Our advisory board maintains a strong connection with industry, government and the community
The School of ICT Industry Advisory Board shall serve as a channel for external input to the School, which would help enhance its academic activities. The deliberations of the Industry Advisory Board shall be centred on issues which assist to ensure the School continuously improves its performance in all areas of activities: teaching, research, community service.
- Help further strengthen the links between the School and industry and the profession.
- Advise the School on possible new trends in all practical and societal aspects of the profession.
- Assist in the review process and new initiatives of the School.
- Help benchmark the School's activities and performance.
Sustainable Development Goals
Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and committed to tackling global challenges around quality education, industry, innovation and infrastructure through partnerships.
James Greig
James is the founder of two technology companies; Bloomtools a digital marketing company with franchisees in Australia and Canada that he started whilst completing his degree at Griffith, and iVvy a leading (SaaS) technology provider disrupting the events industry by delivering Event Management, Venue Management and Distribution Solutions for organisations like Flight Centre, Wembley Stadium, Accor, Twickenham, EVT and Australian Venue co.
James has a passion for building cloud based software that makes the complex systems easy, secure and scalable.
James has been recognised, winning the Young Entrepreneur of the year in the Technology category on four occasions, the Business News Publications Digital Disrupter and Trailblazer awards and most recently the Griffith Young Alumnus of the year.
In addition to a passion for technology James is a Beekeeper & Distiller, combining those two hobbies into Wildflower Gin, a spirits brand now stocked throughout Australia having won Gold in 2020 and 2022 in the Australian Gin Awards.
Scott Gosling
Scott Gosling is Data#3’s National Microsoft Practice Manager. He is responsible for the overall Microsoft business relationship, owning the joint strategy between Data#3 and Microsoft. This encompasses joint business planning with Microsoft and development of strategic initiatives that are executed between our organisations. Scott sits on Microsoft's global Azure & Infrastructure Partner Advisory Council. He travels to Seattle twice a year to provide input to the product roadmap and marketing strategy with Microsoft's leadership team on products such as Azure and Windows Server.
Scott is a graduate of Griffith University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Computing), and holds a Diploma in Management. He is also an Adjunct Industry Fellow, an honorary title awarded by Griffith University. Scott provides industry insight and input to the structure of ICT programs to the University and mentors students from Griffith University to support their transition into industry.
Nick Brant
Nick is a senior technology executive with a successful career in large, diverse, customer-focused organisations. He has significant technology and leadership experience, and his work includes the successful implementation of numerous Award-winning innovation initiatives and corporate technology transformation programs.
Nick is currently the Managing Director of XTRACTIT, a cyber security and data analytics advisory firm, and he has previously been the Chief Information Officer at BDO, Brisbane City Council and the GHD Group. He was also General Manager IT at Virgin Blue Airlines for five years, during which time the airline achieved numerous technical and innovation successes.
He has co-founded several start-ups, and has also held senior positions in a number of technology vendors, including Oracle, Mincom, and Indus International.
Nick is currently a member of the Industry Advisory Board for the School of ICT at Griffith University, a member of the Branch Executive Committee of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Computer Society, and is also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.
Megan Cappelleri
Megan Cappelleri is a practiced information management and digital transformation professional, with over two decades of experience across the government, private and utilities sectors. Megan is the General Manager of the Data and Analytics, Robotic Process Automation and Enterprise Information Management Practices at Datacom and engages with customers across Australia and New Zealand to help solve information management challenges.
Megan is an engaging speaker who has spoken both domestically and internationally to share her experience and has won numerous awards and accolades including, Women in Technology finalist 2016, Enterprise Information Management Champion 2014 and most recently the Records and Information Management Professionals Association of Australasia Most Outstanding Individual, recognising her work in mentoring others.
Damon Fealy
Damon Fealy is an experienced technology consultant & advisor, digitally literate executive / non-executive director and early stage tech investor. Core strengths encompass unlocking how platforms and technology in organisations can be leveraged to achieve return, advantage, efficiency and outcomes. Other skills align more to startup, capital raising, build / growth / scale / commercialisation stage business challenges, and can be applied equally to turnaround and recovery challenges.
