ACSA Announces 2022 Industry Award Winners

ACSA ANNOUNCES 2022 INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS

The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA), the peak body for Australia’s custodial service industry, today announces winners of its 2022 awards recognising outstanding industry leadership.

2022 award winners are:

ACSA Award
Nicole Carnovale, Northern Trust
Duncan Lyon, J.P. Morgan

ACSA Service to the Industry Award
Marian Azer, Milestone Group

The awards were presented by ACSA Chair, Sally Surgeon, and CEO, David Travers at an industry event last Thursday 17 March.

Ms Surgeon said: “It is always a great pleasure to recognise individuals who go above and beyond in their work on behalf of the asset servicing industry, especially during the recent challenging and volatile period.

“As an industry body with a unique voluntary working group structure ACSA relies on industry professionals who give their time, knowledge and experience to advancing ACSA’s work. We greatly value the contribution of our working groups. Nominated by industry peers, these awards are ACSA’s way of acknowledge the outstanding contribution that a number of individuals have made to promoting positive change in the industry over the past year,” she said.

Ms Surgeon shared the following citations in presenting the awards:

	Nicole Carnovale, APAC Senior Product Manager for Data with Northern Trust Nicole played a key industry role overseeing the revamp of the ACSA website in late 2020 and worked with great enthusiasm to bring the project to a successful conclusion in November 2021. She applied skills and focus to all dimensions of the website refresh including updated content, navigation, industry personas and a contemporary look and feel.  Nicole’s perseverance in keeping the review process on target and helping frame the right feedback to the website developer was key to achieving the quality revamp.
	Duncan Lyon, Tax Product Manager, Securities Services, Australian and New Zealand at J.P. Morgan; Chair of the ACSA Tax Working Group. As Chair of ACSA’s Tax Working Group Duncan has gone over and beyond driving key initiatives, including the navigation of complex tax issues, that have benefited ACSA and the industry. Duncan has worked through technical and policy change in a collaborative style, encouraging input from the broader team. He has provided a key leadership role in drawing together considered industry views from fellow practitioners, driving consensus and formalising quality submissions. He consistently encourages a focus on issues affecting ACSA members and their clients through effective liaison with third-party bodies including ASFA, the FSC, Commonwealth Treasury and the ATO.
	Marian Azer, Managing Director APAC & Global Head of Product, Milestone Group Marian is this years’ Service to Industry Award Winner and is recognised for her significant contribution to the industry. This includes working within the custody and asset servicing industry in Australia across a variety of custodial banking entities, as consultant to the industry and in FinTech. Marian has been an active member of ACSA in various capacities including as Deputy Chair, Working Group participant, Executive sponsor and now, as an Associate member. She acts as a mentor to many young women associated directly and indirectly with ACSA across Superannuation, Asset Management and Wealth as part of recognising the need to attract and develop the next generation of talent.  Marian’s contributions have helped ACSA promote the Custody and Asset Servicing industry in Financial Services to be focused on enabling and powering the future of investment operations.

ACSA CEO, David Travers, said: “As CEO I am engaged actively with the ACSA Board, our working groups and taskforces. There are so many individuals who not only perform demanding day jobs, but who also step up to make a difference for our industry. Not only is this an amazing feature of our industry  it is in fact now part of the industry’s DNA. On behalf of the industry I congratulate Nicole, Duncan and Marian on their well-deserved awards, and extend thanks to all other contributors to the industry.”

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