Hamilton Wealth Partners hosted Joseph Healy, Co-Founder and former CEO of Judo Bank for a dinner at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.
The dinner was held on Wednesday 25th of September.
Joseph Healy
A career banker, Joseph is a co-founder of Judo Bank, a bank specializing in banking the SME business economy. Having raised $1.5bn of equity in private markets – including the largest pre-revenue capital raise in Australian corporate history – the bank grew from a PowerPoint to profitability and to a publicly listed company within four years. Joseph was CEO of the bank from 2016-24.
He holds an MSc in Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health, MSc (Finance), an MBA, an MSc in International Management (China), an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies, and an MBA (Banking), degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; London Business School; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (Scotland) and a Senior Fellow of FINSIA. Joseph is the author of four books: Corporate Governance & Shareholder Value (2003); ‘Breaking the Banks: What went wrong with Australian banking?’ (2019); ‘Chinese Firms Going Global – Can They Succeed?’ (2018) and ‘Black Belt – a Masterclass for Start-ups and Entrepreneurs’ (2023). A fifth book, ‘What would Adam Smith Think of Modern Australia?’ will be published in early 2025.
Joseph was a Director of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2009-2018 and of the Australian Finance Industry Association from 2019-2024. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland (2015-2019). He holds five youth level international football caps for Scotland.
Interests: the role of banks in allocating credit; the history of China (1850-); the neuroscience of addictions; the biological and psychological causes of depression; the role of psychological stress in cancer; and entrepreneurship.
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