Conference Speakers

Henrik is the co-founder and CIO of Apollo Capital, Australia’s premier crypto fund. Henrik has over 17 years of experience in global financial markets, with almost a decade on Wall Street. Henrik has extensive experience across three continents as a quantitative analyst, senior research analyst and in institutional equity sales. Henrik holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and a Master of Science in business administration and economics from Stockholm University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Mark Azoulay is an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s London office. He has been working with financial institutions on numerous risk topics, including climate, market risk, operating model. He has been fully dedicated to climate risk in the last two years. Mark is leading the Climate Risk practice in Banking. 

Pieter Bierkens is Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Interest Rate Benchmark Reform Lead. In his current capacity he coordinates the Bank’s preparation for the global reform of interest rate benchmarks. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. 

Previously, Pieter was Head of Markets of Commonwealth Bank in New York. Prior to Commonwealth Bank, he worked for 10 years in New York and London, where he started his career advising institutional investors on global fixed-income markets. 

Pieter holds a degree in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and a Master degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds the Financial Risk Manager designation.

Prior to this he led Bloomberg’s efforts in New Zealand and Regional Australia (2017-2020) and managed Bloomberg's asset management and superannuation business focused on technology adoption, sales and managing strategic accounts (2014-2017). 

James began his career at global asset management and custodian bank State Street (2005-2014) in various Product Manager and Sales roles, and led the successful outsourcing of various operational processes to India and Mainland China.James has more than 16 years experience in the Financial Services and Technology industry and is passionate about sales, business strategy, people growth, gender parity in finance, and giving back to the community through philanthropy.

He holds a bachelor of Business in Management, International Business and Finance from The University of Technology Sydney, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Business Management.
 

Rajeev Bhatnagar is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, International, for BNY Mellon.

Based in Hong Kong, Rajeev is responsible for managing risk and compliance in the region — across all risk and compliance disciplines, businesses and legal entities — and for interfacing with local regulatory bodies.

Rajeev has more than 27 years of international banking experience, and has managed teams in Asia Pacific, particularly in Australia, as well as Africa, Europe and the US, making him uniquely experienced to manage complex and challenging situations across diverse geographies and cultures.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2020, he was in senior roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia for six years and at Citigroup for 21 years.

Rajeev has broad-based banking and risk management experience, spanning corporates and financial institutions, business banking and retail banking. In the last 17 years of his career in risk management, he has held Chief Risk Officer roles at country, regional and global levels. He has managed teams across all risk categories, including
credit risk, operational risk, market risk and compliance.

Rajeev is an engineer by background and holds a Masters of Business Administration from one of the leading business schools in India and Asia Pacific, IIM Ahmedabad.

Michael has over 20 years’ investment management and consulting experience and joined BTIM from First State Super, where he was Head of Investment Strategy since January 2014. In this role, Michael was responsible for the establishment of an active asset allocation process and led the Fund’s Investment Strategy Team. Prior to this appointment, Michael was Head of Diversified Strategies at Perpetual for over five years, with portfolio management responsibilities for the manager’s range of diversified funds. Michael’s prior experience includes over 10 years in consulting roles at Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson) and NSP Buck.

Nick has spent 27 years in financial market, including 21 years as a market maker and structurer across G10 Interest Rate Derivatives in London, Toronto & Sydney. As a market maker, he traded Interest Rate Swaps, Interest Options and Inflation products, and over saw many changes in Front Office trading and valuation methodologies. Following a short period of Trading System consultancy, Nick joined Bloomberg’s Sydney office 5 years ago as the Australia & New Zealand Fixed Income Market Specialist.

Brendan has been working in financial markets, with a particular focus on Collateral Management for over 22 years. Starting in London with UBS in 1998, Brendan helped develop UBS’s in-house OTC derivatives collateral management solution “COMA” before becoming a Collateral Manager himself and working across the OTC and Stock Lending portfolios. Later, Brendan transferred to Sydney to establish a collateral management presence in Australia before setting up and managing the Australian Prime Brokerage operation supporting the UBS Hedge Fund Services business.

