Malcolm Alder | Partner - Digital Business, KPMG
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Malcolm Alder specialises in strategy and performance improvement with a focus on helping organisations of all types anticipate and respond to the impacts and opportunities created by today's digital technology.
He has been a consultant, advisor and investor in telecommunications and media for over 15 years during which time he has worked with operators, regulators, governments, investors and users in Australasia, Asia and North America. Past clients have included the ABC, Optus, Foxtel, Telstra, Two Way, Multimedia Victoria, Virgin Mobile, Bell Canada, Federal Government, Multimedia Development Authority of Singapore, Oztam and Radio New Zealand.
Malcolm is a regular writer and speaker and participates in public forums on topics such as broadband, digital content and interactive TV and has a regular column in Digital Media magazine.
Malcolm is currently a Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choir and was previously on the Board of an ASX-listed media company. He has also appeared in more than 25 theatrical productions from Shakespeare to musicals.
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John Butterworth | Chief Executive Officer, Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
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John Butterworth joined AIMIA as Chief Executive Officer in July 2004 and has worked extensively in digital content and marketing since 1996.
For a number of years John was the General Manager of online media at OzEmail Ltd and then held the roles of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific at Sabela Media, and General Manager of Decide Interactive.
John has also consulted to Vodafone Australia on wireless content and was a consultant to the CEO and executive directors of mobile marketing company, 5th Finger. Prior to joining AIMIA he held an extended consultancy with HWW Limited, acting as manager of mobile content and services.
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Tony Chan | Co-Founder & Editor, Green Telecom
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Tony Chan is the co-founder and editor of Green Telecom, an online information resource on sustainable telecommunications practices. Tony has close to 15 years of journalism and marketing experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries. Tony founded Green Telecom following a term in corporate marketing and communications at a major regional telecommunications operator. Tony is also editor-at-all at daily industry newsletter, CommsDay International.
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Dr Kate Cornick | Executive Director, Institute Broadband Enabled Society, University of Melbourne
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Kate Cornick undertook her PhD at the University of Melbourne in optical telecommunications and, as part of her studies, spent time at AT&T Research Laboratories, USA.
After completing her studies Kate worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne prior to joining the office of Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, as the Senior Telecommunications Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff. Kate's roles included advising on the National Broadband Network policy, consumer issues and regional telecommunications.
Kate is now the Executive Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) - a cross-disciplinary research institute at the University of Melbourne dedicated to products, services, and innovations that maximize the benefit of new broadband technologies to Australian society. The Institute's activities cover a wide range of fields including content creation and delivery, delivery of remote health services and education, social networking, entertainment and broadband technology.
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Rachel Dixon | Deputy Chair, Choice and Chief Executive Officer, Viocorp
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Rachel is COO at Viocorp, one of Australasia's fastest growing providers of enterprise streaming video solutions, and founder and Managing Director of Handshake Media, a successful new media consulting company.
Rachel is also Deputy Chair at Choice (the Australian Consumers Association), and a Director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3), hosting major online infrastructure projects for the NSW Government and other major clients. She was Deputy President of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), and was also Chair of Metro Screen.
In 1988 Rachel co-founded FIBRE a telecommunications company serving high-bandwidth connectivity to the film and television post-production sector, successfully sold in 2004 to Sohonet.
Rachel has also been a member of the Australian Government's Leaders Group for the Digital Content Industry, and the Australian Government's Working Party on Innovation in the Film and Television Industry. She was one of 1000 Australians who participated in the Prime Minister's Australia2020 Summit.
Rachel is a former senior executive with Film Australia and Film Victoria, where she produced more than 100 documentaries and children's television programs, winning several awards including the 1989 AFI Award for best television documentary.
Rachel has published one book and several chapters in anthologies on the business of interactive media, and is a frequent keynote speaker on technology, culture and privacy.
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Anne Hurley
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Anne Hurley was the former Chief Executive Officer of Communications Alliance for 6 years. Anne stood down from the position in April 2010 following her announcement to do so in August 2009.
Anne is a prominent figure in communications policy debate and strongly advocates industry solutions for industry issues. She believes the maturity of the communications sector enables it to set the agenda for industry growth.
In addition, Anne is passionate about the opportunities presented by the broadband environment to revolutionise the way we live, work and communicate for the benefit of present and future generations.
