Lisa is currently the CEO of CoreLogic International, the world’s largest property data and analytics company, with accountability for the business performance of its operations in Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and emerging markets. Immediately prior to joining CoreLogic she served as Executive Director for ING’s Australian operations responsible for its retail and commercial banking units whilst holding global accountabilities spanning multiple international jurisdictions. Earlier in her career Lisa practised as a barrister and served as Senior Counsel for a fully diversified financial services group. Lisa applies her unusual blend of commercial acumen and governance expertise with a highly developed understanding of customer behaviour to optimise business performance through data and digital led strategies.

Lisa has been active on not for profit boards throughout her executive career and currently serves as chair of LIXI, the financial services industry consortium that develops and maintains data standards. Well recognised in the Australian banking and financial services industry for her thought leadership, Lisa regularly publishes and presents on key issues and trends shaping the future and judges high profile awards within both the financial services and legal profession.

Innovation culture and thought leader, Greg Dickason heads up CoreLogic International Innovation & Technology. He first came to CoreLogic in 2010 as the architect and implementation head for the popular CommBank Property Guide; an iPhone App allowing property information searched 24/7. A first in the world, Greg also invented & managed the nationally used Media-Maximiser product which correlates advertising spend to selling success for real estate agents.

Greg is regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review and industry news sites. As a popular keynote speaker, Greg’s sessions have helped many organisations understand future movements around global innovation and cutting-edge strategies as well as the effectiveness of using out-of-the-box business models for multiple business & industry sectors such as housing, banking, finance and digital technology.

Greg Dickason holds an MBA from USQ (University of Southern Queensland), specialising in Finance and Business. He also holds a Master of Engineering Degree from The University of Cape Town.

Sarah Gillies is CoreLogic’s Executive, General Counsel International and leads the legal, risk and information security team for CoreLogic’s international business, covering Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Sarah is also currently Acting Country Manager for CoreLogic’s New Zealand business.

Sarah started her career in private practice at Minter Ellison before moving in-house at Telecom New Zealand Limited (now Spark) where she held a number of roles in the legal team at a time when the business and the telecommunications industry was undergoing significant change. Sarah returned to private practice, before joining CoreLogic in 2014. Sarah has significant experience in advising technology companies and leads a legal and information security team which focuses on empowering internal clients to drive strong commercial outcomes.

As Acting Country Manager New Zealand Sarah focuses on driving greater collaboration between CoreLogic’s international divisions to localise global solutions in New Zealand and export local solutions to the wider CoreLogic business.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Laws, and a Post- Graduate Certificate in Management.

Tim is one of Australia’s leading residential property market commentators on real estate markets and demographic trends. Tim has presented to audiences as diverse as the Reserve Bank of Australia and to major banking institutions through to first time home buyers. He appears regularly on national television news and lifestyle programs including Channel 7’s Sunrise and is regularly quoted in the leading business media such as The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald.

As the founder of the CoreLogic Australian research division (formerly RP Data), Tim’s expertise across property markets has positioned him as one of the country’s most experienced and popular property market analysts and commentators. His knowledge and expertise is sought after by myriad government entities and regulators as well as national and international corporate entities operating across property, banking and financial sectors.

As group Research Director, Tim heads up a team of analysts across both Australia and New Zealand and is responsible for reporting on property market conditions and the interplay with economic and demographic factors.

Tim has more than 15 years’ experience in similar roles and holds a Bachelor of Business degree, specialising in information management, from the Queensland University of Technology.

Kate has over two decades of progressive business and human resources experience, delivering in leadership roles across various industry sectors.

Kate brings a strategic and customer lens to culture change, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and the development of talent and organisational capabilities to compete in a global economy. She has a track record of measureable achievements in mergers and acquisitions, and leading transformational change within global firms - all attributes well matched to CoreLogic international’s accelerated growth strategy. Previously career defining roles include executive HR leadership at Sparke Helmore Lawyers, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, King & Woods Mallesons and AMP.

Kate holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the Australian Catholic University and a Master of Commerce (HR Management) from the University of New South Wales.  She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
 

Lisa originally commenced her successful career as a senior finance leader in the property industry currently working for CoreLogic International as General Manager for the finance function for Australia and New Zealand and forecasting, planning and analysis and financial strategy for the United Kingdom. Leading a team of 15 finance professionals to deliver commercial finance support across the group with $190M in revenue and over 50 product lines. 

