About

PayCore Partners is an independent thought leadership platform founded by Douglas Kilburn and comprised of an expanding team of experienced leaders.

Doug is a technology and transformation leader with more than twenty-five years of experience delivering complex change across financial services and regulated industries.

His work spans retail banking, payments, transaction infrastructure, and capital markets platforms, with the past twelve years focused deeply on Australian payments infrastructure, platform modernisation, regulatory alignment, and real-time capability.

He has led large, multi-year programs covering core platform replacement, scheme and regulatory change, ISO 20022 and data adoption, ecosystem integration, and operating model transformation.

The consistent thread across all of it is execution, making transformation land safely, at scale, in environments where stability and trust are non-negotiable.