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About Us

About OpenDirector

OpenDirector commenced business in 2019, creating Australia's most comprehensive senior directors and executives' database and analytics application.

OpenDirector prides itself on its advanced technology and subject matter expertise. Its clients include major ASX listed companies, government regulators, industry bodies and executive search firms.

OpenDirector recently launched OpenRemuneration. OpenRemuneration provides easy to use:

  • Executive/director salary packing comparisons
  • Executive performance hurdle comparisons
  • Statutory and actual remuneration and comparisons
  • Proxy advisor remuneration and pay for performance

Our People

Donald Hellyer
Co-Founder, CEO, Executive Director

Donald Hellyer founded OpenDirector in 2019. Donald has a solid quantitative background and deep financial expertise from working in the energy and banking sectors in Australia and overseas.

Donald has 12 years of corporate treasury experience with ExxonMobil in five countries. He was previously Global Head, Funds and Insurance at NAB.

Chris Reay
Director Chief Technology Officer

Chris loves quant. A good day for Chris is to take a complicated portfolio or derivatives problem, break it down and simulate scenarios. Chris specialises in C, RoR and Python.

A competent and experienced polymath in financial markets return and risk analysis, market structure, and data-centric programming in python and SQL.

Mel Lofranco
Data General Manager

Mel has worked for OpenDirector since its incorporation. Mel has 20 years of experience in accounting and data analytics. Mel manages the data analytics team, whose responsibilities are to ensure our data is accurate and current. The team also conducts client research and report writing.

Gaurav Gaglani MSc, BTech, MTech
Director Chief Developer

Gaurav has more than 14 years of experience in the IT sector. He manages the team to expand the capabilities of OpenDirector and is responsible for enhancing efficient data capture and integrity. Gaurav and Donald have worked together on IT development projects for the last nine years.