International Company Directors Course, Business Governance in the International Context

Grade: Distinction

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.St), Structural Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Honours, Civil Engineering

Senior Advisor - Trade and Investment

Working together with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), to assist the Government of Qatar to diversify its economy in line with its \’National Vision\’, by increasing the share of non-hydrocarbon exports and enhancing the global competitiveness of SMEs and supporting them to strategically and sustainably boost exports.

Senior Advisor and Special Counsel - Australia, NZ and Pacific

Investigations | Litigation and Disputes | Business and Commercial Intelligence | M&A | Insolvency | Due Diligence | Fraud | AML & CTF | Security Risk Management | Compliance | Cyber Security

Kroll is the world’s gold-standard investigative consultancy firm and a leading global provider of risk solutions. We are active in areas such as commercial/legal due diligence, dispute resolution and litigation, M&A, foreign investment, and commercial dealings generally in foreign jurisdictions. We help clients make confident risk management decisions about people, assets, supply chains, operations, and security, specialising in identifying, remediating and monitoring risks, including investment DD, investigations, fraud diagnosis, sources of funds, asset recovery, counterparty risk/reputations, investment/funds integrity/anti-money laundering, business / commercial intelligence, ethical labour, supply chain integrity, etc.

In short, our offering is focussed on managing risks and obtaining independent sources of “information and intelligence which is difficult to obtain”.

Chair | Director - Asia-Pacific

For nearly 20 years, EIDO Healthcare has been providing resources and support to help health professionals and healthcare companies reduce the risk of litigation. Over that time we have developed several industry-leading products and have other innovative developments in the pipeline. Our products are designed to support health professionals in both obtaining and recording informed consent from patients. EIDO Healthcare is committed to helping our customers achieve excellence in the vital areas of informed consent and clinical governance.

Chair | Director

CAITO is a Singapore-based technology company focusing on the development and sales of enterprise solutions powered by Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. CAITO incorporates Cognitive AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, Deep Learning and has developed its own engineered IP. CAITO is engaged in the business of knowledge acquisition and builds its own Knowledge Repositories spanning specific sub-sectors of industries, which unlocks significant independent value to CAITO’s clients and stakeholders. CAITO is a proven award-winning scalable Cognitive AI platform providing enterprise solutions ready for global deployment. CAITO’s tailored solutions enable customers to more effectively access, explore, share, and generate insights from all forms of internal unstructured data (video, audio, email, documents etc) along with relevant knowledge available in the public domain. CAITO solutions are designed to address major client specific business challenges. We have designed and built our own Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Platform with a unique architecture. We have invested in the creation of our own intellectual property to deliver scalable customer solutions whilst guaranteeing data sovereignty. Our cloud-based platform contains many modules and capabilities including CAITO Document Converter, CAITO Named Entity Recognition (NER) Solution and Custom NER Model, Document classification solution with state of the art performance, Time Series Analysis capability, Sentiment analysis, Knowledge Graphs, Entity Maps, Translation and Video/Speech analysis.

Principal

Boutique advisory, working with corporates (from small to multi-national) and governments globally, to provide strategic advice and support on trade, investment, geopolitics, supply-chains, international development and humanitarian assistance and key areas of governance, ethics, risk management, internationalisation, modernisation and implementation. We also bring together investors with potential investment opportunities.

Our advice is underpinned by the highest standards of integrity and ethics and a strong commitment to principles of economic, environmental and social sustainability

Strategy, Governance, and International Engagement Advisor to CEO (pro bono)

An advocate for the role of RedR (as a vital partner of United Nations agencies) providing advisory services in strategy, operational effectiveness, branding, governance, and mentor to CEO.

Associate

CBA assists corporates and governments in the development and execution of transformational and differentiating strategies, change management and in building organisational capability and capacity. Our advisory clients and market specialisation span NZ, Australia, the Pacific Islands, India, China and ASEAN.

Asia Literacy - Ambassador

Asia Education Foundation (AEF) promotes Asian literacy across the Australian education system. AEF is focused on Asian literacy not only in language, but knowledge in geography, history, literature, mathematics, science, business and culture. The Asia Literacy Ambassadors program partners professional business leaders with Australia’s education network to serve as mentors in sharing their knowledge and experience, and providing guidance and motivation to enhance Australia’s engagement with Asia in the spirit of ‘Australia in the Asian Century’.

