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Brian Triplett
Global Head of Prepaid Products
Visa International
Professor Dan Horne
Associate Professor of Marketing
Providence College
Director and Chief Analyst
Giftex Prepay
Michael Walters
Chair Asia Pacific
Prepaid International Forum
Director
Edgar, Dunn & Company
Joanne Beattie
Client Services Manager
David Jones
David Fenlon
Chief Operating Officer
Angus & Robertson
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Meet our speakers...
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Anil Aggarwal
Director
Paybefore
Founder & Chairman
Network Branded Prepaid Card Association
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Anil D. Aggarwal is a recognised global leader in the prepaid card industry. He is Chairman and CEO of TxVia, a technology company that is revolutionising prepaid card processing. He is also Founder and Chairman of the NBPCA, the leading trade organization for network branded prepaid cards. Previously, he co-founded and led Prepaid Media, a trade media company which operates Paybefore, the leading publication for the prepaid card industry. From 2004 to 2006, he was CEO and a director of TSYS Prepaid, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TSYS (NYSE: TSS).
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David Anstee
Innovation Manager
7-Eleven Stores
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David Anstee is 7-Eleven’s Innovation Manager, a sessional lecture in Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University’s MBA programme, and an inventor. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, and graduated with a distinction MBA from London Business School. He has worked as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch, a diving instructor in Cairns, an assistant cameraman for National Geographic in the Arctic and a professional fox shooter.
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Joanne Beattie
Corporate Services Manager
David Jones
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Joanne is one of Australia’s leading authorities on gift cards and is known for the role she has played in the development and implementation of gift cards in Australia. Joanne has extensive retail experience and over the last 15 years has specialised in the marketing of Gift Vouchers and Gift Cards to both retail and business customers in Australia. Joanne began her career in speciality retail in Sydney, holding various positions in management and buying whilst still in her early twenties.
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Andrea Beatty
Partner
Mallesons Stephens Jaques
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Tamara Boyer
Director
DSP Partners
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After experience in the financial services and advertising sectors, which exposed her to a variety of different industries including not for profit, directories and media, Tamara consolidated her customer programs and channel management experience in a senior marketing role at Sensis. This broader strategy and business experience culminated in Tamara joining Coles Myer in 2005 to manage its retail gift card program and the requisite operational requirements for all Coles Myer businesses. Areas of responsibility included marketing, product, retail sales and commercial and vendor management. Tamara’s experience in Australia’s prepaid space is unique and ranges from strategy, product development and operational fulfillment to commercial structures and reselling via third parties and corporate channels.
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Alison Deitz
Partner, Anti-Money Laundering
Deacons
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Alison Deitz is a Partner in the Financial Services Business Unit of Deacons and is the national head of Deacons AML team. She has been an active commentator on the impact of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (the Act) on the financial services sector as well as other industry sectors within Australia. Alison is an Australian adviser to the IBA Anti-Money Laundering Legislation Implementation Group, Chair of the IPA AML Working Group, member of the IFSA AML Working Group, member of the Pre-Paid International Forum, and one of the few legal practitioners in Australia to receive accreditation as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist from ACAMS®.
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David Fenlon
Chief Operating Officer
Angus & Robertson
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Mark Fletcher
Director
Axiom Consulting Australia
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Baldeep Gill
Principal
Emerging Mobile Payment & Technology Group
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Professor Dan Horne
Director and Chief Analyst
Giftex Prepay
Associate Professor of Marketing
Providence College
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Known as the Gift Card Guru, Dan Horne is the world’s leading expert on consumer purchase and use of gift cards, an area he has studied since 1992. Horne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at Providence College in Rhode Island, USA, where he teaches Consumer Behavior.
Following his doctoral work, he began a series of large-scale research projects investigating the consumer purchase and usage of gift certificates and cards as well as the role these products play as rewards, incentives, and promotions. His work has been published in both academic and practitioner journals and in 2005 he co-authored, the European Guide to Gift and Stored Value. In addition, his industry research reports are published 8 times annually in Giftex Prepay’s Global Prepay Intelligence.
For the last fourteen years he has worked as a researcher, analyst and advisor on gift certificates/cards for retailers, financial services companies and suppliers in North America, Europe and Australasia. He provides expert commentary on retailer performance to the financial markets, and to the print and electronic media. He has served as an advisor to governmental authorities in the US and Canada on issues surrounding the sale and purchase of gift cards.
