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Roy Johal

AI Governance & Research Leader

SUMMARY

Executive leader with a career spanning AI governance, data strategy, management consulting, and organisational transformation across Australia, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Currently leading industry research and data governance at ICN Victoria, contributing to government procurement policy and the Local Jobs First framework. Founder of Rossignol Group, an AI advisory consultancy. Executive MBA candidate at AGSM @ UNSW.

EXPERIENCE

Industry Research Manager (→ Data & AI Governance Manager, FY2026-27)

Industry Capability Network Victoria · Feb 2024 - Present · Melbourne, VIC

Leading industry research, capability and benchmark data, and commercial growth — contributing directly to ICN Victoria's mission of helping local businesses win government procurement opportunities.

  • Presented ICN Victoria's AI strategy to the Board of Directors; regularly contribute industry research and data governance sections to Board reports and CEO briefings.
  • Conducted an organisation-wide policy infrastructure gap analysis; personally drafted the Data Classification Policy, Information Classification Policy, and AI Policy.
  • Led the business case, stakeholder engagement, and implementation of a project management office across the organisation.
  • Authored a federated governance best-practice framework paper for a national working group, drawing on comparative analysis of Australian and international nonprofit models.
  • Birthed and drove development of the Local Content Calculator and the Navigator dynamic industry directories platform.
  • Built and grew the organisation's most consistent commercial revenue line, representing a significant share of total income.
  • Established and managed the University of Melbourne relationship as a commercial and reputational asset.
  • Personally initiated and secured new commercial revenue partnerships before business development was formally part of remit.
AI PolicyData GovernanceFederated GovernanceStakeholder Engagement

Director & Founder

Rossignol Group · Aug 2023 - Present · Melbourne, VIC

Founded and direct a management consultancy providing AI advisory services across strategy, governance, and innovation.

  • Accountable for the full remit of the business: services portfolio development, client and stakeholder management, governance and compliance, and day-to-day operations.
AI StrategyAI GovernanceManagement Consulting

Head of Tech Risk / Senior Management Consultant

Synpulse · May 2021 - Aug 2023 · Melbourne, VIC

Dual role: practice lead for the Tech Risk service line and senior delivery consultant across banking and wealth management transformation engagements.

  • Led the Tech Risk practice for Synpulse Australia, owning go-to-market strategy, service innovation, marketing, resourcing, and mid-to-long-term operational planning.
  • Established Synpulse's Melbourne office from inception and opened the African territory for business, generating over $200k in new revenue.
  • Managed the transfer of Credit Suisse Trust's Life Referral Business across APAC jurisdictions, spanning legal, finance, IT, and risk/control/governance workstreams across Zurich, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Melbourne.
  • Program managed the greenfield establishment of a single-family office across Singapore, Australia, and Luxembourg — spanning operating model design, governance structure, enterprise risk management, and systems architecture.
  • Led an end-to-end evaluation of Hume Bank's fraud management framework, reporting to the CFO.
  • Facilitated delivery of Product Increment 2 during the final launch phase of Trust Bank (Standard Chartered), coordinating more than 10 parallel product teams.
  • Managed teams of up to 27 people across complex project deliveries.
Tech RiskProgram ManagementAgileGovernanceBanking & Wealth Management

Business Development Manager

AXA Group Operations · Nov 2018 - Dec 2020 · Sydney, NSW

Dual mandate: identifying process optimisation opportunities across the AXA ecosystem and leading the conception and global adoption of AI-driven strategic use cases.

  • Led all aspects of the open-source launch of Parsr — AXA Group Operations' first open-source product — including communications strategy, GitHub community management, conference presentations, and external partnerships.
  • Orchestrated adoption of Parsr across 13 global AXA locations; currently deployed at 10 entities across 9 countries including Malaysia, Belgium, UK, France, Hong Kong, and Brazil.
  • Grew the Parsr open-source community to 2,000+ GitHub stars, attracting collaborators including ABBYY and the University of New South Wales.
  • Managed senior stakeholder relationships across AXA's global ecosystem, building trust with C-suite executives and external partners.
AIOpen SourcePythonGitHubComputational Law

Co-Chief Technology Officer

Sedect SA · Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 · Gland, Switzerland

Held accountability for the Seelow smart IoT metal detection product line, managing product strategy, delivery, and performance for airport clients across Geneva, London, Paris, and Biarritz.

