Author Brian Hartzer
Brian Hartzer is Group Executive at Quantium and the author of The Leadership Star: A Practical Guide to Building Engagement (Wiley). He is a former CEO of Westpac Banking Group and holds board roles across fintech, healthcare analytics, and the cultural sector.
Prior to his time as Westpac’s CEO, Brian spent 15 years in senior executive roles at major banks in Australia and the UK. These roles included CEO at Westpac and divisional chief executive roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and ANZ Banking Group.
He has also served as Chairman of the Australian Banking Association and of the Retail Banking Committee of the British Bankers Association.
Prior to joining ANZ, Brian spent ten years as a financial services strategy consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group in New York, Melbourne and San Francisco.
Outside of banking, Brian is Chairman of Fintech startup Beforepay; and Group Executive at Quantium, where he oversees the Financial Services, Government, and Health verticals; and serves as Chairman of the Australian Museum Trust as well as a Trustee of the Australian Museum.
He has previously served as Chairman of Save the Children Australia, Director of the Financial Markets Foundation for Children and Chair of the Business Advisory Committee of the Australian National University.
Full biography
Brian Hartzer is the author of The Leadership Star: A Practical Guide to Building Engagement (Wiley, 2021) and one of Australia’s most experienced corporate executives. He served as CEO of Westpac Banking Group from 2015 to 2019, managing over 35,000 staff and one of Australia’s largest financial institutions. Before Westpac, he held CEO and divisional executive roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and ANZ Banking Group. He is currently Group Executive at Quantium, overseeing the Financial Services, Government, and Health verticals, and serves as Chairman of ASX-listed fintech Beforepay and as President of the Australian Museum Trust. His leadership framework — Care, Context, Clarity, Clear the Way, Celebrate — has been applied by thousands of leaders across commercial, government, and not-for-profit organisations globally.