During her time at CoreLogic, she delivered on finance transformation initiatives, was the finance lead through all acquisitions and disposals, and appointed CFO of a newly created Joint Venture as well as leading a finance function to become trusted business advisors. Lisa plays an active role in mentoring junior finance professionals both internally to her finance team and externally, working as a mentor for the Outperformer group. 

Lisa has a passion for developing and leading high performing teams, driving organisational strategic initiatives and delivering value to the business. Lisa is a qualified chartered accountant, originally from England. Her career started with PricewaterhouseCoopers working in Assurance, subsequently being appointed group leader for the Private Client Enterprise Group, before taking an opportunity to work with Stockland in the financial reporting team. Her strong commercial acumen and business partnering gave her the opportunity to work across the commercial, residential, retirement living and property fund divisions which provided a platform for her transition into CoreLogic as financial controller. 

Lisa is now Head of Strategic Projects and Performance Excellence reporting directly to the CEO. Her role acts as a pollinator across the organisational silos to lead key strategic projects and initiatives that contribute to organic growth, using business intelligence and external best practice benchmarks to challenge assumptions and establish new benchmarks to guide business performance. Lisa also leads the operational leadership team within the business.

Her philosophy to having a successful career is to “back yourself and take on new challenges” and “’never stop learning”. 

Kris Matthews is a CoreLogic veteran of over 23 years, with extensive specialist experience in information technology and property data. 

As Executive General Manager - International and New markets for CoreLogic, Kris is currently responsible for overseeing our Insurance, Consumer, Tender business units as well as emerging markets, including strategic partnerships, acquisition and international business development – such as CoreLogics recent expansion in the UK.  Kris has also held several Directors positions such as CoreLogic NZ and PropertyIQ.   

Over the years Kris has held various positions with CoreLogic, including Chief Data & Operations, Group Product & Marketing through to various National and state based sales management positions.Kris’s extensive expertise is relied upon for the past 8 years as the industry representative on the Code Oversight Committee, which supports the Personal Identification Information in Property Data (PIIP) Code of Conduct (“the Code of Conduct”). This committee monitors compliance with the Code by its subscribers, including handling of complaints and imposing sanctions on subscribers to the Code for non-compliance. Kris also acts as Vice President of the Value Added Property Information Broker Association (VAPIBA).

Dustin came to CoreLogic Australia in 2008 to lead customer engagement in our newly formed Banking and Finance vertical. After managing all aspects of our relationships with CBA Group and Genworth for 3 years, Dustin now leads a team of professional Client Directors responsible for the ongoing strategic account management of Australia’s banking and insurance institutions.

Prior to joining the Australian business, Dustin spent 10 years in various sales and sales management roles with our CoreLogic US parent company’s Data & Analytics business.

Tracey brings world-class customer strategist skills to support CoreLogic’s widely used data and analytics
 
Reporting to CoreLogic CEO International, Lisa Claes, Tracey has an incredibly strong background in data and analytics, with over 25 years of international experience spanning Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and South Africa.
 
Tracey is driven by her speciality interest for understanding customer behaviour and how to drive real value  - influenced by a diverse executive career in which she has developed data and analytics capability within organisations of all sizes, including some of the world’s largest.
 
After delivering at senior executive level in marketing, business development, and general management roles for multinational organisations within the telecommunications, banking, insurance, retail and consultancy sectors, Tracey went on to found and grow a strategic customer management company specialising in behavioural data and analytics. The firm grew to eventually serve top-ranking global businesses.
 
Tracey then moved onto a consultancy focus with partnerships at firms such as KPMG (where she lead customer experience management, based in New York), and more recently, as Partner - Data & Analytics with PwC Australia for the financial services sector.
 
With a warm and open style of collaboration, Tracey describes her drive as ‘helping others through building stuff’ - which is, true to form, a humble way to describe her outstanding abilities as a results-focused leader providing data-driven strategic customer management.

