Summit Speakers

Juanita Phillips

MC

Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s best loved and experienced news presenters, and an accomplished MC and speaker.

For over two decades, she anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. Before this time, she anchored CNN’s morning news and business show in London for five years, and was one of the first Australians to present TV news on the BBC.

Ms Phillips has also worked for Channel Ten and Sky News, and has been a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine, News Corporation and Fairfax. She has written a series of children’s books, The Newspaper Kids, and is the author of a best-selling memoir about juggling work and motherhood, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.

John Brogden AM

Chair, AusPayNet

John Brogden is an experienced Chairman, Non-Executive Director, Executive and former Member of Parliament with more than 30 years’ experience in the public sector, financial services, professional associations, and not-for-profit organisations.

From 1996 to 2005, John was the Member for Pittwater in the NSW Parliament and was Leader of the Opposition for over three years – the youngest person ever to lead a major political party at a state of federal level. After Parliament, his executive roles have included CEO of Manchester Unity, the Financial Services Council, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and Landcom. He has chaired Abacus Australian Mutuals (now COBA) and Landcom (prior to being appointed CEO).

John is a leading Australian and international suicide prevention advocate and campaigner for suicide decimalisation. He has been President of LifeLine International and Chair of Lifeline Australia.

He is currently the Chair of AusPayNet, a Director of CFS’ superannuation fund AIL, and the Chair of Advisory Board of the Urban Property Group.

He holds a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) from the University of Sydney, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) and is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Maha El Dimachki

Head of the Singapore Centre Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub

Ms El Dimachki is Head of the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre. The centre develops public goods in the technology space to support central banks in how they discharge their roles in a digital economy and improve the financial system using novel ideas and emerging technologies.

Before her appointment to this position, Ms El Dimachki was Head of Department for Early and High Growth Oversight leading the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response to the Kalifa review of Fintech. Previously, she served as Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK on secondment from the FCA, responsible for running the payments operations of BACS, Faster Payments, Image Clearing Services, and related managed services.

Ms El Dimachki joined the FCA in 2017 to set up the first Payments Department and was responsible for crafting and implementing the FCA supervisory strategy for the UK Payments Sector. This included leading the implementation of the Second Payments Services Directive (PSD2) and Open Banking.

Ms El Dimachki has a keen interest in observing and participating in the many exciting changes that are unfolding in the financial services, innovation and fintech environment. She recently sat on the SteerCo developing the strategy and blueprint for the UK’s newly created Centre for Finance Innovation and Technology.

Ms El Dimachki is the author of Fintech Regulation in Practice, which provides a guide to the practical considerations that fintechs, banks adopting fintech and other key players in the fintech ecosystem need to take into account when embedding regulation.

Ms El Dimachki has a Degree in Commerce from Macquarie University and a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Rajat Jain

Chief Strategy Officer, AusPayNet

Rajat has over 20 years of payments industry experience in strategy and transformation roles. He was a Partner at Deloitte before joining AusPayNet, and led their payments practice in Australia from 2017-22. Prior to that, he served at American Express in the US, Australia, and Singapore for over a decade, including as Head of Strategy for A/ NZ and as Head of Consulting and Business Transformation for APAC & Japan. Rajat is a merit-listed Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Brad Jones

Assistant Governor (Financial System) Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)

Dr Brad Jones was appointed to the position of Assistant Governor (Financial System) at the RBA in 2022 and serves as Deputy Chair of the Payments System Board.

Dr Jones has oversight of the Bank's payments policy work, including on the future of money. He is also responsible for the Bank's work on financial stability and production of the twice-yearly Financial Stability Review. He represents the Bank as a member on the Council of Financial Regulators, and in international fora at the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Global Finance and a signatory to The Banking and Finance Oath.

Dr Jones joined the RBA in 2018 as the Head of International Department, before taking over as the Head of Economic Analysis Department.

Before joining the RBA, Dr Jones was at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC for five years, where he served as senior advisor on the international financial system in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Prior to that, he held senior macroeconomic research and investment responsibilities for just under a decade at Deutsche Bank in London and Hong Kong.

Dr Jones holds a PhD in finance from Macquarie University, is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and served for five years as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Hon Stephen Jones MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

Stephen Jones is the Federal Member for Whitlam and Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

Mr Jones was first elected to the Federal Parliament in 2010, representing the Southern Illawarra seat of Throsby. He was re-elected at the 2013 election and elected to the re-named seat of Whitlam in 2016.

