Official Event Advisory Panel
Quest Events would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the official event advisory panel who contributed their valuable time and expertise to ensure the agenda for this event is timely and relevant for all stakeholders working in ICT and technology.
Hilda Clune
Chief Information Officer
PwC Australia
Hilda Clune is Chief Information Officer at PwC Australia. A senior business leader with strong transformational, technology and digital experience, Hilda has been engaged in a range of sectors for the last three decades. With core knowledge and experience primarily in the professional services sector, Hilda has focused on business transformation enabled by digital and technology.
With a broad background that spans the telecommunications, investment management, property, retail and fashion industries, Hilda has undertaken a number of senior leadership positions at AAPT, Deloitte Australia and SingTel Optus.
A Member of PwC's Global Technology Strategy Council – a body responsible for directing a 158- country global technology transformation program across PwC’s international network – Hilda is also Vice-Chair of the Australian Maronite Professionals Council and a Director of PwC Services Pty Ltd.
Brenda Aynsley
Immediate Past President
Australian Computer Society
I am totally absorbed by and committed to the Internet and technology, not because of the nature of the toys and tools, but because both provide the means of facilitating effective communication between citizens of the world.
Conversations between citizens have the power to change the world ... for the better, hence my interest in being a social capital evangelist. As someone who trained to be a sociologist in the 1970s, the avenues for social interaction that have been enabled since the 1990s could have barely been anticipated when I was at Flinders University.
Related to this is my passion for improving our understanding of the absolute need for trustworthy computing which rests on recognised ICT practitioners being committed to professionalism in their art and craft. As a profession, we have a responsibility to ensure those who use the computing systems and tools we produce will work beneficially and not adversely.
I have developed high level expertise in corporate governance and in management and operations having occupied senior positions for more than half my 30 years of working in Government Agencies, particularly in Health, Welfare, Ageing and Social Security. As Senior Consultant for the 'SA Health Info 2000' project I worked to identify the Health industry issues in South Australia. I also project managed the development of turnkey information systems in the aged care and palliative care arenas based on common data sets I negotiated with a large number of government units and voluntary care providers. I also was the Project Manager for mainframe computer projects for the child offender part of the Justice Information System (JIS) managing a staff of permanent, temporary and consultant programmers, administrators and subject matter experts through to department-wide implementation.
Karen Lay-Brew
President
Australian Business Software Industry Association
And Former Vice President
Microsoft
Karen is a Board Member and Corporate Advisor, and presently holds the position President on the Australian Business Software Industry Association (ABSIA) Board. She works closely with both Australian Government and the private sector.
Karen previously worked at Microsoft HQ in the USA as VP for delivering global software launches coordinating Marketing, Sales, Partners and Customer Service, and established Women in IT. She also served as the VP of Six Sigma and CIO for BHP Billiton Base Metals division where she implemented a world-wide Six Sigma Operational Excellence programme.
As the CIO for Honeywell Asia-Pacific, she has worked across different cultures and geographies to successfully integrate the disparate IT organisations serving 14 different countries. Karen has also consulted to various Government departments and SMEs. With over 35 years’ professional experience, Karen specialises in changing the culture of organisations and communities, and is an avid diversity champion on women’s challenges.
Felicia Trewin
Head of Strategy and Business Optimisation
ANZ
Felicia is a technologist, strategist and globally-experienced leader with nearly two decades of experience working across an array of blue chip organisations. She joined ANZ in July 2014 as the Head of Technology for Corporate and Commercial Banking –one of the world’s top 15 banks and a top 5 bank in Asia –where she was responsible for delivering end-to-end technology services for over 450,000 Small Business, Business Banking, Regional Business Banking, Corporate Banking and ESANDA customers, and nearly 3,000 staff.
After a six month secondment as the General Manager of Technology Australia, Felicia was appointed Head of Strategy and Business Optimisation, a role which sees her leading the strategy, innovation, partnerships, business management and salesforce effectiveness functions of the Corporate and Commercial Bank in Australia whilst leveraging her significant experience and relationships across the technology industry.
Prior to joining ANZ, Felicia was a Director in Deloitte UK’s Financial Services Consulting practice where she focused on commercial restructuring of outsourcing, offshoring and divestment arrangements to deliver significant cost savings for her clients. In addition, she lead large, complex programs ranging from IT strategy development, through operating model and business process redesign, to shared services optimisation. Felicia complemented this with a portfolio of work in CSR, having lead Deloitte’s Consulting Community Investment program, and provided pro bono advisory and mentoring to charities such as Cancer Research UK and Help for Heroes.
Felicia’s early career was spent at Andersen Consulting where she cut code, ran change management programs, and developed corporate strategies in her home country of Australia and then the US. She later worked for Microsoft in both the US and UK as a key member of both the Global Outsourcing and Operations teams, where she lead the outsourcing, offshoring and management of technical support and development services, managed a $50m+ global supplier base, and received a patent award for co-developing the original Xbox supply chain system.
Felicia was the 2010 winner of the UK Women in the City’s “Future Leaders Award”, and sat on the Board of the UK National Outsourcing Association in 2011-2012. She has a keen interest in progressing the acceptance of flexible working practices, and developing and mentoring women within the technology, finance and consulting industries.
Fiona Rankin
Director, Information Management & Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Fiona Rankin is the Director of Information Management & Technology Services at the University of Wollongong (UOW), where she is responsible for development and delivery of key strategic initiatives, in addition to the operational and people management aspects of UOW’s core technology environment.
Fiona brings to this leadership role more than 25 years technology and executive management experience, and multiple Chief Information Officer (CIO) roles in both the public and private sectors. This is in addition to her Company Director qualifications and previous Board appointment to a subsidiary of a large international corporation.
Fiona has completed a Bachelor of Economics and Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (UNE) and a Masters in Business & IT Management (UTS). In addition she has also completed the Asia Link Leaders Program (Universities of Melbourne and Sydney and the Australian National University) and Leadership 3000 (University of Michigan, U.S.A.).
Fiona is a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), a member of ‘Women on Boards’, she was a 2008 NSW finalist for Telstra Business Women’s Awards, and in 2013 received the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Alumni Award for Excellence – Engineering and IT.
Rachel Byrne
Program Lead – Digital Transformation
BUPA