About FirstWave

Australian CEO of the year in 2015 ahead of Alan Joyce (Qantas) and David Thodey (Telstra). 25 years experience in the IT industry - USA, Asia, UK and Australia.

Iain was appointed as FirstWave’s Chief Financial Officer in 2020 after over 20 years as a senior finance executive with a range of ASX and AIM-listed entities. He is a highly motivated senior leader within FirstWave's executive team. He provides the Board and senior leaders with valuable strategic and operational guidance and insights which support the company’s high growth ambitions. Iain’s experience was critical to the successful acquisition of Opmantek Limited in 2022 and $14 million capital raising. Before joining FirstWave, he was the Chief Financial Officer of ASX-listed music credit platform Jaxsta Limited (ASX: JXT). For nearly ten years until 2017 he was Group CFO and Managing Director of Australia for fintech business Fusion Payments. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge.

Mr Ryan joined FirstWave in 2007 as Chief Technology Officer and leads multiple teams of software developers and platform engineers dedicated to building, enhancing and integrating the company’s growing suite of cybersecurity and network management solutions. He has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector, including more than eight years with Telstra Research Laboratories in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He holds several Australian and international patents in information retrieval and data classification. He also co-founded a security appliance start‐up that provided managed self-healing network applications to enterprise customers in Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Computer Systems from Monash University and is a Fellow of The Electrical College of Engineers, Australia.

Tony joined FirstWave in 2016 to help FirstWave achieve internationally recognized Cybersecurity and Quality certifications to ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) and ISO 9001 (Quality Management System). He is responsible for FirstWave’s Cybersecurity as well as overseeing the operation of platforms delivering customer services, customer success and customer support functions within FirstWave. He has extensive experience in all aspects of ICT infrastructure design, security, implementation and management and risk management and has worked extensively across the finance and health sectors. Before joining FirstWave, he was a consultant to the Commonwealth Department of Health, providing risk assessment and security advice on the My Health Record system roll-out. He also spent more than eleven years with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) including as the CISO (Senior Manager System Security). He holds a Master of Information Technology from the University of Sydney.

Chris joined FirstWave in 2021 with a demonstrated ability to manage and deliver customer-centered commercial outcomes in high-growth environments. Chris is part of the executive team and is responsible for all global marketing initiatives. He leads a distributed team of employees and consultants to support and drive the achievement of growth targets and strategic objectives through targeted marketing activities. Before joining FirstWave, he was the National Strategic Marketing Lead with ASX-listed telecommunications services provider Over the Wire. During his time there, he played a crucial role in guiding the business from a startup to an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2015. OTW was purchased by Aussie Broadband for $344m in March 2022. He holds a Bachelor of Business Management (Marketing), Master of Business Administration (The University of Queensland), and has completed the AICD Company Directors program.

Dino Davanzo joined FirstWave in November 2022 as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), bringing more than 35 years of experience including vendor and systems integration sales roles and sales leadership positions. Before FirstWave, he held senior sales positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Optus, Dell and NetApp.