EXCELLENCE AWARDEE: Rate Money Non-Bank of the Year

Brighten

Jason Azzopardi

Chief Executive Officer

Jason has 26 years of experience in finance, working for financial institutions in Australia and in London. Prior to joining Brighten, he was the CFO at Resimac and also led Resimac’s Manila operations as the Head of Manila Operations and concurrently served asCEO of Resimac NZ. Previously, he held key roles at Uno Home Loans, Macquarie Bank and Bankwest, where he successfully implemented several strategic initiatives, working across finance, treasury, distribution, operations, data and business intelligence, brand, and customer experience. In his earlier career, Jason also held senior finance roles in private equity in London with Fortress and 3i.

Chief Executive Officer

Jason Azzopardi

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Brighten is an Australian owned full service non-bank lender with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Manila. Brighten originates, underwrites and services residential and commercial loans. Brighten's lending is supported by a diversified global funding and capital markets program including multiple warehouse-funding arrangements with domestic and global top-tier banks, three public RMBS programs, a listed ASX funding vehicle (ASX:RAMHA), and a wholesale credit fund. Through our extensive network of brokers across Australia and partnerships with leading aggregators and brokerages, Brighten offers borrowers a wide range of competitive loan products, including full doc, alt doc, expat, non-resident, bridging, construction, vacant land, SMSF and commercial. At Brighten we believe in creating effective and innovative lending solutions to help more borrowers achieve their property goals within Australia. We are leading the way in challenging the status quo to establish a real alternative to the major banks, providing our customers and partners with intuitive, tailored and easy-to-use lending solutions.

Chris Meaker

Head of Distribution

Chris has over 22 years of experience in the finance industry, with a focus on lending, business development and sales management. Prior to joining Brighten, he worked for La Trobe Financial, where he was an executive general manager and head of origination channels. Previously, he worked for Pepper Financial Services Group as state manager and senior business development manager.

Head of Distribution

Chris Meaker

Ben Mckell

Head of Commercial

Ben has 20 years of experience in the finance industry, with a focus on commercial lending, business development and sales management. Prior to joining Brighten, he worked for Pepper Money, where he was the National Sales Manager of Commercial, leading their commercial and SMSF channel. Ben has held prior roles in both banks and non-banks in business development and business banking.

Head of Commercial

Ben Mckell

Stuart Murray

Head of Credit

Stuart has over 22 years of experience in the Australian Financial Service industry, where he has specialised in credit assessment and mortgage underwriting. Prior to joining Brighten, Stuart was the Head of Lending Australia and Responsible Manager for Resimac, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of Resimac’s Australian underwriting team. Prior to that, Stuart worked within mortgage credit assessment at St George Bank and Bluestone Mortgages.

Head of Credit

Stuart Murray

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Adam Moore

Group Treasurer

Adam has over 15 years of debt funding experience. Prior to joining Brighten, Adam was a member of the Treasury and Securitisation team at Resimac, responsible for funding Resimac’s residential mortgage portfolio. In this role Adam managed various warehouse relationships along with arranging RMBS transactions to meet the ongoing funding requirements of the business. Adam holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance) degree from Macquarie University, a Bachelor of European Business from the Ecole de Management de Normandie and a Master of Applied Economics from the University of Seville.

Group Treasurer

Adam Moore