Introducing our Team
Amanda Deverich
CEO & Director
Bachelor of Commerce, Newcastle University; MBA Macquarie Graduate School of Management; Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; Co-Founder Challenger Pay.
With over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate advisor, strategy & management consultant, Ms. Deverich has worked with a number of companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, in pre-IPO preparations and corporate advisory. She participated in the financing and listing of projects in the scale of 100 million to 3 billion Australian dollars and served various clients including CLG Australia, The Star Entertainment Group, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Commonwealth Bank, MLC Insurance, BUPA Insurance, UGL, Hutchison Telecom, Telstra and Optus.
She has facilitated investment in projects in Europe, invested and co-founded start-ups Challenger Pay and e-Wallet FX FinTech, Omipay.
Ms. Deverich is currently the Senior Advisor for a Chinese investment platform, Capital Land Group Pty Ltd (CLG). CLG represents private equity and institutional investors.
Evelyn Yacoumidis
Founder & Director
Founded Exenda Group Holdings – for the last 35 years held many senior positions in business management and start-ups. A degree qualified Senior Manager. In 1995 was a founding member to a start-up a Multinational Operator Anixter Inc. as Anixter Australia, leading providers of network infrastructure and advanced communications solutions, administering budgets exceeding $250 million per annum. In 2000 established business of NCSI (Australia), a subsidiary of Singapore Telecom. Heavily involved in SingTel’s plans for establishing six data centres in Asia for purposes of Disaster recovery, Business Continuity, and Managed Hosting facilities. In 2001 she was deeply involved in the acquisition of Optus by Singapore Telecom.
Mrs. Yacoumidis has been involved in many projects overseas - is an Experienced Project Planning and Design Manager preparing and taking projects to Funding solutions.