Board of
Directors

Shan Kanji

Non-Executive Chair / Non-Independent

Shan Kanji is the Non-Executive Chairman of Atturra. Shan has spent more than 15 years as a senior business leader with a proven track record of running scale diversified and complex industrial and technology businesses in Australia and New Zealand. He has extensive experience with start-ups in technology, property development, manufacturing and other sectors.

Shan was instrumental in the formation of, and growth in, Atturra and its predecessor organisations.

Shan is on the board of the Australian Steel Institute, the nation's peak body representing the Australian manufactured steel supply chain.

Shan holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW and is a practising lawyer and the Principal of Kanji & Co.

Stephen Kowal

CEO & Executive Director / Non-Independent

Stephen Kowal is the CEO and Executive Director of Atturra. Stephen has been the CEO since early 2019 and, prior to his appointment, has held senior executive and non-executive positions in the IT and consultancy sectors since 2001. Prior to joining Atturra, Stephen led sales for the Australian and New Zealand division for DXC Technology, a US multinational business to business IT services provider.

Stephen is highly experienced across the insurance, banking, government, and natural resources sectors, holding several Chief Information Officer roles within the US, Chile, and Australia.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of NSW, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (FINSIA), and Diploma of Insurance from the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIF). ANZIF awarded Stephen the PC Wickens award in 2015.

Stephen is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA), Fellow of FINSIA, Senior Associate of ANZIF and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Nicole Bowman

Non-Executive Director / Independent

Nicole is an experienced leader, non-executive director and lawyer whose leadership career has spanned over 21 years across industries as diverse as mining, finance, sport and manufacturing, both in Australia and internationally.

In addition to her executive and legal experience, Nicole spent a combined total of seven years as a non-executive director of ASX-listed mining and exploration companies Blackthorn Resources Limited, and Intrepid Mines Limited. During this period Nicole chaired each of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee in turn.

Nicole was also a founding director of Football South Coast Limited and a member of the former FFA Women's Advisory Group.

She is currently a board member of the charity Dress for Success Sydney Inc. and the founder of its Illawarra branch. In 2019 she was appointed the Australia Day Ambassador for Wollongong in recognition of her philanthropic work.

In 2019 Nicole established her own leadership practice, focused on coaching and training leaders and teams to enable them to achieve exceptional results using readily implementable and practical tools, insights and skills.

Nicole holds a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney and is a member of the AICD.

Jonathan Rubinsztein

Non-Executive Director / Independent

Jonathan has recently taken the position of CEO of Nuix. Nuix is an ASX-listed company and a leading provider of investigative analytics and intelligence software with a vision of "finding truth in the digital age".

Prior to this, he was the Managing Director & CEO of Infomedia Ltd, an ASX300 company providing SaaS solutions to the parts and service sector of the global automotive industry. Jonathan and the team grew the market capitalisation over 300% during the five and a half years that he led the business.

Prior to that, Jonathan was the CEO and one of the founding shareholders at Red Rock Consulting, the largest Oracle Consulting business in ANZ with eight offices and 600 staff. This was sold to UXC and then eventually acquired by DXC and is currently the Oracle practice within DXC called DXC Red Rock.

Jonathan was also a Founder and Director of RockSolid SQL, a company that built monitoring and automated data management software.

Jonathan has been on the board of a number of philanthropic ventures including Humanitix, the first not-for-profit ticketing platform that redistributes profits from booking fees to various charities. He has also been on the board of Missionvale, a not-for-profit organisation that provides love and care for the destitute and those with HIV/AIDS in the extremely poor township of Missionvale, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.