Over the last 18 years, Emeritus Professor Mike Calford has held a number of esteemed roles in Australian universities, including Provost at the ANU, Provost at the University of Tasmania, DVC R at Newcastle and PVC (Health & Medical Research) at Wollongong. He has also served as Director/CEO at two institutes: Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and Hunter Medical Research Institute. After receiving a doctorate at Monash University, Mike held research and teaching roles at the Universities of Queensland, Newcastle and Melbourne and at the ANU. He also worked overseas at the University of Oxford, the University of California Irvine and City University of New York. Mike has had a long interest in the ethics and conduct of research, and has contributed to national policy in this area. He has championed high standards of practice in research generally, through both his employed positions, as a university and institute leader, and through representational roles at State and National levels. Mike spent 4.5 years as a Member Director on the Intersect Board in its developing years (2009-2013) and returned as an Independent Director and Chairman in late 2020.

Satish is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in financial services, technology and research sector. Prior to joining Intersect, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Rozetta Technology Pty Ltd, where he oversaw the Finance, Operations, HR and Legal functions. With a career spanning India, Singapore & Australia, he has worked for KPMG, Citibank, Reuters & First Data with primary focus on finance and business advisory roles.

Paul lectured in banking and risk management at The University of Sydney and UNSW until his retirement in 2019. Paul was Chief Financial Officer at the Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific (SIRCA) until 2011 and is currently Company Secretary of Intersect Australia Limited, the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship Limited and the Australian Genomic Cancer Medicine Centre Limited With over twenty years experience in international financial markets, Paul has extensive experience in the banking industry having worked for a number of banking organisations, including Advance Bank of Australia, the Australian Financial Markets Association, HongkongBank of Australia Limited (HSBC), Australian Bank Limited and the Commonwealth Banking Corporation following commencing his working career with the Sydney Water Board. Paul has also worked with a number of start up organisations with activities in financial services product development and risk management services. As Chief Financial Officer of SIRCA, Paul was responsible for all aspects of the management and operation of SIRCA Limited, including liaison with SIRCA’s key industry sponsors; the ASX, the Sydney Futures Exchange and the Australian Financial Market Association. In 1997 when SIRCA was established as a Public Company, his responsibilities included the development and implementation of legal arrangements and overall responsibility for all administrative and accounting functions. Prior to this, Paul held a succession of increasingly senior positions in HongkongBank of Australia Limited (HSBC), including Senior Manager of Treasury Financial Services, Associate Director of Treasury, Divisional Director of the Futures Broking operation and Assistant General Manager, Financial Markets Division as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Midland Bank plc Australia. Paul has also been consulted by the Advance Bank and the Australian Financial Markets Association, the latter where he co-authored AFMA’s submission to the Wallis Committee.

Kate is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Kate has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry with extensive knowledge of finance and risk. As a former Partner with PwC, Kate has worked in both Australia and the UK providing assurance and advisory services to clients. Kate was appointed as a Director of Intersect Australia Limited in December 2020 and is Chair of the Board’s Audit and Risk Management Committee. Kate is currently a Director of Integrated Research Limited and Total Risk Management Pty Limited. Kate previous experience includes as a Director of both for profit and not for profit organisations. Kate’s previous listed company experience includes as a Director of Australian Ethical Investment Limited.

Kirby has over 30 years IT experience, with over 20 of those spent in senior roles for university and postgraduate vocational education and research sectors. This includes nine years (2007-16) as UNSW’s Chief Information Officer. During that time Kirby established the “Research Domain” governance group that initiated and oversaw establishment of investment in research infrastructure and systems in conjunction with the University Library and the PVC Research. Kirby was heavily involved in the broader HE sector including instional benchmarking committee and chair of NAUDIT (NSW Universities). After leaving UNSW in 2016, Kirby continued various voluntary HE roles including reviews of university centres of research and as faculty and later Director of the HE Leadership program for senior Library and ICT staff in Universities and Research institutions (2013-19). From 2017 Kirby served as Chief Information Officer for GP Synergy which conducts training of medical doctors, work-force management (NSW&ACT) and primary healthcare research (NSW, VIC & Tasmania), before retiring in 2023. During this time Kirby was successful in GP Synergy’s certification against the international security standard (ISO 27001) from 2018. Kirby has been an active member of the Intersect Board (2014-16 as Member representative and Independent Director since 2020) and the Intersect BARM (since 2014).

Professor Ian Anderson leads the Research and Enterprise Division at Western Sydney University as the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise. Professor Anderson previously led Western Sydney University’s prestigious Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment between 2011 and 2024 as its Inaugural Director, shaping it into a world-leading research institute for terrestrial ecology and climate change sciences. Ian is a leading microbiologist whose research has pioneered a deeper understanding of soil fungal ecology and the role of microbes in regulating the soil carbon cycle. As Director of the National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre, co-located with the Institute, Ian has pioneered the University’s industry-engaged research footprint in agriculture and food security – an approach that extends to international water management through the Australia India Water Centre, training and innovation for protected cropping through the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Smart and Sustainable Horticulture, and climate resilience through the New South Wales Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre.

Professor Phil Parker is the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research (an executive role within the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor – Research and Enterprise) and Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Arts (an executive role within the Office of the Provost) at Australian Catholic University. He serves as Deputy Chair of the AI Council, the University Research Council, and the Foreign Interference and Transparency Committee. He is also a member of the University’s Enterprise Clinic. Professor Parker earned his doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Sydney, followed by a Jacobs Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has previously held roles as an ARC DECRA Fellow, Deputy Director of the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Dean of Graduate Research, and Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor – Research Impact at Australian Catholic University. His primary research interests include educational inequality, developmental transitions, and educational attainment. His work focuses on secondary data analysis of large-scale international education datasets.

Adelaide University | BE(Hons), MA, PhD, FIEAust, FIChemE, FNAI, FTSE Professor Anton Middelberg is the Deputy Vice Chancellor designing, leading and oversighting the Innovation and Research portfolio at Adelaide University. Anton is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the UK-based Institution of Chemical Engineers, and the US National Academy of Inventors. He earned his Bachelor and PhD degrees in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from The University of Adelaide. After a period as a Fulbright Fellow at UC Berkeley, Anton joined the University of Cambridge as a tenured academic with Fellowship of Selwyn College and the Cambridge-MIT Institute. In 2003 he was recruited back to Australia as a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and was then awarded the Queensland Premier’s Fellowship. During 2014-2017 he was the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and International) and Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at The University of Queensland. In 2017 Anton returned to The University of Adelaide as the Executive Dean of Engineering and then the Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice-President for Research. Anton is an internationally-recognised research and thought leader in the fields of advanced biomanufacturing, soft condensed matter and bio-nanotechnology. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles in science, engineering and health that have been cited more than 10,000 times, and is the recipient of the Brodie and Shedden-Uhde Medals of Engineers Australia.