Tony is a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Mergers & Acquisitions/International Tax Services Group in Sydney and has been with PwC since 1978. He was admitted as a partner of the Taxation Division in 1986. Since 1988 he has been a Lead Partner of Australian Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions and International Group. He is currently a member of the firm’s Board of Partners. Tony advises many Australian multinationals on their international business transactions. He is regularly included as an adviser on the largest transactions in Australia each year. Tony has been nominated by the International Tax Review as one of Australia’s leading tax advisers for many years. He holds a Bachelor of Economics, Sydney University and was awarded the T.J. McGoffin Prize for Taxation Law. Tony is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a Member of the International Fiscal Association.

Tom graduated from Princeton University, USA in 1985 with an A.B. in Political Economy and holds an Executive MBA from University of Oxford, England. Tom is the Chairman for the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, President of the Princeton Alumni Association of Australia and has been a member of Finsia since 1993.

Harold is a Tax Partner in the Perth office of Deloitte and leads Deloitte’s Asia Pacific and Australian oil and gas tax team. Harold has over 27 years tax consulting experience, specialising in corporate and international tax. Harold has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and is an Affiliate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Member of the Tax Institute of Australia.

Mr. Richard is a practicing lawyer in both Australia and the USA, and is founder and Chief Executive Officer of the boutique advisory firm jdrlegal Pty Ltd, with 5 offices around the world.

Mr. Richard has specialist knowledge and expertise in the commercialization of intellectual property across borders, in particular between Australia and the USA.

Mr. Richard is also on the board of Australian New Zealand Technology Conference (ANZATEC) based in Silicon Valley, California.

Ian Thomas was named President of Boeing Australia and South Pacific in March 2009. As the senior Boeing executive in the region, he is responsible for coordinating all Boeing activities and leads the Company’s government affairs efforts. Previously, Thomas was president of Boeing India.

Thomas has also served as vice president, Europe, for Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems.

From 2002 to 2005, Thomas served as vice president, Business Development, leading Boeing’s defence activities in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as director of International Policy for Boeing’s Military Aircraft and Missile Systems division in St. Louis.

A well-known Adelaide-based marketer, Ron operates his own strategic marketing consultancy specialising in branding, marketing communications and strategic marketing planning.

He also lectures in marketing in the MBA programs of the International Graduate School of Business at the University of SA and the Le Cordon Bleu School and is a Chair with TEC (The Executive Connection).

Ron was previously Executive Manager, Marketing with Adelaide City Council, Chief Executive of the Australian Institute of Management (SA) and Marketing Manager with ETSA Power.