NSW Government Digital Communities

	Miles Ashton [More Info] Chief Information Officer NSW Treasury Miles Ashton joined NSW Treasury as Chief Information Officer just over four months ago. Before making the switch to the public sector, Miles was General Manager for Solution Delivery at Coca-Cola Amatil. During his ten years with the Fast Moving Consumer Goods company, Miles managed every area of the IT function and as a member of the IT leadership team, was integral to the organisation’s SAP transformation program as well as its successful adoption of cloud and mobile technologies. Miles holds a Master of Business & Technology from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computing.

	Kevin Bloch [More Info] Chief Technology Officer Cisco "My job is to communicate our technology vision in ways that inspires our customers to expand their own businesses by leveraging technology" Kevin Bloch is Chief Technology Officer at Cisco. He provides leadership of technology vision as well as leadership of people within Cisco to communicate and execute on that vision. Kevin is a member of the global Cisco CTO Forum, Cisco's most senior technology leadership board, representing APAC, Japan and China (APJC). He is also currently active on external commercial and government technology advisory boards. Before joining Cisco 14 years ago, Kevin held senior positions with other telecommunications equipment manufacturers, systems integrators and service providers including Lucent, JNA Telecommunications and Telstra. Kevin is the author of six technical reference books.

	Zoran Bolevich [More Info] Chief Executive Officer & Chief Information Officer eHealth NSW A trained doctor with a passion for ICT, Zoran brings to eHealth NSW broad experience in a range of senior health management and ICT leadership roles in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining eHealth NSW, Zoran has worked at the Ministry of Health as Executive Director for Health System Information and Performance Reporting and, most recently, as Acting Deputy Secretary for System Purchasing and Performance. Across the Tasman, Zoran spent several years leading a regional shared services agency for District Health Boards and, after that, took up a role with New Zealand’s Ministry of Health where he was responsible for the national health information strategy and architecture. He is a member of the eHealth Executive Council, the peak ICT committee for NSW Health, which is responsible for setting eHealth strategy, advising on eHealth policy and standards, monitoring performance and ensuring effective project delivery within a whole of NSW Health context. Since joining eHealth NSW in July, Zoran has focused on building on current areas of strength, streamlining governance of eHealth’s key programs and activities as well as progressing the development of new eHealth strategy. As well as a medical degree, Zoran holds a Masters of Business Administration and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.

	Jonathan Bourke [More Info] Technical Director iQ3 Jonathan Bourke, Technical Director with iQ3, has extensive experience in the architecture, implementation, and management of advanced infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 Global Corporations, Large Enterprises, and Governmental agencies. In iQ3, Jonathan has architected, implemented, and managed the delivery of Cloud Backup, Storage, and Compute offerings. Previously, he was with worked with NSW Department of Education, Pioneer Investments, Dell, Affiliated Computer Systems, and Cisco. He holds numerous advanced technical certifications.

	Tim Catley [More Info] Group Chief Information Officer Transport for NSW Tim Catley is the Group CIO for Transport NSW (TfNSW) the principal department responsible for public transport and roads in NSW. TfNSW was established in 2011 to coordinate the policy, planning, funding and delivery of transport services and programs across NSW. TfNSW has over 27,000 staff, an annual budget of $12Bn and manages over $110Bn of assets. Tim joined Transport NSW in 2012 to drive a substantial change program across the organisation. This included delivery of a strategic change plan for technology across the organisation, the successful delivery of a number of technology enabled business transformations and the rebuild of IT capability and governance. Tim is an experienced C-level IT executive with 20 years experience in IT leadership roles and a demonstrated track record delivering successful transformation across a wide range of industries. He also has extensive experience in the transformation of IT teams to improve their capability and performance having a strong focus on ensuring that organisations extract the maximum value from their technology investments. Tim’s prior experience includes his roles as Group CIO and Head of Shared Services at APN, CIO for Sydney Water and IT Director at News Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

	David Cooper [More Info] Head of Cloud & Datacentres Telstra David Cooper is a recognised regional business technologist with experience in planning and delivering strategic IT-enabled transformation programs into the public sector across Asia. David joined Telstra in late 2014 to lead the Federal cloud services business for Telstra, and take the overall strategy lead for government and not-for-profit across Australia. Today David is the Head of Telstra's national Cloud & Datacentres business. David’s focus is on driving Telstra’s emerging multi-cloud capability into the market, including the build of Telstra’s first enterprise industry cloud, the Telstra Secure Government Community Cloud.

