Flying race car start-up Airspeeder appoints North for digital execution
December 10, 2020 11:10
Design studio, North, has been engaged to build a digital experience platform for flying car racing series, Airspeeder.
North will be developing a digital brand identity and an immersive platform that will bring the new sport to life for fans, investors, sponsors and commercial partners.
Airspeeder sees pilots take each other on head-to-head in electric octocopters that can reach speeds up to 200km/h. The organisation has recently received institutional funding from three technology venture capital firms and attention from aerospace, motorsport and engineering including Rolls-Royce and Babcock Aviation.
Appointment of Assistant Governor, Business Services
The Governor, Philip Lowe, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle McPhee to the position of Assistant Governor (Business Services) at the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Bank considered a competitive field of internal and external candidates for the role, which will become vacant on the retirement of Lindsay Boulton in February 2021.
Ms McPhee is currently the Head of Banking at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a role she has held for the last four years. She spent six years as the Head of Risk and Compliance and, prior to that, held a number of senior management positions at the Bank primarily in financial market operations. She is currently a non-executive director of the Australian Payments Network, deputy chair of Note Printing Australia and chair of both organisations audit and risk committees. Ms McPhee joined the Bank in 1988.