Episode 1: Banking to the Boardroom (with Melanie Willis & Ryan McCourt)
Welcome to Work Drinks! The podcast where we share a drink with Australia’s most coveted industry experts and emerging young talent to learn about their experience of work.
In this episode, ‘Banking to the Boardroom’, our long-awaited pilot, we share a drink with two exceptional professionals who have had careers in Investment Banking, and have since moved on to pursue more entrepreneurial endeavours.
Melanie Willis, our expert professional for this episode, is an experienced non executive director who currently serves on the Boards of Challenger Limited, Southern Cross Austereo, PayPal Australia, QBE AusPac and Chief Executive Women. Previously, Mel held senior executive roles as the CEO of NRMA Investments, The CEO and founder of a financial services start up and as a Director of Deutsche Bank - among other roles.
Our talented young professional for this episode is Ryan McCourt. Ryan started his career working for UBS Australia full time, while simultaneously completing his undergraduate degree. Ryan then worked in their Multi-Asset investment committee based in Hong Kong. Ryan then spent some time working as Investment Manager with Monash Private Capital and was a Director of two portfolio companies; Maia Financial and Credabl. Ryan has since then founded 15h, an advisory firm focused on early stage / growth companies.
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More of a visual person, check out the filmed version of the show from our Sydney studio on our YouTube Channel!
https://youtu.be/_XkhX9fTjQQ
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