Advisors

Advisors

Ben Lyon

ADVISOR / Shareholder

Ben is a Silicon Valley veteran and highly experienced executive, General Counsel, Transaction Specialist, Dealmaker and Member/Advisor to senior executive teams and Boards of Directors for Silicon Valley, San Francisco, SoCal and International technology companies spanning Cybersecurity, Nano-tech, AI, Iot, Bio-phama, Fntech, Telecom, SaaS/PaaS, and Mobile technology.  

Significant successes include Ingenio (sold to AT&T) and TellMeNetworks (sold to Microsoft).  

Ben is a participating stakeholder in BankVault but until it becomes a US company he does not act in the capacity of General Counsel.  

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Robert Toher

ADVISOr

Robert is Financial Crimes BSA Subject Matter Expert for IBM, based in NYC.

A senior executive with an extensive understanding of the processes and controls required with complex multifaceted projects.  He is a financial services industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the following areas:  Prime Brokerage, Banking, Correspondent Clearing, Compliance, Regulatory Relations, Technology Implementation, Financial Operations, Information Security, Business Expansion and Risk Management. 

Over the course of his career Robert has held executive and senior consulting roles with JPMorgan Chase, ANZ Banking Group Limited, HSBC, Infinite, and Bear Stearns. 
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Warren Merritt

ADVISOR / SHAREHOLDER

Warren is the Deputy Chairman of Lockton Insurance Group Australia with over 31 years experience in the insurance industry as a Broker/Advisor and with global experience covering Australian, Asian and UK markets in Senior Advising capacities. He was head of Asia Region for JLT and has delivered innovative, cost saving, finance efficient results for many of the largest organisations in Australia and Asia.

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Brett Looney

ADVISOR / SHAREHOLDER

Brett is an engineer/entrepreneur and technology leader. He co-founded the technical consulting firm L7, which was acquired by Amcom (now Vocus). He later served as Amcom’s Head of Innovation, and after the Vocus acquisition moved to AWS as a Solutions Architect  Brett currently divides his time between advising new startups incubating cloud-based technologies.
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David Mierowsky

ADVISOR / SHAREHOLDER

David brings BankVault years of successful experiences growing technology companies.  He Founded Fundi Software (Acquired by Rocket) — an IBM global partner and a leading provider of tools of IMS and CICS systems.

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Mark Sayer

ADVISOR / BANKING CYBERSECURITY

Mark was Head of Security, Strategy and Architecture at National Australia Bank where he developed the vision and strategy for security, lead a high performing team of Security Architects and developed an agile access and authentication platform. Previously he was a senior member of a security start-up that went through an IPO. His is passionate about innovation and bring 20 years’ experience as a cyber professional.
 
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Richard Maltman

ADVISOR / SHAREHOLDER

Richard is Director at Aphelion Legal and has a career spanning corporate law across mining in Western Australia. He has overseen the legal work for GoPC/BankVault Pty Ltd since inception and has agreed to become a Director of BankVault when it transitions to become an Ltd company.
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