Mint Directors Conference Online

Prof Duxbury is an international expert in the areas of experimental and behavioural finance, and his work has been published in several world-leading academic journals. His latest work is an investigation of the behavioural determinants of UK individuals’ attitudes towards and intentions to use cash.

Payments Economist and Managing Director of the Center for Financial Services Innovation at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests are payment and monetary economics with special emphasis on innovative payment products and individual payment behaviour.

Journalist, monetary anthropologist, former financial broker and author of the newly-published book ‘Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets’. Brett is also one of the most articulate, entertaining and impassioned advocates for cash and opponents of Big Tech in the business.

A 20-year cash and payments industry specialist and founder and chair of the thinktank CashEssentials, which has produced numerous policy-analytical reports and publications by a range of contributing specialists that provide reliable information about cash, the evolution of its use and why. Guillaume is also chair of The Future of Cash conference, which brings together stakeholders to discuss new strategies for creating the cash cycle of the future.

Leigh Gordon is a member of the Australian Public Service and is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint), a position he commenced in February 2021. Prior to his appointment as the CEO, Leigh had a career of over 37 years as an engineer and leader in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) within the Australian Defence Organisation. The Mint is a listed entity within the Commonwealth Government portfolio of The Treasury, it is the sole supplier of Australia’s circulating coinage and manufactures a vast array of collector coins, investor products, medals and medallions for domestic and international clients. The Mint is a major tourist attraction in the Australian Capital Territory and custodian of Australia’s National Coin Collection.

Honey EK Mamabolo was appointed to the boards of the SABN and South African Mint on 12 March 2020. Ms Mamabolo is the Managing Director of the South African Mint.
Prior to joining the Mint, she was Chief Executive Officer of Thebe Unico, a leading automotive and industrial chemical manufacturer. Before joining Thebe, Ms Mamabolo managed two clean energy debt funds at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and was involved in renewable energy projects and corporate finance transactions. Prior to the IDC, she served as a Senior Energy Consultant and Director of Operations for Energy Solutions Africa, focusing mainly on energy policy design, implementation, and transaction advisory and donor fund management.
Ms Mamabolo’s early career was spent in the retail banking sector as a business process engineer, business analyst and project manager.
Ms Mamabolo has a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering and holds postgraduate qualifications in Financial Management, Strategy Planning and Change Management

A 20-year cash and payments industry specialist and founder and chair of the thinktank CashEssentials, which has produced numerous policy-analytical reports and publications by a range of contributing specialists that provide reliable information about cash, the evolution of its use and why. Guillaume is also chair of The Future of Cash conference, which brings together stakeholders to discuss new strategies for creating the cash cycle of the future.

Ventris C. Gibson is the Deputy Director of the United States Mint. She is the first African American to lead the Mint.
A U.S. Navy veteran with decades of senior leadership experience in the federal government, Ms. Gibson joined the Mint from District of Columbia government, where she served as the Director of Human Resources. In this role, Ms. Gibson provided executive oversight and execution of human capital programs and services for nearly 37,000 employees. Prior to that, Ms. Gibson served as Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was responsible for the development, articulation, and delivery of Department-wide human resources policies, plans, and programs.
Ms. Gibson’s career with the federal government includes leadership roles in the Federal Aviation Administration, where she was Assistant Administrator for Human Resources, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resource Management and its first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resolution Management. She was VA’s highest-ranking woman veteran and directed human resources management and civil rights programs affecting 230,000 employees.
With a career spanning more than 40 years in both human resources executive and professional positions, Ms. Gibson is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations. She has received the Exceptional and Meritorious Service Awards, FAA Manager Association’s Leadership Award, National Hispanic Coalition’s President’s Award, and the Northern New Jersey Metropolitan Area’s prestigious “Woman of the Year” award.
A graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Executive Technique, and Aspen Institute, Ms. Gibson attended the University of Maryland, University College. She has three children, four grandchildren, and two golden retrievers.

Günther Waadt graduated in mechanical and economical engineering. In 1998 he was appointed as Director of the Bavarian State Mint. Since 1998 he held several posts within international committees like the Mint Directors Working Group (MDWG), the MDC and the Technical Committee of the MDC.Since 2011 Günther Waadt is Vice – President of MDWG.

