Bio
David Link is a payments and banking innovator with nearly three decades’ experience in the Financial Services industry. David spent 26 years in various leadership positions internationally with Accenture, including Managing Director in Accenture’s Financial Services practice. Through his extensive knowledge of the finance space, David recognises the need for growth and innovation in payments. Taking this to market, David founded Verrency, a global fintech company that provides ‘innovation-as-a-service’, enabling issuers to deliver the latest payment capabilities fast and cost effectively through their existing payments infrastructure. By giving its consumers unprecedented flexibility and control over how they pay, Verrency’s cutting-edge features drive growth and increase customer satisfaction. Verrency also enables innovation across the payments ecosystem, providing fintechs and other innovative payment services the ability to be easily connected and distributed through issuers at scale. In addition, David serves as an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the prestigious University of Melbourne, as the Chair of the Australian Centre for Financial studies ‘Funding Australia’s Future IV’ and sits on a number of boards and advisory boards. SPECIALITIES ♦ Digital transformation & innovation, particularly in the FinTech space ♦ Large scale business transformation ♦ Payments innovation & transformation ♦ Global expansion & business growth ♦ Banking & insurance industries ♦ Global & Asian financial landscape ♦ Leading large programs/organisations ♦ Managing complex programs ♦ Negotiating & managing complex contracts ♦ Post-merger integration ♦ Application & business process outsourcing ♦ Change management