GBST appoints two executives to tackle APAC challenge

Binaya Dahal

Journalist

13 February 2026

Wealth management software provider GBST has made two senior appointments in its Australian sales team to expand support for institutional and wholesale clients, as the company says increasingly complex regulatory environment has seen demand for its service rise in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

Nicole Ford and Danielle Rafferty both join the team as Senior Sales Executives -APAC and will focus on helping clients address operational needs including automation, scalability, interoperability, security and compliance.

Chief Executive Officer at GBST, Rob DeDominicis said the team needed people who intimately understood the evolving landscape as super funds and wealth “face many unique challenges”.

“Super funds are under increasing pressure to deliver efficiency, resilience and better member experiences, while meeting evolving regulatory and security requirements,” DeDominicis said.

“We continue to invest in our people and technology to help clients transition to modern cloud-based platforms that support long-term growth.”

Ford joins GBST from Link Group, where she was Head of Client Partnerships, and previously held senior leadership roles at Macquarie Group including Head of Institutional Partnerships and Head of Marketing and Growth, Wealth.

Meanwhile, Rafferty arrives from Thomson Reuters, where she served as Senior Business Development Manager, having previously spent more than a decade at Westpac in senior roles spanning sales, client development and institutional relationship management.

In their new role, the firm has said both will report to GBST’s head of Asia-Pacific, Jeff Hall.

Hall said the appointments would strengthen GBST’s engagement with financial services clients in Australia and across the region.

“We are excited to have Nicole and Danielle on board as we continue to build on the positive momentum that GBST has experienced in recent years,” Hall said

“We partner with many leading financial services organisations in Australia and globally and remain focused on delivering technology solutions that enable scale and operational efficiency.”