Damon has created and helped others start, build and exit businesses, including his own, and enjoys working with NFP's and other organisations such as Griffith University, Camp Quality, Queensland Ballet and the AICC to unlock growth from a Board and strategic perspective.
Simon Hartfiel
Simon has 20 years Executive and Senior Management CIO experience – shaping corporate ICT landscapes into productive business outcome focused divisions of the organisation. With wide industry experience, both in Australia and overseas, working for Private Blue Chip organisations, Large Not for Profits, and Public Sector.
Developing strategies and enterprise architectures focused on business outcomes Simon has delivered tangible outcomes that improve profitability and commercial success.
Simon enjoys the challenge of building a shared sense of purpose and direction within the business by explaining the vision-why it has been developed and how elements of the strategy fit together.
Martin Holzworth
Martin Holzworth is an industry executive with over 30 years’ experience in IT across the globe, having assisted clients in over 25 countries. In that time, he has assisted organisations implement significant change programs in technology and innovation.
With specialities in Cyber Security, Digital, Data and Architecture, he brings to Griffith his insights that are based on real-world experiences gained from some of the largest and most prestigious global firms including EY, Super Retail Group, Fujitsu and EDS. Mr Holzworth is a proud graduate from Griffith.
Peter Johnson
Peter holds a Bachelor of Information Technology degree and is an experienced ICT executive with more than 20 years within the IT industry. He has been a member of the Griffith University Industry Advisory Board for the last decade. He has held various leadership, sales, delivery and strategic technology positions in various businesses and within a number of industry sectors. These include both the public and private sector. His expertise is within consulting, software development and sales engagement, importantly he drives technology solutions to organisations to create a more sustainable world we live in. He is located in Brisbane Australia. Peter founded several ICT start-ups and has successful sold one of these business to a US Nasdaq listed entity in 2007. He supports and promotes the IT industry as a key note speaker at various summits and conferences and over the past 12 years has donated his time to mentor students.
Peter is the past Chair of Griffith University’s IAB for the School of ICT at and former IAB member at the University of Queensland.
John Robertson
John is an IT-Security professional with over 20-years experience across most IT-industry roles -- from Software Engineer to CTO. He is motivated to drive success, influence and innovate, and has successfully filed a number of patents with the US Patent Office.
John is a Griffith University alumnus having received two undergraduate degrees, and post-graduate qualifications from Griffith University. He is currently a Griffith University Adjunct Industry Fellow and as a past Chair, has been a member of its School of ICT's Industry Advisory Board since 2006. As a leader in the wider IT-community he has contributed in several capacities such as mentoring and leading Griffith University students whilst undertaking workplace placements, delivering guest lectures, participating in student forums, and has sat on the Australian Computer Society's University Accreditation Panel.
In his role as a Senior Software Engineer, John applies his technical expertise to developing highly secure, Enterprise-grade software-solutions using contemporary Agile DevOps SDLC methodologies across a wide range of full-stack frameworks and platforms deployed on both Cloud and on-premise infrastructures. He is currently engaged as a senior member of a high-performance team where he architects and delivers cutting-edge applications that manage and monitor physical access controls, and that identify and report on an organisation's Cybersecurity posture.
Barry Seager
Barry Seager began his career as a graduate engineer in research and development for radar systems for land and sea-based systems concentrating on digital signal processing. He followed this with five years in the telecommunications industry in Brisbane project managing development of new or upgraded telecommunication products for the international market. Over the last twenty years Barry has been with Raytheon Australia in the defence industry focussing on aerospace systems and related processes and regulations.
His current role is multifaceted, mostly as the Engineering Manager Sustainment focussing on asset management and support of in-service systems overseeing a team of engineering managers for multiple contracts.
Ben Ward
Ben is a proven and accomplished industry leader with more than 18 years’ diverse senior executive experience across finance, FMCG, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, regulation and pharmaceutical industries within public companies, private sector, government and non-profit organisations.
