Women in Treasury & Finance
EMEA Forum 2025

Women in Treasury & Finance EMEA Forum 2025 panellists
Women in Treasury & Finance

It was wonderful to reconnect with our EMEA community at the second stop of our Women in Treasury & Finance Forum global tour. The event took place at the iconic St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel on Monday 15th September. The afternoon provided attendees the chance to share experiences and ideas with industry colleagues.

The event opened with a welcome reception and fireside chat with Madeline McQueen, Coach and Founder of Magnificently You Ltd.

At the core of the event was the panel discussion which featured:

  • Lata Gullapalli – Founder, Savior Faire Company
  • Joanna Bonnet – Group Treasurer, Straumann Group
  • Cara Savas – European Regional Head of Sales for Corporate Clients with the Global Payments Solutions, HSBC
  • Ambareen Morshed – Head of Multinational Large Corporates Payment Sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa, J.P. Morgan Payments

Moderated by Caroline Stockman, the panel explored some of the panellist’s career journeys and experiences, with advice on coaching, mentoring and how to manage disappointments. The session concluded with a lively Q&A session, allowing attendees to share their experiences and ask questions.

Thank you to everyone who joined us.

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Guest speaker

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Madeline McQueen

Founder
Magnificently You Ltd

Madeline McQueen is a force of empowerment with extensive experience as an Executive Coach, Speaker and Trainer. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, including industry leaders like Google, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sopra Steria, Facebook, Omnicom, and Natixis Asset Management, to name a few.  Madeline’s signature approach centres on enhancing clarity, confidence and strategic leadership, particularly for women in senior leadership roles. She is a passionate advocate for gender equality, helping women to embrace their magnificence and step into their power.
Her personal journey is as inspiring as her professional work. Having navigated both personal and professional adversity, including surviving corporate sales, a business downturn and personal loss, Madeline has built a thriving career in personal and leadership development. Alongside her work, she sits on the board of NoMore.Org, driving action for gender equality. Married for 30 years, with two daughters, she balances her professional achievements with a fulfilling family life and a love of travel and dance.

EMEA 2025 panellists

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Lata Gullapalli

Founder
Savoir Faire Company

Champion of Change – EMEA 2025 Overall Winner
Lata Gullapalli is an investment banker by profession, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. She has worked in investment banking for over 25 years in South Asia, Russia and the UK. Lata is on the board as NED for various companies. She advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructure and capital raising. She has designed products for raising capital and has set up and run start-up companies, devising strategy and funding for them. She has led teams to enter into joint ventures and taken a company public with an initial public offering. Lata is also an author, with published works, in fiction and non-fiction. She is currently writing a novel. She is on the board, advises and works with NGOs that are focused primarily on child protection, education for the girl child and mentoring of women in rural areas so they set up their own businesses and are financially independent as well as economically sustainable. Lata also teaches courses to senior leaders, entrepreneurs, young leaders, bankers and students.

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Joanna Bonnett

Group Treasurer
Straumann Group

Woman of the Year – EMEA 2025 Overall Winner
Joanna is the Group Treasurer of Straumann, the world’s largest dental med-tech specialist. Operating in over 150 countries with a market cap of CHF22bn. Her focus is on M&A, funding and is spear heading a treasury transformation project. Before arriving at Straumann, Joanna was the Group Treasurer and Chief Sustainability Officer at PageGroup. Outside of her executive career, Joanna holds a Non-Executive Director role sitting on the Riverside Housing Treasury Committee and until recently also sat on the ACT Council holding various roles including Officer, President and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. In her private life she is an avid reader, cook and enjoys travelling with her family.

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Cara Savas

European Regional Head of Sales for Corporate Clients with the Global Payments Solutions
HSBC

Leading Light – EMEA 2025 Highly Commended Winner
Cara Savas is the European Regional Head of Sales for Corporate Clients with the Global Payments Solutions business. Cara joined HSBC in 2018, having spent 14 years at J.P. Morgan Chase in a variety of sales leadership roles including Natural Resources Sales Head based in Houston and European Sales Head for Multinationals based in London. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Chase she spent four years in transaction banking at Deutsche Bank London and Brussels and four years at Citibank in Global Relationship Banking in Dublin and London. Cara is a graduate of the National University of Ireland.

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Ambareen Morshed

Head of Multinational Large Corporates Payment Sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa
J.P. Morgan Payments

Ambareen Morshed is currently responsible for the Payments business at J.P. Morgan covering multinational large corporates in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Ambareen joined J.P. Morgan in 2019 and previously led the Treasury FX Sales team in EMEA, covering corporates, financial institutions and public sector clients. During her 18 years of experience in the banking industry, Ambareen has held roles at both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Lloyds Bank. She has an extensive background within Transaction Banking and Markets focusing on foreign exchange solutions. Ambar holds a bachelors degree in Politics from University College of London (UCL).

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Caroline Stockmann

Non-exec chair/trustee/director, coach, writer and speaker/facilitator

Caroline Stockmann was Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers from February 2017 to April 2023, and now has a portfolio career across several organisations. Prior to 2017, Caroline had 20 years’ experience in senior finance, commercial and strategic posts at a number of commercial as well as not-for-profit organisations. These included Unilever/Bestfoods (Thailand, Netherlands and UK), Novartis, British Council and Save the Children International. Much of her working life has been spent overseas. Caroline trained with KPMG and is a Fellow (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). She has an ICAEW Diploma in Charity Accounting and has filled numerous roles on boards over the years. Her current roles include: board member and Treasurer of CIPD, the membership body for HR professionals; Director of the fintech TreasurySpring; Trustee of the Guildhall School Trust; Chair of KCSP, a multi-academy trust of 30 schools; board member and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, VIVID Housing; and External Member of the Bank of England’s SONIA Oversight Committee and Chair of the SONIA Stakeholder Advisory Panel. Caroline is a linguist, musician, trained coach, fell-walker and bell ringer, who loves travelling, reading and cooking, and is married with two children. Caroline has travelled the world running seminars on leadership and strategic influencing, often with a focus on diversity and inclusion, and has written courses on leadership for a number of organisations including FutureLearn, CFTE and Durham University.

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