| Mr Matt Ainsaar Managing Director Urban Enterprise Matt Ainsaar is the Managing Director of Urban Enterprise, a planning and land economics consultancy, which he established 25 years ago. Matt has extensive experience in development contributions spanning more than 20 years and regularly appears as an expert witness at Planning Panel and VCAT hearings. His firm has developed a software application called DevCAP to assist Councils in the administration of DCPs. Urban Enterprise also prepared a number of reports to assist the Standard Development Contributions Advisory Committee. Matt is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Australian Property Institute and is Chairman of the Property Council of Australia’s Economic Development Committee. | |
| Mr Trevor Budge Strategy Manager City of Greater Bendigo Trevor Budge AM is the Manager, Strategy at the City of Greater Bendigo, he is an Associate Professor in the Planning Program at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus. He has 35 years’ experience in planning in particular working in regional cities and country towns. He has worked for State government and regional bodies and spent 16 years running his own consulting business. He is a Life Fellow of the Planning Institute and played a key role in their post tsunami project in Sri Lanka. | |
| Mr Mike Day Founding Partner Roberts Day Mike Day is a founding partner of RobertsDay, a Planning | Design | Place consultancy with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Mike leads the firm’s design teams responsible for shaping and delivering an array of urban renewal projects and new towns throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UAE. In 2009, DPCD appointed Mike to the independent panel that nominated the 900-hectare Werribee East landholdings within the City of Wyndham as a model 21st century city for metropolitan Melbourne.
Mike is a fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has been based in Melbourne since 2005.
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| Mr Mat Dunckley Editor, BusinessDay The Age and Sydney Morning Herald Mat Dunckley was recently appointed as the editor of BusinessDay at the Age and the SMH. Prior to that Mat was the Melbourne Bureau Chief of the Australian Financial Review for four years. In a reporting sense Mat started at the Australian Financial Review covering property in 2005. In that role he covered the end of the boom and the start of the GFC. He shifted to a focus on politics in 2008. He won the Law Foundation Prize for feature writing in 2014 and was also highly commended in opinion writing at this year's Quill awards. | |
| 0 | Mr Phil Hanna General Manager Development Villawood Properties Phil commenced his career in local and state government and moved to the Urban and Regional Land Corporation (now Places Victoria). Phil then spent several years at Australia’s largest publically listed development firm, Stockland, working on a range of Greenfield and complex coastal projects. Phil joined Villawood in 2008 and following the successful delivery of a series of residential projects, moved into his current role of General Manager, Development overseeing project design and delivery of all of Villawood’s metropolitan Melbourne and Geelong projects. He also directly manages Villawood’s builder relationships. |
| Mr Brian Haratsis Executive Chairman Macroplan Dimasi Brian is a best-selling author, futurist, thought leader and is regarded by corporate Australia as the leading economic and strategic advisor operating in the property sector. Brian Established MacroPlan Australia in 1985 and has since delivered effective business and property strategy, precise forecasting of niche trends, successful facilitation of strategic outcomes and triumphant provisions of major projects and policies. As well as his role of executive chairman and managing director, Brian’s current professional focus is to provide concept development and transactional advisory for clients facing complex issues around property. | |
| Cr Rose Hodge Mayor Surf Coast Shire Councillor Rose Hodge was first elected to Council in 2004 and is now serving her third term as a Councillor and second term as Mayor. She has worked as a dental therapist and is now a partner in a bricklaying business. She has a strong 40+ year association with the Torquay-Jan Juc area. Rose is married with three sons and is keen to seek more opportunities for people with a disability to be involved in community life. She is a board member of Gateways Support Services as well as an active community member who has served on committees for Spring Creek Community House, Torquay Cricket Club and as president of the Jan Juc Kindergarten. She is also a life member of the Torquay Netball Club.
Rose is a strong advocate for active and passive recreation facilities. She looks forward to the completion of future stages of the Surf Coast Community and Civic Precinct as well as ensuring that the many community groups are well-represented. She looks forward to ensuring the local community is heard and engaged.
