Who’s on the move? March

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AMP announces new board appointment

Andrea SlatteryAMP has appointed Andrea Slattery (pictured) to its board as a non-executive director, effective 15 February 2019.

Slattery has 26 years’ experience in financial services, superannuation and retirement including establishing and leading the SMSF Association.

In addition to her experience as a managing director and CEO, Andrea has served on high-profile board and advisory committees for listed companies and in the commercial, government and not-for-profit sectors.

Slattery is currently a non-executive director at Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Argo Global Listed Infrastructure and the South Australia Cricket Association.

Sunsuper reshapes executive team

Michael MulhollandSunsuper has announced changes to its executive team. The changes align with the fund’s strategy to increase its focus on a data-driven, digital-direct consumer strategy while maintaining the strong growth and momentum the fund has experienced in the corporate super, retail distribution and SME space.

The new structure marks the promotion of Petrina Weston, David Woodall, Danielle Mair and Stevhan Davidson to the executive leadership team. The new executive team structure will take effect from 1 March 2019.

One of the current executive team members, Michael Mulholland (pictured) has decided to leave Sunsuper after nearly five years with the fund to spend more time in Sydney with his family. CEO Scott Hartley, the executive team and the whole Sunsuper team wishes him well in his future endeavours. Mulholland will remain at Sunsuper until 15 March to ensure a smooth handover.

Changes to Qantas Super board

Qantas Super has announced that Anne Ward has decided to step down from the fund’s board at the end of May 2019 after 15 years of dedicated service, 14 of those as chair.

Qantas Super’s chief executive officer Michael Clancy thanked Ward for her unwavering commitment over the years, acknowledging her extensive experience in the financial services sector and as a professional company director. “She has guided Qantas Super through market cycles and substantial regulatory change to leave the fund in great shape for the future,” he said.

Qantas Super has also announced the appointment of two new company-appointed directors designate, John Atkin and Lorraine Berends. They will fill the vacancies left by Ward and former director, Paul Costello, who sadly passed away in November 2018.

LUCRF Super appoints new chair

Director Joseph (Joe) Di Leo has been appointed as chair of the LUCRF Super board, effective January 2019.

Di Leo joined the LUCRF Super board in March 2018 as an employer representative and brings with him extensive experience in multiple senior positions and industries.

He is a former managing director of Allied Mills Australia and has previous experience as chief operating officer of Graincorp Ltd and held a number of senior positions in the rail freight sector. He also brings with him board experience as a former non-executive director of the Port Kembla Port Corporation and Teys Australia. He is currently a non-executive director of Namoi Cotton Ltd.

LUCRF Super CEO Charlie Donnelly said Di Leo’s experience will be an asset to the organisation and a benefit to their members.

Statewide Super announce new CEO

Tony D’AlessandroStatewide Super has announced that Tony D’Alessandro (pictured) will be the new chief executive officer, effective 1 March 2019. D’Alessandro will replace Richard Nunn, who in January announced his appointment as CEO of MetLife Australia, resigning from Statewide Super after more than three years in the role.

D’Alessandro has significant experience in private banking, wealth management and administration, having held a broad range of senior executive management positions for CBA, St George Bank and Bank SA.

The chairman of Statewide Super, Ken Williams said: “Tony has been an integral member of the Statewide Super leadership team for the past three years. His natural ability to develop and inspire high performing teams and winning cultures, allows him to skilfully lead business progress at every opportunity.”

Incoming chief executive officer D’Alessandro said: “It is a privilege to be appointed to lead Statewide Super, as we continue to deliver exceptional outcomes for our member’s retirement income goals. No Australian should be deprived of the opportunity to live a dignified retirement, and this will be my key driver.”

AvSuper announces new chair

AvSuper has announced the appointment of Ben Firkins as the new chair, effective 1 February 2019, following the retirement of George Fishlock after 19 years of service to the fund.

“On behalf of the fund staff and members, we thank George for his dedicated service and leadership of the fund and the continuing focus on ‘members first,’” said Firkins.

Michelle Wade, AvSuper’s CEO said, “We welcome Ben’s election to the role of chair and are looking forward to his leadership of the fund. Ben’s experience in the aviation industry and in AvSuper make him ideal to lead our aviation based and member focused fund into the future.”

UniSuper announces new appointments

Penny HeardLou CaparrelliUniSuper has appointed Penny Heard (pictured, left) as portfolio manager in the global strategies and quantitative team, and Lou Caparrelli (pictured, right) to the position of manager, sustainable portfolios and governance.

Heard brings over 15 years’ experience to the role, joining from JCP Investment Partners where she was a senior portfolio manager and research analyst. Prior to this she held senior roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia and Hong Kong.

Speaking of the appointment, UniSuper’s chief investment officer John Pearce said that “her appointment adds to the considerable talent we have been able to attract from other funds and investment banks over recent years, which has enabled us to expand the scope of our in-house management activities”.

Caparrelli is a member of UniSuper’s Australian equities team with extensive experience in the Australian market, including senior roles at Blackrock and Evans and Partners.

Pearce said: “ESG teams are typically staffed by people who do not have direct portfolio management responsibilities, so Lou’s appointment places us in a relatively unique position in the industry. His appointment is testament to how committed we are to factoring environmental, social, and governance considerations into the investment process.”

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Derek Thompson

Best Selling Author, Podcast Host of 'Plain English'

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Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Few speakers can match Derek Thompson‘s ability to synthesize mega-trends in society, labor, economics, technology, and politics. Put another way: Derek trawls the data sets and does the forecasting and deep reporting necessary to help us better understand how we live, how we vote, how we spend, and how we work.

In his paradigm-shifting #1 New York Times bestseller, Abundance (co-written with Ezra Klein), this award-winning journalist reveals how our policies and culture have pushed us into a world of scarcity (not enough housing, workers, or progress)—and offers a radical new path towards a world where housing is affordable, energy is plentiful, and innovation flourishes across industries.

He shares a compelling vision of a future where we have more than enough for everybody, and a practical, actionable roadmap for how to get there. It starts with taking more risks, building more expansively, and recognizing that we all have the power to create a world of abundance. “Everything’s utopian until it’s reality,” he says.

Carmen Beverley-Smith

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

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Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

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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Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

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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Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

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.