	Jeremy Deutsch [More Info] Managing Director Equinix Australia With over 14 years’ experience in the ICT industry, Deutsch is responsible for the overall performance and expansion of Equinix’s business and operations in Australia. Prior to Equinix, Deutsch was General Manager Products at Unwired and a Solutions Architect and Product Manager at Pihana Pacific, which was acquired by Equinix in 2002. Deutsch was responsible for supporting all aspects of the Pihana sales process and managing the product life cycle for existing and new products

	Jade Doherty [More Info] Cloud Specialist TPG Telecom Jade Doherty is an Information Technology Consultant with a strong architectural and technical background and over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. With a focus on Cloud technologies and services he has worked for a range of Managed Services and Telecommunications companies. Currently focussed on TPG Telecom’s cloud products and services – he designs and architects Cloud solutions and services designed to fit the business requirements of customers, locally, nationally and globally.

	Dan Draper [More Info] GOV.AU Program Technology Lead Federal Government Digital Transformation Office Dan is an entrepreneur who has a burning desire to help transform government. He, along with his Digital Transformation Office colleagues, is applying lean and agile thinking to the Australian Public Service. Dan is the tech lead for the gov.au project: a site that will consolidate 900 commonwealth websites into 1. Outside of the DTO Dan teaches coding online and is executive producer of the forthcoming documentary, Debugging Diversity.

	Neal French [More Info] Asia Pacific and Japan Lead, Chrome and Android for Work Google Neal French leads the Chrome & Android division for Google for Work in Asia Pacific. In this role he is manages the platform team with Google. His team is focused on helping businesses with their "devices" strategy, getting the web working harder for them and helping accelerate employee productivity. Neal has previously held leadership roles at Microsoft and Lenovo, building up 15 years of global experience in the technology and hardware market place.

	Rod Greenaway [More Info] Executive Director Vendor Management Office Dept of Finance, Services & Innovation Rod Greenaway joined ServiceFirst in July 2014 as the General Manager ICT Services. The scope of this role spanned ERP systems, enterprise infrastructure, telecommunications and end user computing. In July 2015 Rod was appointed as the Executive Director of the VMO. Rod is accountable for the delivery of the transition, transformation and ongoing management to a new shared services outsourced commercial arrangement covering HR, Finance and ICT. He is a senior technology executive with more than 25 years’ experience in IT infrastructure leadership roles of increasing responsibility and breadth. The last 20 years of Rod’s career have been in the financial services sector spanning insurance, funds management and investment banking and more recently in the government sector. In his IT infrastructure leadership roles he has had overall accountability including infrastructure team management, strategy and planning, large scale outsourcing programs, virtualisation, technology refresh, standardised operational delivery, service management, and governance and risk management. Rod’s experience has included international assignments in New Zealand as General Manager of IT and Hong Kong as Regional Head of IT Infrastructure across Asia. Other service management roles have incorporated global team management experience with staff spread across A/NZ, Americas, EMEA and Asia.

	Josh Griggs [More Info] Managing Director Metronode Josh Griggs joined Metronode as Managing Director in September 2015 after 22 years working across the telecommunications, IT and FMCG industries. His experience in Australia and internationally in IT and telecommunications has encompassed roles in Sales, Sales Management, Marketing, Business Development, Major Bids, Finance and General Management. Before joining Metronode, Josh held various senior executive positions at Optus Business, most recently as VP Government and VP ICT Solutions. Prior to that, he worked for Alphawest and British Telecom. In his role as Managing Director Metronode, Josh will also drive the business partnership with GovDC.

	Dr Pedro Harris [More Info] Executive Director, Government Technology Platforms, ICT & Digital Government Division Department of Finance, Services & Innovation Pedro needs little introduction, having spent 25 years in Senior ICT Roles in government. He is responsible for Whole-of Government ICT Strategic ICT deliveries including GovDc, OneGov digital platform, Identity Hub and ICT Assurance work.

	Martin Hoffman [More Info] Secretary Department of Finance, Services & Innovation He was previously Deputy Secretary at the Commonwealth Department of Industry & Science (and its predecessors) from July 2010. He worked particularly on resources and energy matters, including significant international engagement bilaterally and with the International Energy Agency and the G20. Martin joined the APS in March 2009 in the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet. Before joining the public sector, Martin had a lengthy private sector career primarily in digital media and technology. After an early career in consulting and banking in Australia and Hong Kong, he held senior roles at Optus, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Fairfax Media. He was CEO of NineMSN from 2003 to 2006, led Moko Social Media Ltd (ASX:MKB) to an IPO in July 2007 as CEO, and founded the digital media advisory and investment business Ulysses Ventures.

