Executive Leadership Team

Anthony Attia commenced as Managing Director and CEO for ASX on 1 September 2026. He is an international capital markets and market infrastructure executive with around three decades’ experience across exchanges, technology and post-trade businesses in Europe and the United States, operating across multiple markets and regulatory environments. 

Before joining ASX, Mr Attia held senior leadership roles at Euronext, most recently as Global Head of Derivatives and Post-Trade. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Euronext Paris and led businesses across trading, technology, clearing, custody and settlement. He brings extensive board and governance experience across European market infrastructure, including organisations such as LCH and Euroclear. 

Mr Yip is a highly-skilled executive who brings more than 20-years’ experience in global financial markets with a background in prime brokerage and equity markets.  

Mr Yip joined ASX in March 2023 as Group Executive, Markets, and his role expanded in June 2025 to assume responsibility for ASX’s Listings business. As head of the Group’s Market’s and Listings businesses Darren is responsible for ASX’s cash and derivative market trading platforms, derivative central clearing house & benchmark administration license, distribution, product management, market surveillance, market announcements, the origination of listed primary and secondary equity, and investment products. 

In 2026, as ASX underwent a CEO transition, Darren served as Interim CEO of ASX for a period of time. 

Before joining ASX, Mr Yip spent 12 years leading teams in the Asia Pacific from his base in Hong Kong. He was most recently Managing Director and Co-Head of Prime Brokerage at Morgan Stanley from 2013 to 2021. 

Jamie Crank was appointed Group Executive for ASX’s Technology & Data business in September 2024. In this role, Jamie is charged with delivering a comprehensive suite of technology and data solutions to meet the evolving needs of ASX’s customers. 

He joined ASX in 2016, and has held a number of senior management positions including General Manager of Issuer Services and General Manager of Information and Connectivity Services. He was most recently the General Manager, Trading for ASX’s Markets business.  

Jane Franks was appointed Chief People Officer in November 2023 and is responsible for developing a people and culture strategy that enables ASX to achieve its vision and strategy.

With over 20 years of experience in highly regulated industries, Jane is an accomplished leader having led significant transformation programs across a range of industries and markets. Prior to ASX, she had over 16 years’ financial services experience in senior HR roles at Westpac and its autonomous wealth management arm, BT Financial Group. Most recently, Jane spent seven years in consumer products as Chief People Officer at ASX-listed Blackmores and as HR Director at Diageo.

Lucinda McCann was appointed Chief Compliance Officer in January 2026, following the division rebrand to ASX Supervision in May 2026, Lucinda’s role was updated to Group Executive, ASX Supervision. Lucinda is responsible for admitting new entities on ASX’s equity market, monitoring and enforcing compliance with ASX’s rules by listed entities, investment product issuers and participants, enforcement action against participants for breaches of ASX’s rules, and related guidance and education activities.

ASX Supervision is a specialist function established to monitor and enforce compliance by listed entities, issuers of investment products and participants with ASX’s rules.

Johanna O’Rourke was appointed Group General Counsel and Company Secretary in January 2023, having acted in the role since October 2022. In this role, she is responsible for ASX’s Legal, Company Secretarial and Regulatory Policy functions.

Johanna joined ASX in January 2021 as Deputy General Counsel, working across ASX's business and functional lines with a particular focus on ASX's corporate, strategy, technology and data, listings and issuer functions.

Diona (Dee) Rae joined ASX in May 2023 as Program Director, Delivery, to provide additional capacity and enterprise focus for ASX’s delivery and regulatory programs. She was appointed Chief Operating Officer in August 2023 and is responsible for the Enterprise Customer and Operations function, including project delivery, customer, brand and marketing, digital, and regulatory reporting.

Dee brings extensive experience in regulatory remediation programs and a proven track record delivering large, complex transformation, technology and risk initiatives. Before joining ASX, Dee was most recently Executive General Manager, Privacy Program Delivery with Commonwealth Bank. Prior to that role, Dee was the Chief Controls Officer for the bank’s Enterprise Services Group, leading line 1 risk management for the bank’s technology and operations functions. 

Andrew Tobin was appointed Chief Financial Officer of ASX in September 2022. In this role, he is responsible for ASX’s Finance, Treasury, Investor Relations, Strategy, Corporate Affairs, ESG and National Facilities functions.

Andrew has more than 30 years’ experience in various group finance and audit roles in Australia and Asia. Prior to ASX, Andrew was CFO at Challenger Limited (2012-2021), responsible for numerous operational areas including finance, investor relations, treasury, operations and information technology. He was Deputy CFO before that and has also worked at CBA, MLC and KPMG.

Dirk McLiesh was appointed Chief Risk Officer in March 2025. In this role, he is responsible for leading all aspects of the risk management framework that ASX uses to operate and manage its business.

Dirk has worked in risk management for more than 25 years in large organisations in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. He has deep expertise in both financial and non-financial risk, including a strong track record in delivering risk culture change and regulatory engagement programs.

Before joining ASX, Dirk was the Chief Risk Officer of Westpac New Zealand from 2022. During his career, he has worked for Bank of New Zealand, Westpac, National Australia Bank, Capital One, Microsoft and the Boston Consulting Group.

Andrew commenced as Acting Group Executive, Securities and Payments in March 2026. In this role he is responsible for ASX’s cash equities clearing and settlement businesses, ASX’s settlement and depository business for the wholesale debt market, ASX Collateral, payments, and financial settlement management (FSM/Sympli), issuer and post-trade investor services, and overall executive responsibility for the delivery of CHESS replacement. Prior to this, Andrew was General Manager Equities in Securities & Payments at ASX.

Tim was announced as ASX’s new Chief Information Officer in May 2023, following the creation of a stand-alone ASX technology division.

In this role, Tim is responsible for ASX’s enterprise technology strategy and technology modernisation program; technology security and governance; technology infrastructure; and core technology functions of enterprise architecture, solutions engineering, quality engineering and testing, system integration and critical situation management.

Tim is a highly skilled technology transformation executive with more than 25 years' experience in technology and project execution roles in the financial services industry. He has a proven capability running core technology functions and delivering large-scale, complex technology transformations.

Tim joined ASX to lead the CHESS Replacement Solution Design work in November 2023.