Joan Fitzpatrick is an experienced business leader, consultant and non-executive director. Her business experience spans financial services, heavy manufacturing and fast moving consumer goods on an international scale.

Joan has more than 20 years experience as a director and her current positions include:
President of the Emergency Services and State Superannuation Board;
Chair of Sacré Cœur International School Board, Glen Iris;
Non-executive director of Catholic Church insurance and CCIAM;
Non-executive  director of Defence Bank;
Non-executive director of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers; and
Managing Director of Alvearium Pty Ltd.

David is a chartered accountant, having served his articles at Grant Thornton, Johannesburg. He has been active in debt capital markets since 1997, holding employment at both a specialist structured finance organisation and a large local bank.

In 2005 he joined Transaction Capital’s founding shareholders to acquire African Bank’s Commercial Vehicle Finance division (now SA Taxi). Shortly thereafter Transaction Capital was formed, where David established and led the capital markets team for a period of five years, and later served as the CFO of SA Taxi for 18 months. He was appointed to Transaction Capital’s main board as Group Chief Risk Officer in April 2012, thereafter served as the group CFO and in January 2014 was appointed as the group CEO of Transaction Capital Limited.

Mark joined the group in September 2017 and is a director of Transaction Capital Risk Services Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, Recoveries Corporation Group Holdings Pty Ltd and Mason Black Lawyers Pty Ltd.

On arrival in Australia in 1993, Mark joined Macquarie Bank’s M&A team, before founding international BPO services company Speedscan Group in 1997, which he led as CEO until its sale in 2014.  Mark qualified in South Africa as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross, before founding strategy consulting firm SMC Monitor South Africa.

After completing his articles at Deloitte & Touche in 1990, Michael co- founded Stratvest in 1995. In 1997, African Bank (then Theta Financial Services Limited) acquired 50% of Stratvest, leading to the formation of Nisela Growth Investments. Michael held the position of joint CEO of Nisela Growth Investments until 2002 and went on to acquire and grow the group of companies that in 2007 became the foundation of Transaction Capital. Michael was appointed as an executive director in December 2011.

David McAlpin is the Chief Executive Officer of PIC Solutions and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Risk Services Division at Transaction Capital Limited since October 01, 2014. David serves as an Executive Director of PIC Solutions. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Principa Decisions at Transaction Capital Limited until October 01, 2014. He has over 15 years’ experience both in South Africa and international retail. Mr. McAlpin is involved in the strategic and operational aspects of the business. He served as the Chief Executive of Forza Group Limited for four years. He held various senior positions within the Massmart Group Limited and the Wooltru Group Limited.

During David’s 7 years with the Massmart Group, where he served as Commercial Director and was responsible for IT and Systems Management and Managing Director of Dions Stores. He served as Managing Director of CNA for 3 years, where he was responsible for the turnaround and repositioning of the CNA. He has extensive international and local business experience and held senior executive positions Lewis Group. He served as an Executive Director of Lewis Stores Pty Ltd., a subsidiary of Lewis Group Limited since October 2005. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (A.C.M.A.). He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Rhods University and an MBA from the University of Cape Town.

John has extensive experience in the insurance/finance and community health sector. He has been involved in board positions with private and not-for-profit companies involved in financial and legal services, risk and compliance management, aged care services and community health.

John's public sector experience includes local and state government, with a number of board appointments to statutory bodies including the Country Fire Authority [CFA] and Western Water Corporation.

He is currently a non-executive Director of Transaction Capital Risk Services Australia Holdings Ltd and of Recoveries Corporation Group Limited and related entities and is Chair of the Audit and Risk and Remuneration and Capabilities Committees.
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John is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Leon has practiced as a Litigation Lawyer for 48 years and is one of the founders of recoveriescorp. He commenced the forerunner of Mason Black Lawyers in Victoria in 1991 and then in 2002, incorporated Mason Black Lawyers in New South Wales.  As a Solicitor Director of Mason Black Lawyers, Leon’s role includes client relationship management, business development, the mentoring of staff and advising the Board on matters of compliance, governance and strategy.

Positions, Committees and Memberships: Executive Director/Solicitor Director, Audit and Risk Committee Member, Remuneration and Capabilities Committee Member, Chairman Compliance Committee.

Antony commenced as Chief Financial Officer of Transaction Capital Australia (TCA) in June 2017 and was appointed as Company Secretary in November 2017.

Antony’s appointment leverages on Australian acquisition opportunities within areas which Transaction Capital seeks to explore. He brings to the Group strong regulatory reporting expertise and a wealth of accounting, assurance  and audit experience – his most recent role, as Principal, in the Deloitte Private Audit in Melbourne. Previously he was a partner at GMK Partners, a boutique accounting practice in Melbourne, as well a partner at Grant Thornton International in Johannesburg South Africa.

In addition to his CFO and company secretarial responsibilities,  Antony’s focus is to assist and support the increased regulatory and statistical reporting requirements which the Group faces in the future.  He acts as a key liaison point between Transaction Capital Limited in South Africa and recoveriescorp, enabling the Group to more easily adapt to regulatory change and responding to updates from external regulators.