ADVISORY BOARD

Bianca joined J.P Morgan in 2013, and in January 2021, Bianca assumed the role of Head of Wholesale Payments, Australia and New Zealand. The Wholesale Payments business encompasses payments, receivables, liquidity, FX, account services, channels, escrow, trade and merchant acquiring.

With over 20 years of corporate and investment banking experience, Bianca holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University, and Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales.

Vanessa is an experienced Non-Executive Director and ‘C suite’ executive with 25 years’ experience in government, large corporations and the NFP sector, with specific expertise in finance, strategy and transformational change.

Vanessa is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Banking Association responsible, the Non-Executive Director of Variety the Childrens Charity and Driveabout World and serves as a Judge of the Eureka Prize.

Felicity is the Country Manager for FIS New Zealand. Felicity brings more than 20 years’ experience in the payments industry to the role. Her key focus is developing relationships to build strategic partnerships in the complex environment of payments technology.

An active member of Payments New Zealand, she brings her global knowledge and expertise to the local conversation on payments innovation in the region.

Emily is a technology leader with over 15 years experience across fintech, consumer technology and professional services.

Her current role is to build the Zepto brand and create opportunities within Enterprise and Government verticals.

Throughout her career Emily has been a passionate advocate for the local Tech community with a particular focus on supporting women to pursue a career in tech and encouraging businesses to help foster digital skills locally.

With over 23 years of experience in banking across Australia and Asia, Nish is the Global Head of Product for Global Transaction Banking business at Westpac Institutional Bank based in Australia.

In her current role she covers Core Payments, New Payment Solutions, Cross Currency Payments, Domestic & International receivables, Corporate Commercial Cards, Merchant Acquiring, Liquidity solutions and Balance Sheet Management.

Jackie is the Head of Payments Industry within Institutional Digital Banking at ANZ. Commencing her career in consulting, Jackie spent 4 years with TP3 (formerly Tactics) consulting to ANZ for a range of projects, including ANZ’s Institutional cash management platform transformation from 2007-2010.

Jackie’s strengths include a depth of payments knowledge and experience, combined with a collaborative, and strong customer centric approach.

Isobel Thacker is Head of Customer Segment Management for Mastercard Australia, where she leads a team focused on deepening engagement and understanding across four B2B Customer Segments, driving growth and optimisation through client partnership on strategy, innovation, customer value proposition development and execution. Isobel is accountable for Mastercard business excellence, and regulator engagement in Australia; having most recently led activity for Mastercard to become an accredited data recipient under the Australian Consumer Data Right.

Jennifer is a highly credentialed banker with over 25 years financial experience working with the Public Sector, Multinational and Australian Corporates in the area of Cash Management, Working Capital Trade Finance and Structured Finance.

Jennifer was appointed Head of Large Markets & Supplier Payments with American Express in Global Commercial Services in January 2020 and holds positions on Executive Councils for D&I and is an advocate for equal opportunity.

Dewi is the Head of Domestic Payables and Receivables Product for Australia and New Zealand within the Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi Institutional Bank. She is responsible for driving the strategy and product roadmap, as well as overseeing the day-to-day product management for core products New Zealand market.

Dewi also leads the business strategy, design, development and commercialization of NPP/ instant payments initiatives for Citi Institutional customers in Australia.