AISAM 2008

Teaching staff

Dr Kate Andrews
Griffith University, Queensland

Dr Kate Andrews was awarded her PhD in 2000 for her pioneering research describing knowledge processes in a biomedical consortium. She has taught intellectual capital development and knowledge management at Masters level in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia since 2001. Dr Andrews is one of Australia's most respected practitioners in intangible assets, and led the international capital consulting team for a global professional services firm until 2007. She was also a member of the national group that developed Australia's first Knowledge Management Standard (AS5037 - 2005). She has developed intellectual capital and knowledge strategies for some of Australia's best known organisations and regularly leads executive masterclasses in Australia and Asia. She is now principal of a specialist knowledge and intellectual capital firm, Knowable (www.knowable.com.au).

Professor Ray Fells
University of Western Australia

Ray Fells is Associate Director of the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia. His background is in industrial relations in the UK where he worked as an adviser and conciliator. He has taught a range of workplace-related subjects and has published widely on topics ranging from an oral history of the Pilbara iron ore industry to the use of strategy and language in negotiation. Ray Fell's MBA unit on negotiation is one of the more popular electives at the UWA Graduate School and he also teaches negotiation on the MBA program at the Judge Institute, Cambridge University.

Emeritus Professor Darrell Mahoney
Australian National Business School

Professor Mahoney is the Academic Director of AISAM 2008. Prior to his appointment as the National Director of ANBS Ltd., Professor Mahoney was Director of Postgraduate Programs and Director of International Programs for the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University. Darrell has lectured extensively in Asia, Russia and North America and offered many industry-based executive development programs. He is the principal author of International Business: A Managerial Perspective, which won The Australian newspaper Award for Educational Excellence in 2002. Darrell has published widely in accounting, financial and corporate planning, financial modelling, general and accounting education, and international business.

Associate Professor Tim Mazzarol
The University of Western Australia

Tim Mazzarol is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the UWA Business School. He has designed several innovative courses in strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation and small business management for both MBA level programs and industry professional development.  This includes the pioneering Innovation Excellence Program (IEP) at UWA, and specialised workshops for the WA Government and Nokia Corporation. He is a shareholder and non-executive director for two small companies and consults widely to both industry and government and has authored two text books on small business and entrepreneurship and innovation.

Dr Peter Robertson
University of Wollongong

Dr Peter Robertson is Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Solutions at the University of Wollongong Graduate School of Business. In addition, he has 39 years of industry experience, most recently as Vice President Operations Planning at BlueScope Steel,. In such roles he has worked across a range of geographies including North Asia (China and Japan), South East Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand), North America (Canada and United States), Australia and New Zealand. Examples of Peter's work include BHP Steel's response to the Asian economic crises of 1997/1998, development of regional supply chain designs (e.g. South East Asian regional model), strategic supply chain studies (China, New Zealand and United States) and supply chain sales and operations planning (for BlueScope Steel's supply chain network).

Professor Roger Smith
The University of Western Australia

Professor Roger Smith's experience includes 15 years in the chemical and mining industries in Australia and Canada in production management, systems analysis and training and development, followed by ten years as a university lecturer specialising in organisational management.

From 1983 to 1996 Roger worked as a management consultant and is still a Director of Compass International Pty. Ltd. a Perth based consulting company. During his full time consulting career he worked with many WA companies and organisations as well as on many overseas projects in Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia and Mauritius which were sponsored privately or funded by the United Nations Development Program, the International Labour Organisation, AusAID or the World Bank. These overseas projects involved feasibility studies, project implementation or institutional strengthening and development.

Roger has authored or co-authored four books and has also written two class texts, one entitled Going Global.

David Neath
Deakin University

David Neath has a background in economic research for the National Australia Bank, Western Mining Corporation and BHP prior to academic appointments at Deakin University where he specialised in Public Economics and International Economics. He was Director of Deakin University's Master of International Business program and has taught in Xiamen, Shanghai and Beijing, China. His publications include four textbooks as well as journal articles and conference papers.

David has been involved with a number of major consultancy projects and has developed business strategy plans for many organisations. He was Leader of the Russian and CIS Education Project for the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau, from 1991-97 and oversaw projects delivered in Moscow, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Frjazino, Zhukovsky, Stavropol, Alma Ata, Bishtek, Donetsk and Kiev, and in Albania: Tirana, Skopje, Berati.