Sefa Board announces new CEO

The Board of Social Enterprise Finance Australia Limited (Sefa) wishes to announce that Alastair McGibbon has stepped down as CEO of Sefa following the AGM on 29 November. 

Alastair joined Sefa three years ago from National Australia Bank. “I want to thank the Board for the opportunity to run Sefa, an organisation I believe is making a contribution through finance to be part of the community developing a deeper and broader social impact market.”

“The team, Board, external advisors and many partners such as LMCF, NAB and NSWALC are totally committed to making Sefa a stronger organisation, to assist more social impact groups attract capital to bring their enterprises from concept, through development and successful growth,” Mr McGibbon said.

The Board is pleased to announce that Hanna Ebeling has been appointed to the position of Acting CEO effective 29 November.

Sefa’s Chair, Ms Belinda Drew said: “On behalf of the Board I want to thank Alastair for his energy and commitment to Sefa. He has broadened our client base in key focus areas and introduced diversified revenue streams. Sefa has a strong reputation for the work that we do and Alastair can be proud of the contribution that he has made to this. We wish Alastair all the best in his future endeavours. 

Hanna Ebeling joined Sefa in May 2014 and has been Chief Investment Officer since February 2019, where she has been instrumental in leading the lending and investment readiness advisory team. The Board looks forward to working closely with Hanna and our key stakeholders in the development of our new strategy in 2020.”