Faculty of Science

Industry Advisory Group (IAG)

The Industry Advisory Group provides advice to the Faculty on its teaching and research programs and contributes to Faculty strategic planning. The Advisory group comprises members from industry, Faculty staff and a student representative.

Industry Advisory Group members

Dr. Les Trudzik (Chair: Industry Advisory Group)

Director, The Allen Consulting Group

Les Trudzik is Director, The Allen Consulting Group, a role he has recently assumed after a period as the Director Public Services, KPMG. Les had extensive experience assisting organisations improve their performance through managing business transformation and change programs, through reviewing and reengineering core business processes and through general strategy, management and business advisory services.

Les completed a B.Sc. (Hons) and a PhD in Operations Research at the University of Melbourne. He has a Graduate Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Chisholm Institute of Technology. He is a Founding Member and past-Chair of the School Advisory Board, Peninsula School of Network Computing at Monash University and is a member of the Australian Computer Society.

Ms. Jayne Facey

State Manager, Victoria, AusIndustry

Jayne Facey is the State Manager of the Victorian Office of AusIndustry. Her current role involves the management of a range of industry development activities. These include the Commonwealth Government's Innovation programs as well as the national delivery of development programs for the textiles, clothing and footwear and automotive industries.

Prior to joining AusIndustry in 1995, Jayne was with the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Development Authority for eight years. She has been with the Australian Public Service for over 20 years, working for the Departments of Defence and Aviation, the Bureau of Meteorology and Comcare. Jayne previously worked as a secondary school teacher and youth worker.

Jayne has a BA from the University of Melbourne and a Diploma of Education from Monash University.

Mr. Roy Rose

Executive Director , ITL Limited

Mr Roy Rose is a graduate of Monash University and has over thirty-five years experience in the paint and chemicals industries in a career that has seen him gain experience in technology management, general management, sales and marketing and operations/production management. During the early 1990s, Roy was European Manager - Specialised Coating Group for ICI paints, based in the UK. On his return to Australia in 1994, Roy was appointed to the role of R&D Manager Asia Pacific with responsibility for the broad aspects of technology management across the Asia Pacific region for the ICI Paints group. Following the sale by ICI Plc of its interests in ICI Australia in 1997, Roy was subsequently appointed to the role of General Manager - Technology at Orica, a position he held until his retirement at the end of 2005.

In 2005 he was appointed to the board of ITL Limited , a specialist medical products company operating in the fields of medical procedure packs and blood banking products. He has since taken on the role as Executive Director ITL Healthcare while the business undertakes a search for a General Manager.

Dr. Errol McGarry

CEO, Australian Industrial Research Group

At the end of 2002, Errol retired as Business Technology Manager at Huntsman Corporation Australia where he carried the overall strategic responsibility for technology in a company which is critically dependent on its technology.

Since completing his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, Errol has held a variety of positions in the chemical industry in the UK and Australia.

Prior to his role at Huntsman, Errol was Research & Technology Manager - Asia Pacific Region in ICI Surfactants, with responsibilities extending from India to South Korea. His career with ICI included a period with ICI Pharmaceuticals Division in the UK.

Errol is past president and CEO of the Australian Industrial Research Group (AIRG) and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

Dr. Thomas W. Quirk

Principal, Quirk Partners

Tom Quirk has interests in venture capital, fund raising and investment management as well as business advisory work.

He is Chairman of Virax Holdings, an immunotherapy based biotechnology company and the Victorian Rail Track Corporation, a Victorian State Government corporation managing the statewide third party rights and property opportunities of the railway and tram systems. He is a Director of Biota Holdings Ltd, and is also Deputy Chairman of VENCorp which is involved in the energy markets in electricity and gas. In addition, he is a director of a number of companies in areas that range from medical investment to publishing. He has interests in a number of developments in technology including a U.S. computer peripheral business.

Prior to 1987, he was Chief Consultant (General Manager) in the mining company, CRA and spent 1985 to 1986 seconded to work in the $70 m. venture capital fund run by James D. Wolfensohn in New York. He was on the Board of Applied Electron in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Between 1981 and 1985 he worked in a new business group in CRA that initiated business development before it was passed onto other management groups within the company. During this time he helped start CRA's involvement in Biotechnology Australia and initiated Nilcra, the high performance ceramic business. He first joined CRA in 1978, working first at Bougainville Copper in New Guinea and then at CRA headquarters.

Prior to this, he spent 15 years in the U.K. and USA as an experimental research physicist, a University Lecturer and Fellow of three Oxford Colleges. During this time he worked in the United States with colleagues at Harvard and Chicago and in Europe at Geneva and Hamburg.

He has been Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, and on the Council and Board of Management of Trinity College, University of Melbourne. He has been a Director of the Genomic Disorders Research Centre, a research institution established at St Vincent's Hospital.

Tom Quirk has an SMP degree from the Harvard Business School, Master of Science and Arts degrees and is a Doctor of Philosophy.

