Sean Teahan

Sean fondly remembers the day; sitting around a living room in Paddington, Brisbane, in April 2005 when he and Greg first conceived of the possibility that they could help out Australians in a way that they wished had been available to them in the past. The idea was simple - providing credit of just a few hundred dollars to help people out when they need it...and doing so as fast and as easy as possible.

His philosophy has not changed much since then - a driven passion to provide the fastest, most convenient payday loans in Australia.

Sean, originally from Ireland, has always had an interest in business which is one of the reasons he decided to become accountant, qualifying in Ireland in 2000. He held various accounting and financial positions in several organizations, one of which resulted in a fortuitous meeting with Greg Ellis. Their shared interest in entrepreneurship soon resulted in the setting up of an online recruiting company in Ireland, which they ran successfully for over 3 years and ultimately sold in 2004.

He then took a break of almost a year before deciding it was time to move on and landed in Australia in 2005, firing up his business partnership with Greg once more. When he and Greg committed to Cash Doctors, they both invested every penny (including pennies they didn't have) in the business. Risking everything and verging on bankruptcy at one point, they didn't really have enough to live on and picked up work mowing lawns on the side to get by.

In hindsight this difficult time has proven to be one his most valuable assets as it allows him to identify intimately with Cash Doctors clients. He also understands that just like he and Greg did go through financially challenging times - it is vital to have a long-term financial plan if you truly want to have financial freedom. This is why Cash Doctors is so active in encouraging clients to take steps to plan realistically for their financial future and use payday loans only as a short-term solution.

Sean now spends his time focusing on strategic and research and development aspects of Cash Doctors, including of course ways to make Cash Doctors loans even faster and easier for clients.

Greg Ellis

Greg was one of the founders of Cash Doctors, building and growing the company profitably alongside Sean Teahan since November 2005. He now shares some responsibility for day to day running of Cash Doctors operations with Sean Teahan, but is most active in the areas of marketing, analysis and new product development.

Now 35, his interest in small loans emerged from life experience when he was fresh out of university, where he earned degrees in International Business and Economics. "I blew every penny I earned and more....king for a day and fool for a fortnight!"

Later when creating Cash Doctors, he and Sean put all their resources into starting Cash Doctors. They had no spare money at all. For over a year, they had to mow lawns one day a week to support themselves until Cash Doctors developed. Their first hand experience helped them to see things from their clients' point of view and shape every aspect Cash Doctors for them.

Prior to creating Cash Doctors, Greg worked as a financial planner and also did accounts related contract overseas, where he met Sean Teahan in Ireland. Between 2001 and 2004, Greg and Sean started, ran and sold an online health recruiting company in Ireland.

Now living in Main Beach, Queensland, Greg surfs, rides his bike, plays ping pong and golf when he's not busy at Cash Doctors.

Scott Acker

Scott has over 20 years experience in computing and IT, nearly 18 months of which he was awake for. A talented individual who possesses over three useless super powers, Scott can identify a motor vehicle with over 50% accuracy - assuming the vehicle in question has been recently pointed out by someone saying "Wow, look at that car" or there is a sign on the vehicle saying "This is a car" in big letters.

Scott's hobbies include sleeping, confusing the terms infer and imply and listening to the sound of rain evaporating off hot cement.

Johan Kriegbaum

Johan is a Copenhagen born and bred lover of Online Marketing. His great appreciation for quantifiable marketing and unordinary products has led him to his current position as Online Marketing Manager for Cash Doctors.

He has a BA in International Business from Griffith University and joined the Cash Doctors team in July 2008. Back in Denmark he played a big role in the creation of Jobselect, a Danish job site that was later sold off.

After 28 years, Johan replaced the cold northern hemisphere with the cosmic rays of the Australian Gold Coast. You'll find him in the great blue ocean trying to catch waves early in the morning and on the weekends. He's a fond lover of beats that make you boogie and claims to dominate the local Monday night basketball sessions. Truth is he only hits 1 in 10 "Let it rain!!!!!".

Jay Stockwell

Jay Stockwell is an Online Marketing Expert with over a decade of experience helping both start-up and multi-national companies get "stacks on deck".

After achieving a Behavioural Science degree in 1998, he immersed himself in the muddy world of professional mountain biking in the USA. However, it quickly became apparent that he was better "tapping the keys" over "tapping the pedals" when a hobby website he worked on in hotel rooms while on the road started generating millions of hits a month.

Since then he's been on the leading edge of online marketing in both traffic generation and conversions optimisation. Some of his palmar's include inventing a patent pending PPC campaign building methodology, developing one of the first commercially available click fraud tracking systems as well as strategic consulting on award winning websites.

Some that went on to win "Best Retail Website" at the AIMIA awards and become a finalist in the "Search Marketing" category in the IAB awards. Beating out companies like ABC Shop, Berlei, Crumpler, Mimco and St George Bank.

In his spare time he still rides his bike and runs conversion optimisation tests on his kids to try to improve response rates to carrots.

Lisa Mainelli

Operating a business in today's regulatory environment is no small task! Cash Doctors brought Lisa on board in 2010 as its compliance officer to read the fine print and keep the business in good check.

Having worked for national and global companies over the past 10 years, Lisa now enjoys the laid-back environment of Cash Doctors and the sunny shores of the Gold Coast.