Hans Gobin, FCCA, MBA

Finance Director with over 20 years of experience in Financial reporting (Internal, External, PLC, Board), FP&A, Performance Management, Systems Implementation, Multinational Project managements, Transformation & Change Management, M&A, BPO & SSC.

Experience working in different company sizes ranging from Start-ups to large PLC and PE backed and experience working in various different sectors including manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, FMCG & Practice.

Founder member of the London International FP&A board regularly delivering talks on FP&A related subject matters.

Hans Gobin's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-gobin-020118b/

Himashi Soriano

Himashi Soriano is Managing Director, APAC, for the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) based outside of Washington, D.C. in the United States. Soriano leads AFP's Asia division, building customer relationships and developing partnerships within the Asia-Pacific region. Soriano has been an integral part of helping treasury and finance practitioners achieve their career goals through its training and Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Certified Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Professional programs for over 15 years at AFP. Soriano holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and previously served as Director of Business Development and Director of Sales, Strategy and Operations.

Marc Southey

Marc Southey is a director for Qubix APAC region. Marc has built a career on helping customers to digitally transform their finance operations, leveraging best-practices and the latest technologies & strong change management techniques.

Marc holds an MBA degree from Kingston University in the U.K and a BComm Degree from the University of South Africa. He has a wealth of experience working with the largest technology consulting companies and has led the delivery of some of the largest finance transformation projects in the region.

Qubix is a global professional services company providing consulting and technical services to a wide range of customers and industries. Qubix has specialized in FP&A for over 33 years and has helped some of the largest and most complex companies improve how they budget, plan and forecast.

Marc Southey's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcsouthey/

Amarnath Kamath

Amarnath Kamath is Head of Finance having over 20 years of experience in finance and currently working out of KL.

He has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region in different roles in the finance domain. He is a qualified CIMA (UK) and a qualified Cost Accountant from India besides holding an MBA degree with a specialization in Finance.

His current interests are in continuously transforming the finance function to be more agile and relevant in the current age of frequent business disruptions and uncertainty.

Amarnath Kamath's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarnathkamath1/

Abby Obomighie

Abby is an ACCA fellow with over 15 years’ experience, and currently Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at Hitachi with the responsibility for organizational-wide performance management (including budgets, short and midterm plans, business planning) and enhancing its digital finance systems & strategy.

Abby has worked in various FP&A roles across several continents, in different regions and in a number of different industries ranging from banking, academia, housing, consumer products, FCMG, pharmaceuticals and clinical research.

She is a Certified DAMIC & Project manager with hands-on experience in delivering and managing finance related transformational projects including process and change management.

She is passionate in these 3 key areas: 1) Talent development 2) Finance Automation 3) Business Partnering. Acting as a role model to BAME withing the FP&A talents.

Abby Obomighie's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbyobomighie/

Ross McLelland

Ross is a specialist senior finance recruiter with over 9 years local experience hiring within the public, private and NFP sectors across Sydney. As Associate Director for Finance NSW he leads several teams of specialist recruiters hiring across Accounting & Finance, Commercial and Financial Services positions.

Ross has an extensive network of CFO, Finance Director and FP&A / Commercial Director contacts across Sydney and recruits regularly in this space.

After completing studies at two Top 5 Business Schools in the UK and France, Ross’ first taste of recruitment was with Michael Page Glasgow in 2008. After migrating to Australia in 2011 he joined the NSW business where he progressed from Consultant through to Associate Director in 2017. Since early 2019 Ross has lead the combined Sydney City, South and North-Shore based finance recruitment teams. Previous to joining Michael Page in Australia Ross has also worked with Roll-Royce Aerospace in the UK and The Franco-British Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

Christopher Mansfield

Christopher Mansfield is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of professional and commercial experience gained across the media, telecommunications, financial services and advertising industries in both the UK and Australia.

Christopher Mansfield's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mansfieldchris/