Board of Directors

ROBERT BRADSHAW, LLB

Chairman. Non - Executive Director since 2017.
Appointed Chairman February 2023.

Robert Bradshaw was appointed to the BSP Board in September 2017 and served as Chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee from 2019 until his appointment as Board Chair in February 2023.

Mr. Bradshaw holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours, First Class) from the University of Papua New Guinea and has practiced law for almost 30 years. He was formerly a Partner in the firm Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and commenced practice on his own, as Bradshaw Lawyers in 2005. Mr. Bradshaw has been involved in different areas of law, particularly in resource development, industrial relations, banking and finance and commercial litigation.

Mr. Bradshaw has served as a Director and Chair on the board of several other companies.

MARK ROBINSON

Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director.
Executive Director commencing March 2023.

Mark T. Robinson was appointed BSP’s Group CEO in November 2022 and commenced in March 2023. He is a senior financial executive with over 30 years’ of experience in developed and emerging markets.

Mr. Robinson’s previous roles include CEO of Commercial Bank International in the United Arab Emirates, CEO of ANZ Banking Group’s operations in Southeast Asia, and he has held numerous senior executive roles with Citibank including in India, Russia, Turkey and Hungary.

He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business Administration.

SYMON BREWIS-WESTON, BEcon, MAppFin

Non-Executive Director.
Director since April 2021.
A member of Board Audit & Compliance Committee and Board Risk Committee.

Symon Brewis-Weston has extensive international experience in financial services and a deep understanding of consumer and business markets in the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Brewis-Weston was formerly CEO & Executive Director at Humm Group Ltd (2016-2018), Executive General Manager - Corporate Financial Services at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Chief Executive Officer at Sovereign Assurance Co. Ltd (NZ), a subsidiary of CBA. Symon also served as Chairman of Stockco Ltd, an Australian livestock financier from 2019-2022.

Mr. Brewis-Weston held various senior leadership positions at CBA for 15 years. He spent 6 years leading CBA’s Indonesia operations and also in China developing the company’s Chinese banking strategy. In 2015, Mr. Brewis-Weston received the United Nation’s Global CEO Women Empowerment Principle’s Leadership Award for his contribution to the enhancement of diversity and women’s empowerment in the workplace.

Mr. Brewis-Weston holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

FAAMAUSILI DR. MATAGIALOFI LUA'IUFI, BA, MSc, PhD

Non-Executive Director.
Director since December 2016.
Chair of Remuneration & Nominations Committee.

Faamausili Dr. Matagialofi Lua’iufi is an experienced public sector practitioner and consultant, Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi holds a PhD in Management, a Masters in Management Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Political Science. Prior to establishing her own consultancy firm in late 2008, Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi worked in the Samoa Public Service Commission Office for 25 years, with almost 12 of those years in the role of CEO. Under her stewardship, the Samoa Public Service undertook various change management programs to improve service delivery.

Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi served in many Government state owned enterprise boards in her capacity as CEO of the Samoa Public Service Commission. Since becoming a consultant in late 2008, Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi has performed more than 50 consultancy assignments in the domains of Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, Performance Management and Governance.

Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, member of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors, Samoa Institute of Directors and Samoa Human Resource Institute. From 2007 to 2012, Faamausili Dr. Lua’iufi was the Pacific Residential Scholar of the Australia New Zealand School of Government and was responsible for the development of emerging young Pacific public sector leaders.

STUART DAVIS, LLB, GAICD

Non-Executive Director.
Director since August 2017.
Chair of the Board Risk Committee and a member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee.

Stuart Davis was appointed to the BSP Board in August 2017 and is currently Chair of the Board Risk Committee (BRC) and a member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee.

Mr. Davis is also currently a Non-Executive director of ASX 100 company NextDC Ltd, where he serves as Chair of its Remuneration Committee and a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Appen Limited and PayPal Australia Ltd where he is Chair of its Risk Committee.

Mr. Davis previously was CEO of HSBC Bank in India from 2009 to 2012, one of the largest foreign banks in India with staff of 8,000 and pretax earnings in excess of USD800 million. Prior to that appointment, he was CEO of HSBC Bank in Australia from 2002 to 2009 and CEO of HSBC in Taiwan from 1999 to 2002, having joined the HSBC Group in 1981.

Mr. Davis previously served as a member of the Australian Bankers Association from 2003 to 2009, being Deputy Chair from 2006 to 2009, was Chair of the British India Chamber of Commerce in Mumbai and Chair of the Taiwan British Chamber of Commerce in Taipei. He holds a Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of Adelaide and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

PATRICIA TAUREKA-SERUVATU, LLB, MAICD

Non-Executive Director.
Director since April 2022.
A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee and the Remuneration and Nominations Committee

Mrs. Patricia Taureka-Seruvatu is a Lawyer by profession, admitted to practice law in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1988. Mrs. Taureka-Seruvatu holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of PNG.

