Michael Ullmer has extensive strategic, financial and management experience accumulated over his career in international banking and finance. He was the deputy group chief executive of the National Australia Bank (NAB) from 2007 until his retirement in August 2011. He joined NAB in 2004 as finance director and held a number of key positions including chair of the subsidiaries Great Western Bank (US) and JB Were. Prior to NAB, Mr Ullmer was at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, initially as group chief financial officer and then group executive with responsibility for Institutional and Business Banking. Prior to that, he was a partner at accounting firms KPMG (1982 to 1992) and Coopers & Lybrand (1992 to 1997). Mr Ullmer has a degree in mathematics from the University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.
