Chris Stavropoulos
Head of IT - Client and Distribution Systems at Challenger Limited- Claim this Profile
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Michael Saunders
Leadership comes in so many forms. Chris has the technology and process leadership ability, but what makes him stand out from others, is his leadership ability with people. Chris develops the people around him. He enables them to grow and learn whilst keeping the Enterprise moving forward. This ability to inspire and motivate others to learn and grow, allows him to accelerate a strategic business unit of an Enterprise. Once his teams are empowered, Chris trains the others to become leaders until he can step away and organisation continues to grow and improve without needing his guidance. An Enterprise can feel his presence as he continues to enable more areas in the Enterprise. Whilst he might not visible as he chooses not to take the limelight from his future leaders. He is training leaders to become better leaders, allowing his teams to take the glory while he quietly works in the background. I see Chris in the future on the board and the C-Suite enabling the leaders below him to shine and the Enterprise to flourish in an ever-changing world.
Kris Severijns
Chris is a very experienced IT leader and a fantastic person to work with, extremely committed to create the best team and passionate to drop artificial boundaries between different parts of the organisation and its technology partners. This resulted in the best kind of collaboration and a very successful & highly performing operations team. In times of major change as part of an agile transformation, Chris’ result-driven leadership and guidance to the team, undoubtedly contributed significantly to the success of this massive change. His openness and transparency resulted in a genuine and effective working relation over the last 3.5 years while his interest in and consideration of each team member's personal story and career earned him respect from all. I can only recommend Chris in the strongest way to any organization looking to fill a leadership position with a very experienced professional, effective communicator and passionate team player. Personally, I'm looking forward working with him again on future opportunities.
Michael Saunders
Leadership comes in so many forms. Chris has the technology and process leadership ability, but what makes him stand out from others, is his leadership ability with people. Chris develops the people around him. He enables them to grow and learn whilst keeping the Enterprise moving forward. This ability to inspire and motivate others to learn and grow, allows him to accelerate a strategic business unit of an Enterprise. Once his teams are empowered, Chris trains the others to become leaders until he can step away and organisation continues to grow and improve without needing his guidance. An Enterprise can feel his presence as he continues to enable more areas in the Enterprise. Whilst he might not visible as he chooses not to take the limelight from his future leaders. He is training leaders to become better leaders, allowing his teams to take the glory while he quietly works in the background. I see Chris in the future on the board and the C-Suite enabling the leaders below him to shine and the Enterprise to flourish in an ever-changing world.
Kris Severijns
Chris is a very experienced IT leader and a fantastic person to work with, extremely committed to create the best team and passionate to drop artificial boundaries between different parts of the organisation and its technology partners. This resulted in the best kind of collaboration and a very successful & highly performing operations team. In times of major change as part of an agile transformation, Chris’ result-driven leadership and guidance to the team, undoubtedly contributed significantly to the success of this massive change. His openness and transparency resulted in a genuine and effective working relation over the last 3.5 years while his interest in and consideration of each team member's personal story and career earned him respect from all. I can only recommend Chris in the strongest way to any organization looking to fill a leadership position with a very experienced professional, effective communicator and passionate team player. Personally, I'm looking forward working with him again on future opportunities.
Michael Saunders
Leadership comes in so many forms. Chris has the technology and process leadership ability, but what makes him stand out from others, is his leadership ability with people. Chris develops the people around him. He enables them to grow and learn whilst keeping the Enterprise moving forward. This ability to inspire and motivate others to learn and grow, allows him to accelerate a strategic business unit of an Enterprise. Once his teams are empowered, Chris trains the others to become leaders until he can step away and organisation continues to grow and improve without needing his guidance. An Enterprise can feel his presence as he continues to enable more areas in the Enterprise. Whilst he might not visible as he chooses not to take the limelight from his future leaders. He is training leaders to become better leaders, allowing his teams to take the glory while he quietly works in the background. I see Chris in the future on the board and the C-Suite enabling the leaders below him to shine and the Enterprise to flourish in an ever-changing world.
