Ian Dunbar
SuiteBox, the mobile office solution for the financial services industry, has appointed Ian Dunbar as its new CEO.
Mr Dunbar, previously the SuiteBox country manager for Australia, takes over as CEO from co-founder Richard Mannell who will remain with SuiteBox in a newly created COO role to focus on governance and operations., to support the rapid growth of the business.
Mr Dunbar is an experienced financial services executive, having spent 15 years in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia with global banks JPMorgan and UBS. Most recently Mr Dunbar built and ran the investment platform business for UBS and has a deep knowledge of the Australian financial services market.
SuiteBox CEO Ian Dunbar, said, “In the past five months Suitebox has achieved significant take up in Australia and New Zealand with more than 250 financial services firms now using our mobile office solution. We also received global recognition at the KPMG 2016 FinTech Innovation Challenge in London, where we won the Mobile category.
“Financial services professionals, such as financial advisers, mortgage brokers, accountants and insurance providers face challenges on multiple fronts, but we’re convinced that the best businesses will not only survive, but thrive. By embracing technology and innovation financial services professionals have the opportunity to create truly mobile virtual meetings between themselves and their clients and SuiteBox is excited to be at the forefront of delivering mobile office solutions globally.
“The changes reflect the positioning of SuiteBox as a global provider of solutions to the financial services industry. The majority of SuiteBox’s growth has come from Australia, and the business priority for 2016 is to rapidly expand in Australia and take the SuiteBox solution to new markets,” said Mr Dunbar.