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Judges
The ACOMMS Judges are specially invited by ACOMMS for their expertise and in-depth industry knowledge of the communications sector to select the ACOMMS winners.
Malcolm Alder | Partner - Digital Business, KPMG
Malcolm 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 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.
John Butterworth | Chief Executive Officer, Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
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.
Tony Chan | Co-Founder & Editor, Green Telecom
Tony 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.
Professor Stuart Cunningham | Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, QUT
Stuart is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. This centre draws on contributions across the humanities, creative arts and social sciences to help build a more dynamic and inclusive innovation system in Australia. He is one of Australia's best known media scholars with a special interest in policy. He has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission, as foundation Chair of QPIX, Queensland's screen resource centre, and as President of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
He is author or editor of several books and major reports, most recently The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed. (with Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin, forthcoming 2009), What Price a Creative Economy? (Platform Papers, 2006), Beyond the creative industries: mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom (with Peter Higgs and Hasan Bakhshi, NESTA, 2008) and In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy (University of Queensland Press, 2008).
Kim Denham | Chief Executive Officer, Australian Computer Society
Kim is CEO of Australian Computer Society (ACS). She joined the ACS in February 2008, keen to leverage 20 years experience in ICT to help grow both the Society and the wider ICT sector.
Kim has held management roles with Ericsson Australia, West Australian Newspapers, Tourism Western Australia and CSBP Limited. She was a finalist in the 2006 Telstra Business Women's Awards in WA and has worked on various boards, panels and steering committees, including the ACS WA Branch, ACS-W Board, ICT Industry Collaboration Centre in WA, Curtin University of Technology IS Advisory Board, Information Industry Forum in WA, WA Information Technology & Telecommunications Awards and Australian Telecommunications Users Group in WA.
Anne Hurley | Chief Executive Officer, Communications Alliance
Anne has been the Chief Executive Officer of Australia's Communications Alliance since its formation. She was previously CEO of the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF), which amalgamated with the Service Providers Association Inc (SPAN) to create Communications Alliance in September 2006. Throughout her tenure at Communications Alliance and ACIF, Anne has been a prominent advocate for the industry's ability to solve its own problems without relying on government intervention.
Since graduating from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Arts and acquiring a Master of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney, Anne has worked on communications issues both in Australia and overseas for many years. Her extensive experience includes working in the corporate, legal and academic sectors across communications, trade practices, telecommunications policy and regulation.
Anne has published a number of specialised competition and telecommunications law texts and has lectured at both the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.
Grahame Lynch | CEO, Comms Day
Grahame 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.
Dr Karl Mallon | Director of Science and Systems, Climate Risk
Karl is director of Science and Systems at Climate Risk. He is a First Class Honours graduate in Physics and holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. Karl has worked in climate change mitigation, policy and technical analysis since 1991.
He is editor and co-author of 'Renewable Energy Policy and Politics: A Handbook for Decision Making' published by Earthscan (London) and has worked with various international government and non-government organisations since 1997.
He currently specialises in climate change impacts risk to local government, insurance, institutional investment and works with large corporations on opportunities for operation under carbon and climate constraints.
Mark McDonnell | Telecommunications, Media & Technology Analyst, BBY
Mark 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.
Colin McLeod | Head, Research and Innovation, Australian Football League
Colin is Head of 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 is a Director of a company involved in technology development and also serves as a director of the Ladder Project, a joint venture with the AFL Players' Association to combat youth homelessness, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne.
Andrew Parker | Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Andrew 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, both large and small, 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.
In 2006, Andrew was one of PwC's lead partners advising Telstra and the Commonwealth in relation to T3 and more recently advised Vodafone in relation to the proposed merger with Hutchison.
Mark Pesce | Managing Director, FutureSt
Known internationally as the man who fused virtual reality with the World Wide Web to invent VRML, Mark Pesce is the author of numerous articles and five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination, frequently writing for such publication as WIRED, Salon, and The Age. For the last three series, Pesce has been a panelist on the hit ABC show THE NEW INVENTORS. From 2003 to 2006, Pesce chaired the Emerging Media and Interactive Design Program at the world-renowned Australian Film Television and Radio School. Last year he received an appointment as an Honorary Associate in the Digital Cultures Programme at the University of Sydney, and has gone on to found FutureSt, a Sydney Media and Technology consultancy, with clients that include some of the largest media companies in Australia.