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A company incorporated for the sole purpose of providing revenue management and
administration services to Australian Financial Services Licence Holders (AFSL).
Comes with an impressive heritage with its principals already having already spent
10 years developing the Dealer Management System (DMS), the pre-eminent supplier
of revenue management technology,
and having over 40 combined years in the management
of Licencees and the Information Technology base to support from boutique to large
scale businesses.
Has a business model of providing economies of scale to the necessary but time consuming
management of revenue and the subsequent distribution of payments to representatives
and business partners and referrals and importantly the management and business
information essential in operating a successful financial planning business as either
a licences or a financial planning practice. It further removes the single point
sensitivity of key staff within the business and allows other staff to be redeployed
onto more productive and profitable activities.
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John Brabender - Managing Director
John’s background is as a Chartered Accountant with 15 years experience in the public accounting arena including 5 years as a principal of a medium size Accounting firm. In addition he has been in the Financial Services industry for over 16 and involved as the Finance and IT director of a large Licensee.
Subsequent to that he devised and commenced the company Dealer Management Systems Pty Ltd and developed the DMS Commission management system and grew this into the predominant supplier of commission software services to the Australian financial planning industry servicing over 120 Licensee Groups covering more than 5,000 representatives. During this time he also developed systems to address the requirements of Fund Managers and Product Providers in their commission distribution processes.
Kurt Smyth - Marketing Director
Kurt has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry.Kurt is a financial
planner (15 years continuous experience) and Principal of his own Financial Planning
Practice.
Prior to this he held senior advisory roles with ANZ Securities and Macquarie Equities.
He has also played a senior practice development role with National Mutual where
he was responsible for establishing over 40 planners with National Mutual Financial
Planning, and Charter Financial Planning.
He has also been actively involved in senior roles within the adviser technology
sector,including corporate superannuation, financial planning software, stockbroking
and portfolio systems,and revenue management systems.
This experience has ranged across systems and business analysis, product management
and sales and marketing.His most recent role has been as the Marketing Executive
for Australia's leading adviser revenue system provider - DMS.
In this role he oversaw (over a two and half year period) a doubling of DMS's dealer
clients, and the successful establishment of DMS's presence in both the Adviser
and Fund Manager revenue management system markets.Kurt is actively involved with
the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), where he is a Senior Fellow,
serves on the Victorian Regional Council, and lectures in the Institute's Financial
Planning Diploma.
He is also a former Director of the ANZ Securities Retirement Benefits Fund, and
founding Director of Australia's leading independent electricity industry demand
side aggregator - Energy Response.
Janine Jones - Administration Manager
Janine’s career has been largely within the financial services industry, initially in the retail banking sector for over 15 years, before moving into commissions administration and management with BOSS Software.
At BOSS she managed a team that processed commissions in excess of $36m annually and facilitated payments to over 750 advisers.
Her role also encompassed systems development and instrumenting process improvements, as well as establishing close working relationships with various fund managers and clients.
Janine has also worked in accounts processing and more recently before joining CommCentral, as administrative support in a financial planning practice.
Having worked on both sides of the financial planning spectrum Janine is extremely conscious of the effect of correct and timely processing of commissions to advisers and dealers.