	Clive Hogg [More Info] Technical Sales Manager – Enterprise Networks, Optical Communications Corning Clive Hogg has 25 years of ICT structured cabling industry experience in Asia Pacific. From production management, testing, and NATA signatory to technical management, Hogg is a subject matter expert on Fibre Optics, LAN, DC and FTTH. Hogg holds BICSI RCDD accreditation, specialises in data centre design through to provision, and participated in standards bodies for materials, telecommunications cabling and safety. Hogg earned a Master of Applied Science from RMIT University.

	Tim Hume [More Info] Chief Information Officer Department of Family and Community Services Tim is CIO at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and inaugural Chair at the NSW Public Sector Community of ICT Professionals. Tim tells me that he recently classified his religion on the Census as "as a service" and practices his faith regularly, having just implemented Wave 1 of the FACS OneSAP program that will transition its multiple SAP environments to the Accenture AESG SAP solution based on the NSW shared services standards.

	Guy James [More Info] GovConnect Client Director Unisys Guy James joined Unisys as the Client Executive on 15 Feb 2016. He is a highly experienced IT outsourcing individual who has had experience in both the client and vendor aspects of IT outsourcing and vendor management. He worked for over ten years in CSC and had roles as Client Executive in both the Commercial and Public Sector. He was the General Manager for the Financial Services Sector and NSW Government before joining Westpac. At Westpac he was the Client Relationship Manger for the Infrastructure outsourcing and became the Head of Vendor Management for all IT Outsourcing relationships. He established a new vendor management and governance programme to optimise the relationship with Westpac and the outsource vendors.

	Gavin Jones [More Info] Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand Pivotal Inc. In his current role as Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand for Pivotal Inc., Gavin is responsible for executing the company’s strategy, vision and growth objectives across the ANZ region and driving awareness and momentum for Pivotal's solutions. He is also responsible for strengthening Pivotal’s presence in APJ and supporting the rapidly expanding customer and partner network. A seasoned technology veteran with more than 20 years of experience in strategic account management, sales process management and leadership roles, Gavin has an outstanding track record of working with Australia's most respected organisations to create disruptive new business platforms that allow his customers to change the way business is done in their industry. In his previous role, Gavin served as the Vice President Sales and General Manager for Good Technology, a leading mobile solutions company. He also held various executive and leadership positions at salesforce.com, Oracle, Avaya, Soprano and Sulcus. Gavin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Applied Maths, and Pure Maths from the University of Sydney.

	Steve Lennon [More Info] Principal Adviser, Technology & Innovation Fujitsu Steve is the focal point in Fujitsu Oceania for accelerating client adoption of Fujitsu Intellectual Property and demonstrating our position in the market as a business and social innovator. He works with Fujitsu account teams to initiate and support innovation activities with our customers. Steve is a trusted advisor for Fujitsu’s Intellectual Property owners, including Fujitsu Laboratories across the world, helping to shape strategies for globalisation of our new technologies.

	Aaron Liu [More Info] Chief Information Officer Department of Justice Aaron Liu is the Chief Information Officer at the Department of Justice, New South Wales. He was appointed in 2012 with a mandate to modernise a highly fragmented and complex legacy ICT environment. With a background in law and economics Aaron entered into technology from the business domain. He brings into the CIO role a business perspective from over 18 years’ experience in the criminal justice system both in Australia and the UK. Driven by a need to establish an innovative and user focused ICT capability, Aaron has been leading his team in the transformation of ICT services for Justice. A transformation that seeks to maximise the opportunities in the cloud in a way that balances the risks for government.

	Dan McLean [More Info] Director, Cloud Services, Australia & New Zealand VMWare Dan is VMware’s Director for Cloud Services including channel, cloud leadership and direct sales. He leads a team focused on ensuring VMware serves as a partner and trusted adviser to customers across Australia and New Zealand. Dan is a recognised leader within the Cloud community and within the industry, is a regular keynote speaker and contributor to articles on all things Cloud. Dan has spent over a decade at VMware leading technical, sales and operations teams. Prior to that, Dan held a number of technology roles across finance, retail and manufacturing including ANZ Bank, Gen-i and Compaq.

