2023 Governance Update
Governance Update
August 2023
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Agenda
1.FY23 Achievements
2.Our Board’s Objectives
3.FY24 Governance Focus
Claudia Batten
Non-Executive Director
Independent Chair of
Serko Board
Jan Dawson
Non-Executive Director
Independent Chair of
Audit, Risk & Sustainability
Committee
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FY23 Achievements
Strong financial
performance
•Total income of
$48 million, up 154%
•Net loss after tax
of $30.5 million,
a 15% improvement
Booking.com for
Business growth
•Material progress
against Booking.com
strategy
•Average revenue per
completed room night
up 36% YoY, active
customers up 144%
Capitalise on
recovery
•Australasia online
bookings up 77% YoY
•Strategic progress
in North America
Build a sustainable
company
•ESG reporting baseline
•Social licence
enhanced through
key ESG initiatives
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Our Board’s objectives are to strengthen
shareholder wealth and
build a sustainable, growth business
FY24 Governance Focus
•Supporting delivery: Booking.com for Business partnership and North
America strategy
•Sustainability: TCFD and strengthening oversight
•Remuneration: Strengthening alignment between executive
remuneration and shareholder wealth creation
•Stakeholder engagement: Further enhancements to stakeholder
communications and metric reporting
•Board succession planning: Appointing a 4th non-executive director
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Supporting Delivery
Booking.com for Business partnership and NORAM strategy
Booking.com for Business
•Embedding data-driven experimentation
•Driving customer acquisition and conversion
•Elevating Booking.com partnership and expanding relationship
North America
•Ensuring product-market fit and refining market strategy
•Continuing to invest in technologies that support traction
•Having the right team to execute upon the strategy
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Sustainability
TCFD reporting and strengthening oversight
•First voluntary GHG
emissions report was
released in May 2023
•Continuing to enhance
oversight and reporting of
sustainability through Audit,
Risk & Sustainability
Committee
•ESG Materiality Assessment
process underway with
external consultant
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Executive Remuneration
The Board recently finalised a review of the Executive Remuneration structure
Key design principles for the review:
•Competitive within the technology industry to attract and retain high calibreexecutive talent for Serko
•Motivate and reward performance for contribution to short and long-term strategic objectives of the organisation
•Stronger alignment of rewards with long-term shareholder value
Incentive TypeCurrent StructureFuture Structure
Short Term Incentive (Cash vehicle)Based on company scorecard and
individual performance measures
(financial and non-financial components)
No change
Long Term Incentive (Equity-based)Vests over 3 years in equal proportion
Grant amount is based on performance
against company and individual measures
in FY prior to grant
Vests over total 3 years in two parts
First part vesting over 2 years in equal
proportion under current structure
Second part vesting after 3 years subject to
a performance measure of Absolute Total
Shareholder Return.
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Enhanced Communication and Metrics Disclosures
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Board Succession Planning
Appointment of 4th Non-Executive Director
•We have engaged a specialised consultancy firm to
manage this process, including identifying candidates
globally
•Appointment is anticipated to be completed by end of
calendar year
•Top skills / experience we are focussed on are to
complement existing director skillset:
oInternational (tech) scaling experience
oTravel industry expertise
oCapital markets and corporate finance
oStrategic commercial acumen
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Bob Shaw
Executive Director, Chief Strategy Officer
and Co-Founder
Appointed April 2007
Darrin Grafton
Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer
and Co-Founder
Appointed April 2007
Clyde McConaghy
Non-Executive Director
Independent Chair of People, Remuneration
& Culture Committee
Appointed April 2014
Jan Dawson
Non-Executive Director
Independent Chair of Audit, Risk &
Sustainability Committee
Appointed August 2021
Claudia Batten
Non-Executive Director
Independent Chair of Serko Board
Appointed April 2014
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