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More than 20 years in, Tammie Rimon sees a mortgage broker’s job as far larger than arranging loans. She treats each client relationship at 20/20 Finance Brokers as the start of a long advisory partnership, not a transaction.
Entering the industry, Rimon envisioned staying a sole trader with a small client base, with no ambition to run a large brokerage or win awards. Instead, the business grew organically through referrals and repeat clients. “I didn’t have a grand business plan – I had a commitment to doing the right thing by every client, and the business has evolved naturally because of that philosophy,” she says.
Growth brought a challenge: protecting the personalised service that built the firm’s reputation. As the business expanded, so did her role. “I’m no longer just a broker – I’m a business owner, mentor, strategist and leader,” she says. “For me, growth is only worthwhile if the client experience improves along with it.”
Her sense of the role reaches well beyond her own client base. Rimon volunteers in local high schools, talking to school leavers about budgeting, saving, credit and buying a first home, skills rarely taught in class yet among the most important they will need. “Too often, people only speak with a broker when they need a loan,” she says, convinced brokers can be trusted advisers who help families build lasting financial confidence.
The approach has produced results as well as recognition. Over two years the business has grown settlement volume by more than $100 million, almost entirely through referrals and repeat clients, and Rimon has earned national and international recognition, including a Silver Stevie for Most Innovative Finance Executive of the Year at the 2025 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards and a Broker Innovation Awards finalist placing for Investor Lending Strategist. Yet what she values most is simpler: clients who return years later with their children and friends, trusting her with those closest.
On women in the profession, Rimon has plenty to say. She wants more structured mentoring and leadership development for women, pointing to capable female brokers who could build exceptional businesses but lack mentors or networks, and arguing confidence grows through opportunities the industry must create. She is just as quick to name what broking offers in return: flexibility to build a business around family and other priorities and a natural fit with skills many women already have. “It’s one of the few professions where you can genuinely design a career around the life you want to lead,” she says.
Rimon hopes to change the perception of what a mortgage broker can be: not only someone who arranges finance but also educates, guides and helps Australians build wealth and better futures. Her measure of success is plain. “If my legacy is that I raised the standard of client care, helped develop the next generation of brokers and left the industry a little better than I found it, I’d consider that a successful career,” she says.
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Tammie Rimon
Director and Finance Broker
20/20 Finance Brokers
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2007–2012
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Branch Manager at Bank of Queensland
2007–2012
Owner Manager at Bank of Queensland
2012–2015
Director and Finance Broker at 20/20 Finance Brokers since 2015
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Head of Sales (Northern Region) at Finsure
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MPA’s Elite Woman
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As a founding member of WOW! (Women. Opportunity. Winning.), an employee resource group created for all women of Ryan Specialty, Phillips Topping has long championed for women in the industry.
“It’s very important to set an example and to not only inspire but mentor other females,” she adds.
In addition to her sharp marketing eye, the key to Phillips Topping’s success lies in her high-energy approach and positive attitude.
“As the leader of a team, it’s important to motivate and encourage your team members. People work very hard and do their best and it’s important to recognize these efforts. For my career overall, my attitude has been one of curiosity. The more you can learn, the better you’ll understand the business, and then the deeper your knowledge will become, making you a better team member.”
Chief underwriting officer of executive risk at Chubb
President of financial insurance solutions at Kemper
Chief underwriting officer at Axis Capital
CEO of global Insurance at Endurance
CEO of global Insurance at Sompo International
Empathy underpins that discipline. Prickett has struggled in the industry. She has felt what it is like when promised support does not materialize. Having worked across almost every function in the company, she understands operational detail and the pressure agents face. That shared experience shapes her leadership.
Structural barriers also shaped her path. As a woman and a mother, she encountered the assumption that serious business building required keeping priorities “out of order for a time.” She also experienced the double standard that frames firm women as difficult while praising similar behaviour in men.
“If you have a choice between being liked and doing the right thing, doing the right thing is always better, even if it’s the unpopular thing,” Prickett says.
She wants to dismantle the expectation that women must choose between career and family, or between strength and kindness. In her view, leadership demands both conviction and care.
Being named an Elite Woman carries weight. Prickett did not have female role models in the industry when she started. She hopes visibility changes that. “I hope I can be an example. Not of perfection, but of persistence. Of building from your values and staying true to who you are.”
The legacy Prickett is still defining centres on proof – proof that a large, profitable company can grow without sacrificing integrity; proof that agents can build real assets while keeping their priorities intact; and proof that leadership does not require abandoning who you are to succeed.
“If you have a choice between being liked and doing the right thing, doing the right thing is always better, even if it’s the unpopular thing”
Lee-Ann Prickett,
Experior Financial Group
“What I’ve learned is that when you build from your values, when you put people first, when you do the right thing even when it’s hard, that becomes your plan”
Lee-Ann Prickett,
Experior Financial Group