Brenton Charnley

Brenton is currently the Head of Australia at TrueLayer. Previously Brenton was the Chief Operating Officer at Cover Genius, a leading global insurtech, responsible for global strategy, finance and operations having previously been the Chief Financial Officer & Chief Commercial Officer over the last 3 years. Prior to this, Brenton was the Chief Commercial Officer for ASX listed AI company Flamingo, and was tasked with leading strategy, sales, operations and finances across two continents. Brenton has been the Head of Innovation at MetLife Australia where he was responsible for embedding innovation and driving improvement of MetLife’s customer experience journey and new products. Brenton also spent 8 years' with KPMG Australia, most recently as an innovation and startup specialist. During this time, Brenton was the program manager for the elevate61 start-up accelerator, assisted tech companies and government organisations with innovation strategies and broad business advice. Brenton is also the founder of the Global Insurtech Alliance, Insurtech Australia & Insurtech Sydney, all progressive non-profit organisations whose focus is to use technology, share ideas and drive collaboration and innovation outcomes within the insurance ecosystem. Brenton is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a recovering tax advisor, holds degrees from UniSA, and has studied innovation, management and strategy at Stanford University.