Prof. Adolph M. Hanich, BE, FDipM. Grad.Dip.Psych.

Prof. Hanich was appointed on 16 December 1988. He is currently working as a psychotherapist and an adjunct Professor of Strategy at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, a school of which he was a Founding Director. Prior to his current roles, Adolph was the Chief Executive of Fairhaven Associates Pty. Ltd. and a Senior Partner with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Prof. Hanich has held various senior positions with a number of organisations, including: Rentokil Group Limited; Freighter Industries Limited; Plessey Pacific Group; and ICI Australia Limited.

Ms. Sujatha Pannell B.A. (Hons) Dip. Ed.

Sujatha Pannell was appointed on 4 June 1998. She currently works as a Consultant in Education. Sujatha was a Senior Manager with the National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) and prior to that she had been General Manager of the Education Trust Victoria, a company established to build partnerships between business, the community and government schools. Before that she was a Senior Policy Officer in the Multimedia and Cross-Sectoral Programs Branch of the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Education. She has been a teacher, worked on curriculum and assessment and was Secretary to the Boards of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board and the Board of Studies, as well as a member of the Education Network Australia (EdNA) Marketing Group.

Ms Ricci Swart BEc (Monash)

Ricci Swart was appointed in December 2009.  Ricci has over twenty years experience in multimedia development and film production and extensive experience in the education sector.  She founded Ricci Swart Multimedia Pty Ltd, which produced award winning documentaries and a recent release feature film, and dotPhilanthropy, a consulting firm advising the philanthropic sector on the potential of information technology.  Ricci was the inaugural Manager of the Victorian Government’s Multimedia 21 Fund and was on the Advisory Committee of the Film Victoria, Digital Media Fund.  She is currently on the Board of The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), The Koorie Heritage Trust and The Centre for Adolescent Health.

Prof. Sally Joy

Sally Joy was appointed in December 2009.  Sally has worked in education technology for more than twenty five years. She worked at Monash University in a wide range of roles including, Head of the Department of Marketing, and Associate Dean, Education, Technology and Innovation and was the inaugural academic director for Open Universities Australia. She has published widely in the area of education and buyer behaviour and has a strong interest in how technology supports a move to a more sustainable lifestyle. She has worked with the Telematics Trust since 1996 and chaired the funding assessment group for over ten years. Sally is currently the Director of the Australian College of Applied Psychology.