	David Oakley [More Info] Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand ServiceNow ServiceNow enables organisations to modernise IT providing the foundation for transitioning to ICT as-a-service. David is responsible for driving adoption and customer success of ServiceNow’s Enterprise Cloud clients in Australia and New Zealand, including a significant number of State, Federal and Local Government organisations. David has lead ServiceNow’s Australia & New Zealand business since 2013 and has more than 15 years experience across global vendors with a depth of expertise in as-a-Service models, process automation and application development. He is Sydney based and holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

	David Palmer [More Info] Chief Security Officer SecureLogic Group Spanning 30+ years of IT experience where 26 years are within the Information Management Security & Risk domains, David has provided InfoSec advice & guidance to major banks and finance companies in Australia and overseas He has worked with a wide variety of people from differing internal organisational units, bringing them together to manifest controls that reflect workable compromises as well as proactive responses to current and future information security risks.

	Derek Paterson [More Info] Director GovDC and Marketplace Services Department of Finance, Services & Innovation Derek has more than 18 years of operational leadership and executive-level change management in some of the largest and most critical public and private sector organisations in the world. Derek is currently the Director, GovDC & Marketplace Services and is responsible for providing leadership and direction to strategically manage and support the agency operation of the Data Centre Reform. The reform encompasses the collapsing of 130 data centres into two strategically placed state of the art facilities saving NSW Government agencies and citizens millions of dollars. Prior to NSW Government, Derek spent 15 years carrying responsibility for architecture, design and planning of every facet of Data Centres and Telecommunications within the investment and retail banking industry.

	Gabriel Peacock [More Info] Enterprise Architect Hewlett Packard Enterprise Gabriel has twenty years experience in the IT industry primarily in architectural roles. He has worked within public and private sector organisations as a consultant on transformation activities and architect on major solutions, including several implemented across organisational boundaries in healthcare and retail. Gabriel is intimately familiar with the software development lifecycle in both traditional and agile approaches. Gabriel has architected and delivered systems integration, legacy modernisation and bespoke applications within major NSW government agencies as the solution architect for a systems integrator. Gabriel is experienced at evolving the process, applications, technology and information structures that comprise business solutions, and has designed secure multi-channel solutions deployed in private, managed and public environments, with mobility concerns ranging from mobile-first responsive user interfaces to carrier failover in mission-critical environments. He has consulted and assisted with the technical elements of data centre transformation, including workload analysis and dependency analysis verified using primary investigation techniques such as packet capture. In the applications area Gabriel has implemented complex algorithms across many different areas including physics simulations for education, risk and premium calculations in insurance, choice modelling and arbitrage. Gabriel has managed a softphone call centre infrastructure and also been at the sharp end of near-real-time event staging and processing for analytics in internet-connected vehicle applications. Gabriel is currently engaged in the process of understanding and assisting the transition of NSW government agencies to a supply chain model for IT, and how value can be derived from BYOD, IoT and big data analytics across the concerns of government.

	Andrew Phillips [More Info] Public Sector Country Manager, ANZ Amazon Web Services Andrew Phillips is the Public Sector Country Manager for Amazon Web Services in Australia & New Zealand. In this role Andrew works with all sectors of Government, from Local, State and Federal through to Government-owned corporations and Educational Institutes. He is responsible for representing AWS and supporting the Public Sector as they make increasingly strategic investments in AWS to realise the benefits of cloud computing. Andrew is an IT professional with more than 15 years of sales and business development experience in the technology industry, specifically working with Public Sector organisations. Prior to joining AWS, Andrew was at VMware for more than four years where he managed the NSW Public Sector business and helped government organisations reduce costs through hardware virtualisation. Prior to that Andrew spent over 8 years at Dell in both the UK and Australia assisting Public Sector organisations in their adoption of low-cost commoditized IT hardware. Over his career in IT he has helped government customers navigate the journey from isolated physical IT hardware, through virtualization, and now into the IT revolution that is cloud computing. Andrew is passionate about how technology can improve the way that Government interacts with citizens.

	Bob Rapp [More Info] Global Vice President of Cloud & Services IBM Bob Rapp is a Global Vice President in the Cloud division of IBM. He owns Industry Solutions and has a global team of industry experts who work to turn Cloud into business value. He comes to IBM from executive roles at VMWare, where is led a global team in cloud, at Microsoft, where he founded the Cloud and Data Center teams, and Vodafone where he was the first leader of social media joined with software development as his team re-created the consumer services of Vodafone across the globe. He has a long career of creating value in leading edge areas in technology and has created what is next in over 150 countries.

