Management Team

The Centricom team brings together industry experts in banking and transactional processing, as well as software design, development and marketing.

Simon is the founder of Centricom. He has over 10 years experience in the eCommerce industry, working with organisations such as Advantra (Telstra / IBM / Lend Lease Joint venture) where he headed up business development for the IBM Universal Server Farm and IBM Global Network in Australia. He then worked for ANZ bank, where he headed up Business Development, Marketing & Distribution for the bank's Business eCommerce Group - for both Australia and New Zealand and across Asia Pacific. Before his career at ANZ, Simon was head of professional services for one of Australia's first datacentre's and distributors of one of Australia's first Credit Card payment gateways (Camtech). Prior to Camtech, he ran his own successful software application development company with clients such as Mobile Oil, United Energy, Smorgon Steel and Gippsland Water. Before coming to Australia, Simon served eight years as a Police Officer in London and spent the latter part of his Police career working on specialist IT projects.

Acting Chief Technical Officer - David Liberman

David has over 17 years extensive IT experience in Finance, Banking, Health, Advertising, Media and Telecommunications. He has been the CTO/CIO of a number of professional services and product based companies where his responsibilities included: mapping strategic technology direction for approval by management teams establishing current and long term technology objectives; creating a technical vision for the company and project managing software and infrastructure implementations. David was one of the founding members of a start-up called IRESS Market Technology (ASX:IRESS). IRESS designs, develops, markets and supports Australia's premier sharemarket information system. IRESS is now used by a majority of the professional equity market participants across Australia and New Zealand and has a market capitalization of over 1 billion dollars. David was the architect and creator of BermudaT which is an e-solution platform sold and owned by Day3. Bermuda is currently powering a number of leading corporate web based solutions. Bermuda reduces project implementation cost and time by 2/3. More recently David filled the role of Asia Pacific regional as the lead technologist for S1 (NASDAQ:SONE) where he was responsible for localization and customization of the banking platform product for the region. David joined Jagen Pty Ltd in June 2006 to assist investee companies in increasing share holder value by harnessing information technology.

Marketing Director - Tim Hibbert

Tim has over fifteen years experience working across the telecommunications, information technology and financial services industries in a range of marketing related positions.  Previously he worked as Marketing Manager at Advantra (Telstra / IBM / Lend Lease joint venture) in the IT&T outsourcing industry. Tim then joined ANZ Bank, a leading provider of online payment solutions in the Asia Pacific region, as the Head of Marketing for the Business eCommerce Group. After this he headed up the marketing team for the ANZ's Trust & Authentication Group, whose primary strategy was to develop a suite of secure payment solutions that enable customers to fully exploit the benefits of eCommerce. He previously worked at Sensis / Trading Post Online as well as running his own marketing communications agency. Tim recently joined Centricom after working at Optus on their convergent IP business.

Technical Operations  Manager - Rachel Cicerale

Rachel has experience in web application development, system administration and IT infrastructure management. In the past few years she has developed and deployed a number of commercial web applications, including a financial mobile solution for Telstra.