Resolution 4

As a member of RBHS for nearly 20 years, I seek election onto the RBHS Board to contribute my skills, experience, and business acumen for ensuring the role of RBHS in supporting the health and wellbeing of its members. Through the Board, I will work towards maintaining value for money and choice, the excellent member experience, and the sustainability of the RBHS. I am passionate about supporting the overall health and wellbeing of members through the role that health insurance can play. In addition to my direct experience as a RBHS member (including the experience of my young family), I bring a broad business perspective including learnings from the broader health and health insurance industries, knowledge on how behavioural sciences can promote health and wellbeing, and a diversity and inclusion lens to ensure that your individual and differing needs are met. I see immense value in working with people from differing experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives and very much look forward to working with other Board members. As a Board member, I want to ensure that the RBHS continues to meet your expectations and I invite you to reach out to me at any point to discuss the RBHS.

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Delivering optimal health benefit outcomes to RBHS members will be a key strategic objective for my role on the RBHS board, if appointed. This will involve prioritising and balancing the following key areas. 

• Delivering superior health benefits, including high benefit rates. 
• Enabling claims from a network of credible health providers and hospitals. 
• Providing high quality customer service and ease of interaction with RBHS. 
• Supporting as competitive premiums as possible. 

I am currently head of infrastructure investment at TCorp, the $110+ billion NSW government sovereign investor. I also have corporate advisory experience at major institutions, including Macquarie Group. 

• Corporate advisory experience involved developing and evaluating strategies, business plans, value drivers and risks, which will support identification and evaluation of RBHS strategic options. 
• Experience managing global investment portfolios enables evaluation of the investment of RBHS funds and, consequently, delivery of as competitive premiums as possible.
• My ability to critically assess financial viability and make capital allocation recommendations supports review of strategic approach and customer offerings, based on member needs. 

Qualifications include Australian Institute of Company Directors graduate, Master of Finance (Investment Banking) with Distinction (INSEAD), Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Accountant, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce with Merit (University of NSW).

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I am senior leader with a decade in governance, risk and resilience roles building on numerous senior management roles overseeing the analysis of financial institutions. I’m currently serving as Head of Portfolio Risk & Compliance in the Risk & Compliance Department of the RBA. In this role I oversees the foreign asset, domestic asset and legal teams responsible for independently measuring the performance, risk and compliance of the Bank’s financial asset portfolios. With over a decade of risk and governance experience at the RBA and IMF, I’ve successfully led numerous policy, governance, risk and resilience initiatives. This includes identifying and driving multi-year institution-wide change initiatives as well as working productively with boards, risk and crisis management committees.

Since 2023, I’ve been a Director of the Reserve Bank Health Society (RBHS) and am an active member of its Risk Committee. My academic credentials include a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree and a Masters of Economics degree, complemented by being a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

My governance and risk background is complemented by my deep interest in improving health choices and outcomes. This is demonstrated by my previous involvement in the RBA’s Mental Health Advisory Council and ongoing contributions to the Centre for Research Excellence in Stillbirth’s work (including research priorities and education program).

Director Skills and Experience Matrix here