Before entering the Federal Parliament, Mr Jones worked as a community worker for various front line disability services, youth and health services, and as a lawyer with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), and as the Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).

Mr Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wollongong, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Macquarie University.

James Kelly

Head of Treasury’s Digital, Competition and Payments Division

James Kelly is Head of Treasury’s Digital, Competition and Payments Division, with responsibility for matters relating to the payments system, digital assets, the Consumer Data Right and digital regulatory policy, as well as broader competition policy settings and oversight of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 

Mr Kelly has worked in a variety of other areas in the Australian Treasury and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. These positions have included heading the secretariat for the National Disability Insurance Review, Treasury’s Financial System Division, and leading Treasury’s engagement with the Financial Services Royal Commission and implementation of the Government’s response. He also held positions as Treasury’s representative in Europe, based at the Australian High Commission in London, and head of the Macroeconomic Policy Division.

Catriona Lowe

Deputy Chair, ACCC

Catriona Lowe was appointed Deputy Chair of the ACCC for a five-year term in January 2023.

Ms Lowe chairs the ACCC’s Compliance and Product Safety Committee and sits on numerous of the ACCC’s committees and boards including Competition Exemptions, Consumer Data Right and Enforcement Committees and the Digital Platforms Inquiry, Financial Services Inquiry, Supermarkets Inquiry and Energy Markets Boards.

Before joining the ACCC, Ms Lowe was appointed Board Member of the Australian Energy Regulator in February 2020 and held a non-Executive director role on a range of boards, including the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, and the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. She was also principal of a consumer focussed consulting practice.

Ms Lowe was Co-CEO of the Consumer Action Law Centre from 2006-2013 and has held senior roles with the Consumers’ Federation of Australian and the ACCC. Over the years, Ms Lowe has worked extensively on matters including consumer focussed regulation, behavioural economics and effective enforcement and compliance. She has advocated for consumers across a range of markets including financial services, telecommunications and energy.

David Marsh

Principal Industry Consultant, Endava

David Marsh is the Principal Industry Consultant for Endava in Australia. With over 15 yeas of experience in payments, David has worked with the corporate, institutional and government clients of two of Australia’s major banks. He has also worked with AusPayNet on strategic innovation projects such as Digital identity. In his current role, David is leveraging Endava’s international experience engineering bespoke payment solutions to support Australia’s growing payments industry.

Kate O'Rouke

ASIC Commissioner

Kate commenced as an ASIC Commissioner for a five-year term in September 2023.

She has more than 25 years’ experience in law and regulation across financial services, markets, and corporations.

Kate joined ASIC from Treasury, where she held senior leadership positions with responsibility for data and digital economic reforms, COVID economic policy responses, small business policy and regulatory frameworks governing market conduct.

Kate previously held senior executive roles at ASIC with responsibility for corporate transactions and governance, and practised in the Sydney and New York offices of the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell.

Dianne Shay

Head of Payments Industry, National Australia Bank

Dianne Shay has over 30 years of experience in financial services as a champion of innovation that creates customer value and benefits all consumers and businesses. A self-confessed payments geek, Ms Shay is a former recipient of the Women in Payments Thought Leader award. She is acknowledged as an agent of change across the Australian payments industry, including the New Payments Platform, PayTo, digital identity, safer payments and future of payments frameworks programs. Dianne holds a variety of board and advisory roles including as a Director of AusPayNet.

Andy White

Chief Executive Officer, AusPayNet

Andy White is the CEO of AusPayNet, the industry association and self-regulatory body for the Australian payments industry.

Mr White has over 25 years’ international experience. He joined AusPayNet in 2015 from the Australian Securities Exchange, where he was General Manager for Settlement Services and, prior to that, General Manager for Clearing Risk Management. Previously, he held leadership roles at LCH.Clearnet in London, after starting his career at the Bank of England.

Mr White is a graduate of Oxford University and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a variety of advisory and board roles, including with the Payment Card Industry and Australia’s National Anti-Scam Centre.

Luke Wilson

Chief Operating Officer, AusPayNet

Luke Wilson has worked in the payments and financial services industries across Asia Pacific, with his experience in payments spanning more than 20 years.

He has held executive roles across various functions including operations, customer acquisition, program delivery, and relationship management.

In his current role as Chief Operating Officer of AusPayNet, a key area of Mr Wilson’s focus is on payments transformation.