The ARIA Team

Mr Tony Hyams – appointed 21 December 2009 to 25 November 2012

The Independent Chairman, Mr Hyams is also Chairman of the Military Superannuation and Benefits Board, Deputy Chairman of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), a Director of the Australian Government Employees Superannuation Trust (AGEST) and Chairman of its Investment Committee, and an Independent Adviser to the Credit Suisse Group. He is a Governor of WWF Australia and he has degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Mr Peter Feltham - appointed 1 July 2005, reappointed to 17 July 2012

Mr Feltham is currently an Industrial Officer with the CPSU, the Community and Public Sector Union. He has worked for the CPSU and its predecessor organisations for more than 20 years in a range of capacities at the state and national level as both an employee and official. Prior to this Mr Feltham worked for 10 years in the Federal Public Service.

Ms Margaret Gillespie – appointed 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2010

Ms Gillespie is a former Assistant National Secretary of
the Community and Public Sector Union (2003 -2008).
She served two terms as a Vice President of the ACTU
(2003 -2007). Ms Gillespie is also a member of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Women.

Ms Winsome Hall - appointed 1 July 1996, reappointed to 30 September 2010

Ms Hall is Chair of the ARIA Audit and Risk Management Committee. Ms Hall is a non-executive director of various entities including State Super Financial Services, appointed by ARIA, Zurich Australian Superannuation Limited and various commercialisation funds as a nominee of the Westscheme. She is an ongoing consultant with the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. Ms Hall was previously a Senior Advisor in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and was Secretary of the ACT Branch of the CPSU from 1989 to 1993.

Mr Dennis Trewin AO – appointed 20 December 2007, reappointed to 30 June 2012

Mr Trewin is currently a statistical consultant having undertaken contracts for the United Nations, World Bank, OECD and the governments of Brazil, Korea and New Zealand. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and Global Executive Board of the World Bank's International Comparison Program. Past roles have included head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Deputy Australian Statistician and Deputy Government Statistician in New Zealand.

Mr Trewin has been awarded an AO for his contribution to Australian and international statistics.

Mr Brian Daley – appointed 19 March 2009 to 12 March 2012

Mr Daley has extensive experience in the superannuation industry having been an advocate for award superannuation in the 1980s and a trustee of a number of industry funds since that time. He is a trustee of AustralianSuper and HOSTPLUS as well as having been a representative on the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, Industry Fund Services and state and federal committees of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. He is also a director of the Industry Super Property Trust (ISPT).

Mr Daley is also National President of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU).

Mr Lochiel Crafter – Chief Executive Officer

Lochiel has extensive experience in the financial services industry. He has previously worked for Westpac Investment Management, Commonwealth Investment Management, Mercury Asset Management and State Super Investment and Management Corporation.

For the past seven years Lochiel has worked in various roles with State Street Global Advisers including, until recently, Chief Investment Officer, Asia Pacific located in Singapore.

Lochiel has a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science (Honours1). He completed the Chartered Financial Analyst programme in 2000 and a Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning in 2004. He is currently working towards a doctorate in business administration.

Mr Peter Carrigy-Ryan – Chief Operating Officer

Peter Carrigy-Ryan has over 20 years experience in superannuation and financial services, and joined ARIA in January 2004.

Peter has previously been General Counsel and Company Secretary at Commonwealth Funds Management Limited, and was the principal of a consultancy business for 10 years prior to joining the staff of ARIA. As Chief Operating Officer, Peter is responsible for all operational, regulatory, compliance and external relations functions.

Alison Tarditi – Chief Investment Officer

Alison Tarditi joined ARIA after six years as the Director of Equity Strategy with Citigroup in Australia. Previous to this position, Alison worked for BT Funds Management as the Head of Research and Quantitative Strategy in the Asset Allocation area.  In this role, she had responsibility for global macroeconomic strategy and the design and implementation of quantitative processes for analysing global equity and fixed income markets. Previously, she was the Head of the Financial Conditions Section in the Economic Analysis Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia.  

Alison has a first class Honours degree and University Medal from James Cook University and a Masters of Science from the London School of Economics, under scholarship from the Reserve Bank of Australia. She also sits on the Investment Committee of the Salvation Army Board in Australia.