ProSpend, the Australian unified spend administration and AP automation platform, has appointed Phillip Vella (pictured above) as Chief Government Officer. Phillip stepped into the function on 1 November 2026, taking on from founder Sharon Nouh, who’s stepping away from the enterprise after greater than a decade constructing it.
Phillip is ProSpend‘s first worker, having joined the corporate, then often called expensemanager, in 2014. Over the twelve years since, he has labored throughout virtually each a part of the enterprise other than improvement, beginning in assist and implementation earlier than shifting under consideration administration and gross sales and constructing the corporate’s companion channel. In that point he has been concerned in additional than 500 spend administration tasks with finance groups throughout Australia and New Zealand.
That ground-level expertise is what Phillip brings to the function. The years spent sitting with finance groups operating paper receipts, spreadsheets and handbook approvals, after which watching what modified as soon as these processes had been automated, formed his understanding of the place the work breaks down and what attractiveness like for a finance crew.
Phillip takes over at some extent of renewed funding for the enterprise. ProSpend was acquired by Invincible Software program Holdings in October 2025, and with Invincible Software program Holdings’ backing the corporate plans to speed up improvement throughout its core areas of expense administration, bill automation, and integrations with the accounting and ERP techniques its prospects already use. For patrons, day-to-day service, account administration and the platform itself stay unchanged.
ProSpend was constructed on a easy concept, to make managing firm spend simpler for finance groups, and grew right into a multi-module platform utilized by organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand.
“Phillip has helped form ProSpend from its earliest days, and few folks perceive the enterprise, its prospects or its potential in addition to he does,” mentioned Adam Reynolds, Managing Companion at Invincible Software program Holdings. “We’re grateful to Sharon for what she constructed, and assured that Phillip and the management crew are the best folks to steer it into its subsequent stage of progress.”
“In 2014 I joined ProSpend as its first worker, and twelve years later I’m proud to be the one taking it ahead,” mentioned Phillip. “I spent these years working alongside Sharon throughout greater than 500 spend administration tasks, and that gave me a close-up view of the place the method truly breaks down. It’s the a part of this enterprise I care most about, and it shapes how I take into consideration the place we take it subsequent.”
“The issues that acquired us began haven’t gone away. Finance groups nonetheless want extra visibility, insights, stronger controls and fewer handbook work,” he mentioned. “What’s totally different now’s the assets at our disposal to fixing them. I’m grateful to Sharon for the enterprise she’s constructed, and to each buyer and companion who has trusted us to construct it. Our greatest work remains to be forward.”
