CRC CARE Directors serve a term of two years with one half by number retiring on the date of each Annual General Meeting. The Board includes an independent Chairman who is elected annually.

Chairman Russell Caplan FAICD

Russell Caplan graduated in Law from Melbourne University in 1968, joining Shell in the same year. His career with Shell spanned all the inhabited continents and many disciplines, working in Australia, the UK, Europe and the USA. Throughout his career his responsibilities included sales and marketing, strategic planning, business development, general management and executive directorship, across the upstream, downstream, and corporate sectors of the business.

In 2006 Mr Caplan took up the position of Chairman of Shell in Australia, from which he retired in 2010 after 42 years with the company. He also acted as Chairman of the Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP) from 2007 to 2009.

Russell is a non-executive director of Orica Limited and was elected to assume the role of chairman in 2014. He is also a non-executive director of Australian rail company Aurizon (formerly QR National), Chairman of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust, and sits on the boards of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.

Managing Director Professor Ravi Naidu B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D. FSSSA, FASA, FNZSSS

Before joining CRC CARE, Professor Ravi Naidu was the inaugural Director of the Australian Research Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation. He has researched environmental contaminants, bioavailability, and remediation for over 20 years. Ravi has co-authored over 300 technical publications and co-edited 8 books in the field of soil and environmental sciences including field remediation of contaminated sites. Ravi has worked with scientists from USA, Europe and Asia on environmental contamination including the recent arsenic poisoning of people in Bangladesh, India and China.

Ravi was awarded a Gold Medal in environmental science in 1998 by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, elected to Fellow of Soil Science Society America in 2000 and also Fellow of Soil Science Society of New Zealand in 2004. He is Chair of the International Committee on Bioavailability and Risk Assessment and a sitting member of the Victorian EPA Contaminated Sites Auditor Panel. He has also been Chair of the Standards Australia Technical Committee on Sampling and Analyses of Contaminated Soils (1999-2000), Chair of the International Union of Soil Sciences Commission for Soil Degradation Control, Remediation and Reclamation (2002-10), and President of the International Society on Trace Element Biogeochemistry (2005-07).

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Directors

Beth Laughton B.EC, FCA, FAICD

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Dr Rod Lukatelich Environmental Manager - BP Refinery Kwinana Pty Ltd B.Sc. (Hons),  Ph.D.  MAIBiol.

Dr Lukatelich’s career has spanned academia, environmental consulting and environmental management. As Environment and Dangerous Goods Manager he is responsible for monitoring and reporting emissions, providing wastewater treatment technical support, environmental impact assessment for new projects, solid waste management, groundwater production, soil and groundwater remediation, dangerous goods management and Major Hazardous Facility Safety Report. He has also supported BP’s global refining businesses as a Senior Environmental Technologist (1995-97) and as Water Technology Advisor (2004-06) in the areas of contaminated site assessment and remediation, and wastewater treatment. He has broad experience in regulatory systems, having worked in Asia, Europe, Americas, Middle East and Russia.

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Professor Andrew Parfitt   Pro Vice Chancellor, Information Technology,     Engineering and the Environment

Andrew Parfitt received his BE and PhD degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide. From 1987 he worked with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation at Salisbury in South Australia, and in 1992 he joined the academic staff of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Adelaide. From 1995 to 1997 he served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Adelaide; in 1998 he joined CSIRO Telecommunications & Industrial Physics (CTIP) in Sydney and in 2001 became Leader of the Space and Satellite Communication Systems Team.

Professor Parfitt led the Advanced Radio Frequency Systems program in the CRC for Satellite Systems (CRCSS) until March 2003, when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of CRCSS and concurrently General Manager for Space Programs in CTIP. In June 2004 he became Professor of Telecommunications and Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research at the University of South Australia while continuing as CEO of CRCSS.  From August 2007 he was Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia. In December 2012 he took up the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Newcastle.

