Robert Wick­ham has been ap­point­ed to the Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd’s (RFHL) board of di­rec­tors.

A re­lease from the fi­nan­cial ser­vices group in­di­cat­ed his ap­point­ment took ef­fect on Tues­day, No­vem­ber 19, 2024.

The re­lease stat­ed, “Robert Wick­ham is a sea­soned ex­ec­u­tive with ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence in lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy-based busi­ness­es and a no­table track record in man­age­ment, con­sult­ing, en­tre­pre­neur­ship, and cor­po­rate lead­er­ship.”

Vin­cent Pereira, chair­man of the RFHL board of di­rec­tors said, “Robert Wick­ham’s for­mi­da­ble lead­er­ship ex­per­tise in tech­nol­o­gy, en­tre­pre­neur­ship and cor­po­rate strat­e­gy makes him a valu­able ad­di­tion to our Board.

“We wel­come him on board and look for­ward to his keen in­sight, which will cer­tain­ly con­tribute to the Re­pub­lic Group for­ti­fy­ing its po­si­tion as a leader of in­no­va­tion in the fi­nan­cial ser­vices in­dus­try.”

The news re­lease ex­plained Wick­ham be­gan his pro­fes­sion­al jour­ney at the es­teemed Boston Con­sult­ing Group and has since tak­en up lead­er­ship roles at multi­na­tion­al com­pa­nies, Sales­force and Or­a­cle where he spear­head­ed sig­nif­i­cant growth ini­tia­tives and tech­no­log­i­cal ad­vance­ments.

The state­ment said, “At Sales­force, Mr Wick­ham served as a for­mer gen­er­al man­ag­er of Tableau Asia Pa­cif­ic and chief of staff for the Asia Pa­cif­ic re­gion, where he was re­spon­si­ble for the plat­form and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies port­fo­lio and the launch of Sales­force’s $50 mil­lion Aus­tralian ven­ture fund and re­gion­al start­up pro­gramme.

“At Or­a­cle, Mr Wick­ham had re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for lead­ing the en­gi­neered sys­tems busi­ness in Aus­tralia and New Zealand, and sys­tem man­age­ment busi­ness in North Amer­i­ca. He al­so co-found­ed Go Fly Ltd, a low-cost air­line lat­er ac­quired by easy­Jet.”

Wick­ham is RFHL’s 13th di­rec­tor.