Trudy Willis
Trudy Willis is an associate of Melbourne Consulting and Custom Programs, and has her own successful consulting business that is dedicated to building leadership capability through coaching,facilitation, leadership development, performance management, strategic planning and team effectiveness. She works with clients from a variety of private and public sector organisations, teaches at the University of Melbourne for the Department of Management and Marketing and writes for the Melbourne Weekly Magazine.
Trudy has an extensive professional background in education and training and has held a number of senior positions involving the facilitation and leadership of learning services and business development in a services environment. She assists leaders and organisations to reach breakthrough thinking, enhance team performance, devise innovative business strategies and build high performance cultures. Her professional approach and expertise enables client organisations to better meet their key strategic objectives and business outcomes.
Trudy has been successful in winning large government and private tenders and leading the development of new business. Her experience has honed her skills in assisting people and organisations to present themselves to best advantage, understand what clients need, and convert that understanding to a proposal that makes it easy for the client to buy.
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Dr. Lewis Atkinson
Lewe has 20 years experience in food manufacturing and meat product research & development. After 4 years experience as operations and research with Unilever, he became Research and Information Services Manager for Australian Meat Technology Pty Ltd, a meat industry consulting company. He then joined Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd, where he has held several positions over the past 8 years. He currently provides an executive business service to R&D program managers within MLA that supports them in forward visioning, strategic planning, change management, and outcome delivery for their programs mainly oriented toward the off-farm sectors of the supply chain.
A core element of his current responsibilities is the development of a company-wide framework for evaluation and communication of the value of research and innovation. This project seeks to show how investment in innovation can add value to a wide variety of key stakeholder groups, including; Government as an investor, the industry as investors and target adoptors, and the community as the ultimate beneficiary of benefits flowing from the adoption of R&D outcomes.
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Health & Biological Sciences) Deakin University.
Masters of Business Administration & Ph.D (Chem Eng) University of Queensland.
Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in Australia (MIChemE)
Accredited Member of the National Speakers Association of Australia (ASM)
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Pat Foley B.S.W. (Melb), M.A. (VUT Research), PhD (Melb Submitted)
Pat has consulted to many of Australia’s leading organisations. He was the principal consultant for the Australian Human Resource Benchmarking Program and his work has been cited and used in a number of leading HR texts and courses.
He has constructed benchmarking systems, in both the HR function and non-HR areas; such as customer service, employee engagement, organisational learning processes, competitive benchmarking and has also led International benchmarking projects. He has conducted numerous executive team development workshops, senior management strategy reviews and helped organisations construct strategy maps and performance measurement systems.
His current research focuses on strategic leadership and high performance firms. Recent large scale empirical work examined the relationship between a firm’s strategic leadership capability, corporate entrepreneurship and its financial performance. His publications are wide ranging, recent ones include the “Foundations for a learning organisation” and “E-business strategy, practices and impact”. He is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Managerial Psychology.
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Dr Alan Smith
Alan Smith is a mechanical and manufacturing engineer and is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne with research and teaching commitments in measurement technology, production management and quality systems.
Alan has a deep understanding of thermographic equipment gained from his research on the thermal analysis of cutting tools and from various industry consultancies.
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Dr Sophia Everett
Sophia Everett is Deputy Executive Director, the Centre for Integrated Freight Systems Management. Dr Everett completed a MA (Hons) and a PhD at the University of Wollongong, and a Master of Public Policy (Hons) at the University of New England. She was awarded a three-year Doctoral Fellowship by the NSW Coal Association for research into the policy making mechanisms of coal transport infrastructure provision and an ARC post-doctoral fellowship for research into the impact of globalisation of liner shipping. In her Master of Public Policy thesis she examined in detail the role of the Australian National Line and policy problems related to Australian flag shipping.
Dr Everett has a special research interest in government policy making and policy processes particularly in relation to coal transport infrastructure provision, location and efficiency. Associate Professor Everett has followed closely government’s policy on microeconomic reform and in 1995 was the recipient of the Australian Chamber of Shipping Research Award for investigation into corporatisation and privatisation of Australian ports. Since that time she has continued research into deregulation with particular reference to the rail and the emergence of integrated freight networks.
Dr Everett was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Transport Policy Analysis at the University of Wollongong, the Associate Director of the Maritime Program at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Sydney, and delivered jointly the Intermodal Systems Management Program at Macquarie Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University.
