Brian Hartzer is an experienced executive, leadership mentor, and investor who served as CEO of the Westpac Banking Group from 2015 to 2019.
Brian is currently Chairman of Beforepay, a Sydney-based Fintech startup, and is an angel investor and advisor to several other early-stage companies. He is also a senior advisor to Sayers Group, a Melbourne-based investment advisory, and consultancy, and to Quantium, a Sydney-based data science company.
Prior to his time as Westpac’s CEO, Brian spent 15 years in senior executive roles at major banks in Australia and the UK. Prior to his banking roles, Brian spent ten years as a financial services strategy consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group in New York, Melbourne, and San Francisco.