IAPA Advisory Committee

Sam is a passionate Analytics executive with experience leading significant Analytics transformations and global analytics teams across Banking and Energy sectors.  Sam’s passion is driving business value from analytics - focusing on making the people and process “system” work across complex organisations - supported by the right cloud technologies that scale and empower.  Sam is currently an Analytics Strategist for Aus/NZ in the AWS Global Data Strategy Team - working to help organisations drive strategy through a Data and Analytics lens – making sure the right work is prioritised and delivered to help organisations achieve great outcomes.

Elisa has twenty years of experience as a Data & Analytics leader in both the US and Australia. She has worked in industries spanning finance, FMCG, retail, consulting, and technology at companies including Citigroup, Avon Products, Quantium, LinkedIn, Myer and now at the AFL. Elisa has undergraduate degrees in Finance and Accounting from New York University and an MBA from both Columbia University and London Business School.  Elisa is passionate about leading businesses to be more data driven and sees herself as an objective advisor to the business. In every business including the AFL, Elisa believes data is one of its most important, and often undervalued, assets. In her role as a Data & Insights leader, Elisa strives to maximise the value and role of data in decision-making at all levels of the business. 

Michelle is a senior executive with deep expertise in the optimisation of data, AI and human behaviour towards better commercial decisions and societal benefit. She established the enterprise Data & AI practice at Reece Group, and leads the strategy, execution and culture around Reece ANZ's use of data and intelligent technologies. In a career spanning ML-backed digital transformations, quantitative science and cross-functional leadership, Michelle has helped many of Australia’s leading organisations turn data into advantage. Her contributions have seen companies embed advanced analytics and ML solutions in their operations, the impacts of which included distributing entire workforces and launching new business adjacencies. But she is best known for making the complex simple, innovating under constraint, and her passion for creating high-integrity teams — with a conviction that the heart of any competitive advantage is people delivering beyond the sum of their parts.

Kshira Saagar (the K is silent like in Knowledge) is a lost-and-found guy who uses data to find answers that are lost in the digital and real world. He is currently the Senior Director of International Data & Analytics for DoorDash and has spent 27.1% of his life helping key decision-makers and leaders make smarter decisions using data, and believes that every organisation can become truly data-driven.

He has been consecutively recognised among the Top 10 Analytics Leaders in Australia. At every place he has worked, working and will work - he likes to go back to the fundamentals, asking people to ask more questions of data and being a tough taskmaster on getting actionable outcomes from data, on all possible occasions. Outside work, Kshira spends a lot of time on advancing data literacy initiatives for high school and undergrad students.

Rolee Satyam is a senior digital and data leader with two decades of experience across Asia, Australia, and America. At present, she is Chief Data Officer of Westpac Consumer and Business banking division.

Her role encompasses all aspects of data to ensure data is leveraged to drive positive customer outcomes and data risk is within appetite.

In her extensive career, she co led the successful data transformation of WooliesX (Woolworths digital and data arm) driving optimisation & innovation. Prior to that, Rolee was based in San Francisco leading the digital and data plan for Walmart. 

Rolee is passionate about gender equity and purpose driven work.