I was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1956. Quite fortuitously and this owed nothing other than to good fortune my first brief was as a very junior junior to a team led by Sir Garfied Barwick appearing in the Privy Council. After that I developed a nice practice as a junior in commercial and constitutional matters in various Courts in Australia, Papua New Guinea with an occasional excursion to London to the Privy Council. In 1973 I took silk. In 1979 I was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in charge of the Commercial List and some years later was appointed the foundation Chief Judge of the Commercial Division which dealt with all commercial disputes as well as matters of corporate governance. I was fortunate enough to sit on a number of high profile commercial matters such as AWA, Alan Bond and other high flyers of the 1980s. As Chief Judge, I was an additional Judge of the Court of Appeal and sat on important matters such as Mareva Injunctions and similar issues of great commercial importance. I retired from the Court in 1993.

Peter Warne worked for Bankers Trust Australia Ltd for over 18 years and as Head of their Financial Markets Group for 11 years. When the investment banking business of BTA was sold to Macquarie Bank Ltd in 1999 Peter worked as a consultant to Macquarie for six months to assist with integration issues. Peter also holds a number of Board positions including the SFE, the Sydney Futures Exchange Clearing House, Austraclear, Australian Leisure and Entertainment Property Management, Next Financial and the Australian Office of Financial Management.

David Skellern worked in radioastronomy for 10 years and taught electronics at Sydney and Macquarie Universities for 16 years before coming to prominence in the IT industry through Radiata, which he co-founded in 1997. Built on joint research done by Macquarie University and the CSIRO, the company demonstrated the world’s first chip-set implementation of the 54 Mbit/s IEEE 802.11a High-Speed WLAN standard. Radiata was sold to US giant Cisco Systems in 2001 for $565 million.

Dr Skellern joined the Board of National ICT Australia in 2003 and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2005.

Andreas Furche's focus is on development and commercialisation of new technologies in capital markets, banking, and payments. His previous positions include Managing Director of DigiCash Asia/Pacific, and Director, Financial Services Sector, at Electronic Trading Concepts. He has authored a book on electronic payment systems and his research includes work on the security of international financial networks.

Aldo Martinez is a partner in AJM Advisory Services providing consulting services in financial industry regulation. Aldo has been in the securities industry for over 30 years. In March of 2008, he retired from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Regulation as a Vice President in the Division of Market Surveillance.

While at the NYSE Regulation, he worked in many aspects of Regulation as an Enforcement Attorney, Director of Regulatory Audit and coordinated the development of highly sophisticated insider trading detection and investigative systems. He also managed the Division's Market Trading analysts and attorneys and was responsible for options surveillance.

Aldo is currently an Adjunct Professor at St. Peter's College, NJ, teaching MBA courses on Derivatives and Investment Analysis.

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Professor Brungs has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

Key responsibilities include:

The development and implementation of a research strategy which fulfils the UTS vision to be a world leading University of Technology.  In particular oversee UTS’s strategic research investments, research performance and ensuring excellence through skill building and support of research and academic staff.

Further promotion of research collaboration with industry and government and building strong linkages in the research and innovation sector nationally and internationally.

Continued enhancement of the quality of UTS postgraduate research education and the building of a vibrant research community.

Mary O’Kane is NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer and is Executive Chairman of Mary O’Kane & Associates Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based company that advises governments, universities and the private sector on innovation, research, education and development.

Professor O’Kane was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1996-2001 and has served on many boards and committees in the public and private sectors, nationally and internationally.

Professor Michael Fry is with the School of Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. He has previously held positions at Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor levels at Sydney. Prior to this, Michael was with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) where he was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology.

Professor Cameron is the inaugural Dean of the Australian School of Business at The University of New South Wales. He was appointed to this role in August 2006, having been responsible for managing the integration of the Australian Graduate School of Management with the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, leading to the creation of the Australian School of Business.

He had previously held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources and Infrastructure) at UNSW since September 2003, with responsibility for the planning and management of the University's financial, property and technology resources to support the achievement of the University's mission.

A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Cameron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Science and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours. He also holds a University Medal from the University of Sydney, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in robotics from Oxford University, and a Master of Science degree in the Management of Technology from Polytechnic University, New York.