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Veronica Byrne, Minter Ellison
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Domenic Carosa, CEO, destra Corporation
Domenic Carosa, as Sprint Group co-founder and current CEO of destra Corporation, has earned a reputation in the fast-growing world of Internet eCommerce, software and design as a leader in his field. He has won numerous small business and young achiever awards. He has also expanded his expertise to the international arena, with software licensing, sales and distribution in a number of countries. -- |
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Dennis Cooper, Research Director, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre
Dr Dennis Cooper has been a visionary in many of the important developments in radiophysics, telecommunication, IT and electronic engineering (and has) taken part in some of the major Australian initiatives, bridging the gap between laboratory and industry and having the courage to redirect research effort into rewarding areas when financial restraints prevented support in more pure research fields. The soundness of his strategic and technical judgments can be measured by the successes of the CSIRO Divisions with which he has been associated. Dr Cooper's self-effacing manner and quiet achievement has focused on ensuring success for others without seeking or securing personal reward or benefit from such ventures. His role has been to facilitate the linkage of research and commercialisation. -- |  |
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Peter Coroneos, Executive Director, Internet Industry Association
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Sandra Davey, President, AIMIA
Sandra Davey is the President of AIMIA and as Head of Sport for BigPond, manages its broadband sport portfolio covering the AFL, horseracing, NRL and V8 Supercars. As Executive Producer for V8 Supercars she has built a truly integrated broadcast to broadband online experience and has recently commenced work on bringing IMODE and 3G services to market. Sandra works closely with broadcast partner Channel Ten, media producers, audio/visual specialists, streaming experts and web developers to bring live and interactive coverage of the Australian V8 Supercar series. In her capacity as Head of Sport, Sandra is also responsible for the broadband offerings for the AFL, NRL and horseracing. -- |
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Rob Fitzpatrick, CEO, Wishlist
Rob runs an executive advisory business which he started in early 2003. He is ceo of wishlist.com.au, where he works as part of a team delivering the best online gifting environment in Australia. Concurrently, he advises one of Australia's leading IT infrastructure providers, and a water bottling business. During the past few years, he has defined and led the go to market strategy for a leading global business integration provider - driving sales into the global top 100 retail and consumer packaged goods companies; and worked with an array of other businesses including a regional telecommunications provider, a web hosting operation, a leading insurance provider and a major bank. The consistent theme in each engagement is a substantial shift in the client's core operations, enabling growth. From mid 1999, Rob was a senior executive in the team that built and grew shopfast.com.au. ShopFast became the dominant online grocery operation in Australia, with over 200,000 households signed up to the service, average spends 5 times that of typical supermarkets, pioneering guerrilla-marketing techniques and privileged relationships with food manufacturers and suppliers by enabling direct contact with consumers. The business was sold to Coles in early 2003. Prior to ShopFast, Rob was head of sales and marketing strategy in Optus' residential and small business sector. Before this, he spent 7 years consulting with McKinsey & Company to clients in Australia, Europe, the US and Asia. Rob has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and BEc.LLB. from Sydney University. -- |
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David Gibbs, CEO, eChoice
Until recently David Gibbs was founding CEO of eChoice.com.au, Australia's leading online mortgage broker. Within eChoice, David and his team pursued the application of web enabled technologies to facilitating the sale of high value, high involvement financial services such as home loans and life insurance. In July this year David stepped aside from eChoice to establish dSales as a sister Company. dSales (an abbreviation of 'direct' sales) is focussed on commercialising the processes and disciplines developed within eChoice into other financial services environments, and extend them into other B2C markets characterised by high value, high involvement purchases. Prior to founding eChoice in 1998, David spent 15 years consulting in financial services, communication and distribution businesses across Europe, Asia and North America. As a Principal with McKinsey & Company he co-led the firms' Asia-Pacific telecommunications, electronics and media practice and helped lead its global research on how e-commerce is changing business. He has also worked with the Mitchell Madison Group briefly before founding eChoice. -- |
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Ian Goddard, Joint Managing Director, Hubbub
Ian founded the Hubbub Group in 1995. Before the onset of the dot com boom Ian foresaw the business potential of the internet and set Hubbub on the course of creating businesses based on new business models using internet technologies. He brings over 30 years of business experience to the Group gained from many industry areas including financial institutions, HR, law and IT as well as the diverse fields in which Hubbub businesses have been involved. In the past Ian was a partner of national law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth, for 7 years deputy chairman of the Victorian Financial Institutions Commission which supervised non-bank financial institutions on behalf of Government, president of Enterprise Java Victoria, an organisation established to promote the use and knowledge of J2EE, chairman of Interact Events Ltd, a company sponsored by the Victorian Government to foster the growth of IT, Victorian President and a national executive member of AIMIA, the multimedia and internet industry association, a director of Emerge CMC Ltd and a member of the State Government's ICT Advisory Group. -- |
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David Gold, CEO, Azure Wireless Pty Ltd
