Consulting

Dave Hunt is an independent consultant specialising in Retail Financial Services.   

Dave works in strategy, product, marketing, sales, operations, innovation, leadership and technology.  Experienced in large programs, agile development, human centered design, marketing automation, AI and automation.  

Combining interpersonal skills and intellect Dave is able to operate at all levels of an organisation across most areas.  He’s comfortable reporting to a Board, as a General Manager of a large team, or as a team of one delivering.    

Services

results

“Dave worked with us on a lengthy engagement supporting our marketing and product teams. He is an experienced retail banker, marketer and leader who is able to turn strong insights into pragmatic and commercial execution. He is collaborative, empathetic and a clear communicator who values sustainable but high quality outcomes. In short, he is a wonderful senior executive colleague.” Paul Lewis, CEO, CUA

“We’ve worked with Dave for nearly a year now, I’ve always said he’s platinum standard, well above gold and quite frankly one of the best consultants I have ever worked with.

Dave really showed his quality leading up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.  He suggested preparing for a lockdown whilst it was just a local issue to China, this set us up well to operate through the pandemic.  He helped us cope with the extraordinary issues of the pandemic, providing invaluable senior executive counsel at a difficult time.  Dave was instrumental in coming up with an idea and has successfully executed a detailed plan that has saved the jobs of the majority of our people, keeping them gainfully employed and our business operating during this terrible crisis.  There are a lot of people here that owe Dave a huge thanks.” Peter Klemt, CEO TravelCard

“Having worked with Dave for a number of years, I find his passion, approach and commitment to the growth of the business to be first class. Dave always looks outside the box and creates new ways of building competitive advantage.” Mark Reid, CEO BankWest Retail

“Dave Hunt is simply one of the most inspiring and progressive leaders I have had the privilege to work with.” Toby Jenner, CEO Australasia, Mediacom

“Without a doubt Dave was responsible for driving a step change in the quality of the marketing output in the organisation - refreshing the brand, injecting energy and fun into the creative and developing a new approach to DM. He delivered this with an incredible intellectual curiosity matched with solid commercial acumen. He also had the ability to see the big picture yet know when it was appropriate to get into the detail. Dave also delivered through his team which was reflected in some really impressive improvements in colleague engagement scores.” Alex Harrison, COO IAG Direct

“Dave Hunt is an A-grade leader and sets a new standard for thought leadership, stakeholder management and strategic planning. I had the privilege of working for Dave for 3 months as one of his direct reports in my role as a Sales Operations Manager. Dave Hunt is a results driven, goal orientated and focused manager who leads by exceptional example. He consistently demonstrated himself to be one of the best strategic thinkers and customer focused leaders I have ever worked with, and someone who bought a high level of personal energy, focus and commitment to everything he did.” Sue Sdregas GM Operations and Risk, TAL

experience

19 years of experience in Retail Financial Services as an executive, consultant and interim executive. Responsible for leading results:

• Graduated from Cambridge University with a first class Masters in Engineering (MA MEng), as a Scholar (1996 - 2000)

• Joined McKinsey & Company’s London Office, as a consultant (2000 - 2002)

• Joined HBOS as Head of Business Development and Planning for the Retail Bank before secondment to Australian subsidiary Bankwest (2002 - 2003)

• Lead National launch of BankWest Retail (2003 - 2005)

• Launched first business Straterjee, built to sale (2006 - 2009)

• Joined IAG at EGM Marketing and Alliances’s delivering record year of market share growth (2009-2011)

• Launched Dave Hunt Consulting delivering market leading results for several clients (2011 onwards)