She is the Manager of the Secretariat and a Council Member of the International Association of Maritime Economists, a Member of the Institute of Public administration Australia and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Australia.
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Prof Ross Robinson
Professor Robinson is Executive Director of the Centre for Integrated Freight
Systems Management. He has held a number of senior academic appointments including the Foundation Chair in Transport Systems at Victoria University, Melbourne, and positions at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, the Institute of Transport Studies in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Sydney; and from 1986 to 1995 he was Director of the Centre for Transport Policy Analysis at the University of Wollongong.
Professor Robinson was a member of the first Port Research team at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva and later directed the Port Development Program for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Bangkok. He is Regional Advisor of the Journal of Maritime Policy and Management, is a Member of the International Symposium on Logistics, is a Council member and Treasurer of the International Association of Maritime Economists and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Australia. In 1994 Professor Robinson was nominated by UNCTAD as one of the world’s leading researchers in port development and shipping; and in 1996 and again in 1998 he was nominated as Supervisor of the Year at the University of Sydney and at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management respectively. In June 2001 he was awarded the Hanjin Shipping Prize for his paper presented at the Hong Kong Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists.
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Dr William Glaser MB, BS, BA DipCrim, FRANZCP
Dr Glaser is the former Consultant Psychiatrist to the Statewide Forensic Services, Disability Services, Victoria, a Consultant Psychiatrist to other Australian disability services including the ACT Dual Disability Service and the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Housing and a Member of the Victorian Forensic Leave Panel.
His extensive clinical and research interests include: sex offenders; offenders with an intellectual disability; ethical issues in forensic mental health; mental health legislation; and assessment of personal injury litigants. As a Visiting Fellow, he has had a long association with the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourne.
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Dr Raphael Arndt
Raphael is an Associate of Hastings Funds Management, one of the largest infrastructure asset managers in Australia with around $2b in assets under management.
Raphael focuses on originating and overseeing Public Private Partnerships investments on behalf of Hastings' funds. He has extensive experience on PPP policy development and has advised both public and private sectors on project development.
Prior to joining Hastings, Raphael was Director - Policy at the Australian council for Infrastructure Development where he ran the Melbourne office. While at AusCID Raphael was responsible for coordinating industry input into the development of PPP policies. He also contributed to various PPP policies directly. Raphael's PhD from the University of Melbourne dealt with optimal risk allocation in PPP projects.
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Dr Elke Scheurmann
A highly skilled R&D program and project manager with extensive commercialisation knowledge and experience, Dr Elke Scheurmann graduated with a BVSci and PhD in Veterinary Science from the University Giessen (Germany). She has held a research and teaching positions at a number of Universitys, and has extensive R&D program management experience and excellent commercial business planning, project management and general management skills.
Elke has also been involved in running her own start up business in the medical and veterinary equipment supply and service industry. More recently she has become involved in a business development role for a company that provides strategic services and innovation management software systems and training to businesses and organisations that are involved in innovation.
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Damian Secen
Damian is a Senior Manger with the Investment Banking Group of Macquarie Bank Limited, he joined Macquarie Melbourne office in February 2001, and specialises in infrastructure finance and PPP's. Prior to joining Macquarie, Damian practised as a lawyer specialising project finance for 4 years, and as an accountant specialising in financial accounting and tax advisory services for 4 years.
In the area of infrastructure, Damian has been involved in a range of transactions, including the refinancing of Melbourne CityLink, as a bidder on the Mitcham Frankston Project and other PPPs, and as Financial and Commercial Adviser private and public sector parties including Melbourne Water, Melbourne Port Corporation, Sydney Airport Corporation, Transurban and GasNet Australia.
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Darrin Grimsey
Darrin is a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers Project Finance and Investment Banking Group. Darrin has 15 years experience working in the projects environment variously as an engineer, project manager and financial adviser. He specialises in the delivery of infrastructure projects including commercial, strategic and financial advice, project structuring, risk identification and contract negotiations.
Darrin spent just over a year seconded to the Office of the Victorian Treasurer, John Brumby as his financial/commercial policy adviser. The focus of Darrin's work was the implementation of the State's PPP programme which culminated in the release by the Victorian Government of its Partnerships Victoria policy and guidelines.
Since leaving the Treasurer's Office Darrin has advised the Victorian Government on a number of their PPP schemes including prisons, hospital car parks and Berwick Hospital. Darrin is also currently advising the South Australian Government on a number of their prospective PPP projects. Darrin joined PwC's Australian firm two and a half years ago from PwC in the UK where he advised both the private and public sectors on Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects.
