Mr Schenkel has over 25 years' experience in business innovation having established Telstra Digital, Telstra's enterprise-wide digital team and digitalisation program and having founded UBank for National Australia Bank. Other previous roles have included strategy and innovation roles in various Australian financial services institutions. Gerd is a management consultant, advising large organisations in financial services on their technology, digital and analytics agendas in Australia, the Middle East and North America. Gerd attended University of Sydney as a Visiting Scholar focussing on Robotics.