Dr Joseph Rizk AM is the CEO / Managing Director of the Arab Bank Australia Limited. He was formerly its Chief Banking Officer, overseeing the bank’s retail, commercial and trade banking operations and branch networks, and was responsible for all the revenue generating mechanisms of the institution. Before ABAL he worked for over thirty years predominantly in senior executive roles for the National Australia Bank, where he led and managed a series of large business units in Sydney and greater NSW and directed the NAB’s NSW & ACT Property Finance Groups. From 2014 to 2017 he was the President of the Westmead Medical Research Foundation (WMRF) and was nominated in 2015 for the position of Director of the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research. He also became the Chairman of the Italian Opera Foundation of Australia (IOFA) and received the ‘Order of Australia’ award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the banking sector, community and charitable works, especially in the Lebanese and Arabic communities. He became a Board Member of the Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI) in 2016 and the Melkite Catholic Eparchy Corporation four years later. Currently, he is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management as well as a Board Director of the Australian Lebanese Chamber of Commerce for the past seventeen years. Equipped with over forty-seven years of corporate, commercial and international banking and finance experience, he excels across the banking spectrum through his sound judgment and intuitive ability to generate positive results in the face of difficult market conditions and an increasingly competitive business environment.

Piers Morgan is the Executive Director of The Weringa Group Pty Ltd that operates Regulatory Services Australia (RSA) to assist companies in regulated industries to do business in Australia and New Zealand, especially pharmaceutical and medical device companies as an agent or sponsor for registering products with the TGA or Medsafe. As an experienced director and manager of businesses, he has also served as the General Manager, later Group General Manager of Centrebet, then an Australian sports betting business which expanded globally in his time and Asia Pacific CEO of an international listed US gaming technology company. Moreover, he holds NED roles for the Australian subsidiaries of Foton Motor Corporation, Nvidia, Taulia and ISD and was previously the Australian NED for Abercrombie and Fitch, and for Sherwin Williams.