SPEAKERS

As CIO, Andrew provides leadership in building and supporting Relativity’s information technology along with governance and compliance processes. He joined the company in 2016 as vice president of information technology to oversee the IT department comprising of three groups: applications, infrastructure, and project management. Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in IT. Prior to joining Relativity in 2016, he served as the director of IT at Morningstar, an investment research and management firm. At Morningstar, he oversaw a 200-person IT department, lead the information technology aspects of 30 acquisitions and two divestures, and implemented both major system enhancements and significant technology and security improvements. Before moving to Chicago, Andrew held several IT positions in Australia, his home country, at companies including WorldxChange, New Tel, and SingTel. Andrew holds a computer science degree from the University of Technology Sydney.

With more than 25,000 employees, Programmed is a leading provider of operations and maintenance services across all industry sectors including education, health, infrastructure, manufacturing, transport and mining in Australia and New Zealand.  Anna leads the legal team which manages all legal, risk and insurance issues encountered by Programmed.  She is a member of the executive team and acts as company secretary for over 50 companies in the group as well as executive director of Programmed’s main operating entity, Programmed Maintenance Services Limited.  Anna is also a non-executive director, President of the Victorian chapter and member of the Finance, Audit and Review Committee for ACC Australia.  Recently, Anna joined the board of directors of a start-up biomedical company, Stelect.

Former Founder and Managing Director of LinkedIn Australia and New Zealand

Clifford Rosenberg is a highly experienced leader and strategist with a deep passion for technology and social media. He was most recently the founder and Managing Director of LinkedIn ANZ & S.E. Asia and previously the Managing Director of Yahoo! Australia NZ. During his tenure he led both companies through significant growth.

With a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) and Master of Science in Management, Cliff’s journey from South Africa to the top of one of the world’s most prominent and influential digital platforms in our region, is truly inspirational.

In 2009, Cliff was hired as the first APAC employee to open the Australian NZ office of LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. During his tenure, Cliff grew the ANZ business from ~1m Australian members in 2009 to over 8m in 2017, and hired a team of ~300 across the Sydney and Melbourne offices.

In 2000, Cliff joined iTouch as the Australia NZ founder and Managing Director, growing and transforming the business into the leading wireless application service provider in Australia. Three years later, as Managing Director of Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand, Cliff was responsible for several key initiatives within the organisation, including the launch of Yahoo! Music.

He started his business career as a management consultant with the likes of Cap Gemini and Bain Consulting and specialised in business transformation and corporate strategy. Cliff then went on to join Vodafone Australasia as Head of Corporate Strategy, where he led a team responsible for launching the first mobile content services for Vodafone Australia.

Cliff is an active investor, advisor and board member, with Non-Executive Directorships of 5 public companies - ASX listed: Afterpay, Nearmap, TechnologyOne, A2B; and JSE listed Bidcorp. With a passion for the start-up space, Cliff was instrumental in helping start and grow Australia’s leading online restaurant booking platform, Dimmi.com.au, which was sold to Tripadvisor in 2015.

Cliff’s engaging presentation will provide the audience with rare insights from a business leader who has unique experience in the technology and digital space and hands on experience in building high performing teams.

David is the Chief Legal Counsel at Canon Australia, after having worked in-house at Telstra for more than nineteen years.    Prior to moving in-house, David worked in private practice for Mallesons Stephen Jacques, having started his legal career working for Mallesons in Taiwan.   Outside of work, David is a fanatical photographer and one of the founders of the Laws of Creativity portrait project, exploring the role that creativity plays in the practise of law.  David serves on the board of the Minds Count Foundation, working in mental wellbeing in legal workplaces, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David Ritter is the CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Prior to joining Greenpeace, David worked for ten years as a lawyer and academic. His most recent book is The Coal Truth: The Fight to Stop Adani, Defeat the Big Polluters and Reclaim our Democracy. In addition to his work at Greenpeace, David holds honorary appointments at Sydney University and the University of Western Australia. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.

