Our people
The commitment and drive of our team have earned us a global reputation for consistently outstanding results.
Stevan Lambert
Chairman
Stevan has been in investment banking for over 40 years. He has held senior executive positions based in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia at Merrill Lynch, UBS and Lehman Brothers.
In addition to advising a number of ASX-listed companies, Stevan’s role at Finport is primarily focused on managing credit quality and exposures, as well as lender relations, with a secondary focus on establishing partnerships with financial institutions and tier-one corporations.
Keagan York
Managing Director
Keagan is an experienced financial services business builder and banking professional with over 25 years’ experience.
After starting his career at Commonwealth Bank, he moved into senior roles with St George Bank until 2010, when he co-founded Compass Global Markets. Compass is a specialist foreign exchange payments provider focused on the SME sector which today transacts over one billion dollars a year.
Keagan's sole focus is helping SMEs reach their goals with tailored funding requirements through Finport.
Brent Brown
Director
Brent has 35 years' global banking experience with the major Australian banks. He has significant and specialist experience in the provision of trade finance, letters of credit and receivables finance to SMEs.
Brent also has extensive experience in foreign exchange and international commodity markets which form an integral part of our invoice finance business.
Scott Cavanough
Director
Scott has over 26 years’ experience in foreign exchange (FX) where, among other roles, he worked for Commonwealth Bank focusing on helping clients manage the risk associated with their FX exposure. After realising that major Australian banks were reducing their focus on servicing SMEs, Scott moved to Compass Global Markets, built a book of over 500 clients and co-founded Finport in 2015.
Mac Hill
Head of Compliance
Mac has over 35 years’ experience in the credit, insurance and finance sectors. He started out in the 1980s as a Credit Analyst at Dun & Bradstreet before moving to a senior underwriter role with QBE Trade Credit Insurance where he stayed for 20 years.
Most recently he had the role of Head of Trade Credit Insurance at Dun & Bradstreet and is now Head of Compliance for Finport.
Wayne Bower
Head of Credit
Wayne has over 40 years’ experience in corporate and consumer finance and commercial insurance.
After starting his career with AGC finance, he moved to Barclays, specialising in asset-based lending. For the past 30 years Wayne has worked for QBE Insurance in various management roles in the trade credit, builders’ warranty and workers compensation divisions.
Mark D'Alessandro
WA State Manager
Mark D’Alessandro began his career in banking at Mizuho Corporate Bank working closely with the dealers and traders on the FX and ALM books, following this he took on a role at Commbank as a senior associate within the international payments.
Mark joined Finport in 2017 as an advisor and has since moved into the WA Business Specialist role. His knowledge of the Western Australian SME market is indispensable. Specialist funding solutions is his speciality.
Could you be a legend in the Team?
Business Account Managers
Could you be the legend we are looking for to join our experienced team in the role of a Business Finance Manager.
​
Personal values are the cornerstone of our business. If you align with the following values Integrity, Innovation, Service Excellence, Loyalty and One Team One Dream give us a call on 1800 346 767.