He is a senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a Fellow of engineers Australia.  He is currently chair of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Radio Science and a member of the Council fo the International Radio Science union.  He is a Director of the Defence Teaming Centre, the Technology Industry Assocation and the Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management.  He has held adjunct appointments at Adelaide University, Sydney University and Macquarie University.  In January 2010 Professor parfitt was appointed to the Comonwealth Governement's Space Industry Innovation Council.

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Adjunct Professor Don Sinnott   PhD, LFIEEE, FIEAust, CPEng(Ret)

Don Sinnott is Adjunct Professor of Radar Systems with Adelaide University and an independent electronic systems consultant. He has been chief of a number of research divisions in sensing and IT disciplines within Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (1987-2000), the Department of Defence’s Canberra-based First Assistant Secretary Science Policy (1995-97), CEO of the CRC for Sensor Signal and Information Processing, and Company Board Chairman of the CRC’s spin-off companies (2000-03). He played a major role in development of Australia’s Jindalee over-the-horizon radar system and has chaired a number of academic and government technology policy committees and boards.

Don’s has extensive professional research and development experience in applied electromagnetics, including radio and radar systems, antennas and radio propagation, signal processing, and global navigation satellite systems (GPS and related systems).

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Anthea Tinney Chair, Australian National Commission for UNESCO Chair, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

Anthea Tinney is the Chair of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, Chair of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, a member of the Australian Government's Independent Communications Committee and an independent member of a number of public sector audit committees. She was previously the Chair of Land and Water Australia and the inaugural independent Chair of the Steel Stewardship Forum.

Ms Tinney was a deputy secretary in the federal environment portfolio and, prior to leaving the Australian Public Service in 2008, was appointed as the Interim CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive. Her public service career also included a period as the head of the Cabinet Office in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and some years in the Treasury.

Ms Tinney has served on several boards and has wide experience in public policy advising and government administration. Ms Tinney has a Bachelor of Economics degree and was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1995 for services to the Australian Cabinet system.

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Dr Paul Vogel Chairman, Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia

Dr Vogel has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Western Australia. He is Chairman of the WA EPA which is the primary source of independent advice to Government on the environmental acceptability of development proposals.

Prior to his recent appointment to this position in late 2007, he was the inaugural Chief Executive and Chairman of the South Australian EPA from November 2002, with responsibilities for environmental regulation, development assessment and radiation protection.

Paul has worked across the three tiers of government, business and the community and has extensive experience and knowledge in organisational and regulatory reform and strategic and collaborative approaches to sustainability, natural resources management, waste management, air and marine quality, site contamination and radiation protection.

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Charles Wong

Mr Charles Wong is a professional engineer who worked in the telecommunications industry in Canada for over 25 years until his move to HLM Asia Group Ltd Hong Kong in late 2005 as a Project Manager.  His responsibilities in the telecommunications industry included research and development, manufacturing, marketing, and product management for a multi-national telecommunication company. He has a B.A. Sc from the University of Toronto.

Mr. Wong’s main focus with the HLM Asia Group is on project management that includes corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, investment fund raising and initial public offering.  HLM is a financial consulting and investment firm with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing.  HLM has significant involvement in traditional energy and renewable energy business in People’s Republic of China. Mr Wong is currently overseeing CRC CARE’s research activities in China.

Company Secretary Cathy Cooper

Cathy Cooper has significant experience as a company secretary, having held a number of positions in both private entities and publicly listed companies. These roles have provided Cathy with extensive skills in both corporate governance and procedural matters. Incorporating her legal and business background, Cathy has strong expertise in areas including strategic planning, project management, business re- engineering and change management.

Cathy has a strong executive management background (with companies such as Elders LTD, Futuris Corporation, and Fosters Brewing Group) and has expertise in the specialist areas including IT, telecommunications, corporate services and contracts, banking and audit functions and all aspects of corporate governance. Cathy has enjoyed great recognition as an industry leader and to this end she was a finalist in both the 1997 and 1998 Telstra Business Womens Awards.

Cathy is able to share her executive level experience across a broad industry base. She is a highly successful executive who has particular insight into achieving work/life balance. Her board level experience also demonstrates her ability in the areas of people management, negotiation and strategic visioning.

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