It's not every day you get to meet with and have an in-depth conversation about your career with some of the most highly regarded industry leaders in Australia.
Great careers are built on more than just hard work. They’re defined by how well we handle adversity and navigate change and are shaped by the choices you make along the way. At FINSIA’s Emerging Leaders Forum, you’ll talk directly to some of Australia’s most experienced senior leaders about your career, the industry, and how to make the best choices for your future.
How it works
At each table there will be a small group of professionals and one experienced leader. You’ll have the opportunity to talk about your career, receive valuable advice about how to make the most of the opportunities ahead of you and listen to what challenges your peers are currently facing.
Throughout the night you will have the opportunity to change tables, giving you the chance to get a range of different perspectives and meet with fellow attendees. With two networking sessions you’ll also have time to search out and pick the brains of the senior leaders you admire as well as build your network with peers.
Why you should attend
Our Emerging Leaders Forum allows professionals to strengthen their skills in leadership, rapport building, collaboration, and networking with the opportunity to exchange ideas.
Sponsorship is available for this event, for more information please contact [email protected]
Students
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Antonetta Caroll
Antonetta Carroll is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance & Restructuring team, with more than 17 years of experience specialising in corporate recovery and turnaround management.
Antonetta has worked alongside directors, boards, financiers and stakeholders of underperforming organisations to identify and implement solutions that assist in maintaining control, minimise down-side risk and rebuild sustainable value.
Antonetta’s strength lies in her stakeholder management when advising on commercial negotiations, providing restructuring advice, undertaking financial investigations and delivering strategies for recapitalisation and refinancing. Antonetta’s expertise extends to independent business reviews across a wide range of industries, safe harbour assessments, financial viability assessments for large infrastructure projects, and supporting corporates and organisations across business strategy and working capital management leading to ongoing financial and operational viability.
Antonetta is passionate about workplace culture and regularly contributes across the restructuring and insolvency industry. She is a representative on the WA Turnaround and Management Association (TMA) committee, and also a member of FTI’s Women’s Insolvency Network.

Jovan Cvetkoski
Jovan Cvetkoski began his career in the financial advice industry after graduating from the University of Western Australia in 2007.
Since joining Knight in 2014, he has gained extensive experience providing strategic financial advice on superannuation structuring, personal and business risk protection, retirement planning, and customised investment strategies to help clients manage and grow their wealth.
Jovan focuses on offering advice that is easy to understand and directly contributes to achieving his clients’ financial and life goals. His priority is to deliver practical and actionable guidance.
Holding a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and being a Certified Financial Planner, Jovan has the expertise to support his clients effectively.
Outside work, he loves exploring new places, spending quality time with his family and friends, and keeping fit through sports and gym sessions.

Justin Mannolini
Justin is a partner in our Corporate Advisory group and co-leads our Metals and Mining team.
He has more than 25 years' corporate finance experience as a lawyer and investment banker. He has advised on a wide range of M&A and equity capital markets transactions across a number of industry sectors including energy and resources, financial services, technology, media & telecommunications, engineering and mining services, food and beverage and real estate.
Justin also advises clients on corporate governance issues including entity formation and structuring, shareholder activism, audit and risk management, directors’ duties and corporate social responsibility.
Justin was an Executive Director in Macquarie Group's investment banking division in Perth from March 2013 to May 2016. Prior to Macquarie, he was Managing Director of Gresham Advisory Partners, the head of Gresham's Perth office and a partner at another prominent legal firm in Sydney and Perth.

James Tng
James Tng has been a partner since 2006 and became Managing Partner in 2024. He has decades of experience in tax and business advice to businesses, migrants, overseas and Australian businesses and government agencies.
James generally looks after the ongoing tax affairs for clients with complex tax issues and has extensive knowledge and experience in assisting clients with business advisory, development and planning issues.
James also assists businesses and individuals from overseas in setting up in Australia, providing strategic financial know-how and applying his extensive knowledge of tax systems.

Belinda Von Knoll
Belinda is an award-winning Private Wealth Adviser in the Perth office for Shadforth. Belinda enjoys working with her clients to build long term relationships. Her goal is to help her clients achieve peace of mind by ensuring they have a plan in place to reach their financial and personal goals.
Belinda holds a BA in Comparative Literature, a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning and is a Specialist SMSF Advisor with the Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Association. She is also the Secretary of the WA Branch of the Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Association.
Belinda has worked in the financial services industry since 1990. She started in the field of corporate superannuation and moved into advising private clients in 2000. Belinda has a wealth of experience as a financial adviser and provides advice on a broad range of matters from wealth accumulation to retirement planning. She specialises in the field of self managed superannuation funds and has extensive knowledge in this area.
In 2024, 2023 and 2022 Belinda was honoured in The Australian’s Top 100 Financial Advisers in Australia, in association with Barron’s. In 2024 she was also recognised as the Emerging Leader of the Year by Leading Teams Australia.

John King
John has worked in the banking sector for over 20 years both in WA and Qld.
He joined Westpac in 2022 and leads the Health, Professional Services & Commercial Third Party teams who specialise in supporting commercial customers right across Metro WA.

Sinead Bannon
Sinead is a career banker with 30 years experience across corporate, business, agribusiness and retail banking. She leads a team of front line Relationship Bankers for medium sized and emerging corporate businesses.
She has a passion for helping people, leading by example to ensure her team members provide world class service and put the customer at the centre of everything they do.
12 March 5:30 PM AWST
12 March 8:30 PM AWST