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Adam Turner is an award-winning Australian technology journalist, corporate writer, podcaster and long-time columnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He has written about the technological and cybersecurity challenges facing Australian organisations – from startups and SMBs to enterprise and government – for more than two decades.
Previously the Melbourne deputy editor of Fairfax’s Next biztech section, Adam left The Age after seven years in 2005 to pursue a freelance career. He regularly contributes news, opinion, features, reviews and blogs to a wide range of consumer and business technology publications, as well as corporate clients. He also co-hosts the award-winning Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News podcast.
I help businesses change. This is best done through the adoption of new technology delivery techniques and focusing on team culture. A Digital Transformation leader with over 20 years of technology experience, creating and implementing strategies for large enterprise organisations.
My role as the Chief Engineer at NAB, has me leading the creation of the standardised development platforms and enabling transformation of the developer engineering function. This involves using engineering excellent to ensure that customers and colleagues are the highest priority for everything we do. A key part of this role is identify change opportunities that can improve efficiencies in delivery and realising significant investment benefits.
Andrew Tragardh commenced his career as a commercial litigation solicitor with one of the most prestigious law firms in Australia, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now known as Allens Linklaters).
He then moved to Madgwicks Lawyers, a firm with a heavy focus on insolvency which at the time acted for the liquidators of the now infamous Pyramid Building Society. Encouraged by the partners of the firm, Andrew completed an overseas secondment with a firm of private commercial fraud investigators in London, England; Network Security Management Ltd. In London, he worked hand in glove with the investigators and external lawyers in a variety of fraud related cases, including matters where assets were traced to foreign jurisdictions.
Upon his return to Australia, Andrew forged a formidable reputation for acting for organisations and individuals affected by fraud and related conduct. In 1998 he was the first lawyer to complete the Certified Fraud Investigators Course – held by the Victoria Police Major Fraud Squad in conjunction with the Faculty of Law and Management at Latrobe University. In 2000-2001 Andrew represented a significant party called before the Metropolitan Ambulance Service Royal Commission who was exonerated from all allegations of misconduct.
After 11 years as a solicitor, Andrew joined the Victorian Bar, and for the next 14 years he had a reputation as the ‘go to’ fraud barrister, recognised by his peers and the Courts as an expert in commercial fraud cases and white collar crime defence. His work at the Bar included appearing in Courts in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Andrew’s pre-eminence was recognised in the 2019 Best Lawyers awards.
Anthea is a Thales Regional Manager based in Melbourne. She has more than twenty years in IT experience providing solutions to complex problems amongst multiple industries, helping organisations transform the way they deploy, manage and use applications to drive their business.
Through her varied roles in IT, Anthea has developed a complete understanding of the IT landscape. Her key areas of strength are knowledge of business needs and issues with the ability of building strong lasting relationships with existing and potential customers. Her experience and background has fundamentally helped her understand where her true passion is: Technology and People.
In today’s digital world, and with an increase Cyber Attacks, Anthea has a strong focus in assisting organisations who are data dependent with their sensitive data to overcome their challenges and to deliver great user experiences.
Brian Grant is the Thales Regional Director with responsibility for the Data Protection business in Australia and New Zealand. He started his career in technology when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, working on critical air traffic control systems. He has had extensive hands on and leadership experience in delivering innovative and unique solutions for organisations, with a particular emphasis on networking and cybersecurity. He has held regional leadership roles for a number of technology start-ups and is passionately committed to helping clients embed data security to better deliver confidentiality, integrity and availability in our data dependent world.
Celeste has over 20 years’ experience in operations and risk, with expertise in a wide range of payments and financial crime areas including fraud and AML compliance across both first and second line risk functions. Celeste has led financial crime transformation programs across multiple organisations and industries. In her current role at Bank Australia, Celeste leads the Financial Intelligence team and is responsible for all matters relating to financial crime including analytics, fraud operations and AML compliance.
