Ian Dennis is the Managing Director of Whitehorse Strategic Group Ltd. He brings to any task the experience of extensive senior management in the information and professional services industries, and a track record of many successful consulting assignments. He specialises in strategic consulting, market and innovation development, scientific commercialisation, outsourcing and Government commercialisation.

Ian was previously Director, Strategic Market Development for Ernst & Young, Managing Director of two successful computer software and services companies, and a Director of a number of others. He has been awarded an Australian Design Award for software in 1987 and was made a Life Member of the Software and Services Industry Federation in 1989 for his services to the industry. He served continuously on Federal or State boards of IT trade bodies from 1981 to 1996 and was one of the Australian founders of ASOCIO (Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation). In 1993 he was awarded the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia - Microsoft Excel Award. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for significant contributions to the Australian information technology industry. Ian is a UN approved International Trade consultant (UNCTAD/GATT), and is security cleared by the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet and the Defence Department.

He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and Fellow of the ACS.

Dr Anthony Overmars, founder of Softronics, was named winner of the 2006 Victorian Pearcey Award. He has a background in engineering, robotics and control systems.

Softronics initially developed and manufactured emulators which enabled their customers to develop and debug processing systems for a wide range of ICT products.

Today Softronics products are used by almost all major chip and product developers worldwide, including Nokia/Siemens, Texas Instruments and Motorola. 90% of Softronics business is export, with twenty distributors worldwide.

He also plays an active role in research and post-graduate programs at Swinburne University and at The University of Melbourne.

Ed Dawson is currently the editor of PC Authority magazine, a national print title on consumer computing. PC Authority is widely known for industry-leading scientific lab-testing of computers and the latest popular consumer hardware. Ed Dawson has been writing and reporting on IT in Australia for over eleven years, for a range of computing-related publications.

PC Authority magazine is a national title on consumer computing that reaches a vast audience of IT professionals and enthusiasts around Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

ACS student and graduate members receive complimentary subscription to PC Authority magazine.

Philip Argy is the ACS President for 2006 - 2007. During his term as President, his plan is to focus on promoting professional standards as the most effective risk management strategy in the IT industry and bolster the public perception of the technology industry.

Professionalism is an important risk mitigation strategy and is critical to ensuring that Australia’s ICT sector is held in the highest regard by business, government and industry. He is committed to raising professional standards as he believes this is an essential step both for the future of the ICT sector and for the wider community.

Philip is a senior partner and has been with Mallesons Stephen Jaques for over 20 years. An experienced programmer who specialises in intellectual property, science and technology law, he has been interested in technology for over 35 years. His main areas of practice include patent litigation, commercial negotiations and dispute resolution strategies as well as outsourcing, electronic commerce and digital signatures. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Laws.

Among previous positions held, Philip has served the ACS as New South Wales Branch Chair, and has served multiple terms as Vice-President. He has also appeared as an expert witness before Senate Committee hearings into On-line Content Regulation, Cybercrime and Spam. In 1996, Information Age nominated him as one of Australia’s 50 most influential people in Information Technology (IT), and he was awarded a ComputerWorld Fellow in 1997 for services to the IT industry. In addition, Euromoney magazine’s ``Best of the Best’’ special report has repeatedly listed Philip as one of the twenty best information technology lawyers in the world.

Prior to this, she was Chief Information Officer at Australia Post and has held senior finance and IT roles, Company Secretarial positions and corporate strategy roles at Foster’s Brewing Group. Most of her career has been spent with Foster’s Brewing Group.

In 2006 she was recognized as one of the top 20 Asia Pacific CIOs by the CIO Executive Council, she was the IT&T’s CIO of the Year and was awarded Computerworld Fellow for 2001. She was also written up as one of the top 30 IT leaders in Australia in Robert Williams’ book “Success in IT”

Valda holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University. She is a certified practicing accountant (CPA) and a member of the Australian Computer Society (MACS).

Valda’s business related interests include speaking at conferences - local and international. She has held IT advisory board roles at both Monash and Melbourne University.

Her hobbies include landscape painting, building, gardening, interior design, and various sporting activities.

Jeff Alexander started at Microsoft in August 1987 as a Support Professional focusing on management tools for Microsoft's Enterprise customers. Since then he has moved through several external facing roles before taking on one of the Worlds largest Server consolidations -Microsoft's Asia Pacific infrastructure. 

Jeff Alexander  now focuses his passion for Infrastructure and management technologies as an Evangelist promoting and enabling the community of  IT Professionals through vehicles as Technet events; blogging, the TechNet Web Site (Technet lounge), User Groups, MVP's, and online webcasts.

Want to know how to get your application noticed? Want to understand the uses & of various types of IT resumes? Do you want to learn how to make your resume informative & covering letter persuasive?

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