Our Leadership
Our Prime Leadership team
Steve Sampson
Chief Executive OfficerSteve is an award-winning management professional. He has extensive experience in the mortgage broking industry and has held diverse leadership roles from chief executive to managing director to head of distribution. Steve has built successful high performing sales teams for many years, thanks to his ability to create strong relationships and carry out dynamic sales strategies effectively. Before joining Prime Capital, he developed a highly profitable third-party distribution channel for Bank of Sydney. Now with Prime Capital, he is growing the company’s distribution of low-doc, non-resident, investor, SMSF and construction SME loans through aggregator partnerships. Steve is an excellent communicator and presenter who loves to go trekking, do yoga, work out and listen to good music in his free time.
Brent Davidson
Chief Revenue OfficerBrent is a dynamic and inspiring sales leader with range of experience across the mortgage and finance industries. With a background in mortgage broking, sales leadership, and building fintech start-ups, he knows what it takes to grow successful broker relationships. Brent’s most notable roles before Prime were Director of Broker Distribution at Athena Home Loans and NSW/ACT Broker Distribution Manager at NAB.
Brent is a fitness enthusiast who can often be found cycling, working on his swing at the golf course or defying gravity in aerial yoga.
David Gay
Chief Financial OfficerDavid is a versatile Banking and Finance professional, with a career spanning more than 20 years across both sides of the balance sheet. He successfully transitioned from a Private Banker into Financial Markets, and has dealt with Liquidity Products, FX, Interest Rate Swaps and Options, Bonds and Credit and Structured products. Before joining Prime Capital, David worked as the Treasury Dealer for one of Australia’s largest non-bank lenders, monitoring and hedging the IR risk and funding the warehouses. Before that, he spent nearly 15 years gaining a wealth of experience in Global Investments and FICC at NAB.
David holds a Bachelor of Business (Finance) from Charles Sturt University and a Diplomas in Financial Services and Financial Management.
In his free time, David loves to surf and tinker with his old Holden.
Jeremy Harris
Chief Marketing OfficerJeremy is an award-winning marketer with almost 20 years of diverse leadership experience across financial services, SaaS and the Australian wine industry. He has successfully grown and led marketing, sales, service, pre sales and solutions consulting teams across both the non bank space, as well as within the Salesforce ecosystem.
Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Liberal Studies from the University of Sydney.
Malcolm Withers
Chief Relationships OfficerMalcolm is a financial services veteran, having held numerous leadership and sales management roles across many high profile lending institutions.
Prior to Prime Capital, Malcolm was most recently at Pepper Money, where he was the first Head of Commercial Real Estate Lending. Before that, he was with St.George Bank for nine years, driving the strategic direction of commercial loan acquisition through brokers for St. George, Bank of Melbourne and BankSA.
Based in Sydney, Withers also spent years working with Bankwest, Suncorp, RAMS Home Loans and Citibank.
Sally Heimanis
General CounselSally has over 13 years’ post admission experience in civil litigation with a focus on bankruptcy, corporate insolvency, property transactions and contracts.
Prior to starting at Prime Capital, she was partner of the litigation and conveyancing team at a national law firm.Sally holds a Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma in Business (Accounting and Finance) from University of Technology, and is a member of the Law Society of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
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