David established Azure Wireless in 2001. Prior to this, he was founder and CEO of dstore, Australia's leading multichannel & online retailer. David has also held a range of positions with web-directory LookSmart, including Director of LookSmart Australia and VP of Business Development. He was based in San Francisco with Looksmart for some time and is credited as being one of Australia's Internet pioneers. He holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and is involved in a number of community organisations at board level. -- |
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Martin Hosking, Director, Jellicon
Martin is a private investor with an interest in a range of technology companies. He sits on the boards of Specialty’s, a US fast food company, and Australian hi-tech companies, Aconex and Southern Innovation. He focuses on seed investing in hi-tech companies. He is a lecturer in Entrepreneurial Finance at Melbourne Business School. In 1996 he co-founded the Internet Company, LookSmart. They grew the company 3 to 500 people and a successful public listing in the USA in 1999. From 1999 he led the technical, business and product team of 120 people. His initiatives included the main products to enable the distribution of the LookSmart database and the search inclusion products which now represent the core revenue stream of the Company. Prior to LookSmart he was at McKinsey & Co. He started his career with the Department Of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He served in the Australian embassies in Cairo and Damascus. -- |
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Maha Krishnapillai, Group Executive, Carrier & Corporate Affairs, Macquarie Telecom
Maha Krishnapillai, Group Executive, Carrier & Corporate Affairs started with Macquarie Telecom in 1997. In addition to heading Macquarie's Southern Regional office, his responsibilities include industry strategy, carrier negotiation & partnerships, Government liaison, regulatory and other strategic commercial issues for Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. From 1997 to 2004, he was an elected Director of the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF), the industry's peak self-regulatory body. He is currently a Director and Deputy Chairman of SPAN - the Australian Service Provider's Association. Maha is the elected President of the "Asia-Pacific Carriers Coalition" (APCC); the Singapore based association seeking to maximise pro-competitive policy and the benefits of competition in the Asia-Pacific Region. At the peak industry association awards, Maha was voted the SPAN/CommsDay "2005 Telecommunications Ambassador". As the highest individual achievement award, it is given to: "The top Executive or leader in the Industry for 2005, in recognition of an outstanding, all-round contribution towards development and growth and has been established to honour personal contributions that serve as an exemplar of leadership at the highest level within the Australian Telecommunications Industry". Maha's background includes seven years experience with AUSTEL [the Government's telecommunications regulator till 1997], where he held a wide range of management positions. He holds a BSc (Mathematics) and Post-Graduate qualifications in Management. Maha enjoys spending time with his son and daughter and wife Anna. He enjoys travel, reading, rugby and plays basketball. -- |
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Ramin Marzbani, CEO, IRM
Ramin is a VC investor, company director and consultant. He worked for IBM for 7 years and Booz-Allen & Hamilton for 3 years before starting www.consult in 1995 and sold his successful business in 2000 to A.C Nielsen. www.consult was the leading internet research company during the early days of the Internet. He has since been involved in several other start-up businesses and has been party to four major trade sales. Ramin has a BE (Hons 1) from UNSW and an MBA (Dist) from the AGSM/NYU. -- |
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Stuart McLean, Founder and CEO, NetReturn Pty Ltd
NetReturn is the exclusive Australasian distributor of the NetSuite range of integrated online business applications. NetReturn Pty Ltd is a privately held company with investors including MYOB Limited, Saltbush Annuity Growth Management and the David Shein consortium. Prior to founding NetReturn, Stuart was at Oracle Corporation as Executive Director, Oracle.com. At Oracle's Stuart was responsible for creating Oracle's strategy in the Asia Pacific to provide software as an online service, including Application Service Provision, Business Online, Database Online, and OracleMobile. Prior to being appointed to this role, Stuart held various roles in Oracle including General Manager Strategic Development, General Manager E-Business, General Manager Communications, Media & Utilities and Director of Consulting for Communications & Media. Stuart received Oracle's highest staff award by attending President's Club (top 3% of Oracle global Sales) as the Sales Director of the Year for Asia Pacific by achieving more than 200% of his target. Stuart's experience has also encompassed a number of positions with Optus Communications, Telstra and Price Waterhouse Coopers. Stuart has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Microsystems. -- |
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Mike van Niekerk, Managing Editor, Fairfax Online
Mike van Niekerk is online managing editor of Fairfax's The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, a position he has held since June 2001. Before that, he was online editor of The Age and has held several other editing roles at newspapers in Perth, Johannesburg and Cape Town. He is a member of the Online News Association and is on the advisory board of the Media Center at the American Press Institute in Washington. He began his career in newspapers in 1979 as the editor of the Brakpan Herald, an obscure publication in a small town on the South African goldfields, where linotype operators used melted lead to prepare typewritten stories for the press - a revolutionary process that transformed the information industry in the 1880s. -- |
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Keith Ondarchie, Managing Director and CEO, Access Providers