Chloe is a seasoned compliance executive and trained lawyer (both in Australian and China) with experience in finance, crypto and products. She worked in a leading law firm and acted for major banks before joining the fintech world. She worked as a compliance executive in several leading crypto companies and now is the head of compliance of Binance Australia.
Claude Colasante recently joined Betfair Australia as the Head of AML in early 2022.
Previously, Claude ran an AML/CTF consulting services business and spent over 20yrs working in federal government. Claude has extensive AML/CTF and law enforcement experience having worked with various Commonwealth agencies including AUSTRAC, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, the Australian Federal Police and the private sector during his career.
At AUSTRAC, Claude held senior executive roles including the National Manager Intelligence, Director Intelligence, Director Innovation and Director Customer success within AUSTRAC’s Intelligence division. One of his key areas of focus and expertise was how to use and apply advanced analytics and data science to identify money laundering, terrorist financing and financial crime risks. Claude had responsibility for developing financial transaction monitoring capabilities and AUSTRAC’s contribution to the ATO-led, multi-agency taskforce Wickenby – combating offshore tax evasion. Claude has acquired a wealth of experience in anti-money laundering, fraud, white collar crime investigations, intelligence, forensic accounting, corporate governance, securities fraud and was involved in a number of high-profile criminal investigations and prosecutions.
In addition to his undergraduate studies, Claude holds an Associate Diploma in Business, a Diploma in Accounting, and a Post Graduate Diploma of Criminal Intelligence and a Master of Arts (Intelligence Analysis) from Charles Sturt University and is a member the USA Academy of Science and Engineering (ASE).
Financial Crime SME with NICE Actimize, twenty plus years industry experience, has scoped, designed and delivered some of the largest Fraud programmes globally. Currently working on the design and deployment of cloud-based Fin Crime solutions which are aimed to provide the basis for a wider ANZ industry utility.
Research interests in long run capital flows and economic empowerment. Keen open water marathon swimmer. Auckland based.
A regular commentator, both in the media and regional seminars and forums, Daniel has a strong understanding of the challenges facing businesses trying to grow their products within Asia Pacific. He draws from his extensive knowledge of financial regulation and rich experience in technology markets to discuss the trends and opportunities around scaling an AML-compliant business.
Daniel’s commentary on technology can be found in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
David Normandeau is a Director of Sales for Precisely. Dave is in his fourteenth year with Precisely having held various roles in software sales, business development, and technology alliances. In January he relocated from Boston to Brisbane to lead sales of the Precisely Data Integrity Suite to Banking & Financial Services accounts in Australia & New Zealand.
Demet Kayali is a senior financial crime, compliance and risk leader spanning over 20 years in banking, wealth management, audit and APRA. She has led the Enterprise Financial Crime and Compliance functions at Aware Super, with accountability as the Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Group Privacy Officer. Driven by a passion to protect the community from financial crime, Demet has led wide scale financial crime transformation programs, including developing frameworks, setting up a Financial Crime Centre of Excellence, enhancing controls and deploying enhanced technology to strengthen financial crime detection capability. Demet was awarded the highest performing Master of Business Law graduate at Monash University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.
Dhivian Govender is the Chief Data, Analytics and Strategy Officer at Recoveriescorp, overseeing the strategy around how data and analytics is used to effectively and efficiently engage with customers.
With over 20 years of experience in the data and analytics space across Australia and New Zealand, he has a passion for turning data science and analytical findings into actionable insight whilst building and growing successful teams.
Dr. Dimitrios Salampasis is the Director, Master of Financial Technologies, FinTech Discipline Leader and Lecturer, FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swinburne School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship. Dimitrios is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, a Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, a Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland and an Academic Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute.
He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Senior Associate within the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a member of the CPA Australia Digital Transformation Centre of Excellence. Dimitrios is the recipient of the 2021 Blockchain Educator of the Year Award by Blockchain Australia and the 2021 Swinburne University Vice Chancellor’s Engagement Award – Industry Engagement (Individual).