Following a move to Brisbane in 2006, Brendan joined Suncorp where he established their OTC Collateral Management function as well as the Banks’s Repo business. Currently, Brendan has combined responsibility for Suncorp’s Cash and Collateral Management with a primary focus over the last few years on delivering to the OTC Regulations around reporting, UMR and Central Clearing.

Karen Chester commenced as an ASIC Deputy Chair on 29 January 2019.

Before joining ASIC, Karen was a Commissioner at the Productivity Commission since 2013 and Deputy Chair since May 2016.

Previously, Karen was a Partner at Mercer and Global Head of Infrastructure. Before joining Mercer, Karen was a Partner at Access Capital Advisers and the CEO of Access Economics. Karen has held directorships on several Australian infrastructure company boards.

Before moving to the private sector, Karen held senior economic policy roles in the Australian Treasury and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Karen has a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Queensland and was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by the University in 2017. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria (as well as the High Court of Australia) in 1998.

David previously worked in the corporate and financial services divisions of Clayton Utz in Sydney, and Linklaters in London and Tokyo, followed by four years in the Financial Services Group of Macquarie Bank in Sydney.

Elliot has been with Westpac Economics for 13 years, having previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Over his career, his focus has remained on Australia’s place in the global economy, having assessed economic and financial developments in Asia for the RBA. Clarke manages Westpac Economics’ global economic and financial market forecasts. He holds an honours degree in economics from the University of Sydney, a masters of applied finance from Macquarie University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Ellis is currently Deputy Head of the Payments Policy Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia, which is responsible for the oversight of Australia’s high-value payments, clearing and settlement facilities. He has previously served as the Bank’s Deputy Secretary, and as Deputy Head of the Domestic Markets Department, which is responsible for the implementation of monetary policy and monitoring developments in institutional and securities markets in Australia. Ellis holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Entering financial markets in a trading capacity, John’s career spans 30 years in financial services and has included senior markets-based roles overseeing FICC businesses for HSBC, Westpac Institutional Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Macquarie Bank. He has also had extensive offshore experience in both London and Hong Kong in regional and global teams across most products.

He is currently Chief Investment Officer at market-leading fintech SocietyOne.

Tessa Dann is a Director of Sustainable Finance at ANZ Banking Group (ANZ), based in Sydney.  She is responsible for supporting ANZ’s clients in financing related to their sustainability strategies and ESG commitments. Working alongside ANZ’s Capital Markets, Lending and Transaction Banking teams, the ANZ Sustainable Finance team originates and structures sustainable finance solutions for ANZ’s global client base.

In conjunction with the bank’s Treasury team, Tessa also manages ANZ’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Bond programme that raises awareness for the UN SDGs and supports positive environmental and social outcomes through ANZ’s own lending and financing activities.

Tessa is ANZ’s representative on various industry bodies including the ICMA Sustainability-Linked Bond Working Group and the AFMA Sustainable Finance and ESG Risk Forums.

ANZ’s market leading Sustainable Finance team has been recognised through numerous industry awards, most recently being voted the #1 ESG and Sustainable Finance bank in Australia (2021) by the Peter Lee Associates Survey.

Peter Deans retired in May 2019 after seven years as group chief risk officer of the Bank of Queensland in Australia and a finance career spanning 32 years. He now undertakes selected risk and strategy advisory engagements in the financial services, corporate, start-up and technology sectors. Deans is a regular public speaker on the topics of risk management, ethics, technology and regulatory and compliance topics. He is the founder of the 52 Risks management framework and a non-executive director of The RegTech Association in Australia.

Antoine is the Head of Market Risk for UBS Australia and New Zealand since 2016 and was appointed Chief Risk Officer in 2019.

Prior to joining UBS, Antoine held numerous senior risk and trader roles across the APAC region, specializing in equity derivatives trading.

Antoine has over 20 years of risk and trading management experience in the financial services industry in Asia-Pacific markets.