Sarah Gillies is CoreLogic’s Executive, General Counsel International and leads the legal, risk and information security team for CoreLogic’s international business, covering Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Sarah is also currently Acting Country Manager for CoreLogic’s New Zealand business.

Sarah started her career in private practice at Minter Ellison before moving in-house at Telecom New Zealand Limited (now Spark) where she held a number of roles in the legal team at a time when the business and the telecommunications industry was undergoing significant change. Sarah returned to private practice, before joining CoreLogic in 2014. Sarah has significant experience in advising technology companies and leads a legal and information security team which focuses on empowering internal clients to drive strong commercial outcomes.

As Acting Country Manager New Zealand Sarah focuses on driving greater collaboration between CoreLogic’s international divisions to localise global solutions in New Zealand and export local solutions to the wider CoreLogic business.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Laws, and a Post- Graduate Certificate in Management.

As the Head of Research for CoreLogic New Zealand, Nick’s focus is on keeping on top of everything that happens in the New Zealand property market. This necessitates him continually investigating new and different ways of looking at the market, to best assist clients and consumers in their decision making.

Nick is a self-confessed numbers geek but has a knack for passionately telling a story based on the facts and figures to inform a wide range of audiences. He regularly presents to government organisations such as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, as well as banks, real estate agencies and consumer groups. Drawing on macro-economic data as well as CoreLogic’s unique datasets, Nick looks beyond what you hear in the media to provide the whole picture with what’s going on in the property market and where it’s likely heading.

Nick joined CoreLogic 7 years ago, starting out in the Data team before joining the Research team in 2014. Prior to joining CoreLogic, Nick worked as an analyst, mainly in the banking and telecommunications industries. 

Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing from University of Otago. 

Peter has over 30 years of experience in the fields of Banking, Finance, Mortgage Broking, Real Estate and Data working with some of Australia /New Zealand’s top companies. His roles have included Product Management, Sales and Line Management leading high performance teams, along with channel and business redesign. Peter lead the early adoption mortgage brokering in Australia through his roles at Westpac, BNZ and RAMS.

Peter joined Corelogic in June 2013 as General Manager SME Australia. During his time, he led the transformation of the SME business to a multi- channel business with the successful development and execution of Telesales (Inside Sales).

In mid-2017, Peter’s role was expanded to incorporate the remaining core subscription business of Corelogic-Cordell/CBS, Customer Success Centre and SME New Zealand. He established pilots for these units to incorporate the learning of telesales (inside sales) and account management, along with a more consistent approach to sales management and focus on retention of customers (Churn).

Peter holds a Bachelor of Business from UTS in Sydney and is a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). 
 

Frank Knez has led the CoreLogic International marketing team and business since joining the organisation in 2014. His strong and broad marketing skillset spans across multiple marketing disciplines ranging from brand equity and positioning, corporate communications, strategic advertising management from design to placement, digital marketing and product management.

With a career that has covered both B2B and B2C environments, Frank is best recognised for his successful work around new brand development, data products marketing and integration into the broader business platforms, expansive brand awareness initiatives, and more recently for his work around revenue driving strategies and customer success programmes.

Prior to joining CoreLogic, Frank spent considerable time in the key industries of banking and finance, and insurance across product and marketing roles. Holding a Bachelor of Business and a Master of Marketing, Frank has significant experience accumulated over the past 20 years.
 

Damien Leng joined CoreLogic in 2017 as General Manager - Solutions, and is responsible for ensuring that our customers are at the heart of what we do.  This includes both working with customers on new solutions, and working closely with existing customers on optimising the value they get from current solutions.

Prior to joining CoreLogic, Damien spent most of his career as a CoreLogic customer, working in the finance and utility sectors where he built a deep knowledge of the industries through Product and Customer strategy roles. 

Damien sees his purpose as empowering CoreLogic with a deep empathetic understanding of the problems and challenges that our customers face.  Once equipped with this, helping them becomes easy, and building solutions somewhat intuitive.  For him, the most satisfying outcome is when a really simple solution is found to what appears an incredibly complex customer problem. Over the last 3 years Damien has developed a keen interest in Design Thinking, which he finds indispensable in his current role and has started to promote throughout the CoreLogic business. 
 

