Aware Super bulks up risk function with deputy CRO role

Investment Magazine

The $237 billion Aware Super has appointed former Medibank CRO Greg Gokavi-Whaley to the newly created deputy chief risk officer role as it braces for an increasingly complex risk environment. Gokavi-Whaley, who started at Aware Super in January 2025, will step into the deputy CRO role from his current position as head of strategy, enablement and enterprise risk management, Investment Magazine can reveal. “The risk environment for super funds continues to evolve and the establishment of a deputy CRO role further strengthens our enterprise risk leadership and helps us deliver on our operational and strategic priorities,” Jane Couchman, chief risk officer and group executive of sustainability at Aware Super, said in a statement.

“Strong governance and risk management are critical to fulfilling our obligations as the steward of our 1.3 million members’ retirement savings.” Gokavi-Whaley was CRO of Medibank between 2020 and 2024, overseeing “Medibank’s enterprise risk profile and the organisation’s multi-year risk maturity roadmap”. This means Gokavi-Whaley was with the ASX-listed insurance company when it suffered from the very public cyber breach that saw sensitive medical records of 9.7 million customers compromised. Prior to joining Medibank in 2018 he spent more than 15 years at ANZ in various enterprise roles.

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