Ian Abrahams

BSc.Eng (Civil) MEngSc  CPEng  CPRM MIEAUST  MAIRM  MAIPM

Principal Risk Management Consultant
Consultant Lead, Australia

The biggest challenge facing all organisations that are attempting to implement Risk Management is that it seems easy, however it is a challenge.

Ian has unique expertise in aligning a range of different Risk and Governance programs including Risk Management, Audit, Project Risks, Compliance, Risk Assurance and Business Continuity Planning as well as Safety Management. This pays for itself over and over in your bottom-line performance, social standing and competitive advantage.

Ian’s Core Competency in Risk Management & Governance, spanning a career of more than 2 decades in enterprise risk;

Professional Affiliations

• Committee Member of the RMIA Professional Development Committee which develops the accreditation standards for Certified Chief Risk Officer® – (CCRO®), Certified Practising Risk Manager or CPRM® and Certified Practising Risk Associate® – (CPRA®) and manages the examination questions and protocols.
• Qualified civil and structural engineer, progressing this to post graduate level with a Masters in construction & Project Management from the University of New South Wales.
• Awarded a Patent for his work on how a Risk Database “learns over time”.
• Visiting Fellow for the University of NSW’s School of Civil Engineering, Department of Construction & Project Management, lecturing to graduates and postgraduate students for 2 years.
• Invited by the Electronics Department at Macquarie University, to establish a post-graduate course in Project Management with 30% Risk Management content, which he ran for 3 years.
• Executive of NSW Chapter of Risk Management Institution of Australia for 6 years. One of his focus areas was in assisting lift the esteem of Risk Managers, enabling them to have increased visibility in their organisations.

Ralph Lai

M.Com  B.Sc  CA CPA C.Eng CISA (USA)  MBCS  (UK)

Principal Risk Management & Assurance Consultant

Ralph is the Principal Risk Management & Assurance Consultant, bringing leading edge knowledge for clients requiring assurance that strategic and key business risks are managed.

Ralph’s Core Competency is bringing an alignment between the internal audit, including financial controls and risk management  functions that result in strengthening the Controls that manage Risks and bringing a sound definition of the Control Framework.   Ralph brings to our clients’ skills and knowledge in:

• Enterprise Risk Management
• Managing the Internal Audit department, prepare annual audit plan for Audit Committee approval
• Performing risk based operational audits and risk management reviews
• Performing application systems audits and technical IT audits to ensure system integrity and security
• Forensics and fraud control
• Analytics and reporting

Education/ Qualifications          

• Master of Commerce – Professional Accounting (M.Com), University of New South Wales (completed in 1989)
• Bachelor of Science (Honours) (B.Sc), Major in Mathematics & Computation (external program), University of London, U.K.
• Higher Diploma in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing – Major in Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professional Qualifications

• Certified Chartered Accountant Australia-NZ (CCA_ANZ)
• Certified Practising Accountant – CPA Australia (CPA)
• Chartered Engineer, U.K. – Information Systems Engineering (C.Eng)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor, USA (CISA)

Professional Memberships

• Member of British Computer Society, UK (MBCS)
• Member of ISACA, USA
• Member of Institute of Internal Auditors, Australia
• Member of CPA Australia

Nat Iyer

B.E.(Electronics & Comm.) GradCert(Management) MCSE RMIA DAMA PMI

Engagement and Implementation Manager

Accomplished Analytics professional with over 20 years of expertise in delivering solutions involving business development, customer management, business requirements, analytics & reporting and project management. Nat leads customer engagements, directing and coordinating team members to deliver the objectives for business initiatives and projects, including training and mentoring of staff.  Nat specialises in risk, compliance, regulatory reporting, and data governance.

Nat is a problem solver, thinking outside the box to determine cost beneficial solutions while working collaboratively and minimising the customer’s risk profile.

Throughout his career, Nat has held senior executive positions, including Director-APJ for HP Autonomy and Vertica business units, General Manager for Teradata’s South-east Asia region, and a Managing Partner, leading the analytics delivery practice.

Nat is bringing CorProfit’s solutions to customer segments including Banking/Financial Services, Airlines, Telecommunications, Government, Mining, Manufacturing, Construction and Petrochemical Industries across the Asia Pacific region.

Core Competency in Risk Management & Governance

• Led Data-warehouse/ Data Lake projects for Banking clients with focus on Credit and Operational risks.
• Conduct Business Requirements and Information Discovery engagements.
• Needs Analysis and Gap Analysis, including piloting and proof-of-concept stages.
• Lead digital transformation projects.
• Delivered Customer 360° analysis, Early Warning Systems for Risk Analytics – various industries.
• Developed and delivered Data Governance workshops – covering legislative frameworks, regulatory reports, data strategy, stewardship, and quality.
• Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) – Policies and Procedures

Suleman Badat

Principal Risk Management & Assurance Consultant
Consultant Lead, South Africa
Bachelor of Accountancy

Suleman has had over 20 years of leadership roles in the risk and governance functions of major corporates, including the CRFO of Sasol, South Africa’s petrochemical giant.  Suleman has leading edge knowledge and innovation for clients requiring checks and balances between front-line risk management and assurance that strategic and key business risks are managed.

Suleman has been extending his Core Competency in bringing an alignment between the compliance, risk management and audit functions into the Projects environment, where there are gaps in knowledge to deliver projects as envisioned by organisations. Suleman is accomplished at working with boards and executive management in a top down approach to ERM and GRC to support increased business performance and resilience.