Prior joining academia, Dimitrios worked in the management consulting industries being involved in global advisory and consulting activities on emerging market investing assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and sustainable market business changes. Dimitrios publishes in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work is regularly presented in major international conferences and invited keynote speeches and lectures around the world. Dimitrios’ areas of specialist expertise, research, teaching, industry engagement, policy and advisory work revolve around the emergence and development of FinTech-enabled business models, Blockchain and crypto assets innovation, business, sustainable development and human rights, quantum computing for business, digital transformation in banking and FinTech education, along with the relevant global FinTech-related regulatory and policy changes.
Dimitrios is regularly involved in advisory work with key private, public and governmental stakeholders of the Australian and international FinTech and broader business ecosystem. Dimitrios has a strong media presence in Australia and abroad.
Eoin has 20 years’ experience in Financial Crimes and Data Analytics, and has worked across APAC and EMEA in a number of Senior Leadership roles.
Eoin joined Link Group in 2012 and is the Head of Financial Crimes responsible for protecting the data and monetary assets of over 30 million individuals. His current remit spans across Fraud Prevention, AML/CTF Reporting, Training & Awareness, Suspicious Matter Reporting, Regulator & Law Enforcement engagement. Eoin is responsible for the strategy, leadership and continuous improvement of the Financial Crimes department, ensuring the people, processes and technology are all operating effectively to mitigate the risk of fraud impacting the wider ecosystem
Faith is an independent board appointed director of BankVic. She is also chair of BankVic’s Risk committee, and a member of the Digital Transformation, Projects, and Cyber Committee. She was formerly on the board of Central Gippsland Health, a regional public health service and hospital.
She is also a consultant in Ashurst’s Risk Advisory Practice currently focusing on major Cyber incident response and investigation.
Faith’s career in Risk Advisory and consulting spans over 30 years with IBM, Deloitte and EY, where she was a partner in the Financial Services Risk practice for 16 years working primarily in banking, and was one of 2 founding partners of EY’s national information security and cyber consulting practice.
Faith has tertiary qualifications in Economics and Computer Science.
She has recently completed an innovation study tour in Silicon Valley focusing on payments innovation, financial crime, and crypto.
Banxa is the world’s leading crypto on and off-ramp. We partner with the established giants of our industry in addition to those on the frontier of Web 3 innovation. Igor is based in Melbourne, Australia and have spent the last 10 years learning to fight crime across fraud, financial crime and cybersecurity principles. He believes that blockchain and digital assets are the future of finance. In these still early stages, this provides a sea of opportunity to help shape how society will engage with and adopt this revolutionary technology. Igor is certain that the only way to make a real dent in crypto fraud is an almost “excessive” amount of collaboration across industry, regulators and consumers.
Jamie is an AML Solutions Consultant who moved to the UK when Jade ThirdEye expanded into the region. For the past six years he’s been implementing Jade ThirdEye in a range of industries, helping clients with transaction monitoring rules, best practice processes for screening their customers against watchlists, and giving clients peace of mind that they’re meeting their compliance needs.
Jane Edwards, CFE, has worked in the fraud industry for over 15 years. During this time, she has developed extensive experience in the banking and finance, construction and telecommunications industries. Jane has led complex investigations involving mortgage fraud, check kiting, identity theft and conflicts of interest, including one of the largest personal bankruptcy cases in Australian history.
Jane is an expert in fraud risk assessment, preventing and detecting fraud and can be frequently found facilitating training sessions for NBN Co staff on topics such as conflicts of interest, probity, fraud and corruption and ethical behaviour.
With a keen interest in ethics and organisational culture, Jane is currently undertaking a Master of Ethics and Legal Studies at Charles Sturt University. Jane is also keen advocate of whistleblower protections.
