As QBE’s Global Chief Compliance Officer, I was responsible for leading and managing QBE’s global compliance program and overseeing the day-to-day operation of the Group Compliance team and its Compliance Framework. The Global compliance function is also responsible for managing QBE’s Conduct Risk and privacy – both the Head of Group Conduct and the Global Privacy Officer report into the CCO. As CCO, I reported into the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary (and subsequently the CRO) and reported on compliance matters at each meeting of the Risk and Capital Committee of QBE’s Group Board and the Executive Non-Financial Risk Committee. I have extensive experience in corporate law, ASX regulations, financial services, consumer and business finance law, including the NCCP Act and National Credit Code. While at Thorn I successfully lead the sale of numerous subsidiary businesses and was a senior member of the teams which refinanced Thorn’s warehouse and credit facilities. I have extensive experience in responsible lending and responsible lending operations. I successfully have negotiated an Enforceable Undertaking and concluded enforcement proceedings with ASIC. Also, I have managed a class action and led the negotiations which led to its settlement. As a Partner at Appleby, I practice corporate and insurance and reinsurance law specializing in formations, corporate finance, corporate structuring and general insurance regulatory matters. While in private practice, I advised on a wide variety of matters for a client base dominated by Fortune 500 companies. Ranked as a Band 1 lawyer since Chambers and Partners’ 2008 inaugural Chambers Global ‘The World's Leading Lawyers.’ Chambers Global described me as a leading lawyer with strengths in corporate structuring, corporate finance and insurance regulatory work.
