SISS Data Services has appointed John Dunkerley as Chief Commercial Officer to lead the company’s go-to-market motions in Australia and New Zealand.
Headquartered in Sydney, SISS has more than 10 years’ experience as an Australian-owned and operated provider of secure data sharing via direct feeds and open banking.
Its ACSISS range of solutions provides ‘accounting grade’ bank data feeds for businesses, their advisers, and the software platforms they use, by leveraging both direct and CDR-powered bank data feeds.
This makes SISS the leading independent supplier of digital financial data solutions for small business accounting services and ERP software programs.
“With open banking now well underway, and banks clamping down on unsafe data sharing practices like screen scraping, we’re seeing a surge of interest in direct data feeds and regulated data sharing via the Consumer Data Right,” said Grant Augustin, Founder and CEO of SISS Data Services.
“We’ve worked closely with John as a consultant for many years and I’m delighted that he’s now stepped into this role full-time to join the SISS Data Services team based in Sydney,” Augustin added.
John Dunkerley’s previous professional experience includes senior leadership positions at Intuit, Bankstream and BankLink in Sydney and London.
“A common thread in my career is working with pioneering technology to connect banks, small businesses and their advisers,” John Dunkerley said.
Businesses using SISS’s solutions avoid the problems of manually collecting and entering bank balances and financial transactions for bookkeeping, tax reporting, loan applications and operational decision-making.
“I know how important it is for bank data sharing to be complete, secure and reliable. That’s why I am delighted to step into this role at SISS Data Services at a time when there is so much opportunity for open banking to improve productivity for Australian businesses and consumers,” Dunkerley said.
Open Banking in Australia is part of the federal pro-competition Consumer Data Right (CDR) regime which went live in banking in 2020, then expanded to energy in 2022, and will include non-bank lending from 2026 onwards.
