Mei Ling has more than 20 years experience in the financial services industry, including 7 years as a senior officer with the regulator. She has been a compliance and risk management consultant, compliance committee member, Compliance Manager and Responsible Officer for the past 8 years to a diverse range of clients including listed companies, unlisted retail and wholesale fund managers and financial planning companies. Mei Ling is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance.

Rikki Zubar
B.Com

Rikki has worked in the financial services industry for more than 25 years, having carved a career with Corporate Affairs Victoria, the regulator now known as ASIC and the Australian Stock Exchange – Listings Division. At the Australian Stock Exchange, she was responsible for about 80 listed companies and monitored compliance with the Listing Rules, particularly the disclosure obligations. Rikki was a member of the Listing Rule Drafting Committee.

Michael was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand prior to working as a consultant. He has over 25 years experience as a chartered accountant and registered company auditor and has extensive experience in strategic business planning, management reporting systems, internal and external audits, risk management, regulatory compliance reviews, assessments of systems of internal controls, and corporate governance processes.

Cheriene Chin
B.Com

With more than a decade's relevant experience in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, Cheriene's international career was mainly established in strategic management and business development projects, working for the stockbroking arm of one of the top five financial multi-national banking groups in Malaysia. This role required her to understand and work with the local regulators. Cheriene is currently completing a Graduate Diploma course conducted by FINSIA.

Leon is the General Manager of Know Compliance and has completed the company directors’ course conducted by the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has more than 30 years of experience developing and implementing systems, policies and procedures in the manufacturing, retail and financial services sectors, focussing on the delivery of cost efficient and effective customer service. He was a chartered member of the Australian Human Resources Institute for over 20 years.  Leon has considerable project management skills and experience. He is also directly involved with client projects, including development of policies and procedures, risk assessment and reviews of business operations.

Sandra Candusio
B.Com (Hons)

Sandra has 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, both in government regulatory roles and the private sector. At ASIC, Sandra was a senior officer with responsibilities for investigations, prospectuses, as delegate for licence hearings, licensing and was a team leader of fundraising and surveillance programs. Following this, Sandra was a senior compliance manager with a major financial planning group which was a subsidiary of a listed bank for five years. Since 2004, Sandra has been a consultant to a range of companies with financial planning arms

John is a practicing solicitor with over 35 years of legal experience in government and the private sector. He was formerly a director with the regulator now known as ASIC, with responsibility for corporations, managed investment schemes and fund management operations, financial reporting and stock market investigations. At ASIC, John worked extensively with all the state Commissioners and officers across Australia as well as senior government and industry stakeholders to develop a regulatory framework for financial markets, the oversight of stock exchange business and listing rule amendments, supervision and enforcement of laws and rules affecting listed entities and market intermediaries. Since 1998, John has been lecturing on business law subjects and has had a number of overseas engagements.