As Australia’s first SME-focused challenger bank, Judo Bank offers quality business banking services geared toward Australian-owned businesses. And in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the bank is doubling down on its mission to support those businesses by offering flexibility and personalized services to help them weather the storm. The institution’s focus on relationship banking sets it apart from larger institutions with an approach that forges a strong connection between the bank and its customers.

Andrew is General Manager of Corporate Development at the newly-launched Judo Bank, where he's taking on the big four using skills he gained in our Senior Executive MBA.

"What I'm doing now at Judo is to question the status quo, instead of just jumping to obvious solutions," he says. "One of the key learnings for me out of the MBA was this ability to question myself and question others, and have the confidence to do that."

Andrew is responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic initiatives, and fundraising at the new bank that launched in April last year in a market dominated by ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac.

Over the past few years, the overwhelming corporate narrative has been centred on how businesses have prepared themselves for digital transformation. The big theme driving every story about the new economy was digital disruption, and then coronavirus struck.

Suddenly, the biggest theme was now an existential one.