Chief Executive OfficerCommunity Sector Banking
Andrew Cairns joined Community Sector Banking as its Chief Executive Officer in March 2016.
Before joining the team, Andrew held several management positions with a number of multinational companies, both in Australia and internationally, including more than 15 years with the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group.
Between 2012 and April 2016, Andrew was Head of Customer Led Connections at Bendigo Bank. Here, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the Bank’s strategic direction for online banking and social media.
As Head of Community Solutions and Partnering prior to this, he drove the Bank’s community engagement initiatives, including within the not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors.
Andrew was Chief Executive Officer of Community Telco between January 2001 and October 2010. Under his leadership, Community Telco saw increased shareholder value, profit growth, and the deployment of a national franchise network.
These roles followed a sixteen year career that spanned a range of strategic and management roles in the engineering, mining and pay TV industries.
It’s Andrew’s passion for growing start-ups and fostering innovation that brings him to Community Sector Banking. Andrew’s vision is for a specialist not-for-profit banking service that adds value to the sector and strengthens the community in the long term.
He also brings with him an intimate knowledge of the not-for-profit world as a board director of Haven; Home, Safe and Loddon Mallee Housing Services.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.