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Samantha Gavel was appointed as NSW Privacy Commissioner on 4 September 2017.
Her role is to promote public awareness and understanding of privacy rights in NSW, as well as providing information, support, advice and assistance to agencies and the general public. Her responsibilities include the preparation of reports recommending legislative, administrative or other action in the interests of privacy as well as conducting inquiries and investigations into privacy-related matters.

Most recently Ms Gavel was the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman and Privacy Commissioner, and previously held the role of Private Health Insurance Ombudsman for six years.
Ms Gavel has also worked in senior administrative roles for both NSW and Commonwealth Government organisations. She is an experienced mediator and has significant expertise in complaints handling, dispute resolution, privacy rights and ombudsman work.

Sheila FitzPatrick is a strategic global data privacy and protection compliance consulting firm. Sheila has over thirty-five years’ experience in global data privacy, data protection and sovereignty compliance and is one of the foremost experts on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Sheila has been honoured as one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence 2017.
Sheila works with numerous multinational companies (including Fortune 500 companies) providing an extensive array of data privacy and sovereignty services. Sheila also works with corporate legal, finance and HR departments, as well as sales, marketing, and product development teams to help position data privacy compliance as a competitive advantage.

Passionate about secure, smooth and simply brilliant innovation to help customers bank better – at Xinja we are striving to achieve this. Banking is all about dealing in units of trust and we will never forget this. We have a responsibility to protect our customers and their hard-earned money.

Personally, I’m a savvy Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Legal professional with extensive experience in financial services reporting to the CEO.

With diverse exposure to a broad spectrum of customers (from retail, to business, institutional and government), across an array of financial products & services (including lending, deposits, cards, advice, securities, Managed Investment Schemes and everything in between), via a smorgasbord of material risk categories (credit, operational & compliance, legal, strategy, technology-related, capital & liquidity focussed) and having worked in a variety of organisations (from the biggest bank in the country, the mutual banking sector, starting a fintech company and commencing my career in corporate law firms) – I pride myself on being a strategic business enabler with razor sharp commercial acumen and genuine customer centricity.

Obtained an Economics (and Social Sciences) Degree, Law Degree from the University of Sydney and Masters of Risk Management from UNSW. Also a Justice of the Peace (JP) and ad hoc guest lecturer/conference presenter.

Marion Hemphill is General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, an organisation whose purpose is life-giving blood, plasma, transplantation and biological products for world-leading health outcomes. Marion has more than 20 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, working in-house and at large law firms in Australia, London and New Zealand. Her professional experience has included a wide breadth of commercial advice, negotiations with regulators and incident response. Marion is a proponent of focusing on compliance, risk and ethics as a fundamental step to achieving strategic goals. Marion is a Board member of Melbourne City Mission. In 2019 Marion was a finalist in the Not for Profit category of the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards

University of Tasmania 1987-1991
Admitted to practise law as a Barrister and Solicitor 1993
Commenced private practice 1992
Practised as a partner from 2005 in a medium-size firm in Tasmania specialising in civil litigation.
Moved In- House as Senior Corporate Counsel with Aurora Energy 2010.
Currently employed in the Energy sector employed as Corporate Counsel with Tasmanian Networks Pty Ltd, Tasmania’s only state-owned energy company.
Currently holds the roles of Privacy Officer, Right to Information Officer and Corporate Counsel specialising in investigations, dispute resolution and general litigation.

Kath Slack and Angela Dally are respected privacy lawyers and compliance professionals with over 20 years’ experience in the field of privacy and compliance. Their approach to privacy compliance has its focus on the wellbeing and safety of an organisation’s customers as well as ensuring that customers have a clear understanding on how their personal information is collected, used and managed.

Since 2015 Kath and Angela have held the role of senior group privacy specialist at Telstra providing corporate-wide privacy expertise and supporting the functional privacy teams to manage privacy compliance requirements in their business units. Prior to this, they were specialist privacy lawyers in Telstra legal team. Previous to Telstra they worked as banking and finance and business management lawyers in the Treasury at Coles Myer.

Kath and Angela have been job sharing for over 15 years. They have profiled the success of their arrangement in different roles in Telstra business and Legal teams and maintain active involvement in promoting diversity in organisations and demonstrating the power of flexible work practices by mentoring and coaching others.

Bob is a data professional with over 20 years global experience gained from working across some of the world’s largest data/database organisations, as a result, Bob has extensive experience in data strategy, data procurement, supplier management, data governance, data quality, analytics, database marketing, credit and product management

Bob started with Experian (UK) and by the end of his time, he was account managing some of the UK’s biggest pub retailers and travel companies. Bob then moved to Australia to work for Experian’s business partner across A/NZ, Pacific Micromarketing, where he managed the development of their data and software products including project managing the successful rebuild of Experian’s leading Australian geodemographic segmentation, Mosaic

After Pacific Micromarketing Bob joined another global data business, Acxiom, where he led their data product team and was responsible for acquiring new partners to grow their consumer universe

In his current role at Equifax, formally Veda, Bob is the Chief Data Officer with a team of 35. His team is responsible for delivering the acquisition and management of Equifax’s data assets, including developing and maintaining relationships with over 100 data and services partners; driving high data quality standards and maintaining strong linkages across data assets; all in a highly regulated environment where privacy compliance is paramount which has required him to develop a strong data governance function

Jamie assumed the role CEO of the Open Data Institute Queensland (ODI Queensland) in May 2018. The ODI’s mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. ODI Queensland, now in its third year, is already recognised not just within Queensland, but nationally and internationally, as a leader in bringing business, industry, academia and government together to utilise government data as a strategic resource.

