Julie Mills

Managing Director, APSCo Australia

As Managing Director, her key focus is on ensuring the Association’s standards and business intelligence is at the forefront of every Member’s agenda and that of their clients and candidates.

Julie’s representation of the contracting and recruitment sector spans sixteen years and, throughout that time, her interest has been on the nature of work, the flexibility and diversity of the workforce and the necessity for a strong contracting and on hire workforce.

Her engagement with research and statistics to encourage conversations on these topics has ensured her involvement in working groups at all levels of Government across issues as diverse as Australia’s unemployment, EEO, Disability Frameworks, Mature Age, Upskilling Youth, Skills Taskforce, Immigration and more recently, ICT qualifications reviews in Australia and New Zealand.

She is currently a member of Deakin University’s Chancellors Round Table, the Queensland Government’s ICT Advisory Group and The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland QAssure Steering Committee as well as a non- Executive Director on several Boards.

Julie is an active social media contributor on Twitter as well as a guest columnist in a number of online and print journals and a regular Conference speaker and MC.

Sinead Hourigan

Director Brisbane, RCSA

Sinead Hourigan is the Queensland Director for Robert Walters and has been recruiting in the Brisbane market for over sixteen years. Recruiting across both the public and private sector, Sinead has assisted clients with a wide range of senior assignments ranging from executive management through to C-suite level roles. With an enviable network in the Brisbane market, Sinead calls upon her extensive network to work with clients in securing and attracting the best talent for their organisations. Prior to entering the recruitment industry, Sinead worked within the ‘Big 4’ in Sydney, and previous to this, worked in executive positions within the Irish Government.

Sinead is also a CEDA (Committee for Economic Development in Australia) Trustee in Queensland, President of the RCSA (Recruitment Consulting and Staffing Association) and is a member of the QUT Business School Industry Advisory Group.

Charles Cameron

CEO, RCSA

Charles Cameron is CEO of RCSA, the peak industry body for recruitment and staffing in Australia and New Zealand.  Charles has twenty years of experience consulting within and leading an industry which inspires him every day.  Charles is on the Board of the World Employment Confederation and leads over 50 recruitment and staffing associations from across the globe as Chair of the National Federations Committee.

Luke Jones

Group Manager Resourcing, John Holland Group

Luke Jones is Group Manager Resourcing for John Holland Group, a leading engineering, contracting and services provider to the infrastructure, energy, resources and transport services sectors. He has spent the past 9 years managing the Resourcing function, which averages 1000+ professional hires and 2000+ workforce hires across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

Luke has experience working with both leading Recruitment companies externally and talent acquisition functions internally throughout Australia and the United Kingdom. He is passionate about driving advances in workplace flexibility, diversity & inclusion, customer experience and technology across the construction sector.

Michelle Carr

Head of Talent Acquisition Services, People Services, National Australia Bank Limited

Michelle has been an HR leader, specialising in Career Services for the past 20 years, with deep expertise in strategy, design and operational effectiveness. She has managed many transformational projects across Recruitment Delivery, Contingent Management, Outplacement and Career Path models with a key focus on digital solutions to improve quality, experience and advocacy initiatives. Michelle has significant experience across the end to end design including technology, process, policy, organisational design and structure, vendor engagement and management across global operating models. She is committed to transforming clients to embrace technology and rethink traditional Talent Acquisition and Career Centre models. Michelle has worked within Agency Recruitment, RPO Models, Internal Models and managed her own consulting business. Key organisations she has work for or on behalf of include Telstra, Sensis, Carlton United Breweries, ANZ, RMIT, K-Mart, Newcrest Mining and currently National Australia Bank.

Andrew Retschko

Senior Executive, Talent Acquisition and Engagement at Medibank

Andrew Retschko is the Senior Executive, Talent Acquisition and Engagement at Medibank, an integrated healthcare company providing private health insurance and health solutions to 3.7 million Australians. He has spent the last six years in the recruitment industry, commencing in a boutique agency before moving into executive search and finally transitioning to an internal role. Currently, Andrew leads a team that delivers over 1500 hires across a very diverse range of roles, ranging from bulk intakes of frontline employees through to health professionals in regional and remote locations. Having worked across a broad range of recruitment environments, Andrew has maintained his passion for developing high performing teams, diversity and inclusion and providing exceptional candidate experiences.

Jacinta Newman

Head of Talent Acquisition, KPMG Australia

Jacinta is a dynamic and innovative talent acquisition expert who thrives on solution oriented thinking.  With over 20 years’ experience Jacinta’s expertise ranges from large TA transformations encompassing, designing optimal operating models involving state of the art technology, policy and strategy.   With a focus on delivering brand engagement strategies her purpose has also included focusing on building superior and lucrative businesses via innovative diversity & inclusion strategies.

With a background having spanned agency recruitment, RPO and Internal Models, Jacinta has gained experience across such companies as Vodafone, Johnson & Johnson, American Express, Uniting and now KPMG  These top organizations have provided her with a variety of industry knowledge only further enhancing her diversity of thought.

In her personal life, Jacinta and her husband Jon, are raising three boisterous and amazing boys!  In her spare time, Jacinta has a passion for travel, sport, yoga and giving back to the community through various charities and community groups.

Sharon Tan

Global Head of Sourcing and Talent Management, Telstra

Sharon Tan joined Telstra as the Global Head of Sourcing and Talent Management in October 2018.

She is a member of the T&P Global Leadership Team and is responsible for leading the Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Management function as a Product owner where she sets the strategy and technology road map in attracting, developing and retaining the best talent to meet the Group's T22 strategy.

Armed with over thirty years of human resource experience, Sharon has worked for leading global multi-national corporations, including Singtel, ANZ Bank, RBS, Accenture, Coopers & Lybrand and RGM International, in various HR leadership capacities across the HR functions and covering regions like South America, Europe and extensively across the Asia Pacific area - including Japan and Australia. She has lived and worked in Singapore, China, India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Brazil and the US.

She was the recipient of the 2011 AHRI Best HR Manager in Australia for her design and implementation of the new recruitment global function responsible for 16,000 roles per year, and building a new Recruitment centre of excellence globally for ANZ. The team also won the 2011 Best Graduate Marketing campaign,  She was also a Finalist in the 2011 Victoria Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award.  In 2012, her team won at AHRI, the best Indigenous and Disability Awards in Australia.

Outside interests include time spent with her 4 nephews, 1 niece and her fur baby Ted,  who all live in Australia, traveling as well as being actively involved in house building trips to Cambodia in support of local charity - Tabitha Cambodia.

Bevan White

Head of Talent Acquisition, Rio Tinto

Bevan White is head of Talent acquisition at Rio Tinto, a leading global mining group, which focuses on finding, mining and processing the Earth's mineral resources that are essential to human progress. He has spent the past 20 years working in, leading and developing highly successful in-house talent acquisition teams across the globe in Africa, UK; US and the Asia Pacific region. Passionate about ensuring that talent acquisition remains relevant and highly valued by the business in an ever changing world.