Keith co-founded Access Providers in 2001 and is responsible for the day-to-day management and growth of the Company. Keith has over 25 years experience in the start-up of telecommunications, construction, maintenance and aerospace businesses. He has held senior leadership roles within these industries, managing profitability, business growth and large and small workforces. Keith was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Uecomm Limited, Managing Director National Power Services and General Manager of Nilsen Electric Pty Ltd. -- |
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Robert Rath, General Manager, Sensis Interactive
Robert Rath joined Sensis in June 2001 and is responsible for the Sensis Interactive operations of the business. His role incorporates the evolution and sales for sensis.com.au, Sensis 1234 and the growing portfolio of Sensis Wireless services and Whereis® web sites. Robert’s portfolio also incorporates the development of Sensis® Direct Access, the multi-channel location and navigation business and the integration of Invizage Technology and Universal Publishers businesses. Before joining Sensis, Robert worked at Telstra for seven years in Marketing and Sales management roles and most recently as National General Manager, Consumer Sales. Robert began his career at IBM in 1982, where he held various technical, sales and marketing positions. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Robert is on the Board of Invizage® Technologies and was instrumental in the purchase of a majority shareholding in this company in February 2004, and the acquisition of Universal Publishers in December 2004. -- |
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Nick Dalla Riva, Head of Internet, National Australia Bank
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Simon Smith, Vice President and Managing Director, eBay Australia and New Zealand
Simon Smith is responsible for leading eBay's operations in Australia and New Zealand. Simon joined eBay Australia and New Zealand as Managing Director in October 2000. Under Simon's leadership eBay.com.au has reached over two million Australian members and is Australia's leading online marketplace with just over 3 million unique visitors in March 2005 according to AC Nielsen NetRatings Netview. Prior to joining eBay Simon worked at Lion Nathan as Premium Brands Director. He was responsible for a multi million dollar budget and leadership of one of Lion Nathan's principal growth initiatives. Between 1989 and 1998, Simon worked at the management consultants McKinsey and Company in London. Born in the United Kingdom and now an Australian citizen, Simon graduated from the University of Cambridge with an honours degree in economics and from INSEAD (France) with an MBA. Simon is a keen collector of vintage Qantas posters, which he purchases on eBay. -- |
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David Spence, Director & Chief Executive Officer, Unwired Australia
David is well known in the internet/communications industry both in Australia and New Zealand as he was previously Managing Director, the President & COO, then CEO of OzEmail Ltd during the internet high growth period 1995 to 2000. He has also held various management and leadership positions in the Retail, Publishing and Manufacturing industries. He has previously served on the Boards of Commander Communications Ltd, emitch Ltd, Vertical Markets Pty Ltd, WebCentral Pty Ltd and Access1 Ltd. Before joining Unwired, David was CFO of OPSM Ltd. David is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and has a Commerce degree and post graduate qualifications from Natal University, South Africa. He has also served on the Board of the Internet Industry Association. -- |
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Lee Stephens, CEO, Emitch Limited
Lee Stephens joined emitch Limited as CEO in November 2004. emitch is Australia's largest online media planning, buying and strategy company with clients including ANZ, Flight Centre, Queensland Tourism, Virgin Blue, World Vision, Citibank, Nissan and BMW. Previously, he spent 4 years as Commercial Director for Fairfax Digital, looking after sales, marketing, broadband development and the management of Fairfax news websites. With emitch, Lee continues to work with Australia's leading companies, encouraging ever increasing investment within the Australian Internet industry, with a specific focus on the tracking and measurement of campaign ROI. Prior to Fairfax Lee was CEO of Selenium Interactive, a major builder of websites and online advertising in Australia and Hong Kong from 1997 to 2001. -- |
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Karson Stimson, Director, Spin New Media
As an Owner/Director of Spin, acknowledged as one of Australia's leading integrated marketing communication agencies . Karson has dedicated his efforts over the last eleven years to blending innovative technologies with traditional communication strategies. Karson is referenced as one of Australia's key industry players,implementing numerous award winning campaigns for brands such as Nike,Xbox, BVI, Disney, Ebay, Visa, Leejeans, Microsoft, Streets, Fosters/CUB, Activision, Mars & Coca-Cola. Spin is part of Australia's leading marketing communications and event company 'The Lock Group' employing over 70 talented people in both Melbourne & Sydney. Karson is responsible nationally for all strategic & digital projects for the group. Karson also sits on National Board of AIMIA - Australia's peak body for digital content and interactive media industries. -- |
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Julian Thomas, Executive Director/Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Julian Thomas is Director of the ISR, and also leads the ISR's Media and Communications program. His research interests are in new media, information policy and the history of communications technologies. Before coming to the ISR in 2000, he taught new media at RMIT, worked on the staff of the Productivity Commission's Broadcasting Inquiry, and was a senior researcher at the former Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University. His publications include studies of intellectual property issues relating to new media, the future of local content rules for Australian television, and computer skills in Australian schools. He is currently writing a book about music piracy and the internet. Julian is an associate editor of the website Australian Policy Online, and co-editor with Peter Browne of Briefings, a series of books on current issues in public policy published by UNSW Press. He is also a member of the editorial committee of the journal Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture. -- |
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