Mr Pappas is a business leader with over 30 years of experience predominantly in the financial services industry. Since leaving NAB in July 2018, Mr Pappas has served on a number of boards. In addition to his role at Open Learning, Mr Pappas is currently the Chairman of Atlas Iron and OpenInvest (Wealthtech). Mr Pappas is also an NED of DataMesh Group (Payment Fintech) and Cognian Technologies (IoT Proptech). At NAB, Mr Pappas performed several leadership roles including Executive General Manager of Global Institutional Banking, CEO of Asia and Executive General Manager of International and Innovation. Prior to NAB, Mr Pappas worked in Sydney, London and New York with Deutsche Bank and then over 11 years in London with ABN AMRO/RBS where he managed a number of global businesses including Debt Capital Markets, Client Coverage for Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance and Advisory. Mr Pappas has also served on the Advisory Board of both the Australia China Business Council and the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Council and was a Board Member of the European Australian Business Council. Mr Pappas was also a member of a taskforce advising the Federal Government on how to enable the SME sector for the digital age.