Kim is the General Manager – Responsible Investment at HESTA and leads the fund’s approach to responsible investment across all asset classes, including its approach to climate change and impact investment.

She has more than 15 years experience as a responsible investment and sustainability professional. Prior to HESTA, she held roles as the Head of ESG at Hostplus, Portfolio Manager, Responsible Investments at VicSuper and Director within Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services Team.

Kim holds Bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Economics and a Master of Science, where her research focussed on engagement and voting.

John Feeney manages Martialis Consulting working on financial markets product and infrastructure. He has been in financial markets for over 30 years in trading and management roles across most asset classes. Prior to joining NAB, Mr. Feeney has worked for Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, Citi in Sydney and London and Macquarie Bank in Sydney. Over this time he has traded and managed interest rate derivative, foreign exchange, traded credit, commodities and funding businesses.

Recently, Mr. Feeney has been an ISDA Board Member and Vice-Chairman and an AFMA Board member.

Mr. Feeney has a PhD and BSc (Hons) from University of Sydney.

Robert Fievez has 15 years’ experience in financial markets, specialising in derivatives reform, execution and collateralisation. His experience includes helping firms match regulatory requirements against underlying portfolio impacts to make a transition to new operating and business models. Most recently, Fievez's focus has been with buy-side firms as they seek to acquire a wider range of market risk management access methods. He has also led engagement with local and overseas regulators across a range of derivative reform issues.

Paul has over 30 years professional and commercial experience in financial services covering banking, insurance and wealth management. He is a former partner at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

As Director, Financial Services for SAS Australia and New Zealand, he is responsible for sales and industry strategies for banking customers and risk management solutions and a member of the Global Banking Council for SAS. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of FINSIA and a certified finance and treasury professional.

During his time at SAS, he has been Executive Sponsor for several of our largest Australia and New Zealand financial services customers including overseeing major sales and technology solution delivery initiatives in risk management and regulatory compliance for banking and insurance clients. These include credit risk, Basel II, RWA, stress testing, IFRS 9, regulatory and economic capital, pricing and claims management.

He is a recognised public speaker and thought leader in financial services.

Donovan leads the Risk and Compliance team for Westpac’s insurance entities, including Life Insurance, General Insurance, and Lenders Mortgage Insurance.  He is responsible for overseeing all risks faced by these entities, both financial and non-financial.  A big part of Donovan’s role is working with key stakeholders, including the Board and regulators, in making sense of the risks faced by these entities in increasingly “VUCA” (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) times.  Donovan previously led risk and compliance teams at the Commonwealth Bank, and his career spans a variety of roles in superannuation, banking, and regulation. 

Over 25 years in Financial Services. John is the NAB Lead on Financial Benchmark Reforms and has been involved in leading this since October 2017.In this role John advises and works closely with Sponsor, impacted product and customer segment heads, risk, legal & project managers to ensure NAB meets the timelines and changes required to transition customers off LIBOR to alternative reference rates.

Simon joined TMX Group in 2019 as the Head of Institutional Sales, EMEA for the Montréal Exchange’s listed derivatives business. Located in the UK, Simon’s mandate is to grow TMX’s derivatives business on an international scale. Simon’s previous professional experience covering APAC also allows him to significantly contribute to business development efforts in that specific region in his current role. Simon has an extensive background in trading and sales in fixed income, derivatives and FX, with over 30 years of experience in capital markets. His depth of client coverage includes some of the largest asset managers in the world, coupled with close ties to some large sovereign wealth funds.
 
Prior to joining TMX, Simon was Managing Director and Head of International Fixed Income Sales, EMEA, and Head of Relationship Management for EMEA and Asia at TD Securities. Simon was responsible for leading the Bank’s fixed income sales activity and has been a key member of their leadership team, both in London and asia. . Prior to joining TD, Simon was Head of Capital Markets in London for ANZ Banking Corporation and spent 20 years at Westpac Banking Corporation managing their Capital Markets Sales & Trading business in Europe. Simon also spent a brief period at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for dollar bloc sales. 

