Board of Directors

Robert Bradshaw, LLBChairman and Non-Executive Director: A member of the Disclosure Committee

Chairman February 2023 / Non-Executive Director September 2017

Robert Bradshaw was appointed to the BSP Board in September 2017 and served as Chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee from 2019 until his appointment as Board Chair in February 2023. Mr. Bradshaw holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours, First Class) from the University of Papua New Guinea and has practiced law for almost 30 years. He was formerly a Partner in the firm Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and commenced practice on his own, as Bradshaw Lawyers in 2005. Mr. Bradshaw has been involved in different areas of law, particularly in resource development, industrial relations, banking and finance and commercial litigation. Mr. Bradshaw has served as a Director and Chair on the board of several other companies.
Mark T. RobinsonGroup Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Executive Director: A member of the Disclosure Committee

Group Chief Executive Officer November 2022 / Executive Director March 2023

Mark T. Robinson was appointed BSP’s Group CEO in November 2022 and commenced in March 2023. He is a senior financial executive with over 30 years of experience in developed and emerging markets. Mr. Robinson’s previous roles include CEO of Commercial Bank International in the United Arab Emirates, CEO of ANZ Banking Group’s operations in Southeast Asia, and he has held numerous senior executive roles with Citibank including in India, Russia, Turkey and Hungary. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business Administration.
Symon Brewis-Weston, BEcon, MAppFinNon-Executive Director: A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee as well as the Board Risk Committee

April 2021

Symon Brewis-Weston has extensive international experience in financial services and a deep understanding of consumer and business markets in the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Brewis-Weston was formerly CEO & Executive Director at Humm Group Ltd (2016-2018), Executive General Manager – Corporate Financial Services at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Chief Executive Officer at Sovereign Assurance Co. Ltd (NZ), a subsidiary of CBA. Symon also served as Chairman of Stockco Ltd, an Australian livestock financier from 2019-2022. Mr. Brewis-Weston held various senior leadership positions at CBA for 15 years. He spent 6 years leading CBA’s Indonesia operations and also in China developing the company’s Chinese banking strategy. In 2015, Mr. Brewis- Weston received the United Nation’s Global CEO Women Empowerment Principle’s Leadership Award for his contribution to the enhancement of diversity and women’s empowerment in the workplace. Mr. Brewis-Weston holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.
Donna CooperNon-Executive Director: A member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee as well as the Board Audit and Compliance Committee

March 2025

Ms. Cooper is a highly experienced financial services leader, with nearly 30 years of diverse international experience in banking, global payments and debt management. Ms. Cooper served as the Chief Executive Officer of TSB Bank Ltd, New Zealand’s sixth largest bank, from 2018 to 2023. She was the CEO of The Warehouse Group Financial Services Companies (2017 to 2018); General Manager NZ for Baycorp Ltd, New Zealand’s leading debt management organisation (2014 to 2017); and held various globally based positions with American Express International including Vice President, Consumer Card Products, Australia and NZ 2008-2012 and Vice President, Consumer Products, India, 2006 to 2008. Ms. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the Auckland University of Technology and a Master of Arts degree from the Rennes School of Business in France. Ms. Cooper was the inaugural chair of the Domestic Banks Group of the New Zealand Banking Association (NZBA), a forum for Bank CEOs to work together on banking sector issues, until 2023. She is also on the Board of SkyCity Entertainment Ltd, New Zealand’s largest tourism and entertainment company, where she chairs its People and Culture and Transformation Committees and is a member of its Risk and Compliance Committee.
David HorneryNon-Executive Director: A member of the Board Risk Committee

March 2025

Mr. Hornery is a highly experienced commercial banker, with over 35 years’ experience working with several of Australia’s leading commercial and Investment banks. Mr. Hornery is also an experienced banking entrepreneur, having co-founded the ASX listed Judo Bank in 2016. Previously Mr Hornery worked at National Australia Bank from 2009 to 2015 with his roles including Executive General Manager, Corporate and Specialised Banking. Mr. Hornery worked for ANZ Banking Group between 1996 and 2007, as Managing Director and then Global Head of Capital Markets from 1996 to 2004, and then as CEO of ANZ Asia. From 1988 to 1996, Mr Hornery worked in various roles at Macquarie Group with his last role being Global Head of Capital Markets. Mr Hornery has also been a director and chair on a range of industry bodies and not for profit enterprises, including as Chair of Studio Thi, a not-for-profit urban change specialist that consults to Government and private enterprise in Australia and internationally. Mr. Hornery holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.
Patricia Taureka-Seruvatu, LLB, MAICDNon-Executive Director: A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee as well as the Remuneration and Nominations Committee

