About Us

Peter started his professional life in the financial services sector after completing a Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing Major) through the University of New South Wales. Peter has a solid professional history in operating, management and board roles and has worked in Australia, the USA and Europe. He founded a US-based venture capital firm and has been involved in businesses navigating regulatory and technology challenges. This experience gave Peter insight into how technology and innovation can empower the consumers they serve.

Peter started Mable in 2014 as a personal challenge searching for better home care arrangements for his elderly parents. Peter teamed up with co-founder Tony Charara, and that collaboration resulted in an entirely new concept for aged and disability support services. Through Mable, Peter created a customer-centric model that quickly became marketing-leading by putting NDIS participants, aged care consumers, and, importantly, independent support providers in the driver’s seat of their support arrangements.

Peter champions self-determination and self-management within a multi-layered approach to safeguarding enabled by Mable’s technology and data platform.

Tony has extensive experience in investment banking ventures and high-growth assets.

Tony completed a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney with a career in Investment Banking with roles in the Mergers and Acquisition teams of Ord Minnett Securities and JPMorgan, focusing on technology. He is also the principal of Spark Capital.

In 2014 Co-Founded Mable Technologies, an online marketplace and health technology platform. Tony, since its founding, has worked closely with the Product, engineering, data, finance and operations teams at mable and with the senior leadership team on strategy.

Tony is also the founder of Tissue Repair Limited, with its lead drug candidate TR-987, targeted to commence a phase III trial program in chronic wounds. If successful, the company will be the first drug approved for wound healing by the FDA in over 25 years. Its technology platform promises to accelerate and initiate healing in all types of human and animal wounds, including surgical wounds and burns.

Rachel has extensive experience in legal, operations and people leadership roles in technology and services-focused companies. As a qualified lawyer, Rachel worked in local and international law firms before taking on legal and leadership roles in various businesses. She has also held non-executive Board positions in the education and technology sectors.

Rachel is passionate about building high-performing businesses through a focus on people and culture.

Rachel is the Chief Operating Officer at profit-for-purpose marketplace Mable, where she has focused on attracting and retaining talent in a hyper-growth health tech scale-up. Before joining Mable, Rachel was the Head of People & Commercial Affairs at BCG Digital Ventures, a corporate investment and incubation firm.

Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts/ Laws (First Class Honours) and an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). Rachel is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Vanessa started her career as a criminal lawyer for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions before finding her true passion in human resources and strategic management.

Vanessa is an Executive HR Leader with strengths in organisational effectiveness and building high-performing cultures to help a business transform, scale and meet its vision and strategies across borders. Together with her ability to build HR teams, she gets to enjoy creating, building and enabling growth!

Her cocktail of experience and skills has enabled her to successfully develop and implement business-wide people initiatives to support the delivery of the business strategy and improve business capability and culture. This is reflected by her broad HR and business skills, including her law degree, Operational Management experience, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Project, Human-Centred Design, Change Management, and Organisational Effectiveness skills.

Vanessa has supported and partnered with CEOs and Exec Leaders to help successfully drive business-wide changes, initiatives and cultural improvement. She collaborates, coaches, and partners with all levels of a Leadership Team, including the C-Suite, and enjoys leading HR teams, pulling on each other’s strengths and driving HR operational efficiency.

Jay joins Mable from his role as MYOB’s Head of Product, Platforms, where he had accountability for the strategic direction of the MYOB platform, including business operation and partner interaction. In addition, he helped MYOB move to a more customer-centric and customer-value-based approach to developing products.

Previously, Jay was REA-Group’s Head of Product, Customer and Business Systems, playing a significant role in shaping the business into a transaction-based company focusing on product and business strategy.

Jay’s career spans more than two decades and includes some of the biggest brands in technology, including IBM, MYOB and REA Group.

Over 20 years, he has been exposed to a wide range of roles ranging from finance to sales to product management, giving him a unique range of skills and knowledge that he uses to identify problems and then works with teams to form solutions to achieve outcomes.

Jay enjoys working and thinking about digital strategy and commercialisation and building teams to support that execution.

Matthew is a spirited leader, passionate about people, customer experience and innovations that improve people’s lives. His career has spanned three continents and multiple industries, including financial services, media, e-commerce and tech start-ups.

Matthew joined Mable from Big Red Group, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and growth agenda for the group’s portfolio of e-commerce experience marketplaces, including RedBalloon, Adrenaline, Experience Oz and Lime&Tonic. In addition, he oversaw the customer lifecycle with accountability for revenue and new business generation.

Matthew has a proven track record of developing organisations and critical relationships, leading to new opportunities and strategic partnerships. He has a commonsense approach to business in that he believes a brand should deliver on its promises and that the customer experience should marry with people’s expectations.

Matthew’s past employers have included the Australian Institute of Management, Investec UK Private Banking (establishing a ‘digital first’ private banking offer) and American Express.

Inge has over 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation and design, working with various corporates and scaling businesses across multiple industries and markets.
The combination of Inge’s strong customer focus and digital and technology experience enables her to establish future pathways that drive value for customers and businesses.

She is a dynamic, energetic and innovative professional who has played an integral role in achieving significant financial performance results for the companies where she worked. Inge is a champion for organisational change management and is committed to continuous improvement initiatives. At Mable, Inge leads designers and various cross-functional teams working on critical initiatives that drive meaningful outcomes for our customers across the business ecosystem. Inge has also been a lecturer at UTS in executive design thinking and a mentor with Remarkable Accelerator.

Ben Thomas has 20 years of experience building and leading high-performing and innovative analytics teams that drive transformational commercial outcomes. Ben has led teams of up to 80 data professionals at disruptive startups/scale-ups, global tech companies, and large organisations. His recent experience includes leading teams at Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, Amazon, and Uber, where he also led the data-driven Marketplace for Australia and New Zealand.

Ben currently leads the data science and analytics function at Mable. The team’s mission is to create data-driven tools, products and services, deliver strategic insights and trusted advice, and develop world-class innovation to unlock and accelerate growth, enhance our clients’ and support providers’ experience, and enable Mable to achieve its mission.

Ben has a Master of Political Science and a Master of Public Policy (both focused on statistical modelling), and an MBA with concentrations in decision science and strategy.

Adam commenced in the role of Chief Technology Officer in July. Before joining Mable, Adam spent more than two decades in senior technical and engineering roles, including as Head of Engineering at Zepto and, before that, as Head of Delivery – Platform Services at MYOB. His previous senior positions include companies such as MyXplor, Culture Amp, Realestate.com.au and Aconex.

Adam is a committed developer, architect and leader with extensive experience managing and growing high-performing technical teams. He has been a leading presence in the Agile movement in Australia, where he brings his strong interests in technology and organisational leadership to explore structures and approaches to improve efficiency and effectiveness in software delivery.

Sophie is an experienced Strategic Design leader, with a passion for identifying, refining and building new product and service solutions to ensure competitive and innovative qualities for large enterprises and/or scaling startups.

Sophie has shaped and enhanced existing and new customer propositions for some of Australia’s and Asia’s largest retailers, financial services and telcos – making customer experience not only something that is considered, yet also meaningful, scalable and measurable.

Sophie believes that the combination of people, potential and purpose will drive exceptional customer experience.