Summary
Paul Rickard is a financial services and technology leader with over three decades of experience building and integrating payments, stockbroking and banking systems, including founding leadership of CommSec and long tenure as CIO and Executive General Manager at Commonwealth Bank. Now a Non-Executive Director at PEXA, Tyro and Halidon and a partner in Switzer Financial Group, he combines boardroom strategy with hands-on IT governance and business initiation. He advises firms through Lumus Financial Services, bringing specialist knowledge in payments, superannuation and complex IT integration projects. Paul’s background in mathematics and computer science underpins a pragmatic, data-driven approach to transforming financial services operations and launching digital platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
DipFP, Financial Planning, DipFP, Financial Planning at Deakin University
Knox Grammar School