Manish Jayswal is the head of risk management, and consumer and business banking at Westpac, and is responsible for the oversight of consumer risk portfolio insights across financial and non-financial risk. In prior roles at Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, he worked in credit risk, balance sheet management, treasury and capital allocation. Jayswal has held several global senior risk management roles, notably with Fannie Mae in Washington DC during the peak of global financial crisis that began in 2007–08, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and GE Capital. He has designed and implemented risk management frameworks such as risk appetite, early warning, the economic capital framework, stress-testing, loss allowance modelling, home price forecasting.

Sidharth is an FRM certified Risk professional with over ten years of total experience - three years as an Engineer and the last seven years as a risk analyst across Market risk, Liquidity risk (Treasury) and Credit risk functions.

He currently works for a multilateral development bank founded by the Governments of the BRICS countries. Prior to this he worked for Goldman Sachs as a risk associate in the Market risk and Treasury divisions.

He has knowledge of advanced risk concepts such as debt sustainability analysis, country risk, macroeconomic scenario analysis, stress testing, capital planning, credit risk pricing, sensitivity analysis and VaR, among others. He has hands-on experience in various risk regulations such as CCAR, FDSF, LCR and NSFR.

Sidharth has strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication skills, and has working proficiency with Bloomberg, Tableau, Excel, VBA and Financial Modelling.

His interests lie in the areas of international finance, sovereign risk analysis, macroeconomics, financial development, infrastructure financing and the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Kamran Khan is Deutsche Bank’s Head of ESG for Asia Pacific. In this newly established client-facing role, he is responsible for defining and executing the bank’s ESG strategy across all business divisions in Asia. He is a member of the Global Sustainability Council of Deutsche Bank.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Khan established Infra-Tech Capital, an impact fund investing in companies utilizing technology to provide infrastructure services and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. He was also appointed by the Obama White House to serve as the head of global investments and operations at the US Millennium Challenge Corporation, where he managed a USD 10bn portfolio and led a USD 1.5-2bn annual investment program globally.

Previously, Mr. Khan held senior executive roles at the World Bank and helped establish the World Bank Group regional hub in Singapore, comprising the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Insurance & Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Prior to his time at the World Bank, Mr. Khan worked on M&A transactions and advisory mandates at JP Morgan and LEK. He also served as a US Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where he led operations for the project finance and guarantees facility.

Mr. Khan served as an Advisor on Infrastructure Finance to APEC, ASEAN, and the G-20. He is a member of the Senior Advisory Board at Fudan University Fintech Centre in Shanghai with a mandate to advise on Belt and Road Initiative projects. He has also served on the Board of Advisors at a variety of market-leading companies using technology to achieve ESG goals. He is a frequent speaker at events such as World Economic Forum, ASEAN Summit, APEC Summit, and in major international media.

Mr. Khan holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, and an MS in Applied Economics and Master of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Economics from George Mason University.

Damian commenced with QSuper in July 2009. As Head of Investment Strategy his responsibilities include guiding Asset Allocation as well as managing Investment Risk and Strategy.

Driven by processes developed by Damian and his team, QSuper has been an industry leader in Dynamic Asset Allocation and developing risk balanced portfolios, delivering top tier returns with risk around 25% lower than other high returning funds.

Previously Damian was Head of the Portfolio Design team in QIC’s Investment Strategy team where he focused on design for QIC’s core clients - QSuper and Queensland Treasury.

Damian commenced his career as a Chemical Engineer and worked in industry for 5 years. During this time he completed a Graduate Diploma of Accounting, and is now a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA).

Other financial experience includes roles with Macquarie Bank, CBA Institutional Banking, and Credit Suisse Financial Products.

He has written an easy reading book explaining investing and the global economic issues of the day, Kitchen Table Economics & Investing, released by University of Queensland Press in January 2013. To find out more about Damian visit his website www.barenakedeconomist.com

Micky Lo joined BNY Mellon in July 2013 as Chief Technology Risk Officer APAC. He is leading the regional team with the mission to enable business solutions while proactively protecting BNY Mellon from information risks in a balanced control environment. He oversees and govern the implementation of the bank wide information risk roadmap in the region with particular focus on IT regulatory compliance. 

