Our Team

Class Financial Systems is made up of a team of highly talented industry technologists and domain experts with extensive financial markets experience and background.

Our History and Pedigree

  • SuperEC (SWIMMEC) Program Director
  • Chief Architect for Bankers Trust Australia
  • Citigroup Electronic Trading Manager
  • Australian FIX Standards Committee
  • Standards Australia CITEC Sector Board Member
  • Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA)
  • Bulk Electronic Clearance System (BECS) Advisory Board Member
  • Business Lead/Project Build Team - Asgard eWrap/Essentials – Asgard Wealth Solutions
  • National Manager Institutional Business - Sealcorp
  • Lead Engineer Europe - Hewlett Packard
  • ATO - Member Superannuation Consultative Committee
  • ATO - Member of the Super Simplification Working Group for SMSF Administrators
  • ATO – Member of the Superannuation Funds Working Group
  • Treasury – invited member of the Treasury team drafting the Superannuation Simplification Legislation
  • Global Director Systems Audit - American Express
  • News
  • 16/11/2009
  • Perpetual and Class Financial Systems announce full migration of self managed super fund (SMSF) portfolio to Class Super

    Perpetual, one of Australia's leading ASX listed investment managers and advisers announced today the selection of Class Financial Systems self managed super fund (SMSF) platform Class Super as its preferred platform for SMSF administration. Matt Pancino, Group Executive of Operations for Perpetual said “The Class Super platform was subject to extensive trials within our business. A number of funds have already been using the new platform for some time and we expect to have the majority migrated by November 2009 reporting period”, he continued.
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  • 29/09/2009
  • Count Financial Limited announced today the selection of Class Financial Systems self managed super fund (SMSF) platform "Class Super" as their preferred platform for SMSF administration

    Marianne Perkovic, CEO of Count said "The Class Super platform was first demonstrated to our members at our annual conference this year and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. The platform has now been subject to extensive trials within our franchisee network, and has consistently outperformed all other tools in terms of accuracy, time saving and processing costs."
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  • 01/02/2009
  • Class and Object Consulting deliver using Process Mentor
  • "Beyond world class productivity, the project achieved something far more important, a breakthrough product." As with many start up organisations Class Super was faced with the difficult task of architecting and building a solution that was highly extensible while catering to a number of mandatory functional components. Class Super was able to take advantage of Process Mentor’s capabilities, allowing success where traditional methodologies would not.
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  • 04/09/2008
  • Class Super presents at the Master Funds Conference - Hunter Valley NSW. Class Super is invited to present at the annual IFA Masterfunds Conference - this being the first open market presentation of the Class solution to the industry. Class has subsequently received extensive enquiry (both institutional and practitioner) regarding its solution set and their application.
  • 01/09/2008
  • Following formal negotiation and due diligence, Count Financial Limited has become a strategic shareholder in Class Financial Systems. Count is one of Australia's largest Accounting and Financial Services providers and makes an ideal business partner for Class. Both groups are working closely together to further enhance the offering not only for Count's own implementation of the system but also for the broader market application.
  • 15/05/2008
  • Class Super moves from Beta to Live Production. Class Super has now been deployed into a live production environment in Australia's largest data centre. This deployment elevated Class super to a bank standard security and disaster recovery service, allowing Class's clients 24/7 access from any internet connected site.
  • 20/11/2007
  • Class ramps up its development team for the final build and release phase of the Class Super solution. Class expands its team to over 50 specialist developers for the final stage of the Class Super project, with the team including some of the industry's leading analysts, designers and developers.
  • 09/09/2006
  • Class forms a strategic working relationship with one of Australia's largest and most pre-eminent and respected SMSF Administration Companies in Australia Smart Super. Smart Super has had a continual and on-going role of input into the development of the Class Super solution and is a foundation client - administering over 2 billion dollars of SMSF assets, now fully owned by the Perpetual Group of Companies.
  • 09/08/2006
  • Class Super was formed to be the Distribution company for Class's fully on-line SMSF solution. Class Super's specific purpose is to deliver a market leading and industrial strength solution to Australia's largest and fastest growing superannuation sector.
  • 21/10/2005
  • Class Financial Systems was formed following an extensive review of the current Financial Market Technology providers both in Australia and Internationally. Class's core mandate was to build a suite of new breed technologies that could address many of the recurring and common industry wide issues to provide a solution that delivered cost savings, simplification and efficiencies to the end user and client.