to its rightful place as being a key driver of value creation in each of Protecht's customers.

David has been the driving force in taking Protecht's risk thinking to the frontiers of what is possible in risk management and to support the uplift of people risk capability through training and content.

Prior to Protecht, David was the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Operations for the Australian operations of two global banks. He started his career as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor with Grant Thornton and PwC. He is also the author of A Short Guide to Operational Risk.

David is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand and a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. He is passionate about risk and risk management and in reaping the value that risk and good risk management can create for any business willing to embrace it.

Mark Anderson is Protecht's global Head of Business Delivery, responsible for delivering our critical strategic initiatives across the entire group. Mark places great emphasis on prioritisation, dependencies, risks and communication. Mark has over 25 years’ experience as an IT and project management professional.

Leading diverse teams and large complex programs of work, across software, infrastructure, DevOps, security and quality assurance, Mark is widely recognised as having a can-do attitude and is passionate about delivery across a multitude of technologies and platforms.  Mark is an excellent communicator and works successfully across all business units. He has been responsible for delivering high transactional e-commerce solutions, incorporating leading edge UX across web, mobile, retail, B2B and B2C environments. 

Mark has led many technology based mergers and acquisition (up to $750M) programs in the past, implemented optimised business processes, and delivered across multiple platform and data migrations.

Rachelle Baker is Protecht's Chief Delivery Officer APAC, leading the team responsible for onboarding and advising organisations as they transition to our platform across the region. With over a decade at Protecht and deep experience in risk and compliance technology, Rachelle has helped more than 400 organisations build confidence in their systems and unlock the full value of enterprise risk management.

Blake Barnett is Protecht’s Chief Information Security Officer. He is responsible for leading Protecht’s global cyber security strategy, ensuring the security, privacy, and resilience of Protecht’s platforms, systems, and data.

Blake brings over 20 years of experience in cyber security, infrastructure, and risk management across the technology and transport sectors. Prior to joining Protecht, he held senior leadership roles at Busways Group and Skyzer Technologies, where he led large-scale security programs, infrastructure transformation, and cyber risk initiatives.

Blake holds a Diploma in Software Development from North Sydney TAFE and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Nick Broome is Protecht's Executive Customer Advisor. Nick is an experienced risk management specialist having spent over 25 years in the profession, including senior roles at KPMG, Macquarie, Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Nick is passionate about the opportunities to improve our understanding of the drivers of risks to help manage them better.

Nick’s varied experience across consulting and industry leaves him well positioned to advise clients not just on risk management theory but also what works in practice. As an industry, he believes we have only scratched the surface on this and still have a lot to learn. 

Outside work, most of Nick’s spare time revolves around his family. On summer weekends, he will normally be found on the side of a cricket pitch somewhere in the greater Sydney area, watching his son play or walking his dog.

Megan Connell is Protecht's Head of Marketing. She leads the marketing team and is responsible for brand, growth, and go-to-market programs. Megan is a strategic B2B marketing professional with 25 years' experience across a range of industries including software, technology, medical devices, and services marketing.

Megan has worked for companies in high growth and complex markets where she has led and built high performing teams. She embraces change and is passionate about addressing and solving customer problems.

Sharon Fenton is Protecht's Chief People Officer, responsible for leading Protecht's People and Culture function and assisting our people to grow with our business.

Sharon is responsible for attracting the right people to join us, maintaining our fantastic company culture, engaging and retaining our own talent. Sharon has extensive experience in human resources leadership, business partnership, recruitment, organisational development, employee relations, policy and procedure and coaching.

Prior to Protecht, Sharon worked across different industries including fintech, technology and networking, telecommunications, insurance and education.

Ian Hadwen is Protecht's global Chief Revenue Officer. Ian is an experienced sales and product management professional having worked in credit/data services, financial services and telecommunication industries. His prior roles have included successful individual business development and account relationship functions.

More recent roles have included general management and team leadership for large, complex service lines as well as discrete, specialised business units.

Ian’s product experience includes product strategy, design and launch. With a well developed customer-centric approach, this has significantly helped to deliver compelling customer value for sophisticated customer requirements. Ian has also been responsible for the end-to-end business management of a multi-million dollar  acquired company – delivering against required objectives.

