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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Led pre-requisite initiatives for the launch of new Vanguard Super fund to support Vanguard’s pivot from institutional to retail and adviser aligned wealth manager o Supported the delivery of Vanguard’s Retirement Income Strategy o Developed Product Management and Governance arrangements to support target operating modelso Established the Portfolio Holding Disclosure process across internal teams and J.P.Morgano Partnered with cross-functional teams to design and develop Vanguard’s Super target operating model for investment management• Played a key role in the launch of the Vanguard pension product in 2023, including:o Partnered with the business to design the pension product features o Developed the Vanguard’s Super pension Target Market Determination and successfully presented it to the Vanguard Super Trustee Board for approvalo Developed training with frontline teams to support change management activities • Project led annual review of Vanguard’s Investment Governance Framework. Endorsed by the Super Trustee, this review entailed extensive engagement with investments, legal, compliance and risk partners• Delivered key product management initiatives for Vanguard Super ranging from performance reviews, member outcome assessments, competitor research, regulatory reporting and annual policy reviews• Led continues delivery initiatives to support ongoing proposition and offer development for Vanguard Super• Partnered across the enterprise including investments, sales, marketing, compliance and legal (including stakeholders, team members and management) to drive change, accountability and new processes to deliver product growth objectives

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Project management and change lead across various high profile strategic initiatives in Vanguard Fixed Income and Equity Investment Groups• Led Australian investment portfolio migration from legacy platform onto the new global portfolio platform. Migrated 16 domestic portfolios and 42 unhedged international portfolios. It enabled money management on the new global platform, driving significant efficiencies and risk reduction • Led the decommissioning of four legacy front-office systems as the Equity Product Owner. Collaborated closely with technology teams to archive data using AWS Cloud technology. This initiative guaranteed secure, on-demand access to archived investment data for the front-office desk, as per the data retention requirements of 7years.led activities to reduce regional process differences and reduction in the operational and technical risk• Led new operating model development for new active investment capability for Vanguard Australia. This involved establishing a new Quantitative Equity Group desk within the Investment Management Group in Australia, requiring sophisticated stakeholder engagement across investments, data, risk management teams globally and locally, which enabled the new active desk to manage additional active products

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Project delivery for several ETFs launches including VGB, VAG, VHY, VSO and VAP. These ETFs today are collectively worth over $10B AUD. o Led the development of new operating model for in kind and cash create ETF modelso Assessed and evaluated complex business requirements for front, middle and back office to prepare Vanguard for readinesso Decomposed high-level business requirements into functional requirements in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by developerso Managed requirements traceability information and tracked requirements status throughout the projecto Led the estimation process with technology to support resource allocationo Generated UAT testing strategy, test plans and scenarios to provide appropriate controls and risk managemento Co-ordinated end to end UAT across all business units involved in the ETFs life cycle (Investment Management Group, Fund Financial Services (FFS) Transitions, FFS Oversight, FFS Client admin, Performance and Web Services)o Co-ordinated business readiness and signoff across business

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia