Finder has hired a media heavyweight to fill a new role at the comparison site. Outgoing vice president of commercial and business development at ViacomCBS, Chris Ellis, has been appointed as the company's first chief executive for Finder Australia.His appointment will allow founders and global co-CEOs, Frank Restuccia and Fred Schebesta, to focus on the international expansion of the group. Finder operates in 20 countries.Ellis has also worked at MySpace and AOL, and co-founded a "start-up cloud management tool", GorillaStack.He said in a statement that his job was to scale up the local operations "in a disciplined way, with a focus on deepening existing and building new partnerships."He will be focusing on the opportunities created by the start of open banking in Australia.