Melanie Willis

Melanie Willis is an experienced non executive director and currently serves on the Boards of Challenger Limited, Pexa Limited, PayPal Australia and QBE AusPac. She is Chair of QBE AusPac and chairs the Risk Committee at Challenger and Audit and Risk at Pexa and Remuneration and Audit at PayPal Australia.

Melanie’s experience as a director includes global fin tech and platform players, building new revenue streams for businesses facing disruption, transitioning businesses from singular product focus to a broader purposed led strategy and offshore expansion and programmatic M&A 

Melanie has a strong connection to the start up community acting as an adviser and advocate. She is an investor and advisory Board member on the facial recognition company Noahface, prop tech Taronga Group Venture investment and member of the Tidal Ventures advisory committee. She is an adviser to The Big Issue on growth strategies and investments.

She was NSW Chapter Chair of Chief Executive Women and Chair of the Education Committee for the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) 30% Club. 

Melanie has held a number of senior leadership roles including CEO NRMA Investments, with responsibility for NRMA’s $900m Investment portfolio, tourism and leisure subsidiaries and venture fund (including investments in Sendle, Airtasker and Campify), Group strategy and innovation. Prior to this she was CEO of a consumer credit start up and held senior executive roles in corporate and structured finance at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust.

Her core skills include strategy, innovation, mergers and acquisitions, investment, capital markets, finance and risk