Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia
My professional journey has drawn together a combination of core business and commercial skills with a strong scientific background. This has allowed me to contribute critical thinking and analysis in the Boardroom together with specific skills in business, research and development, education, social welfare, corporate governance, and government liaison. I have developed extensive skills as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman over the past 22 years, recently retiring from an ASX-300 company board after 13 years and having served on multiple national boards and peak bodies. At a Chair and executive level, I have a demonstrated commitment to, and past success in, building high performing teams and ensuring a pipeline of talent for succession. While no longer undertaking my own research, I remain an internationally recognised scientist specialising in the field of nutrition, with my core focus being grain, food production and food security.
The SunPork Group, with more than 52,000 sows and $0.6 billion in revenue, is the largest fully integrated pork production company in Australasia. SunPork has 48 farms, two abattoirs, a value-add plant and four feedmills in Australia with another seven farms in New Zealand. Employing more than 1,500 people in regional communities, SunPork produces more than 20% of Australia’s pork from 1.2 million pigs per annum totalling more than 90 million kilograms. The business spans genetics, feed milling, farming, processing, value-adding, sales and marketing and distribution.
Autism CRC is the independent national source of evidence for best practice in relation to autism across the lifespan and the spectrum. Autism CRC has identified many areas of need yet to be addressed with evidence-based understanding and practice – consistently across all levels of government and service systems – including for the most marginalised, such as those in regional and remote communities and those with complex needs. Autism CRC is committed to inclusive research practices and co-production with autistic people and their supporters, to ensure our research provides practical and tangible outputs that benefit the community.
APRIL (formerly Pork CRC Ltd) is an independent, member-based organisation that seeks to benefit the Australasian Pork Industry by investing in research and development, education and training, and commercialisation activities focused on priorities and deliverables that ensure the sustainability of Australasian pork production and generates optimal returns for the industry.