IMPERIUM - Key Persons


Paul Missio - CIO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer
Paul has over 30 years' experience in the development of financial technology platforms for Securities Trading, Risk management, Wealth Management, Exchange, Settlements and Regulatory compliance. Paul has worked with and delivered solutions for Australia's leading financial institutions including Westpac Trading Bank, Macquarie Private Wealth, Sydney Futures Exchange, Austraclear, AMP Capital, Bankers Trust Australia, Macquarie Bank and MLC. Paul has created applications for Equities, Debt markets, FX, Futures, Options and Derivatives.

Rod Lewis - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Rod has over 30 years' experience in banking and financial markets. Rod spent 10 years with First Boston Australia as Director of fixed Income and 17 years with CBA Global Markets. Rod's CBA experience included 6 years as head of Fixed Income trading followed by 5 years as Head of Debt Syndicate. Rod then spent 6 years as Head of Global Markets trading with responsibility for teams trading FX, Commodities, Derivatives and Fixed Income globally. Rod was a member of the AFMA Market Governance committee for 6 years. For the last 4 years Rod has consulted on product design and markets with Yieldbroker, Australia's largest established electronic market for Australian Interest Rate Securities and Derivatives.

Stu Burns - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Stu has over 20 years' experience working in Interest Rate Derivatives, Futures, Money Market, Fixed Interest, Structured Credit and Equity Products. He has built and managed businesses for both WBC Financial Markets and CBA Global Markets dealing interest rate products to wholesale investors. As a Director of Longreach Capital Markets (partially owned by JP Morgan) was responsible for the issuance of over $600million of Capital Protected Credit & Equity linked notes. More recently he has been a principal of SR2 Capital and Denison Financial Advisory originating $500million in infrastructure loans and advising on wholesale investors income portfolios.

Tom Rowe

Job Titles:
  • Senior Solutions Specialist
Tom is a treasury professional with applied markets experience gained from roles held in banking, mining and food-manufacturing industries. He brings an in-depth knowledge of foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity markets from a sales, product structuring and hedging policy point of view. He approaches problems with a continuous-improvement/audit mindset specifically looking at where technology can be better utilised to streamline processes, reduce operational risk and improve compliance.