7 Questions on Leadership

Name: Kris Martin

Title: EVP, Research + Intelligence

Organisation: HBR Consulting

Kris serves as executive vice president of the Research + Intelligence practice. Leading our team of information services professionals, Kris works with clients providing advisory, managed services, and tech-enabled solutions.

He has worked for over 20 years bridging organizational change between the needs of the business and the lawyer. Kris defines project success as a frictionless end-state that improves outcomes and effectiveness for the organization, its people, and its partners.

Name: Kristofer Rogers

Title: Managing Director

Organisation: The Eden Consultancy

Kristofer is a technology founder recognised as a thought leader in digital disruption. He was announced as the Start-Up Executive of the Year at the CEO Magazine Awards for his work with Zepto (formerly Split Payments), which topped the AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies List in 2020.

Kristofer is now Managing Director of the Eden Consultancy, providing advisory services to global companies around emerging technology trends, particularly in payments and the social impact of technology. Kris has held numerous other leadership roles including Australian CEO and Director of Payments at publicly listed EonX Technologies and General Manager ANZ at Mambu, the $5 billion-valued core banking platform provider.

Focussing on social impact, Kris has launched two of the most successful fundraising platforms, and helped raise more than US$100 million for non-profits across the globe. He is also a board member of Feros Care, an aged care and disability services provider in Australia.

Name: Kristoffer Loremia


Title: Managing Director


Organisation: Cleaningly

A Filipino-Australian Tech Entrepreneur with a unique combination of leadership and technical skills, bringing to the table the ability to combine management with technical applications. Helped build applications for UNDP, WorldBank and Silicon Valley Based Startups. Currently running Two Startups - Tudlo.co in Philippines and Cleaningly.com.au in Australia which are invested by Smart Communications Inc, Ideaspace Foundation, ITU World Telecom, JFDI.ASIA, HotDesq - Advance Queensland and BlueStartups.

Experienced in programming, creating and implementing comprehensive business databases, designing and developing software applications. Professional Goals include continuing to grow in leadership and knowledge, excel in innovative technology application, interact and share with team members and colleagues, and develop world-class solutions to real world challenges.

Specialties: web application development, mobile development, management, it solutions, marketing, business strategy and fund raising

Name: Kurt Ostermiller

Title: Owner; Certified Executive Business Coach

Organisation: Kurt Ostermiller Coaching

Kurt is currently the CEO of Kurt Ostermiller Coaching, a professional firm dedicated to coaching CFOs and other corporate financial executives. As a C-level executive with over 30 years corporate finance experience, he has led numerous financially distressed companies through complex turnarounds, restructurings, and financing transactions. He possesses extensive knowledge of finance, corporate strategy and operations. He holds two executive coaching certifications and is currently coaching corporate financial executives.

Name: Kylie Towie


Title: Managing Director


Organisation: Kylie Towie & Associates

Kylie Towie is a senior executive that helps organisations translate strategy into implementation. With over 20+ years experience in Government, health, aged care, ICT, Procurement, Kylie has a remarkable ability to ‘cut through’ to the heart of a problem definition and inspire organisations to deliver success. Kylie has many international and National awards helping organisations transform.

Name: Lami


Title: Mengistu


Organisation: Arara Church

I'm preacher of the Gospel of Christ and Youth leader in the church

Name: Leesa Soulodre


Title: General Partner


Organisation: R3i Capital

Leesa Soulodre is the founding General Partner of R3i Group and the Managing Partner of R3i Capital, a deeptech cross-border venture capital firm focused on sustainable development. She is a Clinical Professor of Practice at SMU Cox Business School in Complex Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship and an adjunct faculty member at Singapore Management University and IE Business School. She serves on the advisory board of the Think Tank, The AI Asia Pacific Institute, an independent, interdisciplinary research institute examining the implications of artificial intelligence. Leesa holds a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM (NYU Stern, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science) and a Masters in Management (Marketing) from the University of Southern Queensland.

Name: Lesetja Maraba

Title: Executive Director

Organisation: Maraba IT Solutions Incoporated

I am a multi-talented, innovative and qualified IT professional a solid passion for all things IT related. I offer solid competencies in the areas of Programming, Web Development, Databases, Cloud Computing, IT Support, Network System Administration. Strong organizational skills, I have a positive outlook on life and value interpersonal relations. I view myself as a value asset in the IT value chain able to communicate with people from different backgrounds and able to provide solutions to a wide array of issues

Name: Lisa Thee


Title: Managing Director Data and AI


Organisation: Launch Consulting

Ms. Thee is a Top 50 Global Thought Leader for AI, Privacy, and Safety with demonstrated experience in delivering revenue and solving complex business technology, governance, privacy and risk challenges at scale.

Ms. Thee is a consultant to some of the world's most innovative healthcare, and global technology companies including Microsoft and UCSF’s Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation to accelerate FDA approval for AI use in clinical settings. She was the CEO and Co-Founder of Minor Guard, an Artificial Intelligence software company focused on making children safer online and in real life. She is a keynote speaker including her TEDx talk "Bringing Light To Dark Places Online: Disrupting Human Trafficking Using AI." She hosts the Navigating Forward podcast and the award winning Navigating Abroad web series. She has been named annually from 2017-2022 Top Health and Safety, Privacy, and AI Thought Leaders and Influencers and Women in Business you should follow by Thinkers 360. She was named to the 2022 “Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” global list.

Name: Liz Lemarchand


Title: President


Organisation: Devinsider

Liz is the Chief Operating Officer of MediaDev, as well as the President and Co-Founder of Devinsider, a start-up venture launched in late 2022. She has over 25 years’ experience in B2B marketing for the tech industry. Liz’s passion has allowed her to help thousands of independent software solution providers grow their businesses globally. She has enabled her clients to create multi-million dollar sales pipelines and close business deals worth upwards of $80 Million USD.
She has taught Master’s degree level leadership and marketing courses at prominent French Universities, and has published hundreds of articles in industry publications. After creating an extensive Resource Library geared to support software marketers learn lead generation best practices, she launched a podcast where she interviews other industry experts about marketing trends. She showcases her thought leadership in a complete online Masterclass to help as many people succeed as possible, and is the author of Tune In & Dial Out: How to Win at B2B Cold Calling.

Name: Loretta Wholley

Title: Principal

Organisation: Genazzano FCJ College

I went to St Brigid's College in Western Australia. I am the youngest of 3 daughters to a migrant Italian family.

I have taught and led in the Catholic Education sector my whole teaching career. With a preference for all-girls schools. My areas of teaching are Religious Education, ICT/Digital Technologies, and Business.

I became a Deputy Principal in 2003 at Santa Maria College and then in 2010 at Mercedes College. I have held all portfolios during that time: Mission and Faith, Pastoral Care, Curriculum/Academic, and Boarding.

My husband Michael and our two daughters moved to Canberra in 2013 where I took up my first position as Principal at Merici College. In 2021 we moved to Melbourne where I have been fortunate to be the Principal at Genazzano FCJ College.

Name: Luigi Wewege


Title: President


Organisation: Caye International Bank

Luigi Wewege is the President of award-winning Caye International Bank, headquartered in Belize, Central America. He is the author of The Digital Banking Revolution, now in its third edition, and has co-authored economic research presented before the United States Congress. He also serves as an Instructor at the FinTech School in California and as Board Member of Fort Kobbe International Vaults in Panama, CI Associates in Chile and NTL Trust in Saint Kitts and Nevis. He holds an Italian MBA from the MIB Trieste School of Management with a major in International Business and a BSBA with a triple major in Finance, International Business, and Management from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.