Mrs Taureka-Seruvatu has over 30 years’ experience in the legal, superannuation, property, commercial and corporate services in PNG. She is a member of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She is currently employed as the General Counsel & Company Secretary for Dirio Gas & Power Company Limited. Prior to this, Mrs. Taureka Seruvatu previously served as Company Secretary for Nambawan Super Limited from 2001 to 2019.

FRANK BOURAGA, CPA, MAICD

Non-Executive Director.
Director since December 2020.
A Member and Chairman of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee.

Frank Bouraga is a CPA Papua New Guinea qualified professional accountant with over 26 years in accounting practice and is currently a partner in Assurance and Business Advisory Services with SBC Solutions. Prior to SBC Solutions, Mr. Bouraga was the Country Managing Partner for Ernst & Young Papua New Guinea for 5 years as an audit and business advisory services partner. He also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 7 years and worked with Star Business Consultants between 2004 and 2011.

Mr. Bouraga is also a director of the PNG Cancer Foundation and the PNG Hunters, and is a member of Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA PNG) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). He holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Central Queensland University.

STEPHEN BEACH, BSc (Econ. & Acc.), CPA

Non-Executive Director
Director since May 2024.
A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee and the Board Risk Committee

Stephen is an experienced accounting professional with over forty years of experience in the fields of assurance, business advisory, taxation and corporate reporting, including thirty-five years in Papua New Guinea.

Mr Beach trained in London for five years with Ball Baker Chartered Accountants and then Arthur Young (now EY). After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, in June 1985 he left England and came to PNG as an audit supervisor with Coopers & Lybrand in Arawa, Bougainville. After four years, in 1989 he left Bougainville and returned to England but in June 1992 he returned back to PNG as an audit manager with Coopers, now PwC, in Port Moresby, being made a partner in 1996. Mr Beach remained a partner of PwC until he resigned from the partnership in 2019. He is now a principal of Beach Accounting Advisory (BAA Consulting Limited), providing tax, advisory and audit services to predominantly family-owned businesses in PNG.

Mr Beach is involved with the Certified Practicing Accountants of PNG, having previously served as a council member for seven years, being a past Vice-President, and chairing both the Standards and the Conference & CPE Committees. He has also been a member of the Accounting Standards Board and an alternate member of the Accountants Registration Board.

PRISCILLA KEVIN, BSCS, MAICD

Non-Executive Director
Director since April 2023.
A Member of the Board Risk Committee.

Priscilla Kevin is an IT professional and entrepreneur specialising in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Support Advisory. Ms. Kevin has over 20 years ICT industry experience providing ICT consultancy and support to a range of businesses as well as government bodies. Since 2018, Ms. Kevin served as an Independent Committee Member of the BSP Board Risk Committee. 

Ms. Kevin is a board member of PNG Digital ICT Cluster Inc. and a member of the PNG University of Technology’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). Ms. Kevin is also a working group committee member of the Centre of Excellence for Financial Inclusion and is a Council Member of the Institute of National Affairs (INA).

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the PNG University of Technology, is an ICANN fellow and an alumni of the U.S IVLP and East West Center Schidler College of Business Changing Faces. Ms Kevin also serves as a non-executive director on the board of BSP Finance (Fiji) Pte Limited since her appointment in 2022 and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

IAN A. TARUTIA, OBE, FAICD, FPNGID

Non-Executive Director.
Director since April 2023.
A member of both the Board Audit and Compliance Committee and the Board Risk Committee.

Mr Tarutia is an experienced corporate executive for over 25 years with a strong back ground in superannuation, finance, banking, investments, governance and strategic management. He is also an experienced board room director with over 18 years’ experience on various public and private sector Boards in PNG, Australia and the Pacific region. He was CEO of National Superannuation Fund of Papua New Guinea (Nasfund) for 15 years from July 2007 until he retired on the 31 March 2023 and established NCSL in 2003 for Nasfund members which is the largest savings & loan society in the Pacific today by membership size. Today he runs his consultancy practice and is the current President of the Papua New Guinea Chamber
of Commerce & Industry. He is a former President of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors and former Chairman of the Pacific Islands Investment Forum, an organization of superannuation funds in the Pacific and New Zealand.

Mr. Tarutia holds both a Bachelor of Business Economics and Master of Business Administration from the University of Papua New Guinea. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Diploma in Financial Markets from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Diploma in Economic Policy Analysis from the PNG National Research Institute. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP 185) and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors.