Sydney, Australia – 31 March 2025 – The RegTech Association (RTA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Callaghan as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective Monday 7 April 2025.

Simon has 20 years' professional experience across emerging technologies, across tech services firms, industry associations, academia, government, and as a founder. Simon has worked in RegTech, fintech and digital currencies since 2015 delivering enterprise-wide transformations to some of the world's largest banks and financial services firms, before working for Austrade at the Australian Consulate in New York.

Simon later led Asia for a global crypto unicorn, led the Cambridge Digital Assets Programme within the Judge Business School, before returning to Australia as Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain Australia.

Simon joins The RegTech Association most recently as a Senator's advisor. He holds Masters degrees from the University of Cambridge, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from AGSM. He has interned at the UN Headquarters in New York and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.Simon holds Masters degrees from the University of Cambridge, Brown University, and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as an MBA from AGSM. He has interned at the UN Headquarters in New York and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.

The RegTech Association would like to thank outgoing CEO Deborah Young for her leadership with the RTA, its members and the RegTech sector. Deborah helped to establish the RTA as an advisor in 2017 and was appointed as CEO in 2018. Deborah will be joining the RTA’s Advisory Committee.

Simon will be joining the RTA team at the #ACCELERATERegTechGlobal APAC event in Sydney on Tuesday 8 April, where members and stakeholders will have an opportunity to meet him.

The RegTech Association
With a clear vision to be a global centre of excellence by facilitating the building of higher performing, ethical and compliant businesses through RegTech innovation and investment, The RegTech Association was founded in 2017 as a non-profit organisation that focuses on what is needed to support the growth of the sector and to accelerate RegTech adoption.  We support our members to embrace and adopt best practice Environmental, Social and Governance principles.

The association brings together government, regulators, regulated entities, professional services and founder-led RegTech companies to ensure collaboration between all of the parties, promoting the RegTech industry as widely as possible, resulting in action in the uptake of RegTech proof of concepts and deployed RegTech solutions across the ecosystem.

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