Our People
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John Gray Professor Gray investigates why some firms or regions are more successful than others. This work has led him to combine the empirical research bases of strategic management, innovation and institutional theory. He has held several Australian Research Council grants on these matters and conducted research into: innovation, information technology, law, accounting, health services, cultural organizations, entrepreneurship and successful strategies of international firms. His rationale, publications and consultancy connect empirical research with management practice. He teaches strategic management, innovation, organization studies and research methods to doctoral and graduate students. He mentors and conducts executive training to directors, partners and senior staff of firms. He is a Director of the Australian Employee Buyout Centre, an Associate of the Centre for Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Technology Sydney www.research.uts.edu.au/ and the Treasurer of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand www.acsanz.org.au/ In previous roles he has been in charge of connecting the academy with commerce and communities in Western Sydney. |
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| Anthony Jensen MEc(Hon1) IR Anthony has been involved in researching the aspects of employee buyouts since 1984. His work has covered employee buyouts in Australia, Spain, Italy, UK and USA. He is currently on scholarship to complete his Doctorate at the University of Sydney Business School. His career for the last thirty years has involved a scholarly approach to bringing to light the enormous potential of the employee owned firm in solving some of the key problems of modern industrial working life. His work in interviewing workers in factories around the world has been unique in uncovering the characteristics of success and failure of the democratic firm. He is a co–founder of the Australian Employee Ownership Association and brings a wealth of knowledge in the training and education of employees undertaking the transition to employee owners. Anthony has been appointed Director of HR and Training. |
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| Ian Woods BEcon, FRAeS, MAICD Ian commenced his career in 1970 and served in the RAAF as a full time and part time pilot and flight commander until 1992. In 1977 he joined Trans Australian Airlines and is presently employed as a Qantas 747 pilot. Ian served as a Trustee Director on the Qantas Superannuation Limited Board from 2003 to 2008 and as President of the Australian & International Pilots Association from 2005 to 2008. He is currently President of the Australian Employee Ownership Association and brings to the AEBC, a passion for employee ownership, considerable market development ability and industry connections. |
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Geoff Fary Geoff is Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Geoff brings an unusual combination of background and experiences to his role at the ACTU and to the AEBC. Elected to the ACTU position in 2007, he has previously worked as a farm labourer, sheep shearer, administrator, Victorian Director of TUTA, Chief of Staff to a federal Cabinet Minister, Human Resources Director, Company Director, CEO of Industrial Relations Victoria and, for the previous four years, at the most senior national industrial role at APESMA. Geoff was born and raised in the 1950s and 60s in a rural community in northern Victoria. His education and early work were typical of the time and the place. Most of his working life has been devoted to Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. His career moves have given him the unusual perspective of union, corporate and government experiences that he brings to the challenges faced by the ACTU.
Married with two teenage children, Geoff and his family live at Portarlington, a small seaside township near Melbourne. His interests include being a home handyman, current affairs - and a passionate involvement in Australian Rules football (Essendon).
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| Robert (Bob) E. Corben
Bob is Principal of Corben Consulting Services, an accounting practice based in Sydney.
Bob has been in private practice for some 30 years and was appointed by the NSW Attorney General to the boards of the Legal Aid Commission and the Sydney Catchment Authority. His practice provides extensive accounting, taxation and financial advisory services to a client base drawn from private enterprise and not-for-profit organisations, including those receiving government funding. He has been actively involved in co-operatives and employee buyouts for many years. Bob has lectured on financial management and the co-operative sector at seminars conducted by the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Accountants. |
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Alan Greig Alan Greig is Ownership Strategies Director at the Mercury Centre Cooperative Ltd, a cooperative development agency and social enterprise that specialises in building collaborative enterprises through consultancy, research, information, advice and training. Alan has a long standing interest in employee and community ownership dating back to the 1970s and has been Public Officer of the Australian Employee Ownership Association since its inception in 1986. |
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Michael Johnston Michael has extensive experience with public and private corporations in the education, water, petro-chemical, construction and finance sectors. His career spans three decades in which he has specialised in Human Resource management notable for innovative practices such as workplace reform at ICI, remuneration and broad banding at Sydney Water, industry-wide strategic interventions at CIDA and innovative organisational architecture and work organisation at Westpac. For 10 years Michael directed the NSW division of TUTA (the Trade Union Training Authority). Michael’s management career has included appointments at chief manager, general manager and director level and for the past eight years he has used this experience to consult to industry across a range of general management topics. Michael has been a guest lecturer on academic programs to Master’s level at the University of NSW and Macquarie University and on short course executive development programs for many other universities, associations and organisations. He has developed a reputation for innovative approaches in workplace transformation, project management, benchmarking and performance measurement, quality management, strategic thinking, team implementation and cultural change. |
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Fernando Lobos Fernando comes to the “Jobs That We Own” project with practical, hands on accounting experience over a 20 year period in a variety of companies and industries including Retail, Advertising, Manufacturing. Some of these companies had a turnover in excess of $200 million per annum. He has tertiary qualifications in marketing and management, a diploma in business accounting and is currently completing a Master of Commerce at the University of New England together with CPA studies. Fernando is a member of the National Institute of Accountants. |
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