Rachel Slade to join Group Board

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For Release: 1 July 2026
Rachel Slade to join Group Board

The Chairman of the ANZ Group, Paul O’Sullivan, today announced Rachel Slade will join the Boards of ANZ Group
Holdings Limited, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited and ANZ BH PTY LTD as a Non-Executive
Director, effective Monday 13 July 2026.
Ms Slade is a career banker with more than two decades of deep customer experience across retail, business and
transaction banking, having held a range of leadership roles at National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac.
Ms Slade left NAB in July 2025 after serving as Group Executive, Business and Private Banking, a role she was
appointed to in 2024 with responsibility for NAB’s SME, specialised banking, private banking and advisory
businesses. Since joining NAB in 2017, she also held senior roles including Group Executive Personal Banking, Chief
Customer Experience Officer and Executive General Manager Deposits and Transaction Services. Previously she
spent 17 years at Westpac in senior roles across global transactional services, retail and business banking.

Commenting on the appointment Mr O’Sullivan said: “Rachel’s deep and contemporary experience across retail,
business and transaction banking, combined with her track record of customer-led strategy and large-scale
transformation, will bring valuable operational and customer insight to the Boards. Her understanding of complex
banking environments and focus on high quality customer outcomes position her well to support the execution of
ANZ’s 2030 strategy and our continued growth.”


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