Gerd Schenkel

Gerd Schenkel MS (Robotics), MBA (Columbia), born on 27th May 1974, is an Australian business person [1], chairman of Credit Clear [2], and Director and digital practice leader at Partners in Performance, a consultancy.[3] [4]

Gerd Schenkel
Born	Germany
Nationality	Australian
Children	2
Website	http://www.gerdschenkel.com

Until June 2017, he was the CEO of Tyro Payments, an Australian EFTPOS services company, aiming to "disrupt" the incumbent banks.[5][6][7][8]

On 13 June 2017 Tyro announced that Gerd Schenkel had resigned because he wanted to "pursue other business opportunities and spend more time with his family".[9] The Australian Financial Review reported that Schenkel was pursuing "a new banking venture”.[10] Schenkel is the Managing Director of consultancy "BGA Digital".[11]

Prior to Tyro, Gerd Schenkel was the founder and Executive Director of Telstra Digital, the digital division of one of Australia's largest corporations.[12][13][14][15][16]

At Telstra, he led the launch of Belong, Telstra's low cost broadband business which as of June 2017 had over 150,000 customers.[17][18]

In 2008, he launched UBank, the direct bank of National Australia Bank which has grown its balance sheet to approximately $20b.[19][20][21]

Before launching UBank, Schenkel was general manager of NAB's CRM system.[22]

Prior to that, Schenkel worked for The Boston Consulting Group.[23]

Schenkel has a master's degree in Engineering and an MBA from the Columbia Business School in New York.[24] He is the co-author of several scientific articles in the field of robotics.[25]

He is a regular contributor to the Australian business community [11] and in November 2017 was appointed to the Federal Treasurer's Small Business Digitisation Taskforce [26] which led to the federal Government to provide $37.3 million (over four years from 2018) to support small business' adoption of digital tools and methods. [27]

In December 2018, Gerd was appointed chairman of Australian FinTech Credit Clear. [28] [29]