Jane leads the Fraud Management and Investigations function at NBN Co, a $51 billion telecommunications infrastructure project—the largest undertaken in Australian history.
As a Cyber Security Operations Lead, Jaya looks after day to day operational security activities that range from security controls assessments through to investigating security incidents. Joining CareSuper in 2020, he has helped with the development and uplift of several cyber security capabilities at the fund. This includes the vulnerability management program, third party risk assessment framework and endpoint detection and response controls. Outside of work, Jaya enjoys playing indoor cricket and basketball.
John has extensive senior executive experience in government, regulatory and law enforcement settings. John`s career has centred on enabling organisations to be data-driven and intelligence-led through the utilisation of data and legal technology. In his previous role with Australia`s corporate regulator ASIC, John established and led a range of specialist investigation and support functions including forensic accounting, knowledge management, litigation support, e-discovery, computer forensics and regulatory performance reporting. Between 2017 and 2020, John was ASIC`s inaugural Chief Data Officer, responsible for developing the regulator`s Data Strategy and foundational data governance and analytics frameworks.
Other portfolio responsibilities John has held include risk management and procurement. He was also appointed to the office of ASIC`s Regional Commissioner, Victoria in 2021. John has advised and partnered with national and international regulators in relation to data analytics and legal technology transformation programs. He has held senior executive roles in Victoria Police in corporate services, forensic medicine and forensic science.
Prabhakar is an experienced financial crime leader, and a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of experience in financial crime, fraud investigations and fraud risk management. In his current role at ANZ Bank, he is a Lead Advisor to the KYC Centre of Expertise and advises on all matters KYC related including remediation projects, transformation projects, technology changes and major initiatives across the Australian Retail and Commercial (AR&C) Division for ANZ Bank. He also leads a team that manages KYC escalations and is responsible for building workforce capability across the AR&C Portfolio.
He has significant experience and a keen focus in harnessing the power of big data and technology in preventing, detecting and responding to the scourge of financial crime and fraud. Previously in his role as a Director at KPMG Forensic, he has led large teams in managing several complex and sensitive fraud / financial crime engagements subject to media and regulatory scrutiny.
With over 10 years leading teams in financial service; across customers facing and operation roles, Lisa directed her focus to Financial Crime in 2016 while working in superannuation administration after seeing and hearing first-hand the impact financial crimes have on our customers and communities.
Since then she has worked in KYC and Transaction Monitoring at two of the Big 4 banks.
Her focus is on building strong investigative mindset and highly skilled financial crime analysts.
Outside of work she loves to bake and spend time with family and friends.
Luke is the Chainalysis Sales Director primarily focussed on the financial services industry across Australia & New Zealand. As a blockchain enthusiast he works with banks and other financial institutions helping them manage crypto as both an opportunity and a threat. Building trust in the blockchain at financial institutions, crypto exchanges, regulators, intelligence and law enforcement is at the core of all Blockchain’s customer engagements, for the betterment of the emerging ecosystem.
Luke is an experienced anti financial crime professional, having worked in global banks and FinTechs for over 14 years. As an experienced MLRO and regular speaker at AML and fraud events, Luke is a subject matter expert (and self-confessed nerd) in the areas of anti-money laundering, fraud prevention, sanctions and PEP screening and anti-bribery and corruption.
With a career spanning two major Australian banks, as well as well-known FinTech companies such as Square, Airwallex and Wise (formerly TransferWise), Luke is passionate about striking the balance between serving customers, protecting the firm from compliance breaches, and detecting and preventing crime.
Matthew has more than 28 years’ experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, business consulting and information technology solutions. He currently is responsible for the AML Line of Business in Asia Pacific. In this role Matthew meets with Actimize clients, APAC regional regulators and industry analyst to determine the AML initiatives, trends and challenges faced by organizations in APAC.
Based in Asia for the last 20 years, he has held Executive, Partner level and senior management positions for a global risk advisory, a big four accounting firm within their risk and compliance management practice and two global providers of financial services compliance and risk management solutions.