April 2022

Mrs. Patricia Taureka-Seruvatu is a Lawyer by profession, admitted to practice law in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1988. Mrs. Taureka-Seruvatu holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of PNG. Mrs Taureka-Seruvatu has over 30 years’ experience in the legal, superannuation, property, commercial and corporate services in PNG. She is a member of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is currently employed as the General Counsel & Company Secretary for Dirio Gas & Power Company Limited. Prior to this, Mrs. Taureka Seruvatu previously served as Company Secretary for Nambawan Super Limited from 2001 to 2019.
Frank Bouraga, CPA, MAICDNon-Executive Director: A member and chairman of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee

December 2020

Frank Bouraga is a CPA Papua New Guinea qualified professional accountant with over 26 years in accounting practice and is currently a partner in Assurance and Business Advisory Services with SBC Solutions. Prior to SBC Solutions, Mr. Bouraga was the Country Managing Partner for Ernst & Young Papua New Guinea for 5 years as an audit and business advisory services partner. He also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 7 years and worked with Star Business Consultants between 2004 and 2011. Mr. Bouraga is also a director of the PNG Cancer Foundation and the PNG Hunters, and is a member of Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA PNG) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). He holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Central Queensland University.
Stephen Beach, BSc (Econ. and Acc.), CPANon-Executive Director: A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee as well as the Board Risk Committee

May 2024

Stephen is an experienced accounting professional with over forty years of experience in the fields of assurance, business advisory, taxation and corporate reporting, including thirty-five years in Papua New Guinea. Mr Beach trained in London for five years with Ball Baker Chartered Accountants and then Arthur Young (now EY). After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, in June 1985 he left England and came to PNG as an audit supervisor with Coopers & Lybrand in Arawa, Bougainville. After four years, in 1989 he left Bougainville and returned to England but in June 1992 he returned to PNG as an audit manager with Coopers, now PwC, in Port Moresby, being made a partner in 1996. Mr Beach remained a partner of PwC until he resigned from the partnership in 2019. He is now a principal of Beach Accounting Advisory (BAA Consulting Limited), providing tax, advisory and audit services to predominantly family-owned businesses in PNG. Mr Beach is involved with the Certified Practicing Accountants of PNG, having previously served as a council member for seven years, being a past Vice-President, and chairing both the Standards and the Conference & CPE Committees. He has also been a member of the Accounting Standards Board and an alternate member of the Accountants Registration Board.
Priscilla Kevin, BSc (Econ. and Acc.), CPANon-Executive Director: A Member of the Board Risk Committee

April 2023

Priscilla Kevin is an IT professional and entrepreneur specialising in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Support Advisory. Ms. Kevin has over 20 years ICT industry experience providing ICT consultancy and support to a range of businesses as well as government bodies. Since 2018, Ms. Kevin served as an Independent Committee Member of the BSP Board Risk Committee. Ms. Kevin is a board member of PNG Digital ICT Cluster Inc. and a member of the PNG University of Technology’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). Ms. Kevin is also a working group committee member of the Centre of Excellence for Financial Inclusion and is a Council Member of the Institute of National Affairs (INA). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the PNG University of Technology, is an ICANN fellow and an alumnus of the U.S IVLP and East West Center Schidler College of Business Changing Faces. Ms Kevin also serves as a non-executive director on the board of BSP Finance (Fiji) Pte Limited since her appointment in 2022 and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
Ian A. Tarutia, OBE, FAICD, FPNGIDNon-Executive Director: A member of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee as well as the Board Risk Committee

April 2023

Mr Tarutia is an experienced corporate executive for over 25 years with a strong back ground in superannuation, finance, banking, investments, governance and strategic management. He is also an experienced board room director with over 18 years’ experience on various public and private sector Boards in PNG, Australia and the Pacific region. He was CEO of National Superannuation Fund of Papua New Guinea (Nasfund) for 15 years from July 2007 until he retired on the 31 March 2023 and established NCSL in 2003 for Nasfund members which is the largest savings & loan society in the Pacific today by membership size. Today he runs his consultancy practice and is the current President of the Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He is a former President of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors and former Chairman of the Pacific Islands Investment Forum, an organization of superannuation funds in the Pacific and New Zealand. Mr. Tarutia holds both a Bachelor of Business Economics and Master of Business Administration from the University of Papua New Guinea. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Diploma in Financial Markets from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Diploma in Economic Policy Analysis from the PNG National Research Institute. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP 185) and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors.

In this section:

Robert Bradshaw, LLBChairman and Non-Executive Director

Mark T. RobinsonGroup Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Executive Director

Symon Brewis-Weston, BEcon, MAppFinNon-Executive Director

Donna CooperNon-Executive Director

David HorneryNon-Executive Director

Patricia Taureka-Seruvatu, LLB, MAICDNon-Executive Director

Frank Bouraga, CPA, MAICDNon-Executive Director

Stephen Beach, BSc (Econ. and Acc.), CPANon-Executive Director

Priscilla Kevin, BSc (Econ. and Acc.), CPANon-Executive Director

Ian A. Tarutia, OBE, FAICD, FPNGIDNon-Executive Director