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JOHN WOLFRAAD
BCom (UNSW), CPA, FAICD
Chairman |
John Wolfraad has held roles as Vice President
and General Manager of Honeywell International Inc, and also as
Managing Director of Honeywell Limited in Australia and New Zealand.
Previous Directorships include the Australian Quality Council and
a public company listed in India.
Under John's leadership, Honeywell in Australia
and New Zealand (and later with Honeywell in Asia Pacific) achieved
significant cultural change and greatly improved its organisational
performance on a wide range of metrics such as innovation, customer
advocacy, employee satisfaction and shareholder return.
Significant organisational achievements during
John's tenure as Managing Director include the Australian Business
Excellence Prize, the Australian Quality Award, Apprentice of the
Year, Employee of the Year, and the Women in Engineering Award.
Honeywell achievements have been published in the Best Companies
to work for in Australia, the Most Promising Companies to work for
in Australia, and in the Handbook of Strategic Partnering.
John is also Chairman of three other high technology
organisations, namely Unisearch Ltd, Cystemix Pty Ltd, and Hepatocell
Therapeutics Pty Ltd.
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RICHARD W. SHARP
BSc BE (Hons), PhD (Syd), FAICD
Managing Director and CEO |
Richard has over 20 years experience in the management
of complex development projects in both the private and public sectors,
ranging across research commercialisation, specialised technical
consulting, and major infrastructure projects. He has also served
on the boards of private and public companies commercialising new
technology.
Richard has been involved in the quantum computer
project since the first patents were filed in 1998, in his then
role as Director of Technology Commercialisation for Unisearch Limited.
During 2003, Qucor Pty Ltd was launched as the
company to actively commercialise the intellectual property portfolio
being developed by the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT),
and at that time Richard moved from Unisearch to become CEO and
Managing Director of Qucor.
Richard also works in the dual role of Chief
Operations Officer of the CQCT, coordinating its strategic interaction
with industry, and its intellectual property protection and development.
He is also a member of the Centre's Advisory Committee.
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ROBERT G. CLARK
BSc PhD (NSW), MA (Oxford)
Director |
Robert is Director of the Centre for Quantum
Computer Technology, is a Professor of Experimental Physics
and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales,
and is an Australian Government Federation Fellow.
His early career involved 10 years service
as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy attaining the rank
of Lieutenant. On resigning from the RAN he completed a PhD
in Physics at UNSW and the Clarendon Laboratory, University
of Oxford.
At the Clarendon Laboratory from 1984,
he headed a research group investigating quantum effects in
advanced semiconductor systems. He returned to Australia in
1991 to take up the position of Professor of Experimental
Physics at UNSW, where he established the National Magnet
Laboratory and Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility. These
facilities provide an Australian capability to fabricate sophisticated
semiconductor nanostructure devices and to measure their quantum
properties. He was appointed Director of the ARC Special Research
Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in 2000 (ARC Centre
of Excellence from 2003).
At Oxford Robert received a Wolfson award
in 1988 for prestigious research and was conferred UK Mott
Lecturer at the European Physical Society Meeting in 1991
for his research in condensed matter physics. In 1998 he was
awarded the Walter Boas Medal of the Australian Institute
of Physics, and in 2000 was honoured with the title Scientia
Professor at the University of NSW. In 2001 he was elected
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was a recipient
of an inaugural Federation Fellowship by the Australian Government.
In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal and was selected
in the Bulletin Magazine's Australian "Smart 100"
list for innovation and achievement.
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ALEC J. CAMERON
BSc BE (Hons) (Syd), DPhil (Oxford), MS (New York), GAICD
Director |
Alec Cameron is Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Resources at the University of New South Wales, with responsibility
for the planning and management of UNSW's financial, property
and technology resources to support the achievement of the
University's mission.
Alec spent the previous seven years in
senior corporate roles in the IT and telecommunications industry.
These included positions as National Manager for Products
and Infrastructure Solutions at Sun Microsystems Australia,
General Manager of the Telstra Account at Alcatel Australia,
Director of Technology at COMindico, and several General Manager
roles at Telstra, including in Telstra Research Laboratories.
Previously, Alec was the inaugural Program
Manager for the Australian Graduate School of Engineering
Innovation, an advanced engineering centre jointly established
by Australian government, university and corporate sponsors.
This followed a period of seven years overseas, which comprised
postgraduate study at Oxford University and four years at
the Research Laboratories of Philips Electronics in New York.
He has also worked with the Defence Science and Technology
Organisation (DSTO) in Sydney.
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ANDREW S. DZURAK
BSc (Syd), PhD (Cambridge) Alternate Director
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Andrew is a Professor in the School of Electrical
Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South
Wales, and is Deputy Director of the Semiconductor Nanofabrication
Facility.
He is also Program Manager for the Integrated Quantum Computer Devices
program in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, and the Centre's
NSW Node Manager.
Andrew manages the Centre's program in the development
of integrated devices for the control and read-out of phosphorus
qubits in silicon. In the near term this is being approached via
a 'top-down' strategy in which individual phosphorus donors are
implanted into a device at precise locations using advanced techniques
such as electron beam lithography and single ion implantation, the
latter through close collaboration with Centre researchers at the
University of Melbourne.
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