Carl Wallworth and Melvin Kishore

Carl Wallworth

Carl Wallworth is Group Manager Internal Audit and Assurance at Vector, New Zealand's largest distributor of electricity and gas. With Vector leading the transformation of the energy sector to create a new energy future, the internal audit function has been challenging and reinventing the way it delivers the assurance mandate to the board and wider executive management team.

Carl brings almost two decades of leading internal audit functions here in New Zealand and wider afield across industries including utilities, manufacturing, transportation and life sciences. He is passionate about delivering sustainable and pragmatic recommendations to improve business processes and operational performance.

Melvin Kishore

Based in Auckland, New Zealand Melvin presently leads the data analytics programme within Vector Limited's internal audit function. Prior to Vector, Melvin held senior roles with PwC and KPMG, consulting for large multinational companies across several international jurisdictions.

More recently he has been responsible for integrating the use of robotic and cognitive automation technologies to Vector's data analytics and continuous assurance programme. He is currently leading the expansion of this automation to all the key risk areas of the business while planning a pilot engagement around machine learning within the assurance function.