Held at The Star Sydney on 24 February and hosted by Walkley Award-winning journalist Ben Fordham, this year marked the 10th iteration of the prestigious awards, which celebrates Australia’s top executives and leaders.
Heading up the Brisbane-based fintech alongside his entrepreneurial brother Drew, Brodie was a runner up in the category which was taken out by Vijay Paul, Co-CEO of Vantari VR. The award aims to honour entrepreneurs and executives from Australian startups who have steered success in a crisis.
Other finalists in the category included Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, CEO of Cape; Donna Sillett, Founding Owner and Sole Trader of PRIMA DONNA – Business Diva; Ian Ratcliff, Director of Special Projects at Flare Creative Experiences; Scott Miller, CEO of Asendium, Cian Brennan, Managing Director and Founder of Quantum Contract Solutions; Jason Hood, CEO and Founder of BourkeHood; Rashid Khan, CEO and Founder of Evacovation; Frank Miletic, Founder & Designer of Ace Sunglasses, Pascale Helyar-Moray, CEO and Founder of Super Rewards; Jeremy Hunt, CEO at The Common Good Group; Natassia Nicolao, CEO and Founder of Conserving Beauty; Jordan Walsh, Managing Director of Delegate Connect.
2021 has been an enormous year for WLTH, after launching its flagship “Lending Loop” digital loan application platform and state-of-the-art broker portal, via which brokers are supporting in onboarding, lodging and settling WLTH loans for customers. The company has also made a string of new hires, growing the team by 150 per cent since March last year.
Brodie Haupt, CEO and Co-Founder at WLTH said:
“To be a runner up for the title of Startup Executive of the Year amongst an impressive list of finalists is extremely humbling, especially after the last two pandemic-plagued years. I’ll no doubt come away from this with more fervour to improve and expand our offering for the year ahead.
“To date at WLTH, we are still on target to break the $1 billion benchmark of settled loans this financial year, coupled with a corporate merger and a successful Series A capital raise, I couldn’t be happier or prouder of what my team has achieved. Moving forward, I’m excited to see our team continuing to strive towards our core mission of refreshing the financial services industry in Australia through bringing to market a suite of tech-centric products,” concluded Haupt.
WLTH was founded in 2019 in Brisbane, Australia and is currently finalising its $15 million Series A capital raising round, as well as a corporate merger deal, which places the local fintech company a step closer to settling its aggressive goal to finance $1.2 billion worth of residential and commercial loans by the end of FY22.
