About Us
Board of Directors
Board of Directors & Office Holders
President: Steve Vamos, Vice President, Online Services Group, Microsoft Corp
Vice-President: Alex Malley, CEO, USANZ
Secretary: Bruce Hills
Treasurer: Warwick Watkins, Director General, NSW Department of Lands
Chief Executive Officer (Acting): Christina Boedker
Steve Vamos
Vice President, Sales & International Operations
Microsoft Online Services
Steve Vamos leads Sales and International Operations for Microsoft Corporation's Online Services Group (OSG). He is responsible for the leadership, management, and performance of global and U.S. online advertising sales across all Microsoft properties (MSN®, Live™ Search, Live.com, Office Live, and Xbox®) and oversees the organization's international business in more than 30 countries spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Prior to this role, Steve was Vice President of Microsoft in Australia and New Zealand, responsible for the relationships with customers, governments, and business partners from 2003 to January 2007.
Between 1998 and 2002, Steve served as Chief Executive Officer of ninemsn, the on line joint venture between Microsoft and Australian media industry leader Publishing and Broadcasting Limited. During that time ninemsn developed from start up to Australia's leading on line media company.
Other roles Steve has held include, Vice President and Managing Director of Apple Computer Asia Pacific (1996 to 1998), Managing Director of Apple Computer Australia (1994 to 1995) and 14 years with IBM Australia in a number of sales, marketing and general management positions.
In 2004 and 2005, the Australian Financial Review included Steve in the top five listing of the most influential members of the Australian technology industry.
Steve serves on the board of ninemsn and holds a degree in Civil Engineering (with Honors) from the University of New South Wales.
Alex Malley
Vice-President and Director
Vice-president, CPA. Chairman, Australiasian Reporting Awards (Inc.) Alex Malley is Chairman of Australasian Reporting Awards (Inc.) - an independent not-for-profit organisation supported by volunteer professionals from the business community and professional bodies concerned about the quality of financial and business reporting. Alex has 15 years experience in both community consulting and the tertiary education sectors. His consulting interests and educational perspectives focus on cash flow management and strategy development. He has been a finalist in the University National Teaching Awards. Alex joined the Board in 2002. Alex succeeds John Horder AM who will remain on the ARA Board as Immediate Past Chairman.
Bruce Hills
Secretary
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Warwick Watkins
Treasurer
Warwick Watkins is the Director General of the Department of Lands, Surveyor General and Registrar General of NSW.
Warwick received a Dip Ag with Honours from Hawkesbury Agricultural College (now UWS) and gained further postgraduate degrees and diplomas from the University of New England, including a Masters Degree in Natural Resources. He also studied at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.
Positions Currently Held:
- Norfolk Island Surveyor General
- Pro Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney
- President of the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI)
- Chair of the Geographical Names Board (GNB)
- Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)
- Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultra-High Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
- Deputy Chair of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRC SI)
- Deputy Chair of the CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship Advisory Council
- Member, National Land and Water Resources Audit Advisory Council
- Member, Australian Government's Consultative Committee on Knowledge Capital
- Honorary Associate of the Graduate School of Government
- Fellow of the Australian Property Institute
- Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors of NSW
Previous Positions:
Commissioner, NSW Soil Conservation Service; Director General of the Department of Conservation and Land Management; Director General, State and Regional Development; Chief Executive Officer, Waterways Authority; and Director General of the Department of Information Technology and Management.
He also headed the NSW Electricity Reform Taskforce. He is a former Vice President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Murray Darling Basin Commission; former Director of the CRC for Smart Internet Technology, former Director of Land and Water Australia and a past foundation Director of Landcare Australia Limited.
Christina Boedker
Chief Executive Officer (Acting)
Christina has over 12 years of research and industry experience with UK, US and Australian organisations. She has held positions as Department Head in operations and marketing management, and headed consulting and research projects on intangible resources, risk management, knowledge management and business strategy with organisations such as Minter Ellison, Carlson Companies, the Department of Finance, LexisNexis, Microsoft, the NSW Department of Lands, CSC, Westpac Banking Corporation, and the Centre for the Management of Knowledge Capital.
Christina has been awarded the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2006 for her research on intellectual capital. She also holds the UK Advertising Standards Authority Award; the Mindshift Consulting Group Prize; Saunders Harris’ Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement; the Carlson Companies’ Award; MGSM’s Award for Competitive Intelligence; and MGSM’s Award for Human Resources Management.
Christina is the author of the Australian Guiding Principles on Extended Performance Management (draft) and been a member of the Committee of Management of the Society for Knowledge Economics (2005-07). She has provided advice on the research initiatives of the Society bringing together industry practitioners, professional associations and researchers. She holds company directorships with Knowledge Management Solutions International, Australia, and PELS WS, New Zealand. Christina has acted as Lecturer in Charge of three post-graduate subjects, Managing Intangible Resources, Managing Agile Organisations, and Financial Accounting, at the University of New South Wales.
Christina has published in the Journal of Human Resource Costing Accounting, the AAAJ, the CPA, and the Journal of Intellectual Capital. She is a member of the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Human Resources Costing and Accounting, and also previously the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change. She has presented papers on intellectual capital at Parliament House in Melbourne during the 2005 GAP Congress on Knowledge Capital; the 2006 ICAA Conference; the 2005 EAA Conference; and the 2004 Congress on Intellectual Capital in Helsinki.
