The Hon. John Howard OM AC
Former Australian Prime Minister | 1996 - 2007
John Winston Howard, born 26 July 1939, served as Australia’s Prime Minister between March 1996 and November 2007. He is the nation’s second longest serving Prime Minister, was a member of Parliament for 33 years, and was previously Treasurer in an earlier government.
Under his ...
Terence Mauri
Future Trends and Disruption Expert
Terence Mauri is a future trends and disruption expert who challenges leaders to innovate, adapt and thrive in the age of disruption.
He is an Inc. Magazine Writer, Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence (London Business School), Inc. Top 30 Future Trends expert and author of the glob...
Alyssa Stricklan
Commodity Manager | Intel Corporation & Top Supply Chain content creator | Tik Tok
Alyssa attended Arizona State University until 2017, where she earned her B.S. in Supply Chain Management and honed her love of public speaking as a campus tour guide. She has since worked at Intel Corporation, holding various roles in planning and procurement, completing project...
Pete Hamilton
Vice President and Regional Director | KellyOCG
Pete Hamilton is vice president and regional director, APAC region, of KellyOCG, a leading global advisor of talent supply chain strategies and the outsourcing and consulting practice of Kelly Services. Kelly is a global provider of workforce solutions, always thinking about what...
Tania Seary
Founder | The Faculty & Procurious
Tania is the Founding Chairman of three companies specialising in the development of the procurement profession - The Faculty, The Source and Procurious.
Tania’s fascination and commitment to procurement development started in the United States. After finishing her MBA at Pennsy...
Gabrielle Dolan
Key Note Speaker and Author of Magnetic Stories
A highly sought-after keynote speaker, educator and author, Gabrielle Dolan has worked with thousands of high-profile leaders from around the world and helped countless of Australia’s top 50 companies and multinationals to humanise their communications.
She holds a master’s degr...
Thomas Udesen
EVP & Chief Procurement Officer | Bayer AG
Thomas leads the dynamic Procurement function at Bayer, the global Life Science company. “Health for all, hunger for none" is Bayer’s vision and the guiding principle for Thomas and his leadership team.
Procurement is determined to ignite Bayer’s external partners, to enable pr...
Helen Sawczak BA/LLB, GAICD
Consultant & Non-Executive Director
Helen currently acts as a Trade & Investment Consultant. She is the former National CEO of the Australia China Business Council. Helen started her career as a corporate lawyer at international law firms both in Australia and overseas. In Australia, Helen worked in the China pract...
Chris Lynch
Director | Westpac, Former CEO & CFO
Chris Lynch was appointed to the Board of Westpac in September 2020. Chris’s last Executive position was as CFO of Rio Tinto, based in London and prior to that he was CEO of Transurban. Chris also held a number of Senior Executive positions at BHP, including as Group President, ...
Lance Younger
CEO and Founder of ProcureTech
Lance is the CEO and Founder of ProcureTech, a digital platform for faster, smarter matching of corporates and digital procurement solutions. Procuretech is also home to the ProcureTech100, the definitive 100 pioneering digital procurement solutions.
He has led transformational...
Joanne Wright
Vice President of IBM's Enterprise Operations and Services
Joanne Wright is vice president of IBM's Enterprise Operations and Services where she leads IBM’s transformation to a data-driven enterprise.
In this role, she is responsible for redesigning IBM’s operating model and driving end-to-end digital solutions. She strategizes and imp...
Zoe Chernih
Senior Partnerships Manager | Westpac
Zoe is a chartered member of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) and she is a member of CIPS NSW Branch Committee. Zoe started her procurement career as a Strategic Sourcing Graduate at Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and has been working in procurement functions...
Emily Coltraine
Online Commentator | Voice for Victoria
With an administrative career spanning multiple industries and cities, Emily is now the voice behind the Australian political commentary and education blog Voice for Victoria. Focusing on Victorian issues, through the blog she provides commentary and education content to her 20,0...
Div Pillay
CEO | MindTribes & Co-founder | Culturally Diverse Women (CDW)
Div Pillay is the CEO of MindTribes and Co-founder of Culturally Diverse Women (CDW), both award winning businesses addressing racial and cultural inequity in the workplace. Div is named as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence and is listed in 2021, as ...