He has over 30 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audit.

Before joining BNY Mellon, Micky was the Head of IT Security APAC and Head of Technology Greater China for Deutsche Bank. Micky has held various management positions in IT management, IT Security/Risk management and Audit with JPMorgan and Citibank.

Micky received a Bachelor of Mathematic degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from University of Western Ontario (Canada).

As National Australia Bank’s Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer - People, Conduct & Culture, Chris is responsible for the oversight of risks within these domains and supports NAB’s lines of business, globally, in their assessment and management of Compliance, Conduct, People and Culture risk.

He supports individual business units with the development, implementation and monitoring of policies and procedures required to manage risk, including the regular testing of their effectiveness.

Prior to joining NAB, Chris was a partner at Deloitte specialising in Risk within the Financial Services sector. With over 25 years’ experience in consulting and the financial services industry, he has experience in and exposure to all aspects of retail, business, wealth and capital markets/institutional banking.

I manage the Australian and New Zealand operations at Galvanize with a mandate to develop the market for our market leading software. I am also responsible for strategic initiatives around business development and customer success. I have extensive hands on experience implementing projects for large organisations across a range of industries and institutions including Coca Cola Amatil, Flight Centre, NSW Education, City of Melbourne and WorkSafe Victoria.

My experience is in IRM, GRC, ORM and ERM SaaS solutions with a particular focus on automation and data analysis. I have coupled this with risk and assurance subject matter expertise gained at consulting firms Ernst and Young in San Francisco and Deloitte in Sydney to develop robust sustainable solutions for organisations.

With over 20 years of experience in roles including financial analysis, external and internal audit I have a deep understanding of business processes, financial systems, regulatory environments and effective risk management. I have the passion and drive to identify and develop ways for technology to enhance and develop business capability. I strongly believe that successful management is achieved by effective use of data and automation and a deep understanding of the business, its environment, governance and stakeholders.

Sophie Marnhier Foy is the Global head of product marketing at Adenza.

Catherine has a strong background in governance and policy gained at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the ASX Corporate Governance Council, ASX, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Financial Services Council. Qualified as a lawyer, she has also held roles as a company secretary with The Cancer Council NSW, NPP Australia Limited and Father Chris Riley’s Youth off the Streets Limited.

Numerix Andrew McClelland’s quantitative research at Numerix focuses on XVA pricing and hedging, generating counterparty credit risk metrics for structured products, and estimating risk model parameters via time-series estimation. He earned his PhD in finance at the Queensland University of Technology for a thesis on financial econometrics. He considered markets exhibiting crash feedback, option pricing for such markets, and parameter estimation for such markets using particle filtering methods. Dr. McClelland’s work has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.  

Yasman is a subject-matter expert within the Moody’s risk and finance analytics practice. Since joining Moody’s in 2018, she has been focusing on areas including Stress Testing, IFRS 9 and Climate Change. She has over 10 years of experience in the Enterprise Risk Management space and has been supporting Financial Institutions including Banks, Regulators, Insurance and Investment companies with a range of risk management solutions and approaches.  

Campbell Nicoll is chief risk officer (CRO) at Regional Australia Bank, with 15 years' experience in credit and operational risk management. His previous roles in the financial sector include general manager positions at ASB Bank and a CRO role at the Bank South Pacific.

Over the last 18 years, Sam has been helping organisations meet and exceed their Risk & Compliance goals. Sam began his career as a practitioner, before moving into consulting and then to risk technology.

For the last 10 years, Sam has worked with RSA Archer, supporting its customers and partners around Asia Pacific and Japan, working across industries including FSI, Government, Manufacturing, Information Technology/ Information Security and Telco.

Sam now leads the RSA Archer Integrated Risk business in Asia Pacific and Japan and takes pride in the role that RSA’s solutions, teams and partners play in solving some of today’s biggest risk challenges. 