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Lee Manton
Head of Product Development
VISA Australia
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Ian Povey
Director
CardsConsult Australia
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Ian is an internationally focused advisor across the cards and payments industries. Originally returning to Australia in 2006 to join ANZ as Head of Emerging Payments, Ian now focuses on providing strategic insight and guidance on new technologies and business models as they relate to payments and chip card solutions. Ian has directed cards & payments initiatives for more than ten years with roles at PwC Consulting, at EDS as Director of Cards Strategy for the EMEA region and CardsConsult.
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Dr Asha Rao
Science Lecturer, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences
Roayl Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Dr Asha Rao is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University. Her PhD was in Algebra and her current research interests include mathematics of error correcting codes and information security management. She has authored many refereed articles in international journals and conferences. She designed and developed the 2 * year Master of Applied Science (Information Security and Assurance) programme at RMIT in 2005.
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Steve Striet
Chief Executive Officer
The Green Dot Corporation
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Steve founded Green Dot Corporation in 1999, developing the first retail reloadable prepaid debit card. Since then, Green Dot Corporation has grown into the nation’s largest provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards sold at retail stores. Green Dot Corporation also owns and operates the Green Dot Financial Network, one of the largest retail-based cash acceptance networks in the United States. In 2005, Ernst & Young named Streit “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the greater Los Angeles area.
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Brian Triplett
Global Head of Prepaid Products
Visa International
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Triplett’s deep experience across the payments industry includes expertise in developing electronic payment products, managing commercial industry alliances and establishing payment platforms for B2B e-commerce, smart cards, prepaid products and contactless card products.
Triplett joined Visa USA in 2000, and held several senior positions within Visa’s product organization. Previously, Triplett was senior vice president of Emerging Product Development for Visa USA, with responsibility for Visa’s new payment and security technologies such as the Visa payWave program and new authentication strategies.
Prior to that role, Triplett led both Visa’s Commercial Solutions B2B products team and the Public Sector team responsible for federal, state, local and higher education card programs. Triplett also led Visa’s Core Processing Solutions group, where he developed strategic direction for access, authorization, clearing and settlement platforms.
Prior to joining Visa, Triplett held positions at American Express, including a role on the New Business Venture team, responsible for the development of prepaid products and chip-based payment devices. He also served with the Corporate Services group, developing new products and services for commercial customers.
Triplett holds a master’s of business administration from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management.
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Wayne Veaney
Ticketing & Performance Manager
Transperth
Regional and School Bus Services
Public Transport Authority of Western Australia
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Michael Walters
Chairman Australia Pacific
Prepaid International Forum
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Michael is a Director of Edgar, Dunn & Company, based in the Sydney office. He has 20 years experience in senior management and consulting roles in the cards and payments industry, primarily in Australia, the US, and several Asian markets. Michael commenced his career in the management consulting division of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, and subsequently co-founded Electronic Trading Concepts (an ecommerce consulting firm), Catuity (a loyalty systems provider), and Cards etc (a smart card management system provider). Since joining EDC in 2002, Michael has conducted projects with clients in the financial services, retail/wholesale, government, and travel/ tourism sectors, primarily concentrating on business development, new market entry (organic and inorganic), infrastructure development, transaction acquiring, and emerging technologies / products. These projects have been conducted in over 20 markets globally, including more than a dozen in the Asia Pacific region. Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University (majors in management accounting and information technology), has lectured at two universities, has had published academic papers and articles on payment systems, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences globally.
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Michelle Wilson
Section Manager, Welfare Payments Reform Implementation
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Russell Zimmerman
Chairman
Australian Merchant Payments Forum
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Russell Zimmerman purchased the business of Spark’s Shoe’s in 1980 with his wife Marion. Spark’s Shoes are family shoe shops specialising in the fitting of children’s shoes. In 2001 Russell and Marion opened the First Rockport Retail Concept Shop in Australia at Castle Hill in NSW. Russell was invited to join the Australian Retailers Association as a State Division Councillor in 1995. In 1997 Russell was elected as a State delegate to the Australian Retailers Association National Council- a position that he still holds.
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