{"id":2318,"date":"2020-10-29T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2020-10-29T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:02:39","slug":"leadership-appointments-at-ing-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/leadership-appointments-at-ing-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership appointments at ING in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Head of Retail Bank, Melanie Evans appointed CEO ING Bank Australia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uday Sareen promoted to head of Wholesale Banking for ING Europe, Middle East and Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday 29 October 2020:<\/strong> \u00a0Today ING Bank Australia Chair, Dr John Laker AO, has announced that Melanie Evans, the bank\u2019s Head of Retail Bank, will become CEO of ING Bank Australia. She will replace the current CEO, Uday Sareen, who has been promoted to Head of Wholesale Banking for ING Europe, Middle East and Africa. Both appointments are effective from 16 November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Laker praised Ms Evans\u2019 impact on the bank since she joined in 2017 as head of the Retail Bank. Under Melanie\u2019s leadership, ING has grown to be Australia\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> largest main financial institution with a 6% customer market share and has launched multiple new retail products and services including personal lending, credit cards and insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMelanie is a very experienced banker with a proven track record who will continue to drive ING\u2019s growth and diversification agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer appointment is testament to all that Melanie has achieved for the retail bank and its customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melanie has spent her career in financial services. Starting out with a St. George Bank cadetship in 1995, she later joined Westpac\u2019s equities business in 2000. After a move to BT Financial Group in 2003, she spent a decade in product, brand, marketing, superannuation, platforms and investments leadership roles. Returning to banking within the Westpac Group as a Chief of Staff, she then went on to lead business units across mortgages, transformation and business banking.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Laker congratulated Mr Sareen on accelerating the growth of ING in Australia over the past four years:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUday will be leaving a highly successful, customer focused bank with an excellent workplace culture. ING is now one of Australia\u2019s most trusted brands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUday was always ambitious in his agenda for Australia and he delivered the results. We congratulate Uday on his new appointment and wish him continued success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a privilege to have worked with Uday. He will be leaving behind a very different bank to the one he joined in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr Sareen\u2019s leadership, more than 1 million customers have joined ING Bank.\u00a0 Today the bank has 2.7 million customers and almost 1 million of them treat ING as their main bank. Mr Sareen has also overseen strong growth in ING\u2019s wholesale banking activities in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Evans said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs ING\u2019s new CEO in Australia my focus will be to drive the bank\u2019s growth and diversification agenda.\u00a0 I will continue to prioritise our customers and team members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur history as Australia\u2019s first fintech, most recommended bank, a trusted brand and for doing things differently will remain front and centre. We\u2019re proud of what makes us a modern bank. We exist for our customers \u2013 so they can focus on the things that matter to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uday Sareen said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been proud to lead a bank that\u2019s ramped up the competitive spirit in both retail and wholesale banking, offering a real alternative for Australians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are a leading digital bank it is the commitment of our people to our customers and each other that makes ING so special and what I will miss most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cING Australia is one of the fastest growing banks in Australia and continues to be a great opportunity for ING Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sareen will relocate to Europe for his new role.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact:<\/p>\n<p>David Breen 0412933060, <a href=\"mailto:david.breen@ing.com.au\">david.breen@ing.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2316\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Melanie-Evans--2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2317\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Uday-cropped-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Uday-cropped-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Uday-cropped-570x1024.jpg 570w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Uday-cropped.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/John-Laker.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About ING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ING changed the way Australians bank 21 years ago by launching the country\u2019s first branchless bank. ING now offers Australians award winning home loans, transactional banking, superannuation, credit cards, personal lending, insurance and wholesale banking services.<\/p>\n<p>ING is Australia\u2019s most recommended bank according to RFi XPRT Survey April 20 –\u00a0September 20 ( n= 4,165) when compared to customers of 20 other banks operating in Australia. It is also Australia\u2019s fifth largest main financial institution (MFI) with 6% of market share according to RFi XPRT Survey (April-September 2020) (n=31,552). MFI is defined as the bank that the consumer says is their main financial institution.<\/p>\n<p>ING Bank (Australia) Limited ABN 24000893292 AFSL and Australian Credit Licence 229823. Information in this media release is general information only and we have not taken your financial circumstances, objectives, needs or requirements into consideration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Head of Retail Bank, Melanie Evans appointed CEO ING Bank Australia Uday Sareen promoted to head of Wholesale Banking for ING Europe, Middle East and Africa Thursday 29 October 2020: \u00a0Today ING Bank Australia Chair, Dr John Laker AO, has announced that Melanie Evans, the bank\u2019s Head of Retail Bank, will become CEO of ING […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsroom.ing.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}