Su-Lin Ong is a Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets, Chief Economist & Senior Relationship Manager. She has led the Economics & Fixed Income Strategy team for AU/NZ since 2010 and was Head of AU Research, including oversight for equity research, from 2015 to 2019.  In August 2019, she began a newly created role to help foster senior relationships with RBC’s key clients.

Su-Lin is part of the global strategy team with primary responsibility for formulating and presenting RBC’s AU/NZ macroeconomic outlook, cash rate view and bond yield forecasts. Based in RBC’s Sydney office, she works closely with sales and trading across fixed income, currencies, and equities in Australia as well as key RBC offices across the globe. Prior to joining RBC in 1998, Su-Lin was a fixed income economist for Hambros Bank and before that worked as an economist at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet in Canberra.

She is a former Director of Business Spectator and the NSW/ACT FINSIA Regional Council.  Su-Lin is an Executive Member of The Australian Business Economists, CEDA’s Economic Policy Committee, and sits on the Women in Banking and Finance Board. She is also a founding member of RBC’s Diversity Council, RWomen Committee and actively involved in their mentoring and charity programs including Lou’s Place and Ronald McDonald House, Randwick. She is an ambassador for the RBA’s Women in Economics initiative and supports a number of initiatives aimed at building pipeline economic talent, especially female. Su-Lin regularly represents RBC at various industry, policy, and education forums. She holds a BEc from the University of Sydney, Post Graduate in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, is a Fellow, FINSIA, and scholarship recipient and recent graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr. Jeevan Perera is currently the Risk Manager for the Orion space vehicle.  The Orion is NASA's new spacecraft which will replace the Space Shuttle, service the International Space Station, and then return astronauts to the moon and eventually mount expeditions to Mars.  Dr Perera has been with NASA for 20 years.  In his current capacity, he is responsible for risk management policies, processes and analytical tools that ensure the successful deployment and operations of this new spacecraft.  He oversees both quantitative and qualitative risk analysis processes and provides technical direction to a team of risk analysts.  Formerly as the International Space Station Risk Manager, he designed, developed, implemented and improved the Program's risk management processes through a phased, systematic approach setting the standard for NASA’s risk practice.  Prior to his work in risk management, he has worked in different technical fields in support of many NASA programs and projects.  These duties have included management responsibility for versions of the primary and back-up flight software for the Space Shuttle and development responsibility for other software used aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. 

Dr. Perera has been a member of the Board of Trustees for a local homeowners association, has provided legal advice to the United Space School, a foundation for international space education that brings student from around the world for focused classes on space related disciplines. He often presents on space topics at schools, universities, public events and international conferences.  Dr. Perera has both a Jurisprudence Doctorate (law) and a PhD in Industrial Engineering.

Anke is a Partner in McKinsey’s Sydney Office (previously London, New York and Frankfurt Offices). She is leading McKinsey’s Australia & New Zealand Risk Practice and is a core leader of the global practice as well as service lines such as market risk and non-financial risk

Her work is focused on risk management and compliance at financial institutions and spans across engagements in Europe, North America and Australia/New Zealand. She has worked extensively on enterprise risk, credit risk, market risk, non-financial risk, risk organisation, risk transformation, capital management, risk and capital models, regulation and compliance.

Belinda leads CareSuper's Compliance and Risk team in identifying and managing governance and risk. She is also the corporate company secretary.

Belinda has over 25 years' experience in superannuation consulting, auditing and accounting, starting as an auditor for Ernest & Young. Later, she moved on to hold several senior roles at Towers Watson ( now known as Willis Towers Watson), including Senior Consultant for corporate super funds and Head of Research, Information and Compliance.

Belinda holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Information Systems), a Graduate Diploma in Organisation Leadership and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. 

