If you're feeling unwell, get tested for COVID-19 and stay home until you’ve received a negative result. View our latest COVID-19 updates.
The focus of the Alumni Consultative Group (ACG) is to assist with the expansion and engagement of the global alumni network, to be an advocate for the business school and to represent the interests of business school alumni and to contribute to the building of relationships between alumni and current students.
Danny Armstrong is the National Australia Bank's General Manager, China Banking and Country Head China based in Shanghai with responsibility to lead the team establishing the Bank's first branch in China and to develop the Bank's China business. The Bank commenced branch operations in Shanghai in October 2011. Danny is Chair of the Bank's China Risk, Pricing & Treasury Committee and is a member of the Bank's Asian Balance Sheet Forum (ALCo) Committee. He is also Finance Director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai and Chair of the Chamber's Financial Services industry group.
His prior roles in the financial services sector include Executive Advisor to the Commonwealth Bank's former CEO, David Murray, director of CBHS Friendly Society Limited, General Director and Country Head for the Commonwealth Bank in Vietnam, with responsibility to establish and expand general banking business for the Bank in Vietnam. He was also Vice Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Vietnam for 2 years.
Danny graduated from the Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance) at Monash University in 1999 and Master of Business Administration Degrees from Macquarie Graduate School of Management in 2003. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors' Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses.
Abie Pua Boon Leng is a Senior Consultant with Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Risk Consulting Practice, based in Malaysia office. She joined JLT in 2012 where she is primarily involved in assignments related to Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Risk Analytics. She also acts as the Risk Manager and Training Coordinator for JLT Malaysia office.
Prior to joining JLT she was a university lecturer for risk management and business-related subjects with Sunway Education Group (for Victoria University Australia and Lancaster University UK). Previous to that she held a managerial role in Franchise Networking Companies, a prominent pioneer in health care and anti-aging in Malaysia. She started her career in the Insurance industry in 2005 as a Marketing Executive at Ace Jerneh Insurance Berhad (formerly known as Jerneh Insurance Berhad).
Abie Pua graduated with a Masters of Risk Management from Monash University in 2008 and with a Bachelor of Business (Marketing and International Trade) from Victoria University in 2004.
Nina Calski has extensive risk management and leadership skills and is the Director of ncd Risk Pty Ltd. She provides consultancy and advisory services in the areas of Risk Management, Governance, Compliance and Assurance. Her previous roles include various risk management, audit, compliance and leadership roles for number of different Organisations, ranging from Coles Myer, State Department, Local Government, Emergency Services and consultancy. She has lectured on Corporations Law.
Overseeing the establishment and operation of an NFP organisation and holding positions on various Boards and Committees allows her to contribute her corporate knowledge and influence best business practices and outcomes, both locally and internationally.
Nina graduated with a Master of Business Law (Corporation law) from Monash University in 2012. She is a committee member of Education and Accreditation Committee, Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA) and was a member of The Faculty Board, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University for 2012-2013.
Lay Lian graduated from Monash University in 2012 with a PhD in Economics. As the Central Bank of Malaysia's scholar, she returned to serve the Bank and was placed in a unit to drive research in the field of macroeconomics and policy. Presently, Lay Lian's job scope includes conducting short-term to medium-term research on priority areas and undertaking special projects that involve policy analysis for the Government.
Lay Lian has served in the central bank for more than 10 years and she believes in value of knowledge and continuous self-development. As a policy maker, she believes that good work and especially, good policies can only be produced when there is sufficient knowledge and understanding in the subject matter. While the returns to education is not comparable to that of the Western Countries, education provides the opportunity to broaden one's perspective, teaches one patience, integrity and perseverance towards hard work. She values spending time listen to her father's old stories and her mother preaching about the values of life. She also enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, supporting her favourite football team, FC Barcelona and travelling.
Peter Cosman is the National Store Development Manager for Coles Supermarkets. He is a strategic & commercially focussed general manager, having developed his skills across a broad range of retail and property businesses.
As part of their turn-around strategy, he currently leads a Team within Coles Supermarkets that are responsible for the delivery of new & refurbished stores & store operations optimisation. Prior to Coles, Peter worked at Westfield in the capacity of Management Executive. In this role he was responsible for optimising shopping centre retail, centre activation, & developing shopping centre amenity.
Peter completed his Masters of Business Administration from Monash University in 2010 and he is currently studying a Masters of Property. He is passionate about developing & progressing the Monash MBA Alumni network – he understands the degree to which the collective expertise of the Alumni can/should be harnessed to further enhance our professional and personal skills and knowledge.
Lydia Föger graduated in 2009 from Monash University with a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) and Bachelor of Business (Management). She was recognised on the Dean's Honour List for both degrees.
During University Lydia was the 2008 President of the Monash Marketing Student Society. In 2009, she was the representative undergraduate student on the Faculty Education Committee, and elected Student Board Member within the Faculty of Business and Economics.
Lydia has worked in Marketing across a number of industries including Advertising, Petroleum and Technology.
In 2011, she moved to London, to work for Apple Inc. Lydia currently plays a key role within Marketing Communications at Apple, to support new Product Launches in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa.
On completing a successful career in advertising and marketing in Australia, UK and Canada, Damian underwent a planned career change.
After graduating with a Masters of Professional Accounting from Monash University, Damian was accepted into the 2013 graduate program within PwC's Private Clients Services.
While at Monash, Damian established the Monash Investment Society; a not-for-profit student society researching Melbourne's strategic investment and wealth management industry and techniques based on interviews with leading investment fund managers and industry leaders. In 2013, Damian also served on the Monash University Business and Economics Board on appointment on recommendation of the Dean.