Trevor Turnbull
A leader in the IT industry with extensive and varied business and community experience across a diverse range of sectors. Commitment to and passion for the role of IT in business and community manifests in Directorship of Imagatec, long term membership of Industry Advisory Boards, guest lecturing at Griffith University, and IT responsibility for the children’s charity Aspirations 4 Kids.
Gary Morgan
Gary is an experienced board director, chief executive, consultant, and corporate advisor with over 25 years of deep strategy, innovation, and scale-up experience in the health tech, AgTech, information security and research sectors. He has a focus on driving new business growth through transformation, with a major focus on new and emerging digital technologies.
Gary is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and serves on the School of ICT's Industry Advisory Board. Gary has co-authored papers and reports published in leading entrepreneurship and medical journals. Gary has a Professional Certificate in Strategic Management from The Wharton School, a Master of Business Administration and Graduate Diploma in Computing from QUT and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Griffith University.
Michael Dickerson
Michael is a proud Wajarri-Nunda man “Desert meets Sea”, from Yamatji Country. With more than 20 years’ experience in the technology industry, Michael is currently the CEO & Founder of Kalinda IT (an Indigenous MSP) and Gambarra (an emerging technology aggregator / distributor).
Having started his career as an Engineer, Michael has delivered major projects for Government and Enterprise customers across the Asia Pacific region. This back ground in technology delivery has been instrumental in the formation of an Indigenous IT Apprenticeship program, a program that focuses on bridging the digital divide that exists with First Nations people across Australia.
Michael is currently rolling out Edge Data Centre across regional locations across Australia, creating in country jobs and pathways for local youth to embark on their IT Journey.
Jill Freyne
Dr Jill Freyne is Deputy Chief Scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. CSIRO solves the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology.
A highly experienced leader in digital health service delivery, Jill is recognised in Australia and internationally for her work in transformative health technology solutions. She is passionate about improving equity and accessibility in the healthcare industry and has extensive experience in leading teams to devise sustainable health innovations.
Jill joined CSIRO in 2013 and has held a number of leadership roles in digital health research, working extensively with government and industry partners. She received her PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin in Ireland and has held positions at the Clarity Center for Sensor Web technologies and IBM Research, USA.
Anil Patel
Anil is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Virtual MGR a leading RegTech company based in the United States focusing in the areas of oil & gas, healthcare and food operations. With over 20 years of progressively responsible leadership experience, Anil has witnessed the significant impact of cost-effective, easy-to-use technology within organisations and believes in its ability to create lasting change on a global scale. This informs his role as Global Chairman for Virtual MGR, a position he has held since 2018 after holding the position of Managing Director for the United States and United Kingdom from January 2014 – 2018. Prior to co-founding Virtual MGR, he worked with businesses such as Shell Oil Company and Accenture to provide operations and strategic support.
Anil holds a number of external Board roles in technology scale ups within Australia and the US utilising his experience to help connect entrepreneurs and foster the growth of technology enterprises. Anil received his First Class Honours degree in Retail Management from Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England and a Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
Chris Bradford
Chris is the Head of Technology, Digital at Westpac's Gold Coast Engineering Hub. He is a highly respected Digital and Technology Leader with over 20 years’ of experience.
Chris develops high-performing teams through his passion for Engineering, Data & Insights, and exceptional Customer Experiences.
Chris loves to solve complex problems and help others through his work in the community.
He balances this with a commitment to family and personal health and fitness.
Neil Fillingham
Neil is the co-founder and Global COO of Virtual MGR where he leverages his extensive background as a software developer and consultant to drive innovation and efficiency. With a career that spans roles such as CIO for Virtual Manager, CIO for Synchra, Development Manager in the quick-service restaurant solutions space, and founder of ECB Technology, Neil has consistently delivered value through dedication, in-depth research, and adherence to best practices.
Neil holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physics and a Master's degree in Computed Tomography from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. This strong academic foundation underpins his innovative approach to technology and leadership.
Based in Melbourne with his partner Lana and their three children, Neil values family time and applies the same principles of empathy and support in his personal life as he does professionally.