He has also provided advisory to clients on assessing their Compliance and Risk capability and actions to improve maturity of their frameworks.
Matthew is a frequent speaker at industry events in the region, including ACAMS, Goodway Japan, OpRisk Asia, Regulation Asia and many other local and regional Financial Crime Risk conferences.
Matthew White is a Senior Solutions Architect for Thales in Australia. Matthew works with many customers in all verticals where he provides architectural, design, and implementation recommendations to solve a multitude of cybersecurity challenges using an integrated portfolio of best-in-class data security products.
Matthew has over 20 years of experience, including 10 with Thales working closely with customers advising them on technical security practices, secure application data architectures, and advanced data anonymization and encryption strategies.
Michael is a Client-lead for Jade ThirdEye in Australia. In his prior role, Michael worked closely with Risk & Compliance Executives to help manage their risks whilst achieving their strategic objectives. Taking his learnings and knowledge of the Financial Services sector, Michael is well-placed to help businesses protect their customers by improving their AML compliance programmes.
Based out of Sydney, Mike Rae is Country Manager leading the Jade Australia team. Overseeing Jade’s customers and business growth across Jade’s portfolio including Jade ThirdEye, Digital Services and Jade Platform, ensuring the voice of the customer is at the heart of decisions and successful go-to-market of innovative high value technology solutions and services.
Nicola is the Chief Risk Officer in AMP (previously the Chief Audit Executive). She has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, both domestically and internationally, during which time she has built a deep understanding of regulation, risk, governance and control. Nicola has held various roles in financial services organisations and regulators, including most recently with ANZ as General Manager of Audit for the Wealth business, and at Barclays, HBOS and the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Nicola is also a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Audit in the U.K. and a former Board member of the Global Institute of Internal Audit.
Sam is a Senior Sales Engineer at Precisely, based in Sydney. He is responsible for matching customers’ present business and technological challenges with relevant and cost-efficient solutions. Exposing the customers to best practices within the appropriate field during the process. Sam has spent 23 years in the industry with numerous solution designs, implementations, and consulting engagements. At Precisely Sam enjoys both the culture of the organisation and the comprehensive and strong solutions portfolio. Sam also enjoys his long motorcycles trips and camping outdoors.
Shendon Ewans is the CEO & Co-founder of Gobbill, an Australian company which specialises in making payments easier and safer for business owners and vulnerable people by reducing the risk of scams and fraud. Gobbill combines digitising invoices, checking for fraud and making payments automatically for its clients. The company is a registered National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider for processing payments and is actively safeguarding its own NDIS participants’ funds from fraud.
Prior to Gobbill, Shendon worked at the Australian Taxation Office, Victoria Police and major banks on ICT projects including data linkage and pattern recognition for preventing and detecting fraud. He has 25 years of experience in business consulting and managing enterprise (ICT) transformations including working at PwC, Arthur Andersen & KPMG.
Simon has over 22 years of Industry Experience. He is an expert in Cyber Security & Cyber Crime Investigations and is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), IAM/RFID expert, insider fraud, biometrics, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Expert Witness and a first responder to major cyber crisis events.
He has been engaged and appeared as an expert witness in numerous criminal and civil cases to analyse forensic digital evidence from VCAT level up to the High Court; some involving murder, CEM (child exploitation material), drug charges, catfishing, cyber stalking, and other alleged criminal activity where Simon has analysed evidence and given opinion on how well the procedure in the collection of digital evidence was followed by police.
He is also a Social Media Expert, and is experienced and holds certifications in Ethical Hacking, Information Technology Professional, Penetration Testing, Splunk, Palo Alto, CyberArk, IBM B/C, Win32 API, C SQL, Java, Checkpoint Security Master (CCSM), and Google Analytics (GAIQ). He is a full SDLC Enterprise software and systems developer, and developer of business software since 1999.
