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Ken Allen AMChairman Emeritus
Ken Allen is currently a Senior Advisor to UBS Asia Pacific and Lexington Partners, Chairman of Talent2, Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Chair Emeritus of Advance, the world's leading network of Australian professionals and entrepreneurs abroad. Prior to returning to Sydney in April 2006, Ken was the Australian Consul General in New York, representing Australia's interests in the United States and deepening the investment, commercial, cultural and sporting links between the two countries. Ken's major focus was the positioning of Australia as a global financial centre and he played an active role in the signing of the Australis / US Free Trade Agreement.
Graduating from the University of Adelaide with an Honours Degree in Economics, Ken joined Unilever and worked in Sydney and London in various marketing roles, before joining Slater Walker Australia. Ken started his banking career with the World Bank in Washington DC, later moving to New York with Merrill Lynch where he was responsible for establishing their investment bank in Australia, pre-empting his subsequent role with Lehman Brothers overseeing a similar strategic move. In 1991, Ken joined County NatWest and more recently, he was a Senior Director with Macquarie Bank.
Ken has served on the Boards of the NSW Treasury Corporation, the State Bank of New South Wales, the Film Finance Corporation of Australia, Omnicom, Australia Post and The China Institute in New York. He became a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the business and finance sectors, to international relations, and to the community through fundraising for charitable organisations. Ken was a Pilot Officer in the RAAF, University of Adelaide Squadron. Ken and his wife, Jill, have three sons and eight grandchildren
Christopher Aitken
Rosalind Coffey is based in Hong Kong
Ros joined Lehman Brothers in 2002 as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Finance Division, reporting directly to the then Chief Financial Officer, Dave Goldfarb. In this role she was responsible for working with groups such as Technology, Facilities, Human Resources, Recruiting, Leadership & Learning and Corporate Security to service the Finance division. She served as the “right hand” to the Chief Financial Officer for all organizational issues relating to the Finance Division and was responsible for the global Finance business plan and budget.
Her role in the organizational management of the division included implementing a global career mobility program, creating a training and development program, advancing the Finance full-time and summer Analyst programs, enhancing global communication and building a strong culture of feedback and performance management.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ros was the Director of the Financial Services practice of Michael Page International, a leading global executive recruitment firm. She was a founding member of Michael Page International’s New York operation, and had complete responsibility for building this business from its inception. Her clients covered all facets of the financial services sector including investment banks, broker dealers, brokers, insurance firms, wholesale banks, asset managers and private banks.
Board Member, National Representative Advance Life Science Network, New York
John is a Principal at Torreya Partners, a boutique advisory firm in the life sciences sector providing services in M&A, licensing, and financing services. Most recently he was Senior Director of Business Development at sanofi-aventis Pharmaceuticals in Bridgewater, New Jersey where he co-ordinated sanofi-aventis’ business development activities in oncology, diabetes, CNS and rheumatology. During his tenure, John identified assets leading to transactions with net value of approximately $1 billion. Building on his considerable interest in the venture capital and private equity sectors, John established working relationships with leading US-based life science venture and private equity firms. Prior to that, John led sanofi aventis’ strategic pricing department assuming responsibility for price management of the company’s $US15 billion market portfolio including brands such as Plavix, Lovenox, Ambien, Eloxatin, Taxotere and Lantus. Additionally he was responsible for placing provisional price points on developmental assets in Phase 2-3 settings. John founded the strategic pricing unit and directed oncology health economics at Schering-Plough. He has also worked for AT Kearney Management Consulting, The World Bank, World Health Organization and, over a five year period, as a clinician at teaching hospitals both in the UK and Australia.
Elena was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Advance and was the first employee of Advance. She joined Advance in March 2003 when there were 500 members of Advance principally in the New York region. Since that time Advance has grown to the leading network of Australian professionals overseas with over 20,000 members and local chapters across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Elena has a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia and in 1996 Elena was one of 15 young Australians awarded the Vincent Fairfax Ethics Leadership Award. Elena was also an ADC Future Summit Leadership Awardee and was the creator of the Catherine McCauley Award for Leadership and Service.
Serafina MaioranoChief Executive Officer, New York, United States
Serafina has brought to Advance a diversified and impressive professional skill base and an international reach. Since joining Advance the organisation's membership has increased from 10,000 to over 20,000 and reached out to establish a presence in the Asia region. Currently living in New York, she has lived in Australia, Italy and Dubai, and developed projects in London, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Singapore.
She has held Board and Committee positions with the Adelaide Fringe Inc, Australia's largest multi art festival and second largest Fringe in the world; the Australian Network for Art and Technology, Australia's peak network for artists working with science and technology; the South Australian Women's Advisory Council; and the Council for Italians Abroad in South Australia, an official Italian Government representative body for global Italian diaspora. In 2004 she received an Australia Council award to undertake international cultural partnership research in USA, Mexico and UK.
Serafina has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide, and Honours Degree in Italian Language and Literature from Flinders University, a Diploma in European Economics from the Foreign University of Perugia in Italy, and a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts) from the University of South Australia.
Adrian Turner is currently President of Advance. Prior to being elected into his current role, Adrian served as Vice President of Advance for two years, and San Francisco Regional Chair for two years prior to that.
Adrian is also CEO of Mocana Corporation, which he co-founded. Mocana launched in mid 2004 and has since grown to become the leading security company securing non-PC devices, or the "Internet of Things". Today the "Internet of Things" represents a $900B ecosystem, growing twice as fast as the PC market. Mocana's software is currently used by companies like Cisco, Motorola, Siemens, Panasonic, Intel, Samsung, Nokia Siemens, Honeywell and more than a hundred others to secure everything from satellite communications systems, to medical devices, industrial equipment, consumer electronic devices and mobile phones. Mocana was recently named one of the Top100 privately held companies by RedHerring magazine. Prior to founding Mocana Adrian had P&L responsibility for developing infrastructure to support Philips Electronics’ (NYSE:PHG) connected consumer and business devices. Adrian began his career in Australia working in the media sector with Newscorp (NYSE: NWS) and retail sector with OPSM (ASX:OPS.AX).
Adrian holds a business degree in Marketing and Finance from the University of Technology in Sydney Australia and has completed the Executive Program for Managing Growth Companies at Stanford University.
Gene van Grecken
Gene van Grecken is the Director of Application Development – ANZ at iSOFT Group Limited providing technical leadership for the technology teams based in the Australia and New Zealand region and responsibility for iSOFT’s global applications deployed in the region.
Prior to joining iSOFT, Gene was Vice President of Technology at Travelocity.com LP based in the USA, with responsibility for Travelocity's North American retail site, media, and the social travel site, IgoUgo. In this position, Gene led the technology development of these web and offline systems, for Travelocity's brands globally including lastminute.com in Europe and Zuji in Asia Pacific.
Derek YoudaleTreasurer, New York, United States
Derek is a Managing Director at JP Morgan Chase and is the technology CFO for the Retail Business. He also manages the technology groups program and business management functions from his New York base. Derek has worked previously at the firm’s Investment Bank, Wealth Management, Corporate and Treasury Services divisions in various technology and non technology related finance / project management roles. He joined the bank in 1997 in London. Before he moved to London he worked at Price Waterhouse in Sydney.
Derek has traveled extensively to around 60 countries for both pleasure and work. He currently resides in New York.
Derek holds a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Technology, Sydney and was admitted to the Australia Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1996.