Executive Chairman

Churchill Pastoral Pty Ltd is an Australian Company, with an objective to acquire, develop and operate pastoral and other strategically complementary agricultural assets and land holdings across key regions of Australia identified as attractive for investment. Its aim is to build an integrated portfolio that will operate as an internationally competitive integrated supply chain.
The Company seeks to provide cash flow and long-term capital growth whilst limiting direct exposure to global cycles in commodity prices and the risks associated with agricultural investing such as drought, flood and other climatic considerations. Its focus is to efficiently produce a range of agricultural and food products for domestic and global markets. The company is currently capital raising and working with a select group of prospective international investors at various stages of investment due diligence.

Director and Co-founder

The Buddy Group is an ecosystem of ventures in the innovation and R&D space focussed on accelerating the growth and commercialisation of innovative firms through financing, equity investments, asset management, advisory and consulting services to provide solid and reliable return to investors.

Buddy R&D is a first-to-market aggregated online R&D tax incentive scheme and financing solution for small-medium innovative Australian firms. Buddy R&D is a premium online engine to accelerate and streamline the process for small businesses to apply for and claim the government’s R&D Tax Incentive. Complementing this functionality is the provision of a pre-qualified panel of financing partners offering cash flow solutions for applicants. This combined R&D tax incentive and financing service offers innovative Australian companies the opportunity to rapidly accelerate their growth by simply preparing and applying for the R&D tax incentive and immediately accessing future cash flows against these R&D tax incentive payments.

Executive Director / CEO (Trade and Inclusive Economic Growth Facility, Philippines)

NOTE: ** This program was put in abeyance by agreement between the governments of The Philippines and Australia. **

The broad goal of the Trade and Inclusive Economic Growth Facility is to work with the Philippines to achieve sustained and inclusive growth. Five complementary areas of engagement underpin the facility and contribute to this goal:

1. Connecting the Philippines with the regional and global economies: aid for trade
2. Improving competitiveness through domestic regulatory reform
3. Better jobs and increasing inclusiveness
4. Resilience and responding to emerging economic issues
5. Strengthening economic institutions.

As Executive Director, I hold overall responsibility to drive and deliver success of the ($80-100 million) program/facility, in the direction set by DFAT, maintaining oversight and accountability for achievement of outcomes and over all its engagement areas. I am the public face of the facility and have a significant role in creating its profile and drawing interest and participation into the aid investment. Central to the role is establishing and maintaining effective partnerships with the broad range of stakeholders, including the highest levels of the host government, and providing high level leadership to the facility’s management team comprised of local and expatriate staff.

Special Advisor - TPOs

Working together with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), to assist the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia design and establish trade (export) promotion and facilitation capability and capacity, and potentially a new agency.

Advisor - International (pro bono)

e.motion21 – ‘moving bodies, moving boundaries’ – is a non-profit organisation for people with Down syndrome. We provide an Australian-first, evidence based dance and fitness program designed specifically for children and young adults with Down syndrome. Through performance based activities and community engagement, we aim to enhance lives and change perceptions of Down syndrome within society.

Chief Strategy Advisor - Global Advisory Board

Chairman

The First Guardian Group includes interests across the agriculture and food, life sciences, property development, and superannuation (pension fund) sectors. Fundamental to the group’s profitability and value proposition to all stakeholders is a strong focus on leveraging synergistic benefits across the group companies. Synergy creation is a core focus of the Executive Chairman and the Chief Executive of each of the businesses.

Investment management, funds management, private wealth management, trading, export facilitation, market access, and business migration are characteristic themes common to each of the group companies. While the group operates globally, each of the companies has a strong focus on value creation and delivery across and between Australia, Asia and Middle Eastern markets.

Chairman

First Guardian Capital is a diversified financial services firm, specialising in investment management, asset management, capital-raising, investment strategy, platform solutions and superannuation.

We manage assets for institutional investors, across Australia and Asia, covering equities, real asset portfolios and superannuation. Our core investment team has been managing domestic and international share portfolios for institutional investors globally since 1985, and draws on extensive international experience and insights from across Australasia in the private sector, institutional and government contexts.

As a specialist investment manager, we have an overriding focus on generating attractive absolute returns whilst preserving capital. When managing our portfolios, we apply an all-weather investment process designed to adapt to any phase of the investment cycle. All investment decisions are based on our proprietary, internally-developed investment approach. We believe that the optimum investment insights derive from specialised investment teams with focused investment perspectives, operating under a disciplined philosophy with strong risk oversight.

First Guardian Capital develops strong relationships with clients to become the trusted advisor for private investment and corporate clients. With offices in Beijing and Shanghai, we maintain an extensive footprint in Asia, where our on-the-ground presence together with a wide network of associates, allows us to maintain deep market knowledge and deliver compelling solutions to investors across the region.