-       Working at ING for 18 years in various fields of risk management
-       International working experience in Europe and Australia
-       Since 2 years head of integrative risk management in Australia
-       Responsible for stress testing, scenario analyses, ICAAP, IRB related topics, etc
 

STEPHEN J. TONNA, PhD, is Senior Risk Consultant at SAS. He is a member of the SAS Customer Advisory Team with specialized expertise in risk for Australia and New Zealand. Stephen is the risk lead for Australia and New Zealand of the SAS Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions (RQS) division. He received his doctorate in genetics, mathematics, and statistics from the University of Melbourne and research fellowship from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Alex Twigg is Founder and CEO of digital transformation advisory firm Shift Happens Group, Co-Founder and Executive Chair of experience-as-a service platform Appeggio.com, an Independant Non Executive Chair of fintech, Cape and an Independent Non Executive Director of netbank, Alex Bank. Previously, he was CEO of UBank, co-founder and CIO of Judo Bank, and an Independant Non Executive Director of Eftpos. 

Fintech Asia placed Alex among Asia’s 100 most influential Fintech leaders and he was named in CIO Magazines top 50 Australian CIO in 2019. Alex is also a member of the Australian Chartered Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a member of the University of Queensland Business School’s Service Innovation Alliance. 

Kirsten Wymer is Head of Risk Strategies and Research at BT Investment Solutions (BTIS), specialising in risk allocation, member analysis and asset allocation modelling techniques for multi-asset portfolios. Kirsten is a published author with papers appearing in 'The Journal of Retirement' among others. Prior to joining BTIS, she spent 15 years as a sell-side derivatives trader and quantitative researcher in a career spanning electricity, rates and equities asset classes. 
In addition to quantitative research and modelling for BTIS, Kirsten’s team also manages 10bln in cash and fixed income on behalf of BT – part of the Westpac Group.

Richard Yetsenga is Chief Economist and Head of Research at ANZ, based in Sydney. He leads the Bank's global research team, which focuses on Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Richard joined ANZ in 2011 from HSBC in Hong Kong, where he was Managing Director of Emerging Market Strategy. Prior to his seven years at HSBC, Richard held economics roles with Deutsche Bank and the Australian Government.
Richard publishes on issues of broad economic relevance, including climate change, technology, inequality and the benefits of diversity.

The ANZ Research team has been recognised with more than 40 top-three rankings in major industry surveys across Australia, New Zealand and Asia in the past six years, alongside numerous industry awards.

Richard regularly appears on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and other regional media, his work has been published by the Lowy Interpreter, and he is an editorial contributor in the Australian Financial Review, The Australian newspaper, The Wall Street Journal and the Hong Kong Economic Journal.

Yu is a Managing Associate in the Banking & Finance practice group at Allens. He advises borrowers and lenders on a broad range of finance transactions and global markets issues, including in relation to derivatives and GMRAs. He is currently working with a major Australian bank on its LIBOR transition.

Yu is a regular speaker on behalf of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc and the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.  He completed his Masters of Law at Cambridge University in 2009 with a focus on private law, and his Masters of Law at Harvard University in 2010 with a concentration in corporate governance and financial regulation.

Vicki is an experienced leader with a proven ability to drive rapid growth and business results in the space of Governance, Risk and Compliance.  For the last 20 years, Vicki has worked with leading organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to support their GRC journeys from digitisation of Risk and Compliance processes; to integration of those processes with strategic and operational planning processes; and alignment with organisational performance frameworks to support improved performance reporting.

As Senior Director GRC Solutions for MetricStream in Australia, Vicki is responsible for driving business growth in the region and enabling our customers Thrive on Risk.

Paul Wylie is Head of Risk, Asia Pacific for LCH Ltd.  In his role, he is responsible for overseeing the various LCH risk functions and benchmark reform for the APAC region.

Before joining LCH in March 2019, Paul headed Structured Products and managed fixed income portfolio mandates at Mason Stevens.  Prior to that, Paul held senior front office trading roles both in Australia and overseas, including running Strategic Trading, CVA Trading, and Credit Solutions for Lloyds bank PLC in London.

Paul holds degrees in Actuarial Studies and Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia.