Women & Property: Addressing the gender gap in home ownership

Milena Malev serves as General Manager of Financial Services and Insurance at CoreLogic Asia Pacific, leading the business strategy and growth for CoreLogic’s banking and insurance solutions. 

In this role, Milena leverages her 20 years of deep banking and financial industry expertise to lead the company’s strategic initiatives that best position CoreLogic for revenue growth, innovation and great customer experience. Her experience encompasses P&L management, credit risk management, digitisation and commercialisation of solutions via use of data, platforms an analytics, and complex business transformation across Consumer Banking, Insurance and Wealth Management. 

Prior to joining CoreLogic, Milena spent over 8 years at ANZ in a variety of roles including Head of Retirement Solutions and Head of General Insurance and Consumer Credit Insurance. She was responsible for P&L, strategic partnership management, business strategy and execution. She also headed the portfolio strategy team in the ANZ Lenders Mortgage Insurance business, where she led customer segmentation strategy, pricing and reinsurance strategy, as well as led the Comprehensive Credit Reporting program, and developed the credit decisioning platform at ANZ. Prior to being with ANZ, Milena worked at Westpac Group on many credit risk transformation initiatives and spent 5 years at Veda Advantage (Equifax) consulting financial services on credit risk and value based decisioning.

Milena’s passion for data, technology and analytics has helped drive successful outcomes for businesses and consumers, particularly around digitisation, effective risk management, and revenue growth. 

Being an active participant in the banking and finance community, Milena is a frequent presenter, moderator and panellist at industry events. 

Her personal passion for financial literacy for women inspired the popular CoreLogic Women and Property research. This research report has proven valuable in inspiring industry and government attention on the overall gender home ownership gap and how banking industry can play a role in helping women to build wealth.

Milena is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and holds an MBA and Masters in Computer and Mathematical Sciences (majoring in Statistics).

Eliza Owen is the Head of Residential Research Australia.

Eliza has a wealth of experience in property data analysis and reporting. She worked as an economist at Residex, a research analyst at Domain Group and previously as the commercial real estate and construction analyst at CoreLogic.

She specialises in descriptive and inferential data analysis, data visualisation and framing data trends with broader economic concepts.

Alongside her career in property data and research, Eliza is passionate about explaining economic concepts to broader audiences. She unpacked housing affordability on the TEDX stage, and has been a regular commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and commercial radio and television.

Eliza is also a popular keynote speaker, having presented to thousands in real estate, construction, banking and finance and property development, as well as consumer audiences.

As the Head of Branches for Heritage Bank, Wayne brings over 22 years’ experience from across both retail and banking sectors.  He has led large retail bank distribution businesses for National Australia Bank within New South Wales and Queensland and his retail banking experience has covered roles from Teller right through to General Manager. During this time his focus was on managing performance and delivering growth across many diverse and multicultural markets while building brand recognition.

Most recently, Wayne was responsible for driving the focus on lending for Heritage teams across Queensland.  Within this role he was able to support his teams to help more Queenslanders into new homes.  Wayne has a passion for leadership and is driven by delivering for members and the communities we are part of.