Latitude Financial’s Ahmed Fahour is well known for staying umbilically linked to the executives who have followed him from appointments at NAB, Australia Post and now to Latitude, the non-bank lender that he helms as chief executive. We suspect the most thoroughly attached to Fahour has been Chris Blake, until recently Latitude’s executive general manager for corporate services, who has struck out on his own for the first time since they began working as an ensemble at NAB in 2006. Blake has been appointed group CEO at hospitals and aged-care outfit St Vincent’s Health Australia, with the role having been announced to stakeholders this week by SVHA chair Paul McClintock. Blake’s background is in the fields of consulting and corporate services, so we’re unsure how he’ll fare.