Radu Carlan

Chief Software Architect
MSc (Computer Software Engineering)

Radu is a highly innovative software engineer applying excellent business analysis and problem solving skills to deliver well architected software solutions to CorProfit’s customers.

Customers are delighted with the user friendliness and smartness of CorProfit’s products; coming from embedding the Risk and Governance IP in the software and seeing the efficiencies and effectiveness of business operations coming to our customers.

Radu takes on board the business requirements coming from CorProfit’s thought leaders, as well as feedback from clients, together with deep research into current software development platforms and technologies to architect the best possible software solution.

Peter Hanzlicek

CPRM, MRMIA, GradDip Bus(Mgmt)
Senior Risk Management Consultant

Peter brings well tried and proven skills in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in relation to establishing Risk Management Framework and Methodology and managing / facilitating Strategic, Emerging, Project and Operational Risks. In a career spanning 20-years in Risk Management.  He is an expert in Corporate Insurance programs and Broker tenders as well as developing and managing Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs.

Peter is one of CorProfit’s “Implementors” that who works in customers businesses and using his Core Competencies and skills in implementing Risk Programs that are required to be working effectively both strategically and operationally.

Peter’s Core Competency is knowledge in implementing Risk Management Programs and having staff understand how Risk Management helps them in their day to day job.  The value of applying sound risk practices has been part of Peter’s role and aligning this with business functions and strategic objectives.  Peter brings to our clients’ skills and knowledge in:

• Developing / updating Risk Profiles across the business including a Strategic and Operational profile
• OHS – Health Safety and Environmental programs management system, policies and procedures implemented, integrated and respective Committees operational
• BCM – reviewing, updating and coordinating testing of Business Continuity Plan, Incident Management Plan and Business Recovery Management Team procedures, Disaster Recovery Procedures
• Insurance Management – preparation of insurance policies and disclosures, negotiating insurance renewals
• Control self-assessment – formulating and implementing the methodology
• Supporting procurement before contracts are entered into, with Risk Profiling and Reporting
• Reporting including reporting to the Board monthly

Education/ Qualifications

• Graduate Diploma of Business (Management), Monash University
• Further Certificate of Business Studies (Management), TAFE

Professional Qualifications

• Certified Practicing Risk Manager (CPRM)

Professional Membership

• Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA)

Peter supports your staff understand how Risk Management helps them in their day to day job and the value of aligning IT Security, Business Continuity Planning, Contracts Management, Procurement, Compliance, Event Management, WHSOHS and Insurance to support the Board, CEO and Executive Management achieve their Corporate Objectives.

One of Peter’s key success factors is transferring his knowledge and skill to your staff to add to their own levels of competency which is a valuable win in building risk and governance intellectual capacity in your organisation.

Hana Vano

BCom, (Bachelor of Commerce)
Training & Implementation Manager

Hana coordinates and administers CorProfit’s Training Services in the Risk Management Implementations for our customers.

Hana provides training in Risk Management Theory and its Application,  Training in KnowRisk features and functions as well as mentoring of our customers’ professional risk management staff.

Hana administers CorProfit’s formal training process that is documented in the Training Services Manual.  This includes keeping training courses and topics up to date, gaining feedback from customers and ensuring any improvements are brought back into CorProfit’s training services.

Education/ Qualifications

• Bachelor of Economics, University of Economics (Czechoslovakia – Bratislava)
• Certificate IV Training (Australia)

Key Experience:

• Business Analyst
• Project management of systems development and enhancements
• Risk analysis
• Customer training and implementation
• Development and management of reports
• Optimizing workflows and processes
• Mentoring in the use of KnowRisk software

Hana ‘s role over the last decade has been active involvement with a range of clients seeking to embed risk management into business operations.  Some of Hana’s core expertise has been to bring out that that the risk process is intuitive and by implication staff have responded positively; this has led to risk management being embraced more widely.  Several assignments involved an integrated approach to risk management across the customer.

A further core expertise has been in conducting training programs that have been tailored to clients’ specific needs.   Hana is familiar in working with paper-based systems such as Excel and how this is enhanced by using a database system like KnowRisk.

Ashok Menon

BSc(Bachelor of Science), Diploma in Systems Engineering, Certified in C and Databases, Certified coach
Customer Success Manager

Ashok is a people and technology solutions leader with a proven track record of delivering world-class, customer-focused and outcome-oriented software solutions that contribute to the realisation of cutting edge transformation initiatives.

He has contributed to exceptional results through hands-on expertise in IT business areas such as sales pursuits, pre-sales solution design, end to end project delivery, PMO and BAU support within complex global financial services and manufacturing businesses.

With over 30 years of accomplishments in the USA, APAC-Japan, Europe and the Middle East, he has achieved exceptional career progression through demonstrated abilities to turn around challenging delivery situations to win back customer confidence, thus laying a strong foundation for future engagements to lead team sizes of over 150+ cross-functional professionals.

With an entrepreneurial approach to consistently delivering rapid revenue growth in key accounts, he has well-developed planning, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to deliver solutions on time and budget.

Experienced in closely working with CxOs and influencing outcomes through outstanding verbal and written communication skills, he has a collaborative style of management and stakeholder engagement resulting in high credibility, trust and robust professional business relationships.

With a keen interest in learning new technologies for advanced service deployments and keeping abreast of the latest megatrends, Ashok has excellent commercial skills and am considered as a subject matter expert for delivery leadership and escalations.