Working to find that fine balance between Compliance & Commercial, Sree is an avid problem solver and more so an out of the box thinker. Sree is an experienced AML & Regulatory Compliance Manager with a demonstrated history of working in financial services across a variety of industries including investment banking, securities & most recently OTC derivatives. Having encountered working in environments ranging from very little structure to a well embedded framework, she is passionate about working with organisations to take them along the Compliance & AML journey.
Steven advises on financial services and fintech, with a particular focus on digital assets regulation and disputes. Steven represents leading financial institutions, fintechs, digital currency exchanges, startups and DeFi projects, and venture capital funds. He has 14 years’ experience as a start-up founder and litigation specialist. Steven has a rare combination of commercial, legal and entrepreneurial skills. He adopts a highly commercial approach and is focused on helping clients to navigate regulatory complexity and achieve commercial outcomes.
Steven has experience with commercial contracts, corporate law, disputes, financial services and cryptocurrency regulation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement. He has advised on fraud investigations, insider trading, market manipulation, cyber frauds and asset recovery, IP theft, mis-selling, governance and directors’ duties, AML/CTF and sanctions issue. His experience includes advising on regulatory investigations involving ASIC as well as the DOJ, CFTC, MAS, HKMA, SFC and the FCA. He has acted on litigation before the UK Supreme Court and in the Hong Kong and Australian Courts. Steven also advises on arbitration and has experience in relation to international arbitration, investment treaty disputes, interim relief and enforcement of arbitral awards.
Steven trained at a Magic Circle law firm in London and worked for one of Australia’s leading disputes practices prior to joining Piper Alderman. Steven also has experience as a start-up founder and previously ran a Delaware incorporated Public Benefit Corporation. Steven is qualified and has practised in Australia, Hong Kong and England & Wales.
Stuart Stoyan is an investor, advisor and serial entrepreneur with expertise in fintech, consumer lending and open data. Stuart has specific expertise in scaling technology-enabled businesses, driving operational efficiency and delivering brilliant customer experiences.
Stuart has helped shape Australian fintech and innovation policies as Chair of Fintech Australia and as the founder of the National Fintech Census, Australia’s first and largest survey of the local fintech industry.
Stuart is a member of the Australian Government’s Fintech Advisory Group and the open banking Data Standards Board Advisory Committee.
Earlier in his career, Stuart was the Head of Strategy for NAB Business and a management consultant at Bain & Company. He is a frequent speaker at technology and innovation events and has been a regular contributor to several national publications. Stuart has a B.Com (Honours) from Monash University.
Swaranjit is a passionate Financial Crime (FC) Risk Analytics and Intelligence leader. For last 10 years, Swaranjt has been delivering FinCrime risk management strategies solving complex problems and transform AML/CTF, Sanctions and Fraud problems by effective and efficient use of data, visualisations, and technologies. An extensive experience and exposure in Banking industry for over 19 years across many banking divisions and Risk areas managing business functions, delivering initiatives and projects mainly involving Data only made possible by the “make it happen” and “thinking outside the box” mindset and ensured by applying good governance principles.
A technology fanatic who has donned many hats in the field of cyber security like Cyber Engineer, Information Security Officer, Security Architect, Auditor, Country Manager for Managed Security Services and Security Startup Founding member. The single goal of his career is to quench his curiosity to understand how technology can be misused. He also contributes to the life changing experiences that can be created due to amalgamation of business and technology in a secure and robust way. He has had 15+ years of experience in providing cyber consultation to C-level executives and their boards to strengthen their confidence and ability to detect and respond from cyber threats to their business.
Zach Bennett is AML Technology Consultant at ComplyAdvantage specialising in global compliance projects. With close to five years in the industry, Zach has worked with leading financial institutes and high growth FinTech companies in both the UK and APAC to help regulated organisations manage risk obligations and counteract financial crime.
