Ms Slade is a career banker with more than two decades of customer experience across retail, business and transaction banking, having held a range of leadership roles at National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac. Ms Slade left NAB in July 2025 after serving as Group Executive, Business and Private Banking, a role she was appointed to in 2024 with responsibility for NAB's SME, banking, private banking and advisory businesses. Since joining NAB in 2017, she also held senior roles including Group Executive Personal Banking, Chief Customer Experience Officer and Executive General Manager Deposits and Transaction Services. Previously she spent 17 years at Westpac in senior roles across global transactional services, retail and business banking.