National Board of Directors

Chair

Angela Fox

Managing Director

Dell ANZ

Angela Fox, Leader, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Commercial and Public Sector, Dell EMC Australia and New Zealand, is responsible for the sustained business success of the company in both countries. Based in Sydney, Angela leads the commercial and public sector strategy and direction of the business while maintaining a commitment to keeping customers at the core of what Dell EMC does.Angela joined Dell in 2006. Her career moved her to Australia then Singapore, taking executive responsibilities across the broader Asia Pacific and Japan region. In July 2014, Angela was appointed the Managing Director for Dell ANZ. During her time in this role, Angela drew on her solutions and services experience to help customers achieve their IT needs.She led the business to deliver market leading benefits to large organisations across private and public sectors, small and medium businesses, and consumers. Angela has a passion for people management and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion. She launched the Dell Australia and New Zealand Diversity and Inclusion Council and is a founding member of the APJ Diversity and Inclusion Council. Angela plays a pivotal role in driving Dell EMC cultural initiatives in ANZ by supporting several internal employee resource groups (ERG) that represent the team’s passion. Angela is a vocal advocate for career success, believing a person’s adaptability and openness to embrace new challenges are key drivers to progression.Her own career path has cemented the belief that broad experiences and the ability to be remain flexible will open alternative career paths. Angela is a promoter of mentoring, advocacy and sponsorship within the company having experienced first‐hand the success these relationships manifest. She continues to actively supports Dell’s Women in IT Executive Mentoring (DELL WITEM) program, which has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and has taken on the role as executive sponsor for the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN). Angela graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Auckland. Before embarking on her IT career. She manages her life and career from Sydney, with the support of her husband and daughter.

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Deputy Chair

Megan James

Director, Public Sector

Avanade Australia Pty Ltd

Megan James is a leader, consultant, advisor and mentor in the ICT industry.Megan was previously the CEO of Australian Data Centres (ADC), the only privately wholly Australian Data Centre in the country, and had been with the organisation since its inception as a start-up.Prior to ADC Megan was one of the founding staff at Global Switch in Sydney (2001) when the awareness of data centres was starting to evolve.She has been in the IT Industry for over 25 years with roles in storage, hardware software and a dot.com start up.She is passionate about Australian SME's, start-ups and supporting organisations as they evolve to the cloud and digital transformation.Megan is the Vice President for Women in IT and Communications (WIC) based in Canberra which is a growing not for profit supporting students, and women in STEM and IT.She also sits on the Board of Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) and is an activate advocate and public speaker in this space.Megan is very active in the local community and also spends her spare time by the pool as a Bronze Certified Swim Coach, and mentoring young women and graduates.

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Immediate Past Chair

Robert Hillard

Chief Transformation Officer

Deloitte Asia Pacific

Robert Hillard is widely recognised as a leader in the information economy. His many years of experience at the forefront of consulting in Australia and overseas has seen him play a prominent role in the technology profession with a particular focus on information. He is currently the Chief Transformation Officer for Deloitte Asia Pacific.Robert has held many eminent roles including leading Deloitte Consulting in Australia, serving on Deloitte’s global board (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited), serving as Chair of the Australian Information Industry Association and being appointed to the Digital Expert Advisory Committee advising Prime Minister & Cabinet in Australia. He has presented in many public forums, media and has written extensively on topics associated with the information economy, including authoring Information-Driven Business (Wiley 2010) and co-authoring Information Development using MIKE2.0 (Motion 2013).Robert’s contributions to the Australian technology industry were recognised in late 2014 with his admission as a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.

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Director

Mike Fuller

Acting Managing Director

Datacom Australia

With more than 30 years’ experience in the technology sector, Mike is passionate about delivering meaningful and measurable customer outcomes through innovative technology solutions. Leading a team of more than 400 experts in the local market and supporting a wide range of customers from government through to some of the largest corporates,Mike is a values-based leader who prides himself in his ability to build and lead high performing diverse teams that deliver insight and solutions that Datacom’s customers value.