Prior to joining Communications Alliance in 2004 Anne held roles in the corporate, legal and academic sectors including: Director of Telecommunications & Networking Engineering for American Express; legal adviser to the Office of Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) in Hong Kong; and lecturer at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. She has also published a number of competition and telecommunications law texts.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Australian National University and a Master of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
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Fay Holthuyzen
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Fay Holthuyzen is a consultant advising on communications policy and government relations. Fay is currently the Independent Chair of the Steering Group overseeing the review and revision of the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code. Prior to this up to 2008, Fay held a range of senior executive positions within the Federal Government public service. From 2000, Fay was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Communications, IT and the Arts advising on a wide range of communications policies and has contributed to policy development in these and other areas over her career.
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Grahame Lynch | CEO, Comms Day
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Grahame Lynch founded Decisive in 1994, launching the Communications Day newsletter. He won the Australian Telecommunications Users Group Journalist of the Year award in 1996 and the Service Providers' Association of Australia Media Excellence award in 1997. He then took leave-of-absence from Decisive, joining Advanstar in Hong Kong as group editor of Telecom Asia and Telecom China, where he launched Wireless Asia magazine. In 1999, he was promoted to group editorial director of Advanstar Telecom Group, in charge of America's Network, Telepress Latino America and the aforementioned Asian titles.
Under his stewardship, America's Network was nominated for a record six National Magazine Awards in 2001. In April 2001, he returned to Decisive to spearhead the company's Asian expansion. Grahame has also written a book, Bandwidth Bubble Bust: The Rise and Fall of the Global Telecom Industry, published in the US in July 2001. He has also been extensively published in titles such as, The Bulletin and The Australian.
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Mark McDonnell | Telecommunications, Media & Technology Analyst, BBY
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Mark McDonnell is Senior Analyst in Telecommunications, Media and Technology at BBY Limited. As an equity market analyst, he is actively involved in assessing trends and developments in the communications industry, and valuing listed companies in this sector.
In the 1990s Mark was an industry consultant. His clients included Telstra, Optus, Telecom New Zealand, IBM, Ericsson, GE Information Services and many others. He was also the founding CEO of ASTRA, the pay television industry association.
In the 1980s Mark was employed in the policy division of the then Department of Posts and Telecommunications, and later gained regulatory and public inquiry experience in the then Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. He saw out that decade as a business analyst and manager of policy development for Aussat.
Mark has a Master's degree in Applied Finance and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia as well as the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Other current roles include, Chairman of the External Advisory Committee to the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Chairman of Twenty Macleay Street Limited, a public unlisted company.
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Dr Colin McLeod | Monash University
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Dr Colin McLeod recently joined Monash University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and the Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Retail Studies (ACRS).
Colin worked at the AFL for 6 years, including a role as Head, Research and Innovation at the Australian Football League, having previously been General Manager - Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs. Colin was previously Executive Director, Marketing and Brand Management at Goldman Sachs JBWere, following several years as Group Marketing Manager for Telstra's Mobiles division.
He joined Telstra after an academic career including appointments at the University of Melbourne, the Melbourne Business School and the Haas School of Business at the University of California - Berkeley and honorary appointments as a Senior Associate of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Monash University. Colin holds a BA, an MBA and a PhD, with the Commercialisation of Innovation as the topic of his doctoral thesis. Colin continues to have an interest in commercialising new technology and current projects involve Internet based video search technologies and water saving / environmental technologies. Colin is a Director of both of the companies that house these projects.
Colin also served as a director of the Ladder Project, a joint venture with the AFL Players' Association to combat youth homelessness, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre which is raising $157 million to base a new cancer centre at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne.
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Kathryn Matthews | Director, NSW Department of Trade and Industry, Regional Infrastructure and Services
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Kathryn Matthews is an economist with wide ranging experience across the private sector, academia and government. Kathryn has worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia, Macquarie University, Ernst & Young and economic consultancy firm Econtech (now KPMG Econtech). Most recently Kathryn was Regional Director, Advisory Services at property advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
In her current role in the NSW Department of Trade and Industry, Regional Infrastructure and Services, Kathryn manages a team of professionals that drive positive business and employment outcomes in NSW across a wide range of industries including finance and business services, education, information and technology services, health and community services, and creative industries.
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Deidre O'Donnell | NSW Information Commissioner
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Deirdre O'Donnell has been connected with the telecommunications industry in a range of positions since the late 1980s. Most recently, she served as the Ombudsman of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) scheme from 2007 to early 2010.