The Croesus Holdings Group comprises six companies, which provide services in Project Management; Corporate Legal Compliance; Management Training & Education; Environmental GRC; ADR (mediation, arbitration & adjudication); and Litigation Funding.

Previously, Garry was Managing Director of an international Investment Bank with offices in Sydney, Vancouver, New York, London, Dublin, Hong Kong and Singapore. Those activities involved him in international capital raising; public listings; distressed company “turn-arounds”; workplace & employment relations; drafting & management of contracts; project management; governance & risk assessment; corporate strategic planning; supply chain logistics & human rights; corporate legal compliance; environmental sustainability; and optimising management outcomes.

Jakob Vujcic is Deputy General Counsel – Corporate at Optus, responsible for its regulatory & compliance, corporate, commercial and legal outsourcing functions.

Jakob over 20 years of experience in market-leading companies in the financial services, energy and telecommunications industries as a senior advisor on legal, risk, compliance, regulatory and governance matters. He routinely advises boards and senior management teams and is a regulatory and governance expert, with extensive experience dealing with wide range of regulators and resolving regulatory issues.

Jakob is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. 

After working as an employment and industrial lawyer for several years, Julian Morrow has made a career of public nuisance in various forms, co-founding satirical media empire The Chaser and joke company Giant Dwarf. His TV shows - including The Election Chaser, CNNNN, The Chaser's War on Everything, The Hamster Wheel and The Checkout - have been nominated, unsuccessfully, for many awards, and prosecuted successfully in many courts.

Due to the unavailability of several respected media commentators, in 2009 Julian was invited to give the Andrew Olle Media Lecture, an honour he later demeaned by creating The Annual Inaugural Chaser Lecture.

At the 50th Annual AWGIE Awards, the Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy was awarded to Julian Morrow by the event’s MC, Julian Morrow. He hopes one day to leave comedy and the media to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer again.

Marion Hemphill is General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, an organisation whose purpose is life giving blood, plasma, transplantation and biological products for world leading health outcomes. Marion has over 20 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, working in-house and at large law firms in Australia, London and New Zealand. Her professional experience has included a wide breadth of commercial advice, negotiations with regulators and incident response. Marion is a proponent of focusing on compliance, risk and ethics as a fundamental step to achieving strategic goals.  Marion is a Board member of Melbourne City Mission. In 2019 Marion was a finalist in the Not for Profit category of the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards.

In 2016 Lifeblood experienced a significant privacy data breach and had to respond urgently to maintain public trust in order to continue to provide Australia’s blood supply. The response was praised by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as an example of best practice incident response.

MEGAN MOTTO is the Chief Executive Officer of the Governance Institute of Australia. The Governance Institute of Australia is the only fully independent professional association with a sole focus on whole-of-organisation governance. Prior to this appointment, she was the CEO of Consult Australia, the association for professional services firms within the built and natural environment. Megan is also currently a Director of Standards Australia and a National Director for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Megan has a BA/BEd, a MA in Communications Management and is a Fellow of both the Governance Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

A former TV host, Michael has been working in television and the corporate and comedy scenes for over 30 years.

The industry’s number one choice when it comes to TV Audience Warm- Up since 1990, he has worked on numerous shows from The Logies, Australian Idol, Dancing with The Stars, and The Voice.

Michael brings the focus an energy of being first cab off the rank, into his corporate work as MC. With an infectious sense of fun, improvisation, tried and true ‘routines’ and one of the quickest wits in the business, Michael interacts with his audience to create the ultimate ‘you had to be there’ moment.

With his training and emphasis on improvisation and flexibility, Michael has mastered the ability to read an audience and deliver exactly what they want at the right time. He has performed for everyone from the ‘man off the street’ - to the Prime Minister, and is very conscious to treat them all the same; with respect and appreciation, so that everyone feels included.

Michael Tidball was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Law Society of New South Wales in 2006. In recent years, he has also concurrently served as Secretary General of LAWASIA.