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Director

Elizabeth Whitelock

A visionary executive, Elizabeth foresaw the benefits of AI and its commercial application in risk mitigation. Skilled in managing large multi-disciplinary teams for global tech, particularly in the arena of data, analytics and business intelligence, Elizabeth has a singular focus to develop human-centred AI. This unique practice of “Augmented Intelligence” embodies the very best of machine-learning and the power of technology with irreplaceable human inputs for enhanced decision making in changing and uncertain environments. Based on first-hand experience herself, Elizabeth continues to champion the role for responsible AI in improving the lives of our fellow citizens and the world we share.

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Director

Lisa Andrews

CEO

Wavia

Lisa Andrews is an Energised Introvert inspired by a future of perfect knowledge, having her own Jarvis and Ironman suit as well as being able to send Care Bear Stare focus to the world.With a financial, data and engineering background Lisa is working on the question ‘how to give everyone a fair start in life and maximise human potential at each stage throughout life'.She has dedicated her life to having a positive impact in this world, primarily:

1. As CEO of WAVIA 'removing the friction of financial, human and community capital';
2. As Co-CEO of SingularityU 'Educating, empowering and inspiring leaders to use exponential technology to solve the world's grand challenges';

Lisa had her first successful exit from an engineering business in 2012 and is now an investor in multiple companies that focus on profit with purpose.She is currently working on projects with international organisations such as Singularity University, United Nations, ACTAI, Extreme Tech Challenge and EO. Focusing on solving the worlds greatest challenges with exponential technologies. As a future maker and strategic planner - she sees the first step as achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the second creating a vision for the world in the next 100 years.

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Director

Silke Barlow

General Manager

Lenovo ANZ

Silke Barlow is General Manager for Lenovo’s operations in Australia. The announcement follows changes in Lenovo’s Australian leadership, including the promotion of former Managing Director of Lenovo Australia and New Zealand, Matt Codrington, who moves into the role of Lenovo’s Regional General Manager for the Greater Asia Pacific Region.Barlow returns to Lenovo following a departure in 2015, where she spent over 10 years with the business. Bringing more than two decades experience in the IT industry and multi-national experience from Germany, France, and Australia, Barlow most recently held leadership positions with Unisys, followed by Fujitsu. At Fujitsu, Barlow was responsible for the Infrastructure Solutions business in Australia and New Zealand, before leading Industry and Vertical Offerings for APAC (Asia Pacific).

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Director

Nicholas Flood

Vice President Technology & Country Leader

IBM

Nicholas Flood was appointed Vice President IBM Technology & Country Leader IBM Australia in January 2022. Prior to this, as Director and General Manager for Federal Government, he lead IBM's engagement with the Australian Federal Government supporting them toward their aspiration to be a top three (3) digital government globally by 2025.Since joining IBM as a graduate, Nicholas has held a range of strategic client leadership roles across Federal Government and Financial Services. During this time, he played a key role in establishing IBM’s Whole of Government Agreement, in particular leading establishment of the innovation agenda underpinning this agreement.Outside of IBM, Nicholas is an active member on range of industry associations and boards, including (i) the Australian Information Industry Association’s ACT and Federal Council and also; (ii) The University of Sydney’s Board of Advice. In this capacity, Nicholas helps shape the role technology can play and government’s response to address challenges and enable opportunities across the digital economy.Nicholas holds an MBA from the University of Sydney completed as recipient of the Business School Business Leader Post-Graduate Scholarship and received the Gold Lion Award at graduation.He also holds an Undergraduate degree, a Master of Commerce and a Master of Business Research with Honours completed as recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship.

