Joseph Cagliarini Chief Information Officer

Mr Cagliarini applies his broad-based experience to everything from defining the overall IT architecture and strategy of the Group, to ensuring its infrastructure and application systems are operating to optimum standards and meeting confirmed service level agreements, to managing the Group's total IT budget, to overseeing in the implementation of Group Business Projects.

Appointed to the post in 2005, Mr Cagliarini developed his specialist skills in strategy, finance, operations, technology and people management through a sterling career in both the private and public sectors, in Hong Kong and in his home country, Australia. Mr Cagliarini's career includes being a senior executive in a leading consultancy firm and also one of the largest insurance groups in the world, during which he managed numerous multimillion US dollar projects covering a wide range of services and industry sectors. He has also worked as a Senior Policy Advisor with the Department of Health and an Economist with the Department of Treasury and Finance under the Government of Victoria. Among his achievements in those capacities, he devised and implemented the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) strategy for the state, and helped transform the funding model for the state's health care system.

Mr Cagliarini has a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University (Aust) and is a member of the IT Committee of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.