
Mike Stockley
Program Director
Areas Of Expertise:
- Complex program Delivery
- Energy, Banking and Technology
- Regulatory Change
- Agile Delivery
- Transformational leadership
- Complex System Implementations
- Security Governance
- Treasury & Markets
Education:
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), University of Canterbury
About Mike Stockley
Mike is a seasoned program director with significant experience at Executive level within the Financial Services, Energy and retail industries, with a range of global roles. Mike brings several years of direct and current experience in setting up, leading, and executing large scale transformation programs. He also boasts deep subject matter expertise in markets related regulatory reform, risk governance, and large-scale portfolio management.
What Mike brings
- Deep sponsorship and program management experience on a wide range of technical and business projects with budgets up to $100M.
- Extensive knowledge of Agile project management methodology.
- Experienced in developing global business and IT strategies.
- Track record of building diverse and successful teams of quality people in front office, technology, operations, and risk areas.
- Excellent experience in leading large global technology teams covering a broad range of businesses including IT support for Wholesale Banking UK and NY.
- Excellent people management skills supporting an empowered and accountable culture.
Client feedback:
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Angela Katsoulotis, Implementation Manager – 2022 “Mike demonstrates exception leadership at all times and comes with a strong understanding of the organisation, the subject matter and the stakeholders. Mike is a strong leader who has a very engaging style. He would be an asset to any large program and organisation.” |
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Madhur Gupta, Program Director – 2020 “Strong stakeholder management skills, Strong program management discipline knowledge and experience, Calm and balanced approach towards managing situations.” |
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Brad Walker, Head of Data & Analytics – 2019 “Collaborative style, wealth of experience and knowledge, fantastic to work with!” |
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Angela Katsoulotis, Implementation Manager – 2022
“Mike demonstrates exception leadership at all times and comes with a strong understanding of the organisation, the subject matter and the stakeholders. Mike is a strong leader who has a very engaging style. He would be an asset to any large program and organisation.” |
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Australia’s leading energy company, Head of Portfolio Delivery Integrated Energy Technology – 2020
“Mike has been an asset to the team and is a valued member of the Portfolio Delivery team. He is calm, professional demeanour and effectiveness with working across all levels of the organisation. Wealth of knowledge and experience and genuine commitment to success of the Program and how to achieve the best.” |
Key Clients:
- AGL
- MYOB
- Commonwealth Bank (CBA)
- National Australia Bank (NAB)
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)
Key Achievements:
As General Manager for Victoria for Seven Consulting Mike is responsible for leading Seven’s Victorian business, covering client servicing, business development, marketing, recruitment, and maintenance of quality standards for client assignments. He is a member of Seven’s Management Board.
As Interim Program Director at MYOB, MYOB commenced a business transformation underpinned by replacing a complex and outdated legacy stack for billing, CRM and ERP with current state SaaS solutions. Mike mobilised the program establishing program governance, program delivery structure, ways of working and decision-making authorities. He then handed over to another designated Program Director for completion of set up and ongoing delivery .
As Program Director at AGL Mike successfully delivered a range of programmes including: AGL’s response to mandated changes to 5 Minute Settlement Rules for electricity trading, a generational uplift on traded energy ETRM systems, the set-up of a new multi asset energy trading platform as a precursor to the planned AGL demerger and AGL’s compliance with the Default Market Offer (DMO/VDO) regulations.
As Program Director at CBA, Mike led a large-scale transformational program in response to FICC and Treasury Regulatory Reform obligations. The program covered trade reporting, CFTC record keeping, and trader surveillance. The program delivery was executed using Agile methodology.
- As General Manager, Management Assurance at NAB, Mike held accountability for first line risk assurance oversight of all NAB products globally. As part of his role, Mike led the NAB’s investment in improvement of systems, policies, and controls to improve surveillance of traders and trading activity following a global regulator investigation at industry level into alleged manipulation of FX and interest rate benchmarks. He also had significant involvement at Project Control Board level for implementation of various global regulatory projects. He was also accountable for production and sign-off of RWA capital calculations and optimization strategies across the Bank.
- As Executive General Manager Business Operations for NAB, Mike encompassed leadership of technology, operations, PMO, business architecture and service support for Wholesale Banking. The Business Operations area comprised of 1,200 staff located in Australia, London, NY, and NZ with an annual budgeted spend of $330M.
At NAB, Mike led the Bank’s Market Risk function, helping keep the bank safe through the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9. He was also responsible for RWA capital calculations, optimization, operating risk, and compliance teams across a broad range of banking products.
- AT NAB, led governance functions, Chaired NAB Product and Markets (P&M) Operational Risk Compliance and Audit Committee, member of P&M Risk Management Committee and other NAB governance bodies. Mike also presented to NAB PBRC, ASIC and APRA on multiple occasions.
As Global Head of Infrastructure and Operations (Markets) at ANZ, Mike was responsible for providing centralised support for all ANZ trading centers around the world including nine Asian, two New Zealand sites, New York, and London
As Global Head of Derivatives Sales Mike was responsible for sales of interest rate derivative and hedging products to the bank’s global investment banking client base.
































































































