Elula’s team and advisors bring a wealth of experience and strong leadership from all over the world.
Tech-entrepreneur with a commercial mind and a knack for explaining concepts in layman’s terms. Challenges the status quo and questions absolutely everything(!). We all work with this lunatic – we love him coz he’s funny and crazy.
Josh is the CEO and Co-founder at Elula. Josh has 20 years’ experience across the technology, banking and payments sectors and has held senior leadership roles.
Josh has a successful career across both banking and start-ups. Prior to starting Elula he was Head of Automation at CBA and held senior roles in information security implementing real time fraud detection.
Josh commenced his career at HSBC, before going on to co-found, build and exit a UK tech-start-up that delivered a secure data exchange to UK banks and law enforcement agencies.
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Jon Stevens
Head of Data Science & Client Insights
Lover of physics, machine learning, maths, economics, and he’s a badass chess player but by far the worst handwriting in the office. When he’s not ‘Data Science-ing it up’, at night you can find him keeping his love for D&D alive.
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Toby Ruby
Chief Technology Officer
German engineering at its best. That’s all you need to know.
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Brayden Morris
Head of AI Services
Software Engineer, planner, builder, and fixer. Not to mention an absolute boss at Pentago. Brayden pushes the boundaries and then some!
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Colin Campbell
Head of Finance
An all-round delivery machine. Keep Calm and Carry On Delivering – just feed him Jaffa Cakes.
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Michael Lloyd
Chief Customer Officer
Michael is our customer champion. He's done it all- from managing an international software company, to designing lasers, and travelling the world as a cricket player. He keeps our customers thriving from day one and is relentless in pursuing positive outcomes for them.
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Roger Brooker
Chief Customer Officer - Banking
Roger loved Elula so much, he’s back for another round! With years of experience helping organisations navigate AI and big ideas, he’s here to make sure customers get the most out of Elula. When he’s not working with our customers, he’s exploring the bush or up in the air on his next adventure.
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Sarah Russell
Co-Founder and Director
Sarah has over 20 years of experience in banking across strategy, technology, data science and operations. Sarah has held senior executive leadership roles in a range of major banks and is a Co-Founder and former Co-CEO of Elula.
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Charles Parry-Okeden
Director
Outdoor media Hall of Famer and all-round good guy, Charles is an accomplished CEO bringing over 30 years’ experience to his Directorship. He is the co-founder and Global CEO of Executive Channel Holdings.
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Ian Narev
Strategic Advisor and Investor
An All Black tragic and an old mate of ours from CBA.
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Paul Rubenstein
Strategic Advisor and Investor
He’s a lawyer, strategist, investor, and Managing Partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler, Sydney. Plus, he makes a mean chicken soup. Is there anything this powerhouse can’t do?
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Majella Villahermosa
Information Security and People Manager
Bringing the Zen (when everyone around you is a Data Scientist, engineer, and math nut).
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Lucia Zapata
Customer Operations Manager
The Messi of Computer Science. A Data Scientist, Visualisation Designer, and Scrum Master – she’s our Argentine dynamo.
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Suraj Gulabani
Head of Data Engineering
Officially the coolest job title on the planet, Suraj has the eye of a hawk and has a reputation for quality - broken data and misplaced nulls don't stand a chance against him - and he throws in a healthy dose of creativity while he's at it.
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Eliza Harrison
Data Science Technical Team Lead
A problem-solver at heart. When she’s not exploring solutions, she’s exploring vintage stores and design. Eliza is obsessed with visualising data. Earl Grey is her favourite tea. Green is her favourite colour. Nature is her favourite place. We think she’s ace.
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Josh Glover
Snr Software Engineer & Team Lead
A brilliant software engineer who loves puzzles, everything art and solving a Rubik's cube is his version of squeezing a stress ball. Not only does he write clean code (and let's you know about it!), he also has the neatest handwriting in the office.
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Maria Li
Senior Data Analyst
Our eagle-eyed analytical expert. Maria used to work in investment banking, where she managed risk on the trading floor. Now she manages to juggle life at Elula and a four-year-old at home.
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Ben McKinnon
Senior Data Scientist
Ben prides himself on understanding truth in numbers and how to solve the most complex of problems. In fact, he takes problem solving and fashion to the extreme. You can easily spot him, he’s the one wearing a bright gold Versace robe in the office. Whatever makes him comfortable, we say.
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Jessie Cai
Data Engineer
Jessie drives data initiatives and uncovers insights with precision and passion. As a Formula 1 fan, she loves the speed and teamwork of motorsports, which explains her lightning-fast data skills and commitment to being a formidable team player.
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Ryan Siva
Data Engineer
A background in business analytics, AI engineering, plus an obsession with basketball. Ryan shoots hoops most days of the week and runs rings around customer retention problems using AI. Ryan is so hungry for success, he eats three lunches a day.
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Natalia Tkachenko
Data Scientist
Natalia is our calm, cool, and collected Russian Data Virtuoso. She thrives on solving mathematical puzzles of all kinds and immersing herself in data. When she's not deep in datasets, Natalia loves listening to her collection of obscure vinyl records.
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Rory Angus
Data Scientist
Rory can engineer the perfect cheese platter, and he knows a bit about data as well. This guy is so generous; he spends his time mentoring postgraduate Data Scientists. And he’s from Byron, so he’s super chillaxed.
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Diviya Thilakeswaran
Data Scientist
With a Master’s in Data Science and a Bachelor of Psychology to her name, is there anything Diviya can’t do? She believes psychology and Data Science go hand in hand and when she’s not studying human behaviour, she’s playing the piano, listening to jazz and building computers.
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Thibault Dubois
Data Scientist
Solving problems and finding patterns in challenging subjects is what drives this guy. He’s developed his programming skills working in academics with biologists, developing modelling tools for the study of animal behaviour. Thibault likes games, animals, and talking about games and animals.
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Zac D'Agostino
Data Scientist
Mathematics and data are just one side of Zac. He’s also an absolute boss at video games and an aficionado of vintage Japanese cinema. What’s more, his attention to detail not only makes him an excellent operations engineer but also a master model car builder.
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Gabriel Versace
Software Engineer
Loves data and uncovering great solutions for customers. Yes, he is related to the Versace family. No, he doesn’t get any free clothes. But there’s more to Gabriel than a famous surname. His passion for data has taken him all sorts of places, including volunteer work abroad.