Polipayments Information
Centricom Pty Ltd (ACN 105 393 664) has been registered since July 2003 and trading since 2006. It is privately owned by a Melbourne based family and staff.
The company was formed to fill the gap in the market caused by EFTPOS not enabling their cards to be used online and also BPAY not enabling their service to be used for real time e-commerce payments.
Our proprietary payment technology (POLi) is currently in operation within Australia and New Zealand.
We aim provide consumers with a viable alternative to credit cards by offering a way to pay using their internet banking. Ultimately we aim to become a bank endorsed and integrated payment system.
Located at the corner of Chapel Street and Toorak Road in South Yarra
Directors
Jeffery McAlister (CEO, Director, Centricom)
Jeffery has spent almost all of his 15 years experience developing technology and e-commerce companies through their growth phases. Before joining POLi Payments he spent 10 years in the UK where his roles included Finance Director of online social music site Worldpop, Finance Manager at Betfair (the world’s largest betting exchange) where during his employ revenue grew from GBP 6m to GBP 220m, and also Finance Manager at online IPTV start-up Joost that was created by the founders of Skype.
Jeffery holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Curtin University, a Master of Business Administration with Deakin University and is CPA qualified.
David Liberman (Director, Centricom)
David is a passionate technologist at heart who enjoys mentoring and helping early stage businesses execute on their strategy and business plan. David has over 20 years extensive IT experience in Finance, Banking, Health, Advertising, Media and Telecommunications.
He has been the CTO/CIO of a number of professional services and product based companies where his responsibilities included: mapping strategic technology direction for approval by management teams establishing current and long term technology objectives; creating a technical vision for the company and project managing software and infrastructure implementations.
David was one of the founding members of IRESS Market Technology. IRESS designs, develops, markets and supports Australia’s premier sharemarket information system. IRESS is now used by a majority of the professional equity market participants across Australia and New Zealand and has a market capitalization of $1bn.
David joined Jagen Pty Ltd in June 2006 as an Investment Manager to assist investee companies in increasing shareholder value. David has been involved in a number of corporate transactions since that time.
David holds a Bachelor of Science (double major Computer Science) from Monash University.
Bonnie Boezeman (Chairman, Centricom)
Bonnie was the inaugural Chairman of PayPal Australia from 2006 to 2012. Prior to PayPal, Bonnie spent 23 years with Time Warner Inc., culminating with over 12 years as Managing Director and Chairman of Time Life South Pacific.
She brings a wealth of direct marketing and payments experience to POLi. Bonnie has been a non-executive board director for several public, private and government boards for over 20 years. She holds an executive business diploma from Harvard Business school.
Richard Davies (Director, Centricom)
Mr Davies founded Roadnight Capital which focuses on special situation investments, that involve bringing not only capital but also management and operational experience.
From 2003 – 2012 Mr Davies was Managing Director of Investments at Jagen which is the investment arm of the Bori Liberman Family. In that role he was responsible for backing and financing POLi Payments, Tourism Asset Holdings Ltd, and Merricks Capital. Between 1998 and 2002 Mr Davies worked at Tiger Management and Kicap Management in NYC. Prior to this Mr Davies practiced as a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie and Freehills.
Mr Davies has a LL.B (Hons) and B.Ec from Monash and an MBA (Hons) from Columbia Business School.
Executive Management
Brian Mills (CTO, Centricom)
Brian Mills has been leading technical teams for 10 years. These have been focused primarily on web based applications and ‘software as a service’ applications.
He is passionate about developing teams and constantly improving technology. He specialises in growing and leading technical teams to deliver creative and secure solutions that integrate development, testing and operations.
Prior to joining POLi Payments in 2012, Brian worked at National Australia Bank. He was a technical specialist and leader, developing and implementing better technical and team practices in wholesale banking.
During this time he replaced and implemented core development tools like Git – a source control and source code management system, and successfully gaining extensive support from the internal community, leading to adoption of the the tools by the wider NAB technology group. He also spent time assisting numerous teams to implement better development practices to improve technical delivery within wholesale banking.
Brian was the development manager at Hobsons Australia (part of Daily Mail Group) leading an internal technology shop building SaaS web based applications for internal and external use that were required to scale to thousands of users.