Michael Tidball has worked in both government and business sectors, working in strategic management and senior advisory roles. He has also served as Special Advisor to the Public Accounts Committee of the New South Wales Parliament.

Mr Tidball has a strong background in professional services and legal sector administration. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Law Society of New South Wales in 2001, and has led many of its initiatives to position it as one of the of the largest, most resilient and successful voluntary direct membership regulating Law Societies internationally. Among the key reforms during his tenure has been the lead role played by the Society in the move to a national legal services market in Australia. A current key focus is leading the Society to respond in its service offering to the forces of innovation, disruption, technology change and artificial intelligence.

Michael Tidball serves as a Director of Lawcover Insurance Pty Ltd and LawCover Pty Ltd as well as of LAWASIA Holdings. He is also a member of the Council of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History.

Mr Tidball has a strong and active interest in classical music and serves as Chair of the Board of The Song Company, Australia’s leading and internationally highly acclaimed classical vocal ensemble. He has recently completed post graduate studies at the Saïd Business School at The University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Nicole is an experienced General Counsel, Company Secretary and senior executive, passionate about diversity and inclusion and fostering an outstanding corporate culture.
 
Prior to joining carsales in 2010, Nicole practised commercial law at one of Australia’s premier law firms Minter Ellison, specialising in intellectual property and dispute resolution, before moving in-house to work in the legal departments of some of Australia’s most prominent businesses.
 
Nicole is passionate about demonstrating the value of the in-house legal function, working with the business as a trusted advisor and seeking to add value in every interaction. Her role as General Counsel sees her involved in a wide range of carsales’ activities from international acquisitions to the protection of internally developed world-class technology. As Company Secretary, Nicole works closely with the carsales Board across the full gamut of corporate governance matters relevant to an ASX listed company. 
 
Appointed to carsales’ Executive Leadership Team in 2017, Nicole is actively involved in carsales’ diversity initiatives and the company’s strategic direction and commercial imperatives on a broad scale, bringing her analytical and critical thinking skills and unique viewpoint derived from her years of legal and commercial experience.

Rachel is an internationally-experienced financial services lawyer specialising in data, derivatives, asset management, life insurance and regulation.  She has recently joined the data consulting firm, D2 Legal Technology, as their Asia Pacific Lead heading up the business in the region.  Prior to this Rachel has worked as an in-house lawyer for Goldman Sachs, Westpac, Challenger Life and Allianz Retire+, and was General Counsel at fund manager Magellan Financial Group. 

In 2018, Rachel founded the NSW “First Hundred Years” initiative celebrating the centenary of women in law.  With an additional interest in music, Rachel has been a Board Director of Australia’s premier classical vocal ensemble, The Song Company, is currently on the Committee for Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Vanguard group, and is Governance Director for the International Women’s Forum Australia.

Ryan is Vice President & General Counsel of American Express Australia & New Zealand. Ryan is also the Company Secretary and sits on the Australian Board, is a member of the Country Executive Team and is the Executive Sponsor at Amex for both Corporate Social Responsibility and Amex’s Spark Leadership Community.

Ryan has worked at American Express since November 2010 and prior to that had a 10-year career including roles in London at law firm Clifford Chance and in the Investment Banking arm of Royal Bank of Scotland. Following his return from London Ryan has worked in Sydney with Babcock and Brown and just prior to joining American Express, Ryan was employed as the Head of Legal, Compliance and Company Secretary for Macarthur Cook & Aims Financial Group, a boutique property and financial services business.

Shoshana Shields, Director of Legal, Google Australia and New Zealand.
Shoshana has a background in leading high performing legal teams in Tech, both at eBay and Google.  Prior to her in-house and GC roles, Shoshana spent 8 years in private practice, specialising in Commercial Litigation.
She spent 10 years at eBay before joining Google in 2018.
In her current role she heads the legal function, and works across a broad range of corporate and commercial law matters, regulatory issues and disputes work, in a fast paced and dynamic environment.