Darrin regularly conducts workshops and training for PPP practitioners and speaks at conferences. He has also published several papers in leading academic journals and books dealing with various issues relating to PPP implementation.
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Fred Tinsley
Fred Tinsley, Partner, Minter Ellison heads the Finance Division. Working with public and private sector clients in infrastructure and capital works projects, Fred advises on the private development, management and operation of social infrastructure in the health, education and justice sectors. He also works on major finance transactions, both for financiers and corporate borrowers.
Fred has recently been involved in a number of ground-breaking public private partnerships (PPPs). In Australia, he led the team that advised the Victorian Government Department of Human Services on the privately financed development of Berwick public hospital. This was the first Partnerships Victoria project initiated in the health sector. Overseas, Fred was involved in advising on Hong Kong's first PPP, the HK$2.3 Billion exhibition centre at Chek Lap Kok airport.
In addition to his legal practice, Fred presents and publishes regularly on issues in relation to PPPs and finance projects. He is also Chairman of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, Melbourne, and a Board Member of the Australian Council for Infrastructure Development.
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Bradley Vann
Brad is National Managing Partner, Corporate, and has been a Clayton Utz partner since 1981.
With 20 years' experience in major transactions, he has acted in many of Australia's ground-breaking infrastructure and power and utilities projects. In addition, Brad has considerable expertise in managing the particular demands of Asian Pacific projects, entailing detailed review and understanding of local laws and country attendance.
A regular speaker at national and international conferences on infrastructure, Brad is also author of several publications, including a chapter on Fiduciary Duties in "The Laws of Australia", Volume 4.2.
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Glenn Maguire
Glenn Maguire is the Assistant Director, Commercial Division, Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. Mr. Maguire has held a number of senior positions in the Victorian Government over the past decade. He has extensive experience in industry reform, corporatisation, privatisation and public private partnerships.
In his current position, Mr. Maguire is responsible for the ongoing development of the Victorian Government's Partnerships Victoria PPP policy for the provision of infrastructure and related ancillary services. He also leads Treasury's involvement in PPP projects in a number of industry sectors. Mr. Maguire chairs the national Heads of Treasuries Working Group established to increase understanding and co-ordination of PPPs across Australian jurisdictions.
Previous roles have included leadership of the Port Reform Unit in the Department of Treasury and Finance, Director of Energy Policy in the Department of Energy and Minerals and, when with the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victorian representative in the development of national frameworks for reform of the electricity, water and gas industries. Previously, Glenn had worked as a microeconomist with the Industry Commission and the Commonwealth Treasury.
Mr Maguire has an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Melbourne and has undertaken selected post-graduate units in Economics at the Australian National University and in Corporate Finance through the Securities Institute of Australia.
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Miguel Wood
Miguel has 9 years experience in strategy development, project management and financial analysis in both the public and private sectors. He has worked in the UK as an adviser to the Home Office and has also been responsible for providing high-level policy advice to the Premier of Victoria on economic infrastructure issues relating to transport, ports, energy & resource development, planning, local government, and public-private partnerships. Miguel has worked in the private sector as an adviser on transport infrastructure and financing.
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Prof Rae Weston
Professor Weston holds the degrees of BCom (Hons)(Melbourne), BJuris, LLB, PhD (Monash).
She has held a number of major academic and other appointments including that of Professor of Banking and Management at Massey University in New Zealand (and was the first woman professor appointed to the University and the first woman professor of banking globally); and was Government Commissioner of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission and Director of the Housing Corporation of New Zealand.
Professor Weston has taught banking, insurance and funds management in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Asia and currently teaches entrepreneurial finance, advanced financial management and risk management for financial institutions. She is the author of number of books including Domestic and Multinational Banking, International Trade Finance, Managing Foreign Exchange Risk Exposure and, in 2005, International Business Finance.
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David Day
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Roger Christiansz
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Simon Davies
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Michael Huggins
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Jason Isherwood
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Alasdiar Johnston
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James Bridges
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Katherine Kennedy
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Geoff Daley
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Erik Thorup
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Matti Karinan
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Skipp Williamson
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Steve Brown
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Miriam D’Souza
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Edgar Hartmani
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Jerome Meier
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Joseph Socolof
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Paul Penteado
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Brady Countryman
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