We are ambitious trailblazers
We are a team of experts with in-depth knowledge and technology expertise in spend management.
Our passion for better business spend management sparked the expense management space in Australia and has led us from being a pioneer to a leader in this area of business technology.
Meet the Leadership Team
Sharon Nouh
Sharon's experience spans over 25 years in the creation of corporate travel businesses and senior leadership in travel technology companies with a focus on developing innovative technology that transforms businesses processes.
Sharon developed and launched the first locally built expense management tool in Australia - expensemanager. This was the original version of ProSpend
Her vision over the last 10 years has been to create a hyper-automated software platform that allows businesses to proactively manage all of their their business spend.
Paul Russell
With an extensive background spanning over two decades across multiple industries, Paul brings a wealth of expertise to the table. His dual role as a technology and management consultant has equipped him with a distinctive skill set that uniquely positions him as the Head of Product and Strategy.
Paul's journey commenced in London, as an application consultant at the Bank of New York within their funds management division, he worked on the banks trading platforms serving over 300 top banks globally. Relocating to Australia in 2009, he worked as a Management Consulting at PwC, before venturing into entrepreneurship, founding a Digital Receipts startup before joining ProSpend to continue to be a leader in finance software.
"Love what you do and never work a day in your life, implementing sales methodologies, empowering people, leveraging technology, and optimising systems and processes are the mantras driving my career."
- Leo Dreyer
Leo Dreyer
Leo started his career in Finance and Computer Science in the UK while studying for a Marketing degree and also became an SAP Certified Consultant in 2007. After a few short years, he became the Managing Director of South Africa's most successful SAP Partner at the age of 32 and was awarded SAP Partner of the Year multiple years in a row.
He joined an ERP reseller in Australia when he and his family immigrated in 2016, where he set up the Cloud ERP business unit and, within two years, won the Excellence in Business Development award in 2018.
However, Leo has always been very interested in being part of a FinTech startup and joined ProSpend in late 2022, bringing with him over 15 years of experience in the ERP sector, education in marketing, a certified AWS practitioner, a history of building businesses and high performing teams, to ultimately help bring intelligent automation and complete spend management to ANZ's mid-market.
'I am passionate about creating value, driving growth, and fostering collaboration and I am privileged to have the opportunity to be part of a team that will take it to the next level for our customers, partners and employees.'
- Steve Daskalakis
Steve Daskalakis
With over two decades of marketing experience, Steve is a seasoned executive and leader, adept at building and leading collaborative high performance marketing teams and developing and executing innovative marketing strategies for complex products and services.
In his previous role, Steve was the Marketing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Workday, a premier provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. He led a high-performing marketing team that consistently delivered exceptional results, Prior to that, Steve served in senior marketing leadership roles at KPMG, Telstra, SAI Global and IBM. His expertise spans brand, digital, content, product, solutions, and services marketing.
Steve is here to drive ProSpend’s next phase of innovation and expansion.
Phillip Vella
As Director of Sales and Partnerships at ProSpend, Phillip brings a wealth of experience in driving revenue growth and fostering client relationships.
As the very first employee at ProSpend when he joined the business in 2014 Phillip has worked in various roles as the company has evolved and has always maintained a keen focus to work with our Channel Partners and internal sales teams.
With a robust background in sales leadership and known for a dynamic approach to sales strategy and team management,Phillip is dedicated to advancing ProSpend’s mission of delivering innovative solutions and unparalleled service to our clients and partners
Ingrid Heal
Ingrid has spent 25 years in financial services and technology. Working with financial institutions and their customers at MasterCard International for 17 years selling innovative technology solutions to solve customer problems across South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
But it was at MYOB where she discovered her passion for helping companies remove friction, reduce risk & cost and increase productivity with integrated financial services. This was further augmented with experience in a FinTech startup before joining ProSpend.
Ingrid is delighted to join the team at ProSpend with a mature SaaS solution where the customer is at the heart of everything we do.
Carl Brooks
Carl’s career and love affair with technology started back in 1996 at the military division of British Aerospace (now BAE SYSTEMS) involved in software initiatives both inhouse and cross collaboration with other aerospace vendors aimed at improving the development process of future aircraft.
In 2000 the opportunity to switch from engineering to software by joining BAAN in the Netherlands soon after they secured BAE SYSTEMS as a customer.
Since 2000 Carl has worked for several software companies, Exact, MYOB, KPMG Futures, across the globe helping a vast number of companies ranging from multinationals to “Mum and Pop” family run businesses allowing them to become more productive through software to help achieve their business ambitions.
At ProSpend Carl is responsible for partnerships and educating them on how we can help their clients.
"Software streamlines operations, automates tasks, and optimizes processes, driving business efficiency and fostering sustainable growth."
- Carl Brooks
Tanu Kaushik
With over two decades of marketing experience, Steve is a seasoned executive and leader, adept at building and leading collaborative high performance marketing teams and developing and executing innovative marketing strategies. for complex products and services.
In his previous role, Steve was the Marketing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Workday, a premier provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. He led a high-performing marketing team that consistently delivered exceptional results, Prior to that, Steve served in senior marketing leadership roles at KPMG, Telstra, SAI Global and IBM. His expertise spans brand, digital, content, product, solutions, and services marketing.
To help businesses to grow by delivering innovative technology that simplifies complex finance processes to drive smarter decisions. We are committed to delivering innovation that helps businesses with today’s challenges while pioneering a new future for finance teams.
Build Transformative Finance Solutions
Develop intuitive, innovative finance solutions that solve real business problems and simplify complex tasks
Help businesses to thrive
Modernise finance operations to boost productivity, freeing finance teams to focus on their highest-impact work.
Enable Proactive Decision-Making
Equip finance teams with real-time insights and data-driven tools, empowering them to make smarter, proactive decisions.
Meet some of our Ambitious Trailblazers
Account Executive
Customer Support Team Lead
DevOps Engineer
Systems Analyst
Senior Solution Consultant
Accountant/Business Analyst
Architecture Team Lead
Senior Developer
Customer Success
More than just a product
Our team of Solution Consultants have an unwavering focus on delivering results that matter uniquely to each organisation and that value is maximised only if they have a deep understanding of how the customer operates and their needs are fully determined.
Looking after our customers is just as important to us as the strength of our product. Our Customer Success team care deeply about our client’s ongoing experience and take ownership of resolving issues with clear answers that make sense for their product configuration.
In house development expertise
Innovation is in our DNA
We understand that sometimes we will need to design and extend our solution to our client’s unique requirements. With an agile and in-house development environment our experienced people translate ‘must have’s’ to a reality so our clients don’t have to compromise their automation objectives.
As leaders with in-depth knowledge and technology expertise we are continually innovating. Everything we do with our product development solve real business problems.
One platform for all your business spend
Easily manage your spend, expenses, invoices, purchase orders and budgets all in one powerful solution.