Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Damien is the Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, leading the iSelect business from idea creation through to its current level of achievement. 

Prior to launching iSelect, Damien gained commercial experience with large corporations including General Motors Holden, and worked in executive positions with pre-eminent stockbroking and investment banking house, Goldman Sachs JBWere.  Damien was instrumental in building a highly strategic and innovative Private Investment Banking business for Goldman Sachs. 

In recognition of his achievements, Damien was a finalist in the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a finalist in the 1996 Young Achievement Australia Young Business Person of the Year Award.

Damien holds tertiary qualifications in both Engineering (Honours) and Law from Monash University plus post graduate qualifications in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.  Damien is a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Non-Executive Director

Shaun was appointed to the iSelect Board on 1 May 2003. Shaun founded (in 1994) and is the Chief Executive Officer of the Precision Group, an investor, developer and financier of retail and commercial property across Australia.  Precision owns over A$1 billion dollars of commercial assets in Australia and has diversified its business into financial services and private equity investments, primarily in the IT and health sectors. 

Shaun is a qualified lawyer and Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and previously held various corporate advisory roles.    He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Young Presidents’ Organisation.

Non-Executive Director

Nicholas was appointed to the iSelect Board on 6 June 2007. Nicholas joined ninemsn in January 2007 as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy, bringing ten years of corporate finance, strategy and operational experience.  He currently sits on the board of four of ninemsn's investment companies, including iSelect.

Nicholas began his career in investment banking at Macquarie Bank in 1997 and spent three years in the Corporate Finance Group.  In 2000 he joined Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (part of Citigroup) in London, and worked in a variety of M&A and capital markets roles over the following three years.

Following his return to Australia in 2003, Nicholas joined Lion Nathan’s Corporate Group as the Strategy and M&A Manager.  Nicholas then moved to the Australian beer business and spent a year in the sales and finance divisions.

Non-Executive Director

Leslie was appointed to the iSelect Board on 14 February 2001. He is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia.

Leslie has consulted extensively to both publicly listed and unlisted public companies in the information technology and biotechnology industries on corporate and financial planning, intellectual property, corporate governance and strategic planning issues. In his role as a consultant he has been actively involved in advising on the globalisation of Australian companies.

Leslie was previously a director of ASX listed biotechnology company Gradipore (now Life Therapeutics Ltd) and is currently non-executive Chairman of Stem Cell Sciences Ltd in Australia and a non-executive Director of Stem Cell Sciences plc (listed on the London Alternative Investment Market) and Generic Health Pty Ltd.