Our people
The members of our executive have extensive professional experience both in government and private sector, within Australia and overseas. They have specific responsibilities and are bound by a corporate governance framework.
All staff are bound by a code of conduct:
- understand expected standards of conduct and behaviour
- maintain our integrity and reputation
- comply with relevant laws and policies
- decide how to deal with ethical problems.
Our executive
Scott Johnston
Chief Commissioner of State Revenue
Commissioner of Fines Administration
Deputy Secretary
Scott was appointed as the Deputy Secretary, Revenue NSW, Chief Commissioner of State Revenue and Commissioner of Fines Administration in April 2020.
Scott is a highly experienced senior leader with a career spanning the Australian and United Kingdom public sectors. Prior to joining Revenue NSW, Scott was Acting Commissioner at the NSW Public Service Commission, leading the NSW Government’s agenda around diversity, work of the future and reform across the sector. He joined the Public Service Commission in June 2014 and held the roles of Director Workforce Information Branch and Assistant Commissioner of the Performance and Analytics Division.
An internationally recognised statistician specialising in economic analysis, his work at the UK Office of National Statistics guided key decision making for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and European Union. In Director roles at the Australian Bureau of Statistics he developed and led significant change initiatives including a variety of complex people management programs and the launch of the major economic surveys onto digital platforms.
Scott is passionate about shaping future workforce strategy through evidence-based decision making, driving innovation, inclusion and building digital capability.
Cullen Smythe
Executive Director, Technical Advisory Services
Commissioner of State Revenue
Cullen Smyth was appointed as the Executive Director of Technical Advisory Service and the Commissioner of State Revenue in August 2016.
Cullen Smythe joined us from KPMG and has over 20 years’ experience in the professional services arena, over 18 years of which has been spent specialising in State taxes across all Australian jurisdictions.
Cullen’s experience has also covered revenue, corporate/ commercial and finance law, gained in a number of the ‘Big 4’ and Australian law firms. As well, having lived in Asia for a number of years he has experience in legal and business practices of our regional neighbours and an understanding of the difficulties trying to reconcile often conflicting regulatory demands.
He is a member of the Tax Institute – Office of State Revenue Liaison Committee, and a Chartered Tax Advisor and a regular attendee at the TIA State Taxes Conference.
David Ranasinghe
Chief Digital Officer
Revenue Digital
David Ranasinghe was appointed Chief Digital officer in February 2022.
David brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role with more than 25 years spent driving technology change in financial services, consulting and software development.
David joins Revenue NSW from the healthcare sector where he held the role of Chief Technology Officer for Healius Limited. Prior to this David spent 12 years at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and held several divisional Chief Information Officer roles with responsibility for payments, online business banking, merchant acquiring and commercial lending.
As Chief Digital Officer David will lead Revenue NSW’s continued digital and business process transformation program delivering innovative and supportive outcomes for customers and Revenue NSW.
Dan Bowes
Executive Director
Customer Service – Taxes and Grants
Dan joined Revenue NSW a few years ago and is currently the Executive Director for Taxes & Grants. In this role he leads the Business Taxes, Land Tax and Duties & Grants teams raising nearly $30bn of revenue a year for the state of NSW and distributing vital grants to support our community and businesses.
Previous roles at Revenue NSW for Dan have included business development and driving innovative business process excellence and automation strategies.
Amanda Ianna
Executive Director
Customer Service - Fines & Debt
Amanda Ianna commenced at Revenue NSW in March 2022 for a 6-month role as Acting Executive Director Taxes and Grants. In August 2022 Amanda was appointed Executive Director Customer Service Fines and Debt.
Amanda has worked in the Public Sector for 28 years, most recently as Registrar of the NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, having been appointed to the role in 2014. Amanda’s extensive background in Civil Registration and Identity Security has driven significant changes to the way the Registry records life events for the people of New South Wales. Amanda was also a key consultant in the Step-Up Twinning Program, a Federal Government initiative to improve the Civil Registration process in the Pacific.
Amanda brings to Revenue a wealth of knowledge regarding the diversity of NSW customers. She is passionate about our customers and the way in which we administer fines and provide online solutions, fairer fines and support for citizens experiencing acute financial hardship. With Amanda at the helm of Fines and Debt, we look forward to a new way to resolve tax issues, fines and other debts owed to the NSW Government
Nick O’Reilly
Executive Director
Property Reform Implementation
Nick is the Executive Director of Property Reform responsible for the implementation of First Home Buyers Choice and the Shared Equity schemes. Nick joined Revenue NSW in March 2017 as the Director of Future Ways of Working and most recently as the Director of Duties and Grants.
Nick has over 20 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has worked in Retail Banking, Insurance, State Government, Retail, and not-for-profit industries with a focus on strategic management, operations, program management and marketing. Nick has a passion for diversity and inclusion and building and supporting high performing teams to deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers.
When he’s not working, Nick likes to play various sports, travel and spend time with his wife and two sons.
Jocelyn Yem
Director
Strategy and Innovation
Jocelyn Yem is currently Revenue NSW’s Strategy Director. Jocelyn leads a team delivering innovative customer insights, business process excellence, commercial management and intelligent automation in addition to helping shape the strategic roadmap for Revenue NSW.
Jocelyn joined Revenue NSW in late 2018 as the Land Tax Director, and has spent over 20 years in operational, policy and project roles in the NSW public sector.
Passionate about collaboration as well as diversity and inclusion, Jocelyn is an active contributor for a range of staff and customer initiatives.