  • Conceptualised and led development of a waist and pocket metal detector (WPMD) for Geneva Airport and a 3D time-of-flight crowd analytics system in collaboration with Hitachi.
  • Managed C-level stakeholder relationships at all client airport sites.
  • Represented the company at international trade fairs in Montpellier (2017) and Los Angeles (2018).
IoTProduct Management3D Time-of-FlightSmart Infrastructure

Head of Innovation

Mt Pelerin · Dec 2016 - May 2017 · Geneva, Switzerland

Led product innovation for a blockchain-based fintech startup, building and launching Ibani — an online cross-border payments platform for currency and crypto conversion.

  • Managed stakeholder expectations across investors, clients, and the product team; shaped and iterated the product roadmap in an agile environment.
  • Led commercial outreach and early client acquisition targeting SME employees working cross-border between France and Switzerland.
BlockchainFintechProduct ManagementAgile

PhD Candidate / Researcher

EDF (Électricité de France) · Jan 2013 - Dec 2016 · Paris, France

Conducted computational geometry research, published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at international conferences.

  • Published in peer-reviewed journals; presented at AFIG 2016, GTMG 2015, and REFIG 2014.
  • Taught advanced algorithms to engineering students at the Polytechnical School of Grenoble.
  • Supervised two master's research theses at EDF Paris-Saclay.
Computational GeometryC++ResearchAcademic Publishing
EDUCATION

AGSM @ UNSW Business School

Executive MBA in Business Administration & Management · Jan 2020 - Dec 2026

In progress

Marketing ManagementAI StrategyStrategy Design & ManagementNegotiation SkillsAccounting & Financial ManagementExecutive Blueprint (Leadership)

Stockholm School of Economics

International Elective in Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility · Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Yale School of Management

International Elective in Natural Capital: Risks and Opportunities in Global Resource Systems · Jan 2024 - May 2024

Université Grenoble Alpes

Master of Research (MSc) in Computational & Applied Mathematics · Sep 2010 - Jun 2012

Punjab Technical University

Bachelor of Technology (Eng) in Computer Sciences Engineering · Sep 2005 - Jun 2009

SKILLS
Governance & Risk
AI GovernanceData GovernanceTech RiskEnterprise Risk ManagementPolicy DraftingCompliance
Strategy & Commercial
Commercial StrategyBusiness DevelopmentGo-to-MarketStakeholder ManagementBoard Engagement
Program & Project
Program ManagementProject ManagementAgileJiraPMO
Data & AI
AI StrategyData ArchitectureOpen SourceResearch Methodology
Languages
EnglishFrenchHindiPunjabi
PROJECTS

Parsr (AXA Group Operations)

AXA Group Operations' first open-source document parsing and structuring tool, conceived and launched to global adoption.

  • Grew to 2,000+ GitHub stars with collaborators including ABBYY and UNSW.
  • Deployed across 10 AXA entities in 9 countries including Malaysia, Belgium, UK, France, Hong Kong, and Brazil.
PythonOpen SourceAIDocument Intelligence
LANGUAGES
English (Native)
French (Native)
Hindi (Native)
Punjabi (Native)
COURSES

Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility

Stockholm School of Economics

Dec 2023

Natural Capital: Risks and Opportunities in Global Resource Systems

Yale School of Management

May 2024
PUBLICATIONS

Répétition linéaire de primitives comme opérateur dans un graphe de construction d'objets B-REP

REFIG 2014 · Jan 2014

Peer-reviewed journal publication in computational geometry. Additional conference contributions at AFIG 2016 and GTMG 2015.