Marie Lemay was appointed President of the Royal Canadian Mint in January 2019. Over the past 20 years, she has held a variety of senior executive positions in various organizations and government departments. She has extensive experience in public policy. Prior to her appointment as Master of the Mint, Lemay served as Deputy Minister and Deputy Receiver General for Canada at Public Services and Procurement Canada, where she managed 12,000 employees and a $6 billion budget. Prior to joining government, she led a number of international initiatives and oversaw several mutual recognition agreements as CEO of Engineers Canada.
Lemay is a Professional Engineers, a Fellow of Engineers Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and has served on several boards.

Scott was born in Canada and graduated from the University of Winnipeg with a BSC Hons degree. He migrated to Australia in 1982 representing Sports Brands such as New Balance, Russell Athletic, BUM Equipment and The Game. In 1996 Elite Sports Properties was launched and it has become the largest sports marketing and talent management agency in Australia, now trading under TLA Worldwide and being part of the Bruin Sports Capital Group. Scott’s area of expertise has been intellectual property management and licensed merchandise including trading cards and collectibles. He has held licenses and worked with all the major sports governing bodies including the IOC, FIFA, Rugby World Cup and Cricket World Cup. He spent five years living and working in China during the 2008 Olympic period, assisting with their intellectual property framework and licensing program and creating benchmark Olympic philatelic programs.

Bill Gale is a nationally recognized numismatist. Over the past 37 years, Bill has sold more than $3 billion dollars of rare coins, shipwreck treasure, and some of the world’s most exclusive modern collectible coins. Bill became a familiar TV personality for over 15 years as the on-air coin expert for four major shopping channels: QVC, CVN, ShopNBC, and HSN. His ability to capture the passion and fascinating stories behind collectible coins earned him a loyal following of collectors who still seek him out today in his current role as CEO of Asset Marketing Services, LLC, Modern Coin Mart, and LPM Group Ltd.

Mark Cartwright is an experienced leader, having worked in senior executive roles within government, the not-for-profit sector and the sporting industry over the past 20 years. Mark is currently the Executive General Manager for Sales, Marketing and Innovation for the Royal Australian Mint where he oversees critical functions such as design, product development, marketing and communications, brand development, sales, B2B marketing, education and tourism. He has now been with the Mint for over a decade, charged with optimising the Mint’s precision manufacturing capabilities and public trust in the brand. His key achievements include significant collectible and investment portfolio growth, oversight of a multi-award winning education and visitor services program, embedding key strategic partnerships and most recently, oversight of the internationally acclaimed Donation Dollar initiative. Mark possesses an undergraduate degree in Applied Science, a Masters of Business Administration specialising in Marketing and is a member of the Australian Risk Policy Institute.

Digital native by heart. Mikko has been building e-commerce and digital services and leading productive project teams for various industries over a period of 20 years. He enjoys getting people on board to produce new services or find new ways of working more productively and deliver top customer experience. In his current role at Mint of Finland Mikko is taking all his learnings into action in providing coin collectors the best pocket-sized experience on the planet with Coiniverse. Mikko holds a Masters from Aalto University on International Business and Marketing. As a true Finn, ice-hockey and various other sports fill much of his free time. Mikko also finds time for charity work through Rotary International and is always ready to upskill and learn something new.

Dr Ursula Kampmann is a graduate numismatist. After 10 years working for international coin auction houses, she decided to focus on the intersection between collectors and the scholarly world building bridges between the different worlds of numismatics: mints, coin dealers, museums, collectors, scholars and representatives of the supplying industry. She founded her “Numismatic Press Service”, recently renamed FAMA Ltd. Ursula Kampmann is also the founder of MünzenWoche / CoinsWeekly, an international online magazine about numismatics that is read in more than 190 countries. Her latest project, Cosmos of Collectibles, is currently being developed into a catalogue of coins covering all ages and regions. 

Dr Ursula Kampmann is known for keeping an eye on all numismatic objects – no matter what country they come from, no matter whether they are ancient or contemporary. 

Inga is a Sustainability professional with over 20 years international experience. Working as both an in-house adviser and external consultant Inga has worked with various organisations from small and medium sized enterprises to multinational corporations. She has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Finland and Australia, and completed short term work assignments in the pacific island countries of Tuvalu, Samoa and Vanuatu. With a background in environmental management, Inga is a Chartered Environmentalist, and an alumni of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership. She joined The Royal Mint in August 2021 as Head of Sustainability and is responsible for driving an ambitious sustainability programme, integrating key Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) topics into the wider business strategy.