ACS Panel: Future of Women in Tech

Sarah Kruger is a Managing Director for Accenture and was recently appointed as Human Resources Director for Accenture, Australia and New Zealand. Before joining HR, she led the Talent and Organisation Practice for Accenture’s Financial Services Business in Australia and the Global Change Analytics Practice.

As the Practice Lead Sarah had overall responsibility for delivery of people and talent related projects, growing the business and building skills and capabilities in the practice.  As a Management Consulting expert within the Australian business she has worked with a range of large financial services organisations in Banking, Insurance and wealth Management. Leading with data and insights she has helped clients to navigate complex transformation programs with a focus on agility, change resilience and preparing business areas for the changes they are undertaking.

Through Business Engagement, Co-Creation, analytics-based Change Management and bite sized learning and enablement, she has supported her clients to transform. Within the Financial Services business she also has accountability for people engagement activities as well as Inclusion and Diversity. When not working, she can be found driving her boys between sporting activities, taking them skiing and standing on the sideline watching the weekend sports activities.

In her current role Victoria Denholm supports NSW’s trade and investment agenda across the USA, UK and Europe. Prior to joining the NSW government, Victoria worked across business development and strategy roles for Sydney-based technology start-ups Sportility and Simple KYC. 

Victoria relocated to Sydney in February 2018. She was previously based in San Francisco, California working with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). At Austrade, Victoria led initiatives across disruptive technology, cyber security, and sports technology to support the trade and investment relationship between the US and Australia. 

Victoria graduated from Boston University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics and recently from the University of NSW (UNSW) with a Masters of Commerce specialising in Business Analytics. 

Victoria is passionate about strengthening the commercial relationship between the USA and Australia, utilising her various roles across government to support companies looking to do business between the two nations. She is also a passionate Boston sports fan and an advocate of women in sport. 

Claudine Ogilvie, Chief Information Officer, Jetstar Airways

Claudine Ogilvie is the group CIO for Jetstar Group of Airlines. She leads technology for Jetstar Australia, New Zealand, Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan, Jetstar Pacific. Claudine is also Non-Executive Director for Youi Insurance and a member of the Board Audit Committee. She was awarded Top CIO50 in Australia in 2016, is a 2015 graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), an alumni of the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Program 2013 Kuala Lumpur, and a 2012 Asialink Leaders Program alumni (Melbourne University). Claudine is a former Australian Olympic Sailing Development team member, experienced in high performance environments, leadership effectiveness.

Prior to Jetstar Claudine was CIO for Ridley Corporation, she managed KPMG's Consumer and Industrial Markets business; she was the Regional Product Manager (Australia, NZ, PNG and Pacific Islands) at International SOS. She also held sales operations and marketing roles for British Petroleum (BP Australia). She has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia (B.Bus) and a Diploma of Business Management from the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce Reims, France (Dip.Mgnt).

Jaimie Hogan is a Product Manager within the Commercial Air business segment at Viasat. Engaged as the Passenger Experience/Portals Product Manager, Jaimie defines and communicates the product vision, strategy and roadmap that aligns with overall business goals, meets customer needs, and contributes to achieving key performance measures. A key success of Jaimie’s role as Product manager has been developing quarterly product roadmaps that align with stakeholder & customer expectations by actively engaging with external customers to understand their needs and how they can best be served through product capabilities while monitoring market, competitive, and technology trends and capabilities to shape strategy and roadmaps. During Jaimie’s tenure at Viasat, she has played an integral role at Viasat in launching IFC and wIFE service on several airlines including the American Airlines fleet. 

Prior to joining Viasat, Jaimie devoted her energy as a leader of several technology startups including a role as Senior Director of Operations at InterKnowlogy and President/COO at the Corporation for Standards and Outcomes. In these roles, Jaimie provided the leadership for the overall design and development of custom software as well as the deployment, maintenance and customization of SaaS solutions. Jaimie thrives on successfully navigating clients, highly skilled software developers and creative UX designers through the process of software project execution. 

In her down time, Jaimie enjoys being outdoors running, hiking and walking her dogs.

In a world of disruption, creative thinking is key to success. I honestly believe it’s not about what you ‘have’, or ‘don’t have’, it’s about how you use it. Never has this been more true for HR – we must challenge status quo practices and thinking to drive those critical performance gains.

Always focusing on the bigger picture, I’ve built a reputation of fearlessness. Embracing complexity and blue-sky thinking, I’ve always thrived in environments that need both vision and action. From early days in Marvell in Israel, where I guided the organisation in the development of a ground-up L&D infrastructure, to my most recent journey with Google providing strategic direction to the constant evolution and development of a fit-for-purpose OD structure for APAC, I have both the courage to think ‘big’ and the grit to ‘make it happen’.

In my case, it’s really not a cliché to say I love what I do. I’m deeply committed to driving performance gains in a super competitive market, and I see it as my role to partner with, coach, challenge and influence leaders across APAC to build capability, capacity and productivity. My approach is to take Organisation Development as a practice out of operations, helping organisations and their leaders to see it as a critical part of business strategy and a top executive priority. In doing so, I have supported some critical transitions in organisational thinking, building leadership bench strength in a way that contributes millions of dollars to the bottom line.

I’m an active networker and welcome connections from like minded individuals across LinkedIn.

Specialities: Organisational Development, Strategic Consulting, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Team Dynamics, HR Business Partner, People & Culture, Advocate & Influencer.