Board

Dr Katherine Woodthorpe AO FTSE is one of Australia’s most influential people in innovation. In 2017, she received an Order of Australia for her ongoing service to research and technology innovation in Australia. She has been a professional director for over 20 years including as Chair of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Natural Hazards Research Australia, the Antarctic Science Foundation and the HEARing Cooperative Research Centre.
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Mark Hoffman is a globally-recognised academic leader, he is passionate about the power of global universities to lead economic and social change through top-class education embedded in a cutting-edge research and innovation ecosystem.
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Sue MacLeman has more than 30 years’ experience as a pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology executive having held senior roles in corporate, medical, commercial and business development. Sue has served as CEO and Board member of several ASX, AIM and NASDAQ listed companies in the healthtech sector.
Sue has held positions on several academic and government advisory boards including the Prime Minister’s Digital Expert Advisory Board, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity Advisory Committee, MTPConnect, DMTC Medical Countermeasures and Chair Health Security Systems Australia Advisory board and a number of COVID-19 taskforces including SITAG and EAG mRNA. Her broad commercial and technical experience is underpinned by a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from Deakin University and a Master of Marketing from Melbourne Business School. She is also a Fellow and former Chair of the Health Forum at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and Fellow/Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
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Emeritus Professor Anne Green has more than 30 years experience in strategic leadership and management in the university sector. She holds a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Subsequently, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Germany).
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Professor Mareels is the Lab Director, IBM Research Australia and an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. At IBM Research Australia he leads the development of the next generation of artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies and quantum computing software.

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Professor Elanor Huntington is the Executive Director – Digital, National Facilities & Collections for CSIRO. Prior to that, she was Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU) where she helped bring about significant transformation within the College and sector.
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Professor Paul Wood has over thirty years’ experience in R&D and been successful as a research scientist, an R&D leader and entrepreneur. He has led R&D teams from CSIRO, CSL and Pfizer Animal Health (now Zoetis) and was Deputy-Director of the Vaccine Technology CRC.
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Kylie Sproston is a chartered engineer and internationally experienced leader in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with a strong focus on manufacturing. She has expertise across the full pharmaceutical product lifecycle and has held senior positions in Australia and the UK in technical and management functions.
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Leeanne Bond is respected engineering leader with a passion for business, innovation, sustainability and decarbonisation. She has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and MBA from The University of Queensland and is an Independent Non-Executive Director and Board Chair. She is currently a non-executive director of Aurecon Limited, Snowy Hydro Limited, Entyr Limited (ASX:ETR) and One Basin CRC.
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Kylie is the Chief Executive Officer and works with Australia’s leaders in applied science, technology and engineering to advise decision-makers, lead crucial national conversations to solve complex challenges, and support Australia’s technology-powered, human-driven future.