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Gordon Jones representing Hong Kong SAR Gordon Jones Executive Committee Member and Conference Chair REPRESENTING: Hong Kong, China Companies Registry Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Sanjai Raj representing New Zealand Sanjai Raj Executive Committee REPRESENTING: New Zealand Companies Office Sanjai has 32 years public sector experience: Official Assignee, Group Manager Radio Spectrum Management and General Manager Consumer Protection & Standards. Sanjai currently holds the position of General Manager Market Integrity with a portfolio that includes: Building Practitioner Licensing, Electrical Workers Licensing, Immigration Advisors Authority, Auctioneer Licensing, Business Registries, Radio Spectrum Management, Fuel Quality Monitoring, Legal Metrology, Motor Vehicle Trader Licensing, Criminal Proceeds – Integrity and Enforcement and the Insolvency and Trustee Service. Sanjai holds the position of New Zealand Standards Executive and he is the Registrar for: Companies, Financial Service Providers, Building Societies, Friendly Societies and Credit Unions, Industrial and Provident Societies, Personal Property Securities and Unions. Sanjai holds a Bachelor of Arts and an Masters in Public Administration. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Martin Swain representing Wales Martin Swain Executive Committee - Global REPRESENTING: United Kingdom Companies House Martin joined Companies House in 2019 having spent 26 years working for the Welsh Government, most recently working on criminal justice and community safety. Martin led the Policy, Strategy and External Communications functions at CH for 4 years, leading the agency’s contribution to the development of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. Martin now leads the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Engagement Directorate, implementing the creation of a new Intelligence Hub, developing a new approach to compliance and enforcement and leading on the implementation of the Register of Overseas Entities. Martin represents CH on a number of cross government groups on economic crime, illicit finance, sanctions, money laundering and fraud. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

K Latha representing Singapore K Latha Assistant Secretary REPRESENTING: Singapore Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Dato' Zaharah Abdul Wahab Fenner representing Malaysia Dato' Zaharah Abdul Wahab Fenner Executive Committee REPRESENTING: Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Ada Chung representing Hong Kong Ada Chung Treasurer REPRESENTING: Hong Kong, China Companies Registry Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Rosanne Bell representing Australia Rosanne Bell Executive Committee REPRESENTING: Australia Australian Registry Business Services Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Tuifaasisina Sieni Tualega-Voorwinden representing Samoa Tuifaasisina Sieni Tualega-Voorwinden Executive Member - Global REPRESENTING: Samoa - SIFA Samoa International Finance Authority Mrs. Sieni Voorwinden is the CEO of the Samoa International Finance Authority. In this role she is the Registrar and Regulator of all international entities registered and licensed in and within Samoa. She has over 15 years’ experience in international financial services. She has been instrumental in the development of Samoa’s International Finance Sector, spearheading the establishment of the Samoa International Business Finance Centre Ltd, which is the commercial and marketing arm of the Authority. Sieni is a leading member of National Working Groups addressing various issues relating to the International Finance Sector and is the co-lead negotiator on behalf of Samoa in Samoa’s efforts to delist from the EU Blacklist. She is the lead for Samoan delegations to the OECD Global Forum Peer Review Group on Exchange of Information for Tax transparency as well as other International Standard Setting bodies such as the Group of International Finance Centre Supervisors, Asia Pacific Group on AML/CFT. Sieni has a wealth of experience in compliance, legal and business development initiatives, and is often called upon by international organizations to share insights on these key issues. She is a strong advocate for the Pacific Region in finding solutions for the decline in Correspondent Banking Relationships in the Pacific. Sieni is a lawyer by profession and holds a Conjoint Degree – Bachelor of Arts and Law from University of Auckland, NZ. She is in her second term as the SIFA Chief Executive Office. Prior to her appointment as SIFA CEO in 2020, she was employed as the Chief Operations Manager – of The Cause Collective New Zealand, a Pacific social change agency based in Auckland New Zealand. She holds the traditional chiefly titles of Tuifaasisina from her mother’s family in Falelatai and the title Toeolesulusulu from her father’s family in Satupuala, both villages on the South West Coast of Upolu in Apia Samoa. She is a proud mother of 4 and considers this to be her most challenging but most fulfilling role. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Michael Brosnahan representing New Zealand Michael Brosnahan Secretary REPRESENTING: New Zealand Companies Office Since 2005 Michael has been the Registry Services Manager at the New Zealand Companies Office. Between 1993 and 2005, Michael held the position of ICT General Operations Manager for the Ministry of Economic Development. Within the Companies Office, Michael is responsible for the delivery of all New Zealand Companies Office services mainly through electronic systems and the internet for registers relating to Companies, Personal Properties Securities, Superannuation Funds, Incorporated Societies, Building Societies, Charitable Trusts, Unit Trusts, Friendly Societies Motor Vehicles Traders and Credit Unions. Michael also oversees the New Zealand Companies Office international registry reform projects within developing countries, working extensively in the Pacific region and in Africa. Michael holds the executive position of Secretariat for the Corporate Registers Forum (CRF) a role he was appointed to in 2011. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Ada Chung representing Hong Kong Ada Chung Previous Executive Committee Member and Conference Chair 2017 REPRESENTING: Hong Kong, China Companies Registry Ms Ada Chung served as the Registrar of Companies for Hong Kong from 2007 until 2020. Ms Chung took up the role of the privacy commissioner for Hong Kong in September 2020. In her role on the CRF Executive Committee Ms Chung served as the CRF Treasurer for thirteen years. Ms Chung hosted the 2017 CRF Annual Conference. Ms Chung is a barrister-at-law and a Certified Public Accountant. She was appointed as the Registrar of Companies of Hong Kong in August 2007 and in the role was heavily involved in the rewrite of the Companies Ordinance, the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance and the introduction of electronic company incorporation and electronic filing of company information in Hong Kong. As a representative of the Financial Secretary, Ms Chung is an ex-officio council member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She also sat on the Financial Reporting Council. Before her appointment as the Registrar, she was a Deputy Law Officer and headed the Civil Litigation Unit of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Bolen Ng representing Aotearoa | New Zealand Bolen Ng Executive Member REPRESENTING: New Zealand Companies Office Bolen Ng has been in the New Zealand public service where he has had a varied career over 27 years. He has a strong operational background with a people centric focus and has built cohesive operational teams and remotely managed multiple operational sites across geographical locations internationally, including (Hong Kong, Bangkok, Vietnam, the Middle East and Shanghai). Within New Zealand he has led large complex Immigration New Zealand operations. He has built collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Bolen joined the New Zealand Business Registries, NZ Companies Office, Ministry Of Business Innovation and Employment, in 2021, as the National Manager, and Assistant Registrar and is keen to work with like minded registry counterparts to share challenges and make improvements to our registry systems for our customers whilst maintaining our regulatory role and function. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni

Marija Boshkovska Jankovski representing North Macedonia Marija Boshkovska Jankovski Executive Committee REPRESENTING: North Macedonia (Republic of) Central Register of Republic of North Macedonia Marija Boshkovska joined Central register of the Republic of Macedonia in August, 2017 as General Director of the Institution. As professional in business economics and financial accounting management, she has been involved in the implementation of numerous development projects - essential for the progress of the Central register. Her vision for the Central register arises directly from the needs of the private sector and all service users (including foreign and domestic investors), and from the institutional need to access and share up-to-date information in order to increase the efficiency of their work. Previous Comittee Members: Select a Year Notable Alumni