Link appoints head of risk and compliance for retirement solutions business

Link Group, the ASX-listed financial services firm, has appointed Theresa Mills as global head of risk for its retirement and superannuation solutions business.

Mills joins Link Group after five years with the corporate watchdog as a superannuation specialist. She also sat on the regulator's Financial Literacy Board.

Before working with ASIC, she held senior roles at Money101, Household Capital, Guild Trustee Services, and Lonsdale.

With more than 20 years in superannuation, financial services, regulators, and on boards, Mills has been tasked with helping Link navigate the big regulatory changes in the super industry to the benefit of its trustee clients and their members.

In this role, she will draw on her diverse financial services experience - which includes running a super fund and trustee office - to head up the risk and compliance team supporting Link's retirement and super solutions businesses in Australia, the UK, and New Zealand.

Recognising the complexity of the regulatory environment, Mills will lead a specialist team in each market.

Mills said the move to Link - which represents a large segment of super funds regulated by the prudential and corporate regulators - gave her a unique perspective when building Link's risk and compliance function.

"Having experienced and observed the creation of Australia's changing regulatory framework, I know the undertaking that has been asked of the superannuation sector and its service providers," she said.

"It's a significant and evolving undertaking that is important for both the superannuation industry and the members' future outcomes.

Mills will report to the group chief risk officer Wendy Phillis, based in London.

"Theresa joins us at the start of the most significant reform to superannuation regulations in Australia since its inception in 1991," said Dee McGrath, the head of Link's retirement and superannuation solutions.

"Her deep commercial background and experience at the coalface of the changing regulatory environment will ensure Link Group trustee clients are positioned well to adapt and outpace the new regulatory demand, not just in Australia but across all markets."