Kris Severijns
Chris is a very experienced IT leader and a fantastic person to work with, extremely committed to create the best team and passionate to drop artificial boundaries between different parts of the organisation and its technology partners. This resulted in the best kind of collaboration and a very successful & highly performing operations team. In times of major change as part of an agile transformation, Chris’ result-driven leadership and guidance to the team, undoubtedly contributed significantly to the success of this massive change. His openness and transparency resulted in a genuine and effective working relation over the last 3.5 years while his interest in and consideration of each team member's personal story and career earned him respect from all. I can only recommend Chris in the strongest way to any organization looking to fill a leadership position with a very experienced professional, effective communicator and passionate team player. Personally, I'm looking forward working with him again on future opportunities.
Michael Saunders
Leadership comes in so many forms. Chris has the technology and process leadership ability, but what makes him stand out from others, is his leadership ability with people. Chris develops the people around him. He enables them to grow and learn whilst keeping the Enterprise moving forward. This ability to inspire and motivate others to learn and grow, allows him to accelerate a strategic business unit of an Enterprise. Once his teams are empowered, Chris trains the others to become leaders until he can step away and organisation continues to grow and improve without needing his guidance. An Enterprise can feel his presence as he continues to enable more areas in the Enterprise. Whilst he might not visible as he chooses not to take the limelight from his future leaders. He is training leaders to become better leaders, allowing his teams to take the glory while he quietly works in the background. I see Chris in the future on the board and the C-Suite enabling the leaders below him to shine and the Enterprise to flourish in an ever-changing world.
Kris Severijns
Chris is a very experienced IT leader and a fantastic person to work with, extremely committed to create the best team and passionate to drop artificial boundaries between different parts of the organisation and its technology partners. This resulted in the best kind of collaboration and a very successful & highly performing operations team. In times of major change as part of an agile transformation, Chris’ result-driven leadership and guidance to the team, undoubtedly contributed significantly to the success of this massive change. His openness and transparency resulted in a genuine and effective working relation over the last 3.5 years while his interest in and consideration of each team member's personal story and career earned him respect from all. I can only recommend Chris in the strongest way to any organization looking to fill a leadership position with a very experienced professional, effective communicator and passionate team player. Personally, I'm looking forward working with him again on future opportunities.
Experience
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Challenger Limited
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of IT - Client and Distribution Systems
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Sep 2017 - Present
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Macquarie Group
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate Director
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Jan 2011 - Aug 2017
Associate Director at Macquarie Bank. Worked across multiple roles including Head of Delivery and Account Manager for Macquarie Capital, Head of Operations in the CAF and BFS divisions, and Chief Product Owner/Chief Scrum Master for the System Teams in BFS looking after all Core Platforms under an Agile Train model. In this role also accountable for the DevOps rollout across BFS. Associate Director at Macquarie Bank. Worked across multiple roles including Head of Delivery and Account Manager for Macquarie Capital, Head of Operations in the CAF and BFS divisions, and Chief Product Owner/Chief Scrum Master for the System Teams in BFS looking after all Core Platforms under an Agile Train model. In this role also accountable for the DevOps rollout across BFS.
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BlackRock
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director
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Dec 2009 - Jul 2010
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) was acquired by BlackRock in December 2009.This role involved the management of a team of middleware and integration developers located across 4 countries, delivering technology solutions to BlackRock following the acquisition of Barclays Global Investors. The team was accountable for the ongoing development of the heritage integration platform, seamlessly bridging applications from the heritage firms, and planning and executing on a strategy to move towards BlackRock’s target architecture.
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Director of Software Engineering
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Aug 1999 - Dec 2009
Director of Software Engineering:- Reporting to the Head of Global Messaging with a team of 19 professional middleware developers and data architects, located in four countries, delivering integration solutions to, and on behalf of all BGI globally; a strategic and tactical role with client, team and technology focus.Senior Design and Development Manager:- This role involved the development of integration solutions for global clients. The role later grew to encompass global management responsibilities for the core development team coupled with strong regional leadership, representing global messaging in Asia Pacific across development, support and engineering functions.
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NSW Police Force
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Australia
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Law Enforcement
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Developer
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Mar 1998 - Aug 1999
Developed and maintained systems allowing for efficient, and streamlined police operations with a strong emphasis on process, security and audit. Developed and maintained systems allowing for efficient, and streamlined police operations with a strong emphasis on process, security and audit.
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Education
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University of Technology, Sydney
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science with 1st Class Honors -
Baulkham Hills High School