Lakeba Group Shores Up its Senior Banking Talent to Drive Global Financial Services Growth

“This is a strategic appointment, fulfilling a wide talent search to support our vision and intent to launch a range of financial service solutions in the fast-growth digital banking sector. We are determined to establish a benchmark that sets up our business from the get-go. Having a financial services professional such as Roy McKelvie join our board announces, very clearly, our intention to move into the banking sphere. We will have more to announce on this in the next month,” says Lakeba’s Chief Executive Officer, Giuseppe Porcelli.

Roy has deep international experience that includes senior operational, investment management and private equity leadership roles in Australia, Asia, UK and continental Europe. He has worked across multiple industries including financial services, resources, retail, business services, software as a service and FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).

His portfolio of appointments outside of Lakeba include Chairman of AMB Capital Partners, Chairman of Encompass Corporation, Chairman of Sonder Holdings Limited, and Chairman of Infocus Wealth Management. His former executive roles include Director of 3i PLC in Europe, Managing Director and Asia Head of Deutsche Bank Capital Partners in Hong Kong, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Gresham Private Equity, and Chief Executive Officer of Transfield Holdings.

Roy McKelvie says: “Lakeba has a business model unlike any other when it comes to 360-degree innovation and development. The group’s strength is anchored by its ability to build solutions that no one else has conceived. The potential for growth is self-evident, and I’m looking forward to working closely with the other Lakeba board members, directing Lakeba’s growth through the launch of scalable, globally relevant, financial industry software solutions.”

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About Lakeba

Lakeba builds businesses that are optimised for high returns from low investment, at low risk when compared with the start-up sector. It utilises proprietary artificial intelligence (AI), decades of business and technology experience, and scalable shared services, to support each phase of business building. So far it has ‘conceived, created and commercialised’ 15 ventures, of which three have already been spun-out.

The unique Lakeba AI ‘neural network’ ‘conceives’ opportunities by continually interrogating the internet to establish patterns which suggest a business ‘need’ that could be solved digitally. Its entrepreneurs then double check this analysis and determine the viability of the business idea and its commercial potential.

To ‘create’ a venture, Lakeba works with partners, industry, and the wider innovations ecosystem to create digital technologies that eliminate the frictions identified by the neural network. A team of technologists, designers, and entrepreneurs build out the value proposition and establish the business. Lakeba invests its time, capabilities, capital and resources to craft ideas into reality.

‘Commercialise’ is the final stage of the Lakeba process. Once the digital proof of concept delivers on its promise, it is enhanced with radical intelligence. Working with partners, investors and the customers, Lakeba’s team refines and optimises the operations and distribution to rapidly commercialise the venture. This ensures the business continuously delivers value to customers as it scales and diversifies across industries and the globe.

Lakeba Group was founded by Giuseppe Porcelli, Entrepreneur and Visionary of Future Technology.