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Board of Governors

Di Robinson
Masters of Management, Bachelor of Arts, Post Grad Dip of Education
CEO, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

Storm McGrath
MBA
Director, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

Valerie Levy
PhD
Retired Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Emma Stein
MBA, BSc Hons Physics & Chemistry
Board Director, Clough Limited & Diversified Utilities Energy Trust

Louise Mayo
Bachelor of Business, Post Grad Dip of Business, MBA, Masters of Management, Doctorate of Business Admin
Director, Bull & Bear Special Assignments Pty Limited

Ross Wraight
BBus , Advanced Management Program, Marketing  Certificate
CEO, Standards Group Sydney/London

 

Academic Board
Ruth Foxwell
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, Grad Cert in Higher Education, Grad Cert Change Management
Associate Professor, University of Canberra
Chair, Academic Board, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

Ruth’s career has been a partnership between scientific practice in clinical microbiology and prevention of infectious disease in Australia, the UK and the Middle East; teaching and research in Universities: and undertaking significant leadership roles.  She currently serves as a member of the Australian Capital Territory Accreditation and Registration Council and is a Higher Education Advisor on their Higher Education Committee, is a member of the Executive of the Board for the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies and Chairs the National Qualifications Committee for the Australian Society for Microbiology.  She has previously been Chair of the University of Canberra Academic Board and has set up strategic initiatives with external stakeholders including sports feasibility studies and strategic developments in Health with the ACT Government.  She has also held varying senior university management appointments.
Kip McGrath
Dip Education
Director, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

Ian Forbes
B Arch, GradDipBA, M.Sc, FRAIA, MRAIC, AFACHSE

Director, Designinic Sydney Pty Limited

Professor Forbes is the immediate past-Head of School of Health Services Management within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, a position he held for seven years until he left the university at the end of 2001. He is currently the Head of the Health Portfolio at Woodhead, an international architectural and planning practice, based in Sydney. He is an Adjunct Professor and the Director of the Research Unit "Group for Health Architecture and Planning" (GHAAP) within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology Sydney.
Megan Thompson
GACC, EFS
University of Western Sydney

Ruth Neumann
PhD, Associate Professor in Management
Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University

Peter Jackson
PhD
Acting Academic Program Director, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

James Guthrie
BBus (RMIT), Grad Dip Acct (Deakin War), Grad Dip Ed (Tert USQ), MBus (Curtin), PhD (UNSW), FCPA, FCA
Honorary Professor, University of Sydney & University of Bolgna

Dr. Melissa Bordogna
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Head of Department Management and Marketing, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

 

Course Advisory Committee
Di Robinson
BA, Grad Dip Edu, MMgt
CEO, McGrath Institute of Business Australia

Andrew Dostine
Chief Executive Officer, Curricula: Education Solutions

Antony Drew
MBA (Merit), Advanced Diploma in (Hospitality), Management Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
Lecturer – University of Newcastle

Dr John Dumay
EMBA AGSM, MA MGSM, PhD Syd, ASA
University of Sydney

Dr Megan Thompson
GACC, EFS
University of Western Sydney

Sandra Cormack
BA Economics, Dip Edu
NSW & ACT Manager, Australian Human Resource Institute

Sunil Aranha
Head of Trade and Working Capital, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

 

Heads of Department
Dr. David Halfpenny
BSc, PhD
Head of Department Information Systems / Course developer

Dr. Halfpenny has been a lecturer for over 10 years at the Sydney Institute of Business and Technology and Macquarie University. Dr. Halfpenny's areas of interest are in computer science, programming and technology.
Dr. Melissa Bordogna
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Head of Department Management and Marketing / Course developer

Dr. Bordogna has over 10 years of teaching experience online and on-ground in both the USA and Australia.  She has taught for institutions such as the University of Denver, Baker College Online, the University of Notre Dame Sydney and Central Queensland University Sydney International Campus.  In addition to her academic work, Dr. Bordogna has nearly 12 years industry experience in the area of marketing communications and most recently, corporate training.  Dr. Bordogna’s areas of interest include e-marketing as well as human communication and media studies.     
Dr. Julie Sutherland
BEc, Grad Dip Dev Ec, MEc, PostGrad Dip Stat, PhD  
Head of Department Economics and Finance / Course developer

Dr Sutherland has 15 years experience lecturing and tutoring in the areas of economics and statistics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has taught at the University of Wollongong, the University of Technology, Sydney, and Trinity College, Dublin, from where she received her PhD in economics. Her research involves microeconometric analysis of the performance of local and multinational enterprises in both the Irish and Australian manufacturing sectors, with an emphasis on the productivity and export ability of firms.