Based in Wellington, Matt leads the Geospatial Intelligence area for CoreLogic New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Geospatial Intelligence is a strategic and growing capability used by CoreLogic to examine the spatial and temporal relationships and patterns across property and other multidimensional business data.  With over 20 years’ experience in location technology Matt has an indepth knowledge of the global geospatial industry. He has worked in both the public and private sector in a range of technical, marketing, sales and management roles. Matt has a strong technical foundation with his career including time practising as a research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey.  

Most recently, Matt was National Sales Director at Esri distributor Eagle Technology and has held senior roles with New Zealand Post and analytics company d-cypha Ltd.  

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science (Hons) from Auckland University in Geography and Geology and has over ten publications in peer reviewed journals. Matt is an enthusiastic advocate across CoreLogic and its clients for using geospatial intelligence as a strategic capability to delivering better business outcomes.

Steve Timms is the Head of Technology for CoreLogic New Zealand, and is responsible for the day to day operations and major project deliveries of the team. He also manages the Cloud Solutions team for the International CoreLogic business, ensuring a suitable cloud operating model is implemented. 

Steve has a keen interest in building the most effective technology team possible, and his experience as a people manager with a strong infrastructure background has given him unique insights into getting the best out of people and resources.  

Steve joined CoreLogic in 2012 as a Network Engineer based in the Brisbane office. He eventually took over ICT Operations, and made the move to New Zealand in January 2018 to head up the Technology team. Prior to joining CoreLogic, he was the Network Manager for Ticketek Australia, responsible for the delivery of Event and Ticketing services for events such as Rugby World Cup 2003 and 2011, Australian Tennis Open and V8 Supercar racing events. 

Steve holds an MBA from the Australian Institute of Business.
 

Navigating the complex world of the property industry in NZ means our salespeople have developed a broad and deep knowledge of our customers’ organisations and the issues they face on a daily basis. Our primary objective is to ensure that our clients receive the best advice and end solution for their property data related needs. This means the SME sales team works closely with multiple stakeholders at various levels within customer businesses, to ensure lasting success for our clients.

Having spent my entire career in the property industry, as a real estate salesperson and later working at a marketing firm specializing in the property and financial sectors, I was well-positioned to start my career as a salesperson at CoreLogic. After building many great customer relationships and overseeing the rollout of unique and innovative solutions, I took on the challenge of leading the SME sales team. Having studied Marketing and Management to an Honours level at the University of Auckland, I was keen to pursue my passion for leadership and people management.

The past decade has shown us clearly how vulnerable New Zealand is to natural hazards and the vital role the insurance sector plays in helping the country rebound from such events, getting people back into their homes and rebuilding communities and our cities.  CoreLogic has a unique range of property information assets to support the insurance sector - from determining the exact location of risk, to estimating the rebuild cost for Sum Insured purposes, through to complete Claims Assessment workflow platforms.  My role is helping insurers understand the insurance solutions available and working within CoreLogic to ensure that such solutions evolve to meet their changing requirements.

I have worked with property data for the past 14 years, helping some of New Zealand’s largest companies and government departments improve their processes and services through effective deployment of property data.  In the past 6 years, I have specialized in the insurance sector and am a regular media commentator on the sector.

Navigating the complex world of the property industry in NZ means our salespeople have developed a broad and deep knowledge of our customers’ organisations and the issues they face on a daily basis. Our primary objective is to ensure that our clients receive the best advice and end solution for their property data related needs. This means the SME sales team works closely with multiple stakeholders at various levels within customer businesses, to ensure lasting success for our clients.

Having spent my entire career in the property industry, as a real estate salesperson and later working at a marketing firm specializing in the property and financial sectors, I was well-positioned to start my career as a salesperson at CoreLogic. After building many great customer relationships and overseeing the rollout of unique and innovative solutions, I took on the challenge of leading the SME sales team. Having studied Marketing and Management to an Honours level at the University of Auckland, I was keen to pursue my passion for leadership and people management.

As the Head of Research for CoreLogic New Zealand, Nick’s focus is on keeping on top of everything that happens in the New Zealand property market. This necessitates him continually investigating new and different ways of looking at the market, to best assist clients and consumers in their decision making.

