Sydney-Listed Bravura Creates New Global Role; Senior Manager Switches To Asia

Tom Burroughes

22 July 2014

Australia-listed financial technology firm has created a new global product development role, with John Waddy, its current chief operating officer, EMEA wealth management, taking on the position. He is to shift to the Asia-Pacific region as part of the change.

Waddy, who has been at Bravura for six years, will oversee global software research and development, product innovation, delivery and quality assurance for Sonata, the company’s wealth management and life insurance solution. He will move to the post over the next two months and relocate to the APAC region in September to be closer to the Sonata development teams and R&D centres in Auckland, Melbourne and Gurgaon, India.

As a result of the move, Harry Storer has been appointed to fill the COO slot. He has served previously as senior vice president, Oracle Consulting Services Asia Pacific and global consulting services leader for Ventyx, an ABB Company, Bravura said in a statement yesterday.

Bravura has nine contracted Sonata projects underway around the world covering wrap, superannuation, life insurance and KiwiSaver, across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. There are a number of additional opportunities in the pipeline, it said.