The second stop on our Women in Treasury & Finance Forum global tour is the highly anticipated EMEA Forum, taking place on Monday 15th September at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London. This event serves as a vital platform to explore key industry topics, with a strong focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
As part of our global Women in Treasury Within initiative, this forum brings together industry professionals to share their experiences, challenges and successes, fostering a collaborative space for learning and growth. It offers a unique opportunity to connect, exchange insights and champion the advancement of gender equity in corporate finance.
A key highlight of the afternoon will be a panel discussion featuring senior leaders from some of the region’s top corporations. Drawing from key themes from our Global Equity Study, the conversation will offer valuable perspectives on the progress made and the challenges that remain in achieving greater equity across the industry. Attendees will have the chance to engage directly with the panel, posing questions and seeking guidance on the issues that matter most to them.
We will also take the opportunity to recognise and celebrate our regional Within Award winners in attendance.
Stay tuned for more details.
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EMEA 2025 panellists
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.
Joanna Bonnett
Group Treasurer
Straumann Group
Woman of the Year – EMEA 2025 Overall Winner
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.
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).
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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