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Director

Lynn Currie

Group Owner & Industry Executive – Financial Services and Media

Telstra Enterprise

Lynn and her team are responsible for partnering with Financial Services and Media customers to support and accelerate the achievement of their priorities (including digital transformation, automation, and sustainability). With the right focus on customer experience and industry thought leadership, Telstra can collaborate more effectively with customers on key industry challenges and opportunities and ultimately deliver more value. Throughout her career, Lynn has focussed on inspiring new ideas and partnering to deliver innovation to support her customers’ various business priorities.

Lynn has enjoyed twenty-five plus years in the tech sector in various sales, services and executive positions within IBM Corporation, British Telecom, as well as serving on a New Zealand Government Board for three years and creating her own start-up Company which she led for ten years.

Lynn has been in regional senior executive positions in IBM where she was responsible for strategic client development in IBM’s Growth Markets Division which comprised 140 countries with HQ in Shanghai. This role in particular taught Lynn the impact of globalisation and the value of diversity and inclusion.

She has also held leadership positions in Financial Services industry (FSI), Infrastructure Services, Cyber Security and most recently prior to joining Telstra in December 2022 was FSI Partner at Kyndryl (IBM’s divested NYSE listed global technology services division which was split from IBM in November 2021).

Leading high performance teams, managing complex client relationships, advising on digital transformation opportunities, and driving innovative growth strategies are Lynn’s key strengths. Lynn studied Law and Commerce at University of Otago and has graduated both Harvard and MIT executive short programmes.

Lynn lives in Sydney and with her husband and two adult sons, now calls Australia home. She enjoys good food and wine, the arts, travelling, skiing, scuba diving, tennis, and yoga. One of her give back passions is mentoring young people in the tech sector.

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Director

Nicole McMahon

CEO

Digitech Consulting Group

Nicole McMahon is the Founder and CEO of Digitech Consulting Group, partnering with CEOs to drive future-focused strategic outcomes and innovation. She is a highly experienced visionary CEO, providing advice, strategy, and influence to create and shape markets and drive transformative business outcomes across government, healthcare, and business.Starting her career as a research scientist and journalist, Nicole pivoted into ICT over 20 years ago, recognising its importance for Australia’s domestic and global success. Today, she embraces emerging ICT capabilities that provide disruption and strategic opportunities to ensure organisations can thrive into the future in a digital economy.Nicole has a proven track record of driving strategy, transformation, and growth for iconic organisations within health, ICT, critical industries, and governments, including Telstra, Hewlett-Packard, and Medibank Private (1800RESPECT). She spearheads outcomes at a whole-of-organisation level and through roles in specialised areas including corporate affairs, government relations, chief of staff, sales leadership, marketing, product, and general management.Known for identifying and shaping new markets and new government policy initiatives, Nicole finds areas of transformational growth and operationalises the implementation for organisations from an industry and capability lens. Her ability to think outside-the-box and solve problems has been pivotal to her success.Nicole values translating government policy into strategy, and leading complex high-impact projects. She finds it incredibly rewarding to successfully drive complex national programs from concept to outcome over multiple years, as well as remediate and turn around projects in decline.Her sound understanding of emerging technology and cybersecurity and its application to government, critical infrastructure, and businesses underpins her future-focused strategic thinking and growth mindset. Nicole’s distinctive coaching and mentoring style is tailored to executives, senior leaders, and teams, and she enjoys coaching young women and people from diverse backgrounds.More information can be found at www.digitechconsulting.au and www.nicolemcmahon.com