	Damon Rees [More Info] Government Chief Information & Digital Officer (GCIDO) Department of Finance, Services and Innovation Damon previously worked at Macquarie Bank, where he was the Chief Digital Officer, having earlier served as the Chief Technology Officer and interim Chief Information Officer at Woolworths, and as Westpac’s Head of Integrated Delivery

	Chris Robson [More Info] Chief Information Officer NSW Police Chris has 25 years’ technology leadership experience gained in public and private sectors. For 13 years prior to joining NSWPF he worked for Tyco International’s Fire and Security businesses in a series of roles spanning Asia, Pacific and the globe. In January 2012 he opened a new chapter in his career as the CIO of the NSW Police Force. After joining the Royal Australian Naval College in 1982 Chris specialized in weapons and combat data systems whilst also gaining leadership skills as a junior naval officer. After deploying with HMAS Brisbane to the Persian Gulf in 1990-91, Chris got involved in IT ashore, managing software development contracts at Naval Support Command. He later transferred to the Navy emergency list to commence his civilian career with the Federal Airports Corporation (FAC). FAC was a government business enterprise managing all of Australia’s major airports and Chris initially worked with airfield lighting, electrical distribution and automated baggage handling systems before once again delving into IT. As FAC’s Manager of Corporate IS he restructured IT systems to support the privatization of the airports, connecting airport businesses to the Internet. When Chris joined Tyco, in late 1998. the US-listed multinational had already acquired Wormald, ADT Security and several other businesses. His challenge was to help Tyco grow further, integrate the acquired businesses and simultaneously implement standard systems. He progressed through several IT leadership roles to finally become the CIO of Tyco’s Fire & Security businesses in Asia-Pacific in 2008. His years with Tyco included two years as Director of Global Business Systems and a five-year assignment to Singapore with a strong focus on Asian growth markets and frequent interaction with international colleagues. Chris holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of New South Wales and Master of Business Administration from Deakin University. He lives with his wife Lisa and three children in Sydney’s Northern suburbs where he enjoys cycling and sailing with his family.

	Dawn Routledge [More Info] Executive Director Strategic Policy Department of Finance, Services and Innovation Dawn Routledge is the Executive Director, Policy and Innovation at the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation. She leads the NSW Government reforms in ICT, digital government, innovation, and corporate and shared services. Dawn has been a part of the whole of government strategy team at DFSI for over 4 years. She has held strategic and leadership roles in NSW Government, the private sector and overseas with particular experience in developing strategies to drive better value from information assets.

	Vignesh Shashidhar [More Info] Territory Account Manager NSW Nutanix, Inc. Vignesh Shashidhar is responsible for both leading Nutanix’s progressive sales projects and servicing and expanding its public sector customer base in NSW. With over 10 years’ experience in server, storage, virtualization, big data and cloud, Vignesh is highly skilled at matching client business requirements with innovative technology. At Nutanix Vignesh is responsible for bringing together Nutanix OEM and service provider partners with our healthcare, education and government customers to deliver innovative outcomes leveraging the latest enterprise cloud technology.

	Michael Steer [More Info] District Manager – Public Sector NetApp Michael Steer is the District Manager for the Public Sector at NetApp Australia. Within this role, Michael leads the company’s Federal and NSW Government sales teams. Since joining in 2012, Michael has increased NetApp’s market presence by working closely with key partners to deliver innovative data management solutions aligned to State and Federal Government’s initiatives and priorities.

	Simon Xistouris [More Info] CEO AC3 Simon is CEO of the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communication Pty Ltd (AC3) and is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the business. Previously, he was Managing Director of Klikon Solutions where he developed a new business strategy and rolled out the transformation program, which included the acquisition of AC3 in 2013.

	Robert Zanier [More Info] Managing Director Central Data Network Managing Director of Central Data Networks is a graduate from the University of Wollongong as an electrical engineer, started as a Service engineer with Toshiba Medical before establishing CDN in 1994 and could see the potential for using the then emerging internet technology to transmit medical images. CDN is still based in Wollongong in a purpose-build building designed to handle administration, software development and manufacture of the high tech hardware systems and Data Centre solutions within Australia and Internationally for Public and Private Enterprises.

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