BoardPAC appoints David Rawling as Chief Executive Officer

BoardPAC, the leading global tech firm which provides a digitised platform to conduct secure board and management meetings, has announced the appointment of David Rawling as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from 10th October 2022.

Rawling has a degree in Economics from the University of Sydney and has been the Operations Director of Ernst & Young Asia Pacific, a role that spanned 20+ regions in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also served as the Chief Operating Officer of MinterEllison, Australia’s largest and oldest law firm. At MinterEllison he led a cross-functional team of 500 people across Australia, New Zealand, China and the UK. Starting his career at BT Financial Group in 1997, Mr Rawling has worked across a wide range of markets and sectors with a specific focus on technology, consulting and finance.

Announcing his appointment as CEO of BoardPAC, the Company said Mr Rawling has a proven track record of leading large-scale transformations, multi-market and sector go-to-market programs, and possesses a values-based leadership style that focuses on delivering outcomes for all stakeholders, clients, employees, shareholders and the wider community.

BoardPAC Chairman Vijendran Watson said: “We warmly welcome David, to continue our growth globally. Our new version 4.0 of the product is being rolled out across our markets and has features that are unique in this space. Having someone with David’s experience and energy will allow us to take the next steps in our goal to be the preferred board meeting automation solution globally.”

BoardPAC Co-founder and Executive Director Ms. Lakmini Wijesundera added: ” David Rawling’s appointment as the CEO marks an important milestone in BoardPAC’s scale up as a Software as a Service or SaaS company. His experience and proven track-record of successful growth of business provides us great optimism about our future plans for exponential growth globally. We warmly welcome Rawling and wish him great success in this exciting rapid SaaS scale-up phase of BoardPAC.”

Commenting on his new role as CEO of BoardPAC Mr Rawling said: “It is a really exciting opportunity to work with BoardPAC’s multinational team and to steer the company through its global SaaS scaling. BoardPAC is already the dominant player in the Board Automation sector in our target markets and I’m looking forward to exploring our next set of opportunities. We enjoy a number of key advantages with a superior product, exceptional client support and knowledge of the issues facing Boards, the Company Secretaries, and the teams supporting them.”

BoardPAC is the leading provider of Digital Board Meeting Automation Solutions, recognised for driving simple, secure, sustainable and experiential communications for Board and Executive members. BoardPAC serves a host of Forbes Global 2000 companies across the world, with over 50,000 users across 40 countries. With its nine global offices, BoardPAC is an award-winning company which has been recognised as one of Asia’s Best Places to Work by the global ranking entity Great Places to Work.