Nick is a self-confessed numbers geek but has a knack for passionately telling a story based on the facts and figures to inform a wide range of audiences. He regularly presents to government organisations such as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, as well as banks, real estate agencies and consumer groups. Drawing on macro-economic data as well as CoreLogic’s unique datasets, Nick looks beyond what you hear in the media to provide the whole picture with what’s going on in the property market and where it’s likely heading.

Nick joined CoreLogic 7 years ago, starting out in the Data team before joining the Research team in 2014. Prior to joining CoreLogic, Nick worked as an analyst, mainly in the banking and telecommunications industries. 

Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing from University of Otago. 

Sarah Gillies is CoreLogic’s Executive, General Counsel International and leads the legal, risk and information security team for CoreLogic’s international business, covering Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Sarah is also currently Acting Country Manager for CoreLogic’s New Zealand business.

Sarah started her career in private practice at Minter Ellison before moving in-house at Telecom New Zealand Limited (now Spark) where she held a number of roles in the legal team at a time when the business and the telecommunications industry was undergoing significant change. Sarah returned to private practice, before joining CoreLogic in 2014. Sarah has significant experience in advising technology companies and leads a legal and information security team which focuses on empowering internal clients to drive strong commercial outcomes.

As Acting Country Manager New Zealand Sarah focuses on driving greater collaboration between CoreLogic’s international divisions to localise global solutions in New Zealand and export local solutions to the wider CoreLogic business.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Laws, and a Post- Graduate Certificate in Management.

Based in Wellington, Matt leads the Geospatial Intelligence area for CoreLogic New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Geospatial Intelligence is a strategic and growing capability used by CoreLogic to examine the spatial and temporal relationships and patterns across property and other multidimensional business data.  With over 20 years’ experience in location technology Matt has an indepth knowledge of the global geospatial industry. He has worked in both the public and private sector in a range of technical, marketing, sales and management roles. Matt has a strong technical foundation with his career including time practising as a research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey.  

Most recently, Matt was National Sales Director at Esri distributor Eagle Technology and has held senior roles with New Zealand Post and analytics company d-cypha Ltd.  

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science (Hons) from Auckland University in Geography and Geology and has over ten publications in peer reviewed journals. Matt is an enthusiastic advocate across CoreLogic and its clients for using geospatial intelligence as a strategic capability to delivering better business outcomes.

Kelvin joined CoreLogic in March 2018 as Senior Research Analyst. He brings with him a wealth of experience, having spent 15 years working largely in private sector economic consultancies in both New Zealand and the UK. Because of this Kelvin is well practised in applying macroeconomic trends and data to the property market, both residential and commercial. 

In his role with CoreLogic Kelvin’s focus is on keeping up to date with what’s going on in the property market and continually finding different ways for viewing and interpreting it. Kelvin’s economics background means that he knows his way around a spreadsheet, but more importantly he always puts more emphasis on providing the key insights and telling a story, whether his audience be clients or the media.

Kelvin holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours majoring in Economics from University of Canterbury.

Dougal has worked across a number of different industries including internet services and IT solutions and has held sales and leadership roles both here in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom for over 15 years. He specialises in selling and servicing solutions to large organisations across differing sectors.

As General Manager of Sales, Dougal is responsible for ensuring CoreLogic delivers the value and insight needed by our clients. Driven by our client’s needs, Dougal leads our sales teams and is pivotal in the development of strategy and activity specific to each market.

As well as a Bachelor of Science, Dougal holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Sales Management and a Diploma in Environmental Management.

The past decade has shown us clearly how vulnerable New Zealand is to natural hazards and the vital role the insurance sector plays in helping the country rebound from such events, getting people back into their homes and rebuilding communities and our cities.  CoreLogic has a unique range of property information assets to support the insurance sector - from determining the exact location of risk, to estimating the rebuild cost for Sum Insured purposes, through to complete Claims Assessment workflow platforms.  My role is helping insurers understand the insurance solutions available and working within CoreLogic to ensure that such solutions evolve to meet their changing requirements.

I have worked with property data for the past 14 years, helping some of New Zealand’s largest companies and government departments improve their processes and services through effective deployment of property data.  In the past 6 years, I have specialized in the insurance sector and am a regular media commentator on the sector.