General Manager of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability
Westpac Group

Sally Herman is the General Manager of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability for the Westpac Group, with direct responsibility for all media, Government and community relations, as well as the Westpac Group corporate reputation Multi- Brand Strategy and internal communications.

Sally first joined Westpac in 1994 as Chief Manager, Corporate Relationships. In 1997, she moved to New York with the Bank to be the Country Head, Americas, the first time a woman had held a country manager role for the Bank.

Sally returned to Australia in 1999 to lead the Private Bank. She left the bank briefly in 2000 to start up an Internet business, returning later that year to Westpac, as General Manager eBusiness, responsible for the development of Internet Banking. She then joined the BT Executive Team in July 2005, heading up the Advice business before moving into her current role.

Her experience before joining Westpac includes four years at Macquarie Bank as an Associate Director in the capital markets and private banking groups, three years at Colonial State Bank in the Corporate and Financial Institutions banking group and three years at Bain & Co (now Deutsche Bank) in the corporate advisory group.

Sally is on the Board of the Australian Employers Network on Disability as well as the Society for Knowledge Economics and is the banks representative on the President’s Council at the Art Gallery of NSW. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in history.