Between 2002 and 2007, Deirdre was State Ombudsman for Western Australia, and prior to that held roles as Deputy TIO; in Optus's Regulatory team; with the predecessor of the ACMA, AUSTEL; and with the former Telecom.
Her TIO experience has provided her with a particular passion for good customer service, a vision she shares with Communications Alliance.
Deirdre started her working life as a high school teacher. An eternal student, she has qualifications in languages, education, an MBA and a Masters in Commercial law, and is currently immersed in freedom of information law as part of her present role as Information Commissioner.
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Andrew Parker | Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Andrew Parker is a Sydney based partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and heads PwC's Asia Pacific Communications Industry Group. He has 12 years of international experience in the industry having worked in the UK, Eastern Europe and most recently Asia before returning to Australia in 2005.
Andrew's clients have included companies operating in all sectors of the market including telecoms, traditional media, including print, cable and terrestrial free to air TV, as well as "new media" and the internet. Andrew was one of PwC's lead partners advising Telstra and the Commonwealth in relation to T3, he advised Vodafone in relation to its merger with Hutchison and more recently advised West Australian News in relation to its acquisition of Seven Media Group and the associated capital raising.
Andrew is the co-author of the internet chapter of PwC's Entertainment and Media Outlook and is also a non-executive director of Aurora Community Television.
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John Stanton | CEO, Communications Alliance
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John Stanton is a seasoned communications industry executive with over 19 years of experience.
From 2006-2009 John was Chief Executive Officer of ASX and NZX-listed telecommunications carrier, People Telecom. Under his leadership, People Telecom became profitable and was recognised as Australia's Best Regional Service Provider in the Australian Telecom Awards 2007. In early 2009 the Company was sold to M2 Telecommunications.
Prior to that John was an executive with Intelsat, the largest provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. Based in the UK from 2001-2005, he was President and Director of Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing and of the Data, Carrier and Internet Business Unit. John also spent two years in the US with Intelsat as Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 1999-2001.
John joined Telstra in 1992 as a result of the merger with OTC where he was Manager of Public Affairs. From 1992-1999 John held a number of roles with Telstra including Managing Director of Payphones and Card Services. From 1996-1997 he was also Chairman of the Intelsat Board.
In his early career, John worked as a journalist and as a press secretary with the Australian Government.
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Professor Julian Thomas | Director, Media and Communications Programme, Swinburne University of Technology
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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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Jonathan Withers
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Jonathan started his career as an RF design engineer working in the area of tactical military communications. During the mid-eighties he was seconded to Australia for two years to work on transmission systems for Project Parakeet - a tactical communications system for the Australian Army.
Upon returning to the UK, Jonathan transferred to a new business - Orbitel Mobile Communications - to focus on the emerging initiatives to create a pan-European mobile telephone system - this is now known as GSM. Jonathan joined the cellular operator division of Motorola as Engineering Manager of the UK office. In 1993, with the award to Vodafone of the third Australian GSM licence, Jonathan moved to Australia to help establish the local operating business. In 1996 Jonathan was appointed technical director and member of the Vodafone Australia board. In 2000, Jonathan was promoted to Vodafone Pacific to focus on M&A activities, regulatory work, and Vodafone Group strategic technical initiatives.
Jonathan remained a director of Vodafone for seven years until leaving at the end of 2002. In 2002, Vodafone technical due diligence identified the US developed 'iBurst' wireless broadband technology as highly advanced and led to Vodafone agreeing to support an early trial of the iBurst system in Australia. Jonathan subsequently moved to the iBurst start-up company - which became known as Personal Broadband Australia (PBA) - where he drove the trials and subsequent commercial build of the Australian iBurst network.
In early 2007, Jonathan left PBA to establish his own business. MultiWave provides specialised advisory, technical and commercial services for the telecoms and wireless industry sector - including core network, IT systems, cellular (2G/3G) and broadband wireless (WiMAX, iBurst etc.). For the last two years Jonathan was Acting head of MobileWorld Networks (a Crazy John's affiliate company providing a multi-MVNO telco platform) and developed company offerings from one to six MVNO's including Crazy John's, GRL Mobile, Lebara, GoTalk and Global Gossip services. As of 2009, MobileWorld Networks became a wholly owned Vodafone-Hutchison Australia (VHA) subsidiary.
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