Nick Mann
Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand | Health & Happiness Group,
Nick is the Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand for the Health & Happiness Group, a global company who owns brands including Swisse Wellness and Biostime. Nick has held senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and general management across South East Asia for almos...
Nick Dunford
Country Manager - ANZ | Uber for Business
Nick is passionate about dogs and Startups, in that order. He currently leads Uber for Business in ANZ. In his young twenties, Nick was a semi-professional cricketer before sensibly retiring to start his business career in enterprise software sales. In the past decade, Nick has f...
Grace Tame
2021 Australian of the Year
Recognising the injustice of Tasmania’s gag order that prevented survivors from self-identifying publicly, Grace spent several months campaigning with #LetHerSpeak campaign. In 2019, she finally won the court order to speak out under her own name.
Now, 26 and based in Hobart, Gr...
Chaise Egan
Senior Advisor Aboriginal Programs | Department of Transport
A proud Aboriginal man from the Mutti Mutti and Gunditjmara Traditional Owner groups, Chaise has extensive experience working in the Aboriginal Employment and Economic Development space for the past 15 years. Working mostly in the Victorian Government Transport Sector, Chaise’s ...
Sharat Chikatmarla
Senior Expert | McKinsey & Co
Sharat Chikatmarla is a senior expert based in Sydney and core leader of Product Development and Procurement Practice in ANZ. Sharat is passionate about digital procurement, and has expertise in driving large scale transformations across sectors. Some of his recent work include t...
Jill Campbell
Group General Manager Investor Relations | ANZ
Jill Campbell, as Group General Manager Investor Relations is responsible for ANZ's global investor relations program and for the management of ANZ's relationships with institutional shareholders and investors, research analysts, brokers, governance advisors and retail shareholde...
Gustav Erlandsson
Associate Partner | McKinsey & Co
Gustav Erlandsson is an Associate Partner based in London and a leader in McKinsey’s Operations practice. Gustav brings over 10 years of industry experience from CPG and Pharma and has extensive experience in Procurement. He has led several large scale procurement transformations...
Wayne Giddings
Associate Director of Sourcing - Corporate Services | Transport of New South Whales
Wayne is the Associate Director for Sourcing within Corporate Services at Transport for New South Wales.
His passion is to drive value through capability uplift and client partnering, leading 60 people in the function running operational and strategy sourcing events across the c...
Jennifer Turner
Vice President, Large Markets and Supplier Payments | American Express | LLB (USYD), BA (UNE)
Mrs Jennifer Turner, BA, LLA, was appointed Head of Large Markets and Supplier Payments with American Express in the Global Commercial Services business in January 2020. Until December 2019 she held the position of Managing Director of Global Transactional Banking for Deutsche Ba...
Jeff Niemski
Manager, Cleaning & Environmental Services l Crown Melbourne Limited
A dedicated environmental sustainability professional delivering results across various energy, waste and water projects over the past 10 years at Crown Melbourne.
He lives by the maxim, “If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life”.
Cain Liddle
Chief Executive Officer | Carlton Football Club
Cain Liddle joined Carlton FC in November 2017, previously the Chief Customer Officer at Richmond FC.
Since joining the Carlton Football Club as CEO, Cain has overseen the following key projects and outcomes:
• implementation of “The Carlton Way” the Club’s five-year strategic ...
Celine Cherel-Bonnemaison
Associate Partner | McKinsey & Co
Based in our Paris office, Celine is the global leader of McKinsey’s sustainability work in product development and procurement. Her work focuses on transformations that implement environmentally-sustainable operations and reduction of carbon emissions for organizations along the...
Yasmin Assis
Waste & Environmental Services Manager | IKON Services
Yasmin Assis is the Waste & Environmental Services Manager at IKON Services with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree in Project Management. She is a passionate environmentalist who aims to raise awareness about sustainability and the impacts of ...
Sue McEvoy
Head of Sales | FCM Travel
Sue joined FCM in 2001 and has nearly 25 years' experience in corporate travel management. Sue is committed to partnership success and has applied her authentic ‘no-spin’ style to her roles in large market account management, business development, and as the Head of Sales for FCM...
Stephen Finlay
Global Enterprise Sales | FCM Travel
Stephen brings over 25 years of experience in the travel industry with a focus on large market and multinational customer acquisition. Stephen began his career as a fresh faced travel consultant and progressed to become an FTL , TL and Area Leader, winning multiple awards along t...