Board of Directors

Intersect’s Board of Directors are:

 

Emeritus Professor Wainwright AM

Emeritus Professor Wainwright is currently an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales following his retirement from the position of Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales which he held for two years from April 2004.  He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and International), from January 2001 and prior to that was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from June 1991.

Professor Wainwright’s activities in higher education span more than 40 years since his appointment as Tutor/Demonstrator in the School of Chemical Technology at the then South Australian Institute of Technology. He currently holds a number of positions in the research and higher education sectors, including:

  • Chair, National Computational Infrastructure Steering Committee ANU (2007-    )
  • Chair, Intersect Australia Limited (2008-    )
  • Chair, New Horizons Project Collaboration Committee Monash University / CSIRO (2009-    )
  • Member, Queensland University of Technology Council (2009-    )
  • Chair, TAFE NSW Higher Education Governing Council (2009 -  )
  • Chair, NSW Selection Panel, General Sir John Monash Awards (2006- )
  • Director, Engineering Aid Australia
  • Member, Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council (2009 - )
  • Member, Smart Services CRC Board (2009 -   )
  • Member, Astronomy Australia Limited Board (2009 -    )

He has chaired the Australia-China Council since 2006.

Professor Wainwright holds an Honours Degree in Applied Chemistry and a Master of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and a DSc for his research into skeletal catalysts from the University of South Australia. In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of New South Wales.

In 2000 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in research policy and management and engineering education. In 2004, Professor Wainwright was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to chemical engineering as a researcher and academic, and to tertiary education.

Professor Attila Brungs

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Professor Brungs has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

Professor Brungs has been a researcher in both industry and academia with interests in the area of heterogeneous catalysis. Prior to his appointment at UTS in September 2009, Professor Brungs was General Manager, Science Investment, Strategy and Performance at CSIRO. His role incorporated the determination of broad research direction and resource allocation, performance monitoring of CSIRO research programs including its flagship programs and the development and implementation of organisational strategy.

Before joining CSIRO in 2002 Professor Brungs was a senior manager at McKinsey and Co. managing teams in North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. He has also been on the board of a number of entities including not-for-profit organisations such as Greening Australia NSW.

Professor Brungs is a Rhodes Scholar, with a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford University and recipient of the University Medal in Industrial Chemistry from UNSW.

Mr Andrew Wells

Andrew Wells is the University Librarian at The University of New South Wales.  He was appointed to this position in September 2001.  Since then, Andrew has overseen major changes to the University Library’s services, organisation and buildings.  He has taken a strong interest in improving facilities and steering the Library through a period of rapid changes in scholarly information.  Andrew has contributed services to many university activities, including a four year period as a Board member on the UNSW Union and Arc between 2004 and 2008.

Andrew has held senior positions in several major Australian libraries.  Prior to joining UNSW, Andrew was the Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division at the National Library of Australia (1996-2001).  At the State Library of New South Wales, he occupied senior positions in a variety of roles, building on major periods of service at the University of Queensland Library, Macquarie University Library and a previous stint at UNSW Library from 1982 to 1986.

Andrew has been active in the library profession through his involvement in a wide range of committees, professional bodies and activities. He was the President of the Council of Australian University Librarians from 2007 to 2009 and was Chairperson of CEIRC (CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee) for 2006 and 2007. He will take up this position again in 2010. He was a mentor for the Aurora Leadership Institute for four consecutive years from 2003 to 2006.

Professor Neal Ryan

Professor Neal Ryan is Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at Southern Cross University and has worked in management and public policy in the higher education sector for 20 years.

Professor Ryan has undertaken major research activity within Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) and manages Southern Cross University’s relationships with several CRCs: Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment; National Plant Biosecurity; Sustainable Production Forestry; Regional Economic Participation; and Rail Innovation.  For the Rail Innovation CRC he leads the projects investigating high speed rail and climate change issues in the rail industry.

Professor Ryan is a Director of Connecting Southern Gold Coast (a company owned by the Gold Coast City Council), and an Executive Member of the International Research Society for Public Management. He holds several editorial board positions on academic journals.

Professor Ryan has a PhD (Public Policy), Master of Philosophy (Science and Technology Policy – venture capital), Master of Science (Science, Technology and Society) and Bachelor of Science in Physical Mathematics, all from Griffith University.  His areas of interest and expertise are public policy, technology transfer, innovation, business strategy, industry policy, industry futures, and government-business research linkages.

