meet our
Keynote Speakers
JENNY SALIBA
Chief Financial Officer – Wealth & Capital Markets
at Australian Unity
ANA MARINKOVIC
Executive General Manager, Small Business Bank at NAB,
Chair of the Board Medfin
Ana Marinkovic is a senior executive whose career spans more than 15 years in financial services. Her current role is Executive, Business Direct and Small Business at NAB, where her team looks after the financial needs of five hundred thousand businesses across Australia, through a suite of products and services to support every stage of a business’ journey.
Throughout Ana’s career in financial services, she has held senior roles across consumer and commercial banking, portfolio management, digitisation and product development. These roles have seen her lead the delivery of enterprise wide transformations, complex technology programs and manage large-scale businesses.
Ana is a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity and believes in hard work, broad engagement and curiosity as foundations to authentic leadership. She is an advisory Board Member for the Brilliant Women Global organisation, advocating for diversity and inclusion in Australia and internationally.
meet our
Panellists
BECKY HYDE
Senior Executive Overseas & Corporate Business at Medibank
Becky Hyde is Senior Executive Overseas and Corporate Business at Medibank, one of Australia’s leading Health Insurance companies. She has over 25 years international experience as a Portfolio Director spanning fast moving consumer goods and the health sector and more recently working with the universities to mentor and support students on their career pathway.
With a passion for marketing and communications Becky’s career started in communications when she graduated from her BA Management and Marketing. Progressing quickly with JWT Becky moved to Singapore at 27 to manage the Kraft Foods account for Asia Pacific. With 11 countries reporting in to her she developed a deep understanding of how to mine insights across a broad range Asian cultures. She formed part of Kraft Regional Growth team developing strategies for entry in to developing markets such as China, India and Vietnam.
Becky then took up the position as Chief Marketing Officer for an Australian Biotechnology company that owns IP with applications in food, nutraceutical and pharmaceuticals aimed at curbing the onset of diabetes and obesity in the global population. She took responsibility for brand and product development, marketing and PR, IP management and business development, working internationally with companies such as Coca Cola, Tate and Lyle, Domino Foods, Cargill to commercialise the IP.
Becky has a passion for health and in her current role as Senior Executive Overseas and Corporate Business is working closely with major Corporations to develop strategies to improve the health & wellbeing of Australians and non -residents in Australia.
Becky is currently a non-executive Board member of St Catherine’s School (a leading private girls school in Victoria) and a non-executive board member of Basketball Victoria
CHELSEA CAPIZZI-WALSH
CBA Executive Manager of Crisis Management & Chief of Staff Group Security
Chelsea Capizzi-Walsh is the Executive Manager of Crisis Management for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia with responsibility for Group-level crisis management by developing capabilities and plans, managing emergency communications and cross-group response teams, and supporting the business in creating and executing the incident-specific strategies. Her experience spans private, federal and intelligence support of crisis management, emergency communications, and business continuity, most notably for the US Senate, the Pentagon Information Technology Agency, Johns Hopkins Medical University, and other domestic and international entities. She has a masters degree in Technology Management with a focus in Homeland Security as well as an MBA.
KAREN GIULIANI
Head of Go To Market at Westpac Group
SAMANTHA HOLLMAN
Chief Executive Officer – International at Steadfast Group Limited
KATE BARLOW
Chief of People and Culture at GMHBA Limited
Kate started with GMHBA in 2019 and was appointed to the Chief of People & Culture in 2020. Kate is accountable for all aspects of the people and culture strategy including organisational development, workforce planning, change management and staff health and wellbeing.
She has over 15 years senior executive not-for-profit experience across the health and community service sectors addressing complex social issues such as homelessness and family violence. Kate has considerable expertise in leading reform and transformation that enables organisations to grow and flourish.
Kate brings to GMHBA a passion for harnessing the talent of our people to support and empower our members and communities to lead healthier lives, with a particular focus on the social justice principles of equity and inclusion.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology).
REBECCA MCDERMOTT
Director, Talent & Leadership at AMP
VERONICA BARBETTA
Business Development Manager UniSuper
JO KOWALCZYK
CEO Women in Super