Gerd Schenkel

Gerd Schenkel 2016

Gerd Schenkel is an Australian business person ^[1] and the current CEO of Tyro Payments, an Australian EFTPOS services company, aiming to "disrupt" the incumbent banks.^[2][3][4][5]

Prior to that, Gerd Schenkel was the Executive Director of Telstra Digital, the digital division of one of Australia's largest corporations.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

In 2008, he launched UBank, the direct bank of National Australia Bank which has grown its balance sheet to approximately $20b.^[11][12][13]

Schenkel has an Master degree in Engineering and an MBA from the Columbia Business School in New York.^[14] He is the co-author of several scientific articles in the field of robotics. ^[15]

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