Now leading Protecht's sales and account management teams globally, Ian places great emphasis on close customer contact and deep engagement to fully understand customer need.

Matt Hyne is Protecht’s Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for driving Protecht’s technology strategy, product innovation, and platform development, with a focus on integrating advanced AI and machine learning to transform the way organisations manage risk.

Matt has over 20 years of global experience leading technology and engineering teams across Australia, Silicon Valley, and Asia Pacific. He has held senior executive roles at companies including SiteMinder, Cisco, Citrix, Ericsson, and Landis+Gyr, with a strong track record of delivering scalable, market-leading technology solutions across the SaaS, telecommunications, energy, and enterprise software sectors.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Telecommunications from the University of Technology Sydney and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Engineers Australia.

Terence Lee is Protecht's Vice President, North America. Terry joined Protecht in 2022 to facilitate our growth in North America, bringing extensive experience in governance, risk, compliance, and incident management. Terry has led sales, product, and marketing teams at risk and compliance software vendors, and is a recognized expert in ERM, vendor risk, business continuity, regulatory change management, and resilience.

Terry's passion for helping organization's evolve their risk practices and demonstrate resilience is a perfect fit for the Protecht.ERM suite. He has spoken at conferences on risk and resilience topics for more than 12 years, and led sales, pre-sales, and inside sales globally for SaaS vendors. His extensive knowledge of the risk and compliance market, competitors, and buyer personas have enabled Protecht to rapidly build an NA customer base.

Gary Lynam is Protecht's Managing Director EMEA. Gary has a strong track record delivering large scale and complex engagements across the financial services industry, specialising in risk and compliance solutions. He is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals and has a MSc in Finance and Capital Markets.

Gary is firmly of the belief organisations have a competitive advantage in achieving their strategic objectives when understanding the risk dynamics associated to business planning activities. He has over 10 years’ experience consulting and providing advisory services to a wide range of clients both locally and overseas.

Prior to Protecht, Gary spent time with three global banks consulting on risk and strategic change. He started his career in Risk Advisory at KPMG and holds a MSc in Finance and Capital Markets.

Allison Misso is Protecht’s Chief Financial Officer. She is a versatile, results driven finance leader who is commercially minded, understands key business drivers and provides strong financial leadership.

Jared Siddle is Chief Customer Delivery Officer North America at Protecht, where he leads the teams responsible for onboarding customers and maintaining ongoing customer relationships across the region.

Jared is a Qualified Risk Director who has been Head of Risk Management at three different companies, including two of the world's largest asset managers. He has proven success in banking, fund management and other financial service companies across over 26 countries.

Jared is passionate about governance, risk, compliance and sustainability. He is an expert at designing, developing and executing customized enterprise-wide risk frameworks.

Damien Stevens is Protecht's Chief Product & Marketing Officer, leading our our Product & Marketing team. He is responsible for Protecht’s global product vision, design and go to market strategy. Damien graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a degree in Marketing & Finance.

With extensive experience in B2B software, financial services and data and analytics, Damien has built and launched many widely used and loved products that solve real problems for large and small businesses.

Peter Walker is Protecht's Chief Architect, with more than 20 years of experience in software development, including design and architecture, security, testing, and consulting. Peter has a CISSP certification and is responsible for driving the development of Protecht's risk management software.

Peter's many skills include Business Service Management (including ITIL and Six Sigma), System and Application Performance Management, Capacity Planning and, most recently, risk management.

Soe Vloebergs is Protecht's Chief Customer Officer, APAC. She is responsible for managing Protecht's customer relationships across the APAC region.

Soe is passionate about customer success and her major strengths are in client relationships, stakeholder management and customer engagement activities. Protecht Community and User Groups at Protecht are just a few of the new initiatives that Soe has introduced to ensure that Protecht is always on the front foot with customers.

She has more than 15 years of experience in account and customer engagement in SaaS, Market Research, Publishing and NFP in Europe and Australia.

Tim Woodforde is Protecht's General Counsel. Tim was previously General Counsel at a leading data and analytics technology company, and before then had more than 20 years’ experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer and corporate advisor at leading professional service firms in Sydney and London.