David Gaul (Chairman)
David Gaul is a Non-Executive Director and co-founder of CEA Technologies. Before forming the Company, David spent 22 years in the Royal Australian Navy. David is a Foundation Fellow of the AICD, served as councillor of AICD ACT and the ACT Division of the Australian Business Chamber. David has served as a member of the ACT Government’s various business advisory boards over the last 10 years. Other forums he has served include: The Reserve Bank of Australia Small Business Committee, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Industry Policy and Innovation Committee, Canberra Business Council Executive, Australian Science Festival Board, ABL Defence Industry Committee of Council, Governor, Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering. Member, Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) Board and member of the IR&D Board’s COMET/ICIP Committee.
In August 2002, David became a Companion of Engineers Australia. David was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 for his service to Australian Defence and was named Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 in the Technology, Communication, E Commerce and Life Sciences category. David has recently been awarded as an 2009/2010 Australian Export Hero.
Professor Michael Cardew-Hall – ANU Connect Ventures
Michael (Mick) Cardew-Hall has over 25 years experience as a Chartered Engineer, manager, academic and entrepreneur in the engineering, manufacturing and information technology fields.
He has held technical and managerial positions with leading UK companies such as GEC and Rolls-Royce PLC. He has held a number of academic positions including Professor and Head of Engineering at the ANU, Deputy Dean and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Mick has taught a wide range of management courses on Engineering and MBA programs in the area of project management, operations management, business planning and entrepreneurship. He has had extensive industrially focused research activities and leads the ANU group within the AutoCRC. He is currently a Director of Simile Systems Pty Ltd, a spin out company from his research activities at the ANU, which develops knowledge capture and management systems for manufacturing applications; the Australian Solar Institute; Synergetic Services Ltd.; and Dosimetry and Imaging Pty Ltd. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and PhD and DIC from Imperial College London. He is currently part of the university executive at the ANU holding the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Advancement).
Mark Harvey – CM Capital
Mark is a Partner with CM Capital Investments, and is the CM Capital nominee on the Board of Directors of Osprey Medical Inc and Pathway Therapeutics Inc. Mark has over 15 years experience in medical research, technology transfer and commercialisation, and has played key roles in the formation, fund raising, and management of numerous life science companies. Prior to joining CM Capital, Mark was the Managing Director of Symbiosis Group Limited, an early stage life sciences investment company, and was Group Manager, Life Sciences for UniQuest, the commercialisation company for The University of Queensland. Mark was also a member of the Investment Committee of UniSeed, a $60million pre-seed venture fund focussed on developing technologies from the University of Melbourne and The University of Queensland. Mark has a PhD and MBA and has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, scholarships, prizes, and national competitive grants during his scientific career, and has authored over 25 publications in international peer reviewed journals. Mark is an Adjunct Associate Professor of The University of Queensland.
Dr. Alex Zelinsky – CSIRO
Dr Alex Zelinsky is a recognised leader in Australian Information and Communication Technologies who has successfully delivered R&D results of significant commercial value and global impact. Dr Zelinsky is Group Executive, Information Sciences and a member of the CSIRO Executive Team. He was formally Director, CSIRO Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre.
Under Dr Zelinsky’s leadership CSIRO is developing world class technology platforms for sensor & sensor networks and computational & simulation science. These platforms are being applied to underpin cross-disciplinary research across the CSIRO – particularly in energy, health, agriculture, manufacturing and environment applications.
Before joining CSIRO in July 2004 Dr Zelinsky was CEO and co-founder of Seeing Machines, a high-technology company dedicated to developing state of the art computer vision systems. Prior to founding Seeing Machines Dr Zelinsky was Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University
Dr Zelinsky is internationally recognised for his research in robotics and computer vision, particularly in real-time computer vision systems for human-machine interfaces. He has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals and magazines in his field, including the program committees of international conferences.
Dr Zelinsky’s contributions to science have been recognised by numerous awards in Australia and internationally. Dr Zelinsky has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and Vice President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Industrial Activities (RAS-IAB)