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Director

Rupert Taylor-Price

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Vault Cloud

Rupert Taylor-Price founded Vault in 2012, driven by his strong desire to improve citizen’s lives through government. Australian-owned and operated Vault is dedicated to providing cloud services to the Australian Government and its partners with an emphasis on security.In March 2017, Vault became one of the first two cloud service providers to be granted the Protected level of certification from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), allowing Vault to store highly classified government information. Vault has created one of the world’s most secure clouds, with many large Government agencies already procuring Vault’s services, including the Digital Transformation Agency, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Employment, the Department of Health, the Department of Social Services and the Department of Defence.Rupert’s has a long history of handling sensitive data, stemming from his eight years as Chief Executive Officer at JN Solutions. At JN Solutions, Rupert developed a world-leading Software-as-a-Service Information Management Platform for the Australian Government which provided extensive services to the community services sector. JN Solutions’ products were focused on meeting high-security requirements because the data it held was sensitive personal information, including citizen’s social security and health records. Under Rupert, the organisation grew to be the market leader in multiple industries, delivering over $1bn AUD in payments to customers while maintaining a strong track record in claim compliance and generating operational efficiencies.As a result of his extensive experience in the industry, Rupert is recognised as an expert in government cloud services and cybersecurity. He is a highly sought-after speaker at technology conferences and is often called upon to provide advice to major government departments on the adoption of cloud by Government and cloud strategy.Rupert’s educational achievements include a Bachelor of Physics Hons from the University of Southampton.

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Director

Nadine ‘Noodles’ Groves

Founder

Stand Tall And Own It

Noodles is the founder of advisory and empowerment startup Stand Tall And Own It with over 20 years experience as a female technology leader across start-ups, corporates and large multinationals including Optus, Vocus and most recent role as Head of Victoria and Tasmania Public Sectors, Google Cloud.A bubbly, collaborative, passionate and curious individual focussed on digital skills advocacy, diversity and culture building to drive a thriving society. Noodles is a Motorsport Australia official organising and officiating off-road car rallies, championing young driver education through grassroots gravel motorsport and an avid porphyrophile.Noodles recently completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Directors Course intensive and looks forward to leveraging these learnings, her experience as an AIIA Victorian Council Member and her diverse experience to partner with fellow directors on the board building a prosperous future for AIIA Members of today and tomorrow.

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Director

Kieran Hynes

Founder and Managing Director

Willyama Indigenous ICT Services

Kieran is the founder and owner of Willyama Services (Willyama). Willyama is Australia's only 100% Aboriginal and veteran owned, Supply Nation Certified ICT and Cyber professional services company operating nationally. Services include Governance, Risk and Compliance and specialist cyber security services.Kieran personally has an IT career spanning  30 years across a military career and professional career working for companies such as Telstra, Fujitsu, IBM and Dell. Kieran has a M Sc IT and is current an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra.

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Director

Dan Pearce

Partner - Corporate and Commercial

Holding Redlich

With over 30 years’ experience in law, Dan has deep experience advising on all aspects of technology-related legal issues, and works with parties on the provision of technology solutions and protection of intellectual property.Dan brings an understanding of each side’s concerns and insights into solutions that can work for both parties. Dan has been recognised as a 5-Star cyber Lawyer by Australasian Lawyer. He has also been recognised by the Best Lawyers in Australia as a leading practitioner in Information Technology law and Intellectual Property law and by Doyle’s Guide as a leading lawyer in Technology, Media and Communications Law for Victoria.Dan has held board and council positions with a variety of organisations in the sectors in which he practices, and regularly advises industry associations on governance and operational issues.

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Director

Vito Rinaldi

Managing Director

Blue Crystal Solutions

Vito Rinaldi is the Managing Director of Blue Crystal Solutions, which has its national headquarters in Adelaide. He is dedicated to driving innovation and maximising business performance. By putting the customer at the centre of everything he does, Vito has created a personal approach to application, database management and cloud consulting. At Blue Crystal Solutions, Vito oversees all operations nationally within Australia, with more than 25 years of experience in IT and forming strategic partnerships.Vito’s passion is for digital transformation and having the AIIA voice heard, not only across large multi-nationals but across the small to medium organisation punching above their weight. He is also passionate about representing small to middle sized organisations into Local, State and Federal Government, having an influence in the direction of ICT in Australia. Vito has a Bachelor of computing systems degree in IT and is actively engaged in the local community in sporting teams and IT leadership programs. Prior to starting BCS Vito worked at EDS for 8 years in both technical and management roles.

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