Jamie Leach has an extensive background in senior business development, general management, commercial banking and wealth management roles, as well as creating successful web-based startups.

Jamie has been employed in prominent roles by some of the world’s largest companies, leading high-profile projects for GE Capital, Westpac and Investec in additional to her service to the Department of Defence and the Australian telecommunications industry. Her high-profile background in the financial industry served her well in operating and growing a number of Brisbane Start-ups.

Jamie also holds a number of complementary roles:

• Committee member for the ECRi Hub, Department of State Development;
• Board member – Women in Digital;
• Committee member for the OASC;
• various mentoring and advisory roles, both domestically and across the USA.

Past representative roles include Chair of the Tech Girls Movement Foundation and Vice President of Women in Finance (Queensland).

Jamie is currently completing her PhD in Financial Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship.

Anthony Hollis is Managing Director of Data Governance Australia (DGA), an industry association founded to establish standards and benchmarks around the collection, use, storage and management of data in Australia. DGA is part of the Australia Alliance for Data Leadership (AADL), a network of associations with the common thread of data and the customer, representing the essential functions of data-driven business.

Anthony has over 40 years’ experience as a senior executive across a broad range of diverse and challenging roles including business strategy, managing high-performance teams, running businesses, sales, innovation, fundraising start-ups and advisory. Prior to his role at DGA, Anthony served as an executive, advisor and board member for companies such as Time Warner, CanWest Communications, Krono, Network Ten, EY, and PWC, Supply Nation and the Northern Sydney Local Health District Board

Jade has almost seventeen years legal experience internationally and in Australia in such areas as data protection, freedom of information, litigation and legislative reform. She was previously NAB’s Chief Privacy Officer from late 2013 – to mid 2019, situated in NAB’s Group Governance & Legal department. Previously Jade was based overseas in London, where she worked as a regulatory lawyer for the

BBC, and in New Zealand, where she had various roles in government relating to law reform and indigenous issues. Her NAB experience includes being across regular improvements to policies and credit consents, keeping a watchful eye over marketing campaigns and has lived through implementing the biggest updates to Australian Privacy legislation for the last 20 years (the introduction of the APPs and comprehensive credit reporting, as well as the Mandatory Data

Breach scheme), which she helped roll out across the Enterprise. Jade now combines her experiences across those sectors to be NAB’s Head of Data Ethics, based in their Enterprise Data team.

Kath Slack and Angela Dally are respected privacy lawyers and compliance professionals with over 20 years’ experience in the field of privacy and compliance. Their approach to privacy compliance has its focus on the wellbeing and safety of an organisation’s customers as well as ensuring that customers have a clear understanding on how their personal information is collected, used and managed.

Since 2015 Kath and Angela have held the role of senior group privacy specialist at Telstra providing corporate-wide privacy expertise and supporting the functional privacy teams to manage privacy compliance requirements in their business units. Prior to this, they were specialist privacy lawyers in Telstra legal team. Previous to Telstra they worked as banking and finance and business management lawyers in the Treasury at Coles Myer.

Kath and Angela have been job sharing for over 15 years. They have profiled the success of their arrangement in different roles in Telstra business and Legal teams and maintain active involvement in promoting diversity in organisations and demonstrating the power of flexible work practices by mentoring and coaching others.

Rachel Dixon is the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner at the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC), where she is responsible for the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, including the Victorian Protective Data Security Standards.

In former lives Rachel headed the Australian Government’s digital identity initiative (as Head of Identity at the Digital Transformation Office). She has also has worked for Suncorp as Executive Program Manager for Business Transformation, where she oversaw consolidation of 17 legacy data stores into a new big data platform. For more than five years she was COO at Viocorp, where she developed advanced media and advertising platforms. Prior to that she was a senior executive at Seattle-based thePlatform for Media, delivering and supporting major platforms for online and mobile for Telstra and News Corporation, and before that was General Manager at Massive Interactive, where she led a development and design team on state-of-the art systems for the Airbus A380, among other projects.

Rachel has also been a Director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications, Deputy Chair at Choice (the Australian Consumers Association), and Director of several small software companies. In 1998 she co-founded FIBRE, a telecommunications company servicing the Motion Picture Post Production and VFX industry. She is a past Director and Chair of several other media, software and telecommunications companies and a former senior executive with Film Australia and Film Victoria. She has produced and executive produced several hundred film and television projects, many of which won major awards.

Rachel has also delivered many keynotes on technology, privacy, and artificial intelligence and is particularly interested in the impacts of culture upon technology and vice-versa.

As Director, Privacy Dispute Resolution, Amanda manages OAIC regulatory action in relation to the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, and Commissioner initiated investigations. Amanda helped develop the OAIC’s NDB guidance for entities and individuals and leads the OAIC’s regulatory work in relation to compliance with the scheme. Amanda also provides advice and guidance to entities and individuals about the application of the scheme and manages the statistical reporting of data breaches by the OAIC. Amanda has been with the OAIC for a number of years, before which she worked for the Energy and Water Ombudsman of NSW.