Lisa Annese commenced her role as the Chief Executive Officer of Chief Executive Women in January 2025 and is committed to the empowerment of women and girls across the economy. In this role, she leads a membership of 1300 women leaders across Australia to advance gender equality in Australia, focusing on increasing the representation of women in leadership across all sectors in the economy and advocating for important policy reform.

Prior to this, Lisa spent 10 years as the CEO of the Diversity Council Australia where she led a broad array of groundbreaking, evidence-based research, including Australia’s first national index on workplace diversity and inclusion, seminal research on the economics of the gender pay gap, and original work on Counting Culture and building Asian Leadership Capability, as well as research supporting individuals being ‘Out at Work’, mainstreaming flexible work and myth-busting workplace responses to sexual harassment and domestic and family violence. 

Lisa has served on the NSW Women’s Advisory Council the Respect at Work Council where she was appointed by the Attorney-General to implement the legislative reforms from the Respect@Work Act. In 2018, Lisa was named one of the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. In 2019 she was elected to the Board of Amnesty International Australia and, in 2021, to the Board of non-partisan organisation Women for Election. As well as being their CEO, Lisa is also a member of Chief Executive Women.

Lisa has had a long career progressing positive change across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. Earlier in her career, at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (formerly the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA)), she developed the first-ever census of Australian Women in Leadership, the first-ever Business Achievement Awards, the creation of the Employer of Choice for Women citation and the development and implementation of the policy framework for the EOWA Act 1999 with Australian businesses. For her contribution at EOWA, she was awarded a Medal for Significant Contribution to the Australian Public Service. 

John Wylie AC is an investor and investment banker with more than 25 years’ experience and a profound dedication to philanthropy and community service.

Wylie began his career in the City of London at Hill Samuel & Co, and then Wall Street with First Boston Corporation after earning his Master of Philosophy from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1983. He returned to Australia in 1991 with First Boston, which eventually became Credit Suisse, with whom he worked as head of investment banking from 1994 to 1999, before becoming chair of Credit Suisse Australia in 2000.

During his time with the company, Wylie led several high-profile transactions including the privatisation of Qantas, the IPO of Telstra, and the $30 billion sell-down by the Kennett Government of the Victorian power industry.

In 2000, Wylie co-founded advisory and investment firm Carnegie, Wylie & Company, which was acquired by Lazard in 2007. Wylie became CEO of Lazard Australia until stepping down in 2014. He founded the alternative asset firm Tanarra Group in 2015, which invests in venture capital, private equity, private credit and selected public companies.

Wylie is also a leading philanthropist, and in 2011 he established the John and Myriam Wylie Foundation, which has to date supported over 50 organisations and causes, including a visiting fellowship program at UQ named in honour of his father, Rodney Wylie OBE.

His community interest has seen him serve in a pro-bono capacity on several boards, including the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, on which he served from 1998 to 2013 as chairman. He is president of the Library Board of Victoria and chairman of the Australian Sports Commission.  He was a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust at Oxford University from 2010 to 2019 and is a former director and honorary treasurer of the Florey Neurosciences Institute.

In 2007, he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the finance sector and wider Australian community.

Tanya is the former Executive General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy at the Australian Football League and in 2021 South Australian – Australian of the Year.
Ms. Hosch has a long and distinguished history in Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander policy, advocacy, governance and is an accomplished
public speaker.

Before joining the AFL as the first ever Indigenous person and second woman in their Executive ranks in August 2016, Tanya was the Joint Campaign director of the Recognise movement for constitutional
recognition.

Tanya’s most recent work relating to inclusion focuses on Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples, Gender Equity, Sexuality and Gender
Diversity, racism and sexism.
Tanya is a Co-Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group of the National
Australia Bank, a Director of the Coaxial Foundation, ANU Council, was
recently proudly appointed to the board of the Goodes O'Loughlin
Foundation (GO Foundation) and was a member of the Referendum
Council that led the process and final recommendation that resulted in
The Uluru Statement from the Heart in May 2017.

A career highlight was
contributing as a Consultant on the ABC drama, Total Control, where she
later appeared in a cameo part in Season Two.