Mr Bruce Meikle

As Chief Information Officer at the University of Sydney, Bruce Meikle provides senior leadership for the strategic use and delivery of IT resources and the development of IT priorities. Bruce works closely with University leaders in setting the strategic direction that enables engaged enquiry, integrated education and research, and local and global collaboration.

During his 30-year career, Bruce has held management roles with Southern Life Association (Cape Town), Woolworths, Westpac, Colonial Mutual, EDS and AMP.

Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Bruce held IT directorships with AMP, providing strategic planning; program delivery; process, relationship and governance improvement programmes; third party services management and the establishment of the IT security capability.

Since 2007, Bruce has set a strategic direction for IT at the University of Sydney that is based on continuous improvement and the exploration and implementation of new service delivery models seeing  the implementation of the off-campus data centre, cloud-based computing and software as a service.

In particular, Bruce oversees and promotes the development of eResearch in the University ICT division and across the University of Sydney. He leads the eResearch Steering Group which directs research data storage development and supervises data management development projects, funded both locally and through participation in Australian National Data Service programs.

Bruce is active in regional, national and international organisations including the NSW & ACT University Directors of IT (Chair), Council of Australian University Directors of IT, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.

Mr John Masters

John is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Australia. He retired from PwC in December 2009 after 25 years as a partner. John is a qualified chartered accountant and lawyer.

John has specialised in financial services throughout his professional career. He held a number of leadership and management positions in his career with PwC, including Global Financial Services Tax & Legal leader, and Financial Services practice leader in Australia and Asia.

Over the years, John has undertaken major policy consulting to the Commonwealth and NSW Governments on Investment attraction, taxation, the establishment of government agencies, and financial services generally. He was a member of the Commonwealth Government’s AXISS Advisory Board. John continues to be retained formally by Government for advice and assistance in this area.

As a Director of Intersect Australia Limited, John chairs the Board’s Audit and Risk Management Committee.

John is a Director of Sirca which funds and supports post-graduate applied financial services research by its Australian University members. He chairs the Board’s Audit and Risk Management Committee.

John is currently a Director of ING Bank (Australia) Limited and chairs the Board’s Audit Committee. John is also Chairman of the Board of IP Payments, a payments software company.

John is President and Chairman of the Board of the Art Gallery Society of NSW. John is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation.

Professor Sally Redman

Professor Redman is CEO of the Sax Institute. The Sax Institute is funded by NSW Health to increase the impact of public health and health services research on policy and practice.  It is responsible for the 45 and Up Study, Australia’s largest study on health and ageing, and has developed innovative approaches to increasing the use of evidence by policy agencies.

Professor Redman was previously the inaugural Director of the National Breast Cancer Centre, funded by the Australian Federal Government to improve evidence-based care & outcomes for women with breast cancer.  She received the Centenary Medal, for service to the health and welfare of Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer, 2003. Professor Redman is a public health researcher with an interest in evaluating programs designed to improve health and health care. She has over 150 publications in peer review journals.

Mr Damien Israel

Damien Israel is Deputy Vice Principal (Finance & IT) at the University of Wollongong. Appointed to the position in 2007 he leads and manages information technology strategy and service delivery, financial planning, financial control, management accounting, legal and commercial activities and policy management in the areas of finance and IT.  As such he holds a key advisory role on all financial matters, capital works and major commercial activities.
Before joining the University of Wollongong Damien was Director of Finance for the South Western Sydney Area Health Service, and responsible for all aspects of financial strategy and control for the health service.
Damien holds a Bachelor of Business, Master of Accountancy from Charles Sturt University and is a Certified Practicing Accountant.

Dr Ian Gibson

Dr Ian Gibson is Chief Executive Officer of Intersect Australia Ltd. Ian has extensive experience at executive level R&D management. He has a strong track record in the research, development and commercialisation of new technology across a broad range of electrical engineering, computer science and digital imaging.

Previously Ian was a Division General Manager at CiSRA, the Australian R&D lab for Canon. There he built research capability over several years to deliver original, world leading technology into a wide range of Canon's major product groups.

Ian has a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Computer Science, a BE in Electrical Engineering (Hons) and a BSc, is on several industry advisory boards at Australian universities and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.