Stefanie was appointed BHP Group Company Secretary at BHP effective March 2021 and Group General Counsel effective 2 April 2024.

Prior to BHP, Stefanie was a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, a firm she was with for 15 years, specialising in corporate law and governance for listed companies.

Earlier in her career, Stefanie was a solicitor at Allen & Overy in the Middle East

Lisa Mather is currently based in Chicago as Vice President, Global General Counsel at Mars Wrigley. Throughout her legal career, Lisa has consistently been a passionate advocate and role model of corporate legal functions creating substantial, lasting, holistic value in both companies and the communities in which they operate.

Having lived and worked on multiple occasions across four different continents, Lisa is also deeply experienced in navigating divergent regulatory regimes across multiple industry sectors around the globe to deliver frictionless, sustainable, business growth. Lisa is recognised by her peers and colleagues as an energetic change agent who leads legal function and organizational transformation with both empathy and business acumen.

Prior to joining Mars, Lisa held senior legal leadership positions at PayPal Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Company. She began her legal career as a corporate lawyer specialising in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, practising at major global law firms in both Asia and Australia. An award winning lawyer, Lisa sits on various boards and is a regularly sought after public speaker. She holds a Bachelor of Science and an Honors degree in Law from Macquarie University, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a MBA (Executive) from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

I am currently the General Counsel at Westpac (55th largest bank in the world) with accountability for our Consumer, Business and Wealth Divisions as well as Tech. In addition, I am also Chief Operating Officer for our Legal team (approx. 300 lawyers). I have been at Westpac for 9 years across a number of roles in the Legal Team at the General Counsel level covering amongst other things our M&A, Central Reporting, Consumer, Business and Wealth Businesses. Prior to joining Westpac I was APAC General Counsel for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Head of Legal, Australia for RBS and a number of other roles in London at both RBS and ABN AMRO. As with most inhouse lawyers I also worked for a number of years in private practice at, Clifford Chance in London, HSF in Australia and PWC.

More generally, I’m interested in improving how my team deliver their legal services every day. We have constant productivity and cost pressure and as such using technology and systems and processes to ensure we deliver good commercial legal advice is critical. Necessarily this needs to be done in an environment where risk is managed (not removed) and critically the team enjoy their jobs and coming into the office every day. I’m a proud husband and dad to my two kids and like to think I’m a strong proponent of work life balance where possible! When I can you will find me at the pool, on a bike or in the gym!

Rama leads Mastercard’s Australasia legal team, a cross-functional team of Australia-based lawyers which has grown from five to 14 lawyers over his five years at Mastercard.  Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments industry that powers a global network of consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, digital partners and other organizations.  Mastercard’s global network operates without borders, and so does the Australia-based legal team which supports Australasia and other Asia Pacific markets.  Mastercard’s team of Australia-based lawyers are highly valued and critical to Mastercard’s market leading activity/programs, and whose contributions were recognised in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Team of the Year category at the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards, winning this category in 2023 and as finalists in 2024.

Rama is a highly experienced executive, leader and a legal practitioner with over 25 years of Australian and international experience in leadership and management positions at asset and fund managers, investment banks, retail banks, and payments networks. He has spent his entire legal career working in-house and has been recognised as one of Australia’s top General Counsels by Legal500 in its 2022 and 2023 GC Powerlists and was a finalist for Technology Lawyer of the Year at the Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards 2024.

Andrew De Celis is a seasoned legal executive with over 20 years of experience in both private practice and in-house roles. Currently, he serves as General Counsel for Product, Propositions & Sourcing at Telstra, where he leads a team that advises on a wide range of product, contract, consumer and competition issues. Andrew’s expertise lies in navigating organisations through complex commercial and regulatory environments and positioning them to anticipate and lead through change. In his role at Telstra, Andrew relishes the challenge of enabling the company to be future-focused and bold and ambitious its decision making, at a time when organisations with large customer bases and supplier chains are under intense scrutiny from customers, the community, regulators and government.

General Counsel & Company Secretary for Nestlé Australia, leading a 12 strong legal team to deliver high quality legal services to Nestlé Oceania.

Previously M&A Counsel for Nestlé at its Global Headquarters in Switzerland in the Mergers and Acquisitions Competence Centre, leading teams for Nestlé in M&A transactions globally.

Extensive experience in FMCG (across the entire supply chain – retail, distribution and manufacturing), working closely with the business in all operational aspects, including providing advice and guidance on complex acquisitions and divestments, challenging competition law issues, regulatory matters and agreements.

Recognised as an effective communicator and business advisor, working with a strategic and commercial approach to provide clear and pragmatic legal advice and leadership.

Claire Bibby is an award-winning lawyer, professional leadership & career coach, and co-founder of Coaching Advocates, a global professional coaching practice, based in Sydney, Australia.

With over 30 years of experience gained through senior management appointments with some of the world’s largest companies and top-tier law firms, several years ago Claire established her own boutique law firm. In addition, Claire holds several non-executive directorships in the ASX-listed, private, and university spaces.

As an internationally qualified coach (PCC), Claire and her co-founder, Lara Wentworth, lead a team of 20 senior lawyers and psychologists in coaching private and corporate clients, specialising in lawyers and executives. In this area, they empower lawyers and firms to move their career and leadership dreams into active, actionable, pursuits and unlock the potential in people.  As a member of both the International Coaching Federation and The Institute of Coaching McLean/Harvard Medical School, Claire helps lawyers and executives rewrite the rules, whether they are craving clarity on what a dream career by design looks like, want to finally move that great business idea off the back burner and into reality, or how to get that next promotion or move into a new job.

Outside of her executive life, Claire is an Industry/Professional Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney, School of Law and an honorary member of the New South Wales executive of the Australian Association of Corporate Counsel.

Claire has been recognised as one of Australia’s best lawyers and female executives, including having been awarded the “Excellence Award for Women in Law”, “General Counsel of the Year”, “Female Executive of the Year in Asia, Australia & New Zealand”, “Mentor of the Year” and has been featured in SmartCompany’s International Women’s Day Showcase.

Part and parcel with her passion for the law and for coaching, Claire is an active public speaker on issues of innovation, diversity and inclusion, psychological wellness, developing high-performing teams, and leadership.