Simon Guttmann is a Senior Consultant at Nous Group, Australia's largest privately held management consulting firm. He has assisted a range of organisations develop strategy and public policy, review business processes, streamline internal functions and improve internal capability. His experience crosses the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and ranges across financial services, economic development, education and training, health and human services.
Simon's professional experiences also includes working for the Victorian Government in New York, with responsibility for attracting foreign direct investment to Victoria and assisting Victorian exporters, and the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he worked as a research economist and as the US, China and India country economist. He has also worked with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Washington, D.C.) and the Productivity Commission.
Simon completed a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours), Monash University in 1999 and a PhD in economics, Monash University in 2003. He also completed the Washington Semester Program in 2000 at American University, in Washington, D.C.
Sonya Li Song completed her Master of Practicing Accounting at Monash University in 2003.
She has 14 years working experience in China, in accounting and finance including eight years in a manager position. With her international study and working experience, on her return to China in 2003 she was hired by Intel China and later at Polycom as Financial controller. Sonya believes that her Australian study experiences helped her to become a strategic thinker and good business partner. In early 2009 Li was promoted to a global accounting controller role and now leads team of over 30 people to cover the company's 35 business units and the worldwide accounting system. She also runs the Global Finance Share Service Center in China.
Yulia Lukita is the Executive Recruitment Head (Senior Manager) at Sinarmas Agribusiness & Food, specializing in leading the talent acquisition function and driving the entire end to end recruitment process for executive level vacancies. Prior to this role, she was the Corporate Recruitment Manager in Gunung Sewu (Conglomerate Group), responsible for supporting and managing the overall employment and recruitment process for all business units across various industries. Before joining Gunung Sewu, Yulia was a Recruitment Consultant in a leading Executive Search firm in Indonesia, providing expert recruiting solutions that drive bottom line success for clients and career satisfaction for all candidates managed.
She earned her Bachelor of Human Resource Management degree (Minor in Economics) in 2004 from Monash University. She received her Diploma of Business at Monash College, Australia in 2002 as well as a Diploma of Business Administration and Marketing from TMC, Singapore in 2001.
Carole McTavish is the AR/AP Shared Services Manager at Orica Limited. She completed her Bachelor of Business (Law) at Monash University in 2009.
Kai Schroeder is the Chief Architect and Manager Business Architecture for Chorus, New Zealand. With nearly two decades of delivering business and IT strategy & architecture, Kai has gained an exceptional level of experience and expertise working for global telecommunications companies as well as international consultancies. He is an experienced leader with a strong track record in leading business and IT capabilities in Europe, Australia, America and Africa.
Kai's professional qualifications include a Master of Information Management & Systems (2003) and a Master of Business Administration (2008) from Monash University.
Russell Scoular is the Ford Motor Company's Regional Director, Government Affairs, Asia Pacific. He has held this position in Shanghai since September 2011 and is responsible for the company's Government Affairs activities across the region. He is also chair of Amcham Shanghai's Automotive Committee. He was previously Government Affairs Director at Ford Australia where he was responsible for government and public policy issues affecting the company at federal, state and local level, including automotive, tax, environment, trade and investment policy.
He was elected Vice President of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) 2003-2006 and also the chaired the chamber's government policy advisory group from 2006-2011. He has also served as chair of the City of Hume's Economic Development Committee.
Russell joined Ford New Zealand in 1984 as External Affairs Manager with responsibilities for public affairs, government affairs, motorsport, customs and transportation, and transferred to Ford Australia in 1990.
Russell graduated with a Master in Public Policy and Management degree at Monash University in 2000.
Michael Teo Soon Peng has been in the banking industry for over 15 years. He is currently a Vice President at DBS Bank, as a Program Manager for regional system implementation supporting the Structured Trade business and based in Singapore. Prior employers include Credit Suisse, Merril Lynch Global Wealth, and Barclays Capital, in which he supported various operational functions; from Reference Data, Trade Support to Corporate Actions.
Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University in 2005.
Anthea White is a CPA and former Victorian public service with extensive experience in public sector finance.
She commenced work in the Victorian Public Service (VPS) in 1984 and during that time held senior finance roles with the Department of Justice, Department of Infrastructure and Department of Treasury and Finance.
In 1998 Anthea took an eighteen-month break from the VPS to work as a tour leader for Australian owned adventure travel company, Intrepid Travel. Leading small groups through Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand gave her a great opportunity to develop leadership, organisational, and problem solving skills. It also gave her a unique opportunity to gain an insight into South East Asian cultures. Anthea later returned to work in Viet Nam in 2009 to teach English as a second language to primary school students for a private Singaporean school in Ha Noi.
Anthea has performed a number of voluntary roles. Currently she is a mentor with the Monash Alumni Mentoring program and is a member of the In The Black panel for CPA Australia.
Anthea holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Science (Information Management) from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Accounting from Monash University and completed the CPA Program in 2004. After developing an interest in training and education Anthea completed the Cambridge University Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults at La Trobe University in 2007, and a CERT IV in Training & Assessment at RMIT University in 2010.
Charles Custeau is an Investment Associate at Falcon Investment Advisors, a U.S. private equity firm with over US$2 billion under management. Charlie's responsibilities at Falcon include evaluating and executing new investments in North American companies as well as monitoring existing portfolio companies at the Board and shareholder levels. Charles is currently responsible for seven of Falcon's portfolio companies in the healthcare, education, consumer, chemicals, finance, and automotive spaces.
Charlie received his honours degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Monash University. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.