Mr. Philip Binns

Managing Director, Varian Australia Pty Ltd
General Manager, Varian Pacific Rim Region

Mr Binns' background is in Applied Science along with post-graduate qualifications in Marketing and an MBA from The University of Melbourne. He joined Varian Australia in 1994. He has held a number of management positions in product development, marketing, operations and sales within the Varian Global organization.

In 2004, he was appointed Managing Director of the Australian operations and in 2005 General Manager of Varians operations throughout the Pacific Rim, which includes the subsidiary operations in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan and operations throughout South-East Asia.

Dr. Jane Ryan

Vice President, Product Development, Biota Holdings Limited

Dr Ryan has many years of international experience in the Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Industry where she managed research and development programs, as well as having key roles in business development and alliance management.

Dr Ryan has worked at Roche and Columbia University in the USA and with Peptech and Cambridge Antibody Technology in the UK. Since returning to Australia, she worked with Peptech before joining Biota Holdings Ltd where she has held senior roles in product development, commercialization, business development and alliance management.

Dr Ryan is currently the Vice President, Product Development and oversees the development of products for the treatment and prevention of Rhinovirus, Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

Dr Ryan is a member of the following Boards, Diabetes Australia - Victoria, Bio Innovations SA and more recently the Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre.

Dr. Ian Crick

Innovation and Technology Manager, Orica Consumer Products - Decorative Division

Ian Crick joined Orica in 2007 and is currently the Innovation and Technology Manager for Orica Consumer Products, Decorative Division. In this role he is responsible for technology and product development, supporting a range of paint and protective coatings marketed under icon brands including Dulux, Berger, British and Cabots.

Ian joined Orica after a long career with Eastman Kodak commencing as a Chemist in the Research and Development group in 1988. Following this, he managed a portfolio of projects related to improved manufacturing of photographic materials before moving into a commercial role as a Product Manager in the Kodak Professional Division. He then held a number of marketing and business management positions with responsibilities for professional photographic products in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

Ian holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration from Monash University.

Prof. Robert Saint

Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Robert Saint is currently Dean of the Faculty of Science. He gained his undergraduate, honours and PhD degrees from the University of Adelaide, studying gene structure and expression in the earliest days of recombinant DNA technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University for three years, supported by CSIRO and Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowships, working on the genetic regulation of animal development.

On returning to Australia in 1982, he worked as a scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Inst. and at the CSIRO before taking a senior lectureship at the University of Adelaide in 1989, where he pioneered research into cell cycle control during animal development and developed new courses in cell and developmental biology. During this time he was nominated by the University of Adelaide for an Australian University Teaching Award.

In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the University of Adelaide and was Head of the Dept. of Genetics from 1994 to 1999. He served on the ARC Biological Sciences Panel from 1995-1997 and was an ARC Special Investigator from 1997-1999. From 2000-2008 he was Director of the ARC Special Research Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development (CMGD), which began at the University of Adelaide before expanding into the ANU following Professor Saint's move there in 2002 to take up the position of Professor of Molecular Genetics and Evolution at the ANU Research School of Biological Sciences.

He was elected a Member of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network, awarded the Julian Wells Medal of the Lorne Genome Conference, the MJD White lecturer of the Genetics Society of Australia and, last year, awarded the President's medal of the Aust. New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology. He is a member of the ARC College of Experts (2008-2010) and this year is Chair of the ARC Biological Science and Biotechnology panel.

His research centres on the genetic and molecular basis of cell division and cell migration during animal development using Drosophila as a model organism.

Prof. Franz Grieser

Deputy Dean & Associate Dean (Research & Industry), Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Professor Franz Grieser is a Professor in the School of Chemistry . He is an executive member of the ARC Special Research Centre Particulate Fluids Processing Centre and the Program Leader of its Liquid-Liquid Systems research activities. Franz is Deputy Dean and Associate Dean (Research and Industry) in the Faculty of Science and is Chair of the Research and Industry Committee.

Franz completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at The University of Melbourne. He undertook post-doctoral studies at The University Notre Dame, Indiana, and the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin. He was QEII fellow prior to taking up a lectureship at The University of Melbourne. He maintains an extensive collaborative network with major research groups locally and internationally and has published over 250 research articles.

His major research interests cover a wide range of topics in surface and colloid chemistry. The general themes of the programs in which he has been engaged have dealt with the physico-chemical characterisation of interfaces and reactions at interfaces. In recent years he has developed several research programs examining the use of ultrasound to initiate chemical reactions in aqueous systems.

Franz is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute ( RACI ) and the Australian Academy of Science, and a member of the editorial board of research on Chemical Intermediates. He is also a member of the Peer Review College EPSRC (UK).

Enquires concerning IAG should be forwarded to:

Ms Janette Hocking
Faculty of Science
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5949
Fax: +61 3 8344 6293
Email: janetteh@ unimelb.edu.au
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