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| Cr Darryn Lyons Mayor City of Greater Geelong City of Greater Geelong Mayor, Cr Darryn Lyons has a huge international profile. A profile he is happy to use to the advantage of his beloved home city, Geelong. Born and educated in Geelong, Cr Lyons moved to London at the age of 22 to launch what was to become a stellar career in photo journalism. Now a notable figure in the area of international property development and entertainment venues, Cr Lyons continues to command world-wide attention. Since returning home, media has followed his every move with Geelong itself gaining massive economic and reputational benefits.
In November 2013, Cr Lyons was elected as Mayor on the message of “vision, passion, change”. Principles he has bought to the office of the Mayor with a focus on his eight point plan to revitalise his home town Region.
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| Ms Kathy Mitchell Chief Panel Member Planning Panels Victoria Kathy Mitchell was appointed as Chief Panel Member with Planning Panels Victoria (PPV), for the Victorian State Government in June 2004. Since then, she has been reappointed to the position by successive Ministers for Planning. Prior to these appointments, Kathy was a full time Senior Panel Member with PPV since its inception in 1996, and was an occasional sessional member with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) from 1999 to 2004. Kathy is the immediate past President (2004 – 2011) and a Fellow of the Victoria Planning and Environmental Law Association (VPELA), and has been a State Judge for the Urban Development Industry Association (UDIA) - Victorian Chapter Awards of Excellence since 2003.
Kathy has a Bachelor of Arts in Planning, a Graduate Diploma in Urban Sociology and a Master of Arts in Planning (Research). She has previously worked in the private sector, local government, and as an academic.
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| Mr Adam Shephard Managing Director Amex Corporation Adam became Amex’s Managing Director in 2007. He has had over 15 years experience in the property and finance industries. Adam is an Australian Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and a MBA from the Melbourne Business School. Prior to joining Amex in 2001, Adam was employed with Babcock & Brown in Sydney. | |
| Dr Marcus Spiller Principal, Partner and Director SGS Economics & Planning Dr Marcus Spiller is a Principal, Partner and Director of SGS Economics & Planning Pty Ltd. His consulting experience spans land economics, regional development, housing policy, infrastructure funding and policy co-ordination systems. He has taken up secondments as lecturer in urban economics at Melbourne University, adviser to the Minister for Planning and Housing in Victoria and senior executive in the Queensland Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning. He is an Adjunct Professor in Urban Management at the University of Canberra, a former member of the National Housing Supply Council and a former National President of the Planning Institute of Australia.
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| Mr Dale Stokes Spatial Economics Dale has extensive experience in regional property markets and land use planning. His work particularly focuses on to the assessment of property, land supply, transport planning, and infrastructure to support settlement planning. Some of the recent projects Dale has been responsible for include creation of the Housing Development Data (HDD) for the State Government and completion of Residential and Industrial land supply assessments for nearly all regional municipalities across regional Victoria for the State Government. | |
| Mr Mark Whinfield General Manager Newland Developers (part of the Metricon Group) Mark Whinfield has a professional background in Architecture, with over 25 years experience in the development industry having been involved on a range of residential developments from infill redevelopment projects to large master planned communities in greenfield locations. Mark is involved with industry groups including the HIA Planning and Environment Committee and UDIA Infrastructure Committee. | |
| Mr Greg Wood Senior Principal Town Planner Tract Consultants Greg Wood is a town planner with over 25 years experience in statutory and strategic planning encompassing a wide range of expertise including inner metropolitan planning (including heritage planning), greenfield planning and regional Victoria. Concentrating primarily on strategic land use planning since the early 1990’s, Greg has developed experience in Greenfields Urban Planning, New Town Development and Rural Land Use Planning. This extends to policy development, strategic plan development, planning Scheme amendments and whole of project management through to implementation.
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| Mr Angie Zigomanis Senior Manager, Residential Property BIS Shrapnel Angie Zigomanis heads up the BIS Shrapnel’s residential research unit, having started in 1996, and beginning on assignment to Urban Land Corporation (now Places Victoria) providing an in-house consultancy role. Angie’s role at BIS Shrapnel covers residential property nationally and he is responsible for the company’s range of regular residential market studies across all segments of the housing market, while also undertaking an extensive range of tailored research for BIS Shrapnel’s clients across the residential sector.
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