Media Release

ASFA Board changes and appointment of new Chairperson

Published 6 November, 2013

Published 6 November, 2013

6 November 2013

ASFA Board changes and appointment of new Chairperson

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited (ASFA) is pleased to announce the ASFA Board has elected TAL Limited Managing Director Mr Jim Minto to the position of ASFA Board Chair. Mr Minto has been an ASFA Director since November 2009 and Chair of the Board Policy Committee since 2012.

“Mr Minto will bring a wealth of wisdom and experience to his new role as Chair. We congratulate and wish him every success in his new role,” said ASFA CEO Ms Pauline Vamos.

Jim’s appointment follows Mr Tony Lally’s resignation from the ASFA Board in October 2013 after four years as Chair.

“Mr Lally made an invaluable contribution to the ASFA Board, as well as the broader superannuation community, during his tenure. We thank him for his commitment to the ASFA Board and we wish him all the best in his future endeavours,” Ms Vamos said.

ASFA is also pleased to welcome to the ASFA Board two new members:

Damian Hill, CEO of REST Superannuation, who was nominated by the Board on 25 October 2013 to fill the vacancy left by Mr Lally
Brian Delaney, Chief of Global Clients and Marketing at QIC, who was elected by the service provider member sector and whose appointment will take effect following the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 14 November 2013.

ASFA also wishes to note its appreciation of Peter McNeil for his service as a director. Mr McNeil joined the Board in February 2013 and, following the recent elections, is retiring as a director after the forthcoming AGM.

“On behalf of ASFA and its members, I’d like to congratulate Damian Hill and Brian Delaney on their appointments, as well as Jim Minto, Michael Dwyer, Brad Holzberger, Nicolette Rubinsztein and Dean Thomas on their re-election by their peers this year,” said Ms Vamos.

Following the upcoming AGM at the ASFA Conference, the new Board will comprise the following industry leaders:

Chair

• Jim Minto, Managing Director, TAL Limited

Industry funds

• David Elia, Fellow of ASFA (FASFA), Chief Executive Officer, HOSTPLUS

• Damian Hill FASFA, Chief Executive Officer, REST Superannuation

Public sector funds

• Michael Dwyer AM FASFA, Chief Executive Officer, First State Super

• Brad Holzberger, Chief Investment Officer, QSuper

Service providers

• Jim Minto, Managing Director, TAL Limited

• Brian Delaney, Chief of Global Clients and Marketing, QIC

Retail funds

• Nicolette Rubinsztein, General Manager – Retirement and Advocacy, Colonial First State

• Dean Thomas, General Manager, Retail Investment Platforms, MLC

Corporate funds

• Roslyn Ramwell FASFA, Chief Executive Officer, Harwood Superannuation Fund

• Jane Perry, Chief Executive Officer, Qantas Superannuation

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Lisa Chikarovski, Media Manager, 0451 949 300.

About ASFA

ASFA is the peak policy, research and advocacy body for Australia’s superannuation industry. It is a not-for-profit, sector-neutral, and non-party political national organisation whose aim is to advance effective retirement outcomes for members of funds through research, advocacy and the development of policy and industry best practice.

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Carmen Beverley-Smith

Executive Director - Superannuation, Life & Private Health Insurance, APRA

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Carmen joined APRA in March 2023 and holds the role of Executive Director, Life and Private Health Insurance and Superannuation. 

She has had an esteemed career in financial services, spanning over 25 years. She has held diverse leadership roles at Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, including across risk, transformation and change, product and portfolio development, and sales and service.

Prior to joining APRA, she held the role of General Manager, Risk Transformation Delivery Integration at Westpac. This involved leading the group-wide implementation of a suite of solutions to uplift risk management capability and develop data, analytics and reporting.

Carmen leads with a values-driven approach and a particular interest in developing and mentoring talent.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Accounting, is a certified Chartered Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Amy C. Edmondson

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

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Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organisational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organisational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. 

Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller’s mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organisational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

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Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.