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Miguel Diaz brings over 20 years' sales management experience , working with the most prominent names in professional services, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Freehills and Minter Ellison Lawyers.

He is a partner at Aspire MFC, a business development consultancy firm, where Miguel commits a wealth of knowledge and practical exper ience to deliver strategies which enable aspiring firms to join the top tier.

Miguel is also on the board of the RSPCA in Queensland where he uses his business skills to advance the Society's aims.

Prior to his corporate career, Miguel graduated from the NSW Cons ervatorium of Music and spent ten years as a professional performer including seven years with Opera Australia. He was also in the cast of The Phantom of the Opera. Miguel holds a Diploma of Music (Operatic Art & Music Theatre) from the NSW Conservatorium of Music. In 1991, he studied at the Academia Chigiana in Siena (Italy) with Carlo Bergonzii and has also studied style and interpretation with Victor Morris at Covent Garden. Miguel is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German.

 Business & Commerce

Malcolm Lack is the managing director of the Alchemy Cordial Company, one of Redland's most successful businesses employing 12 peope.  

Alchemy manufactures and markets its own range of innovative, natural gourmet cordials and syrups.  Established in 1995 with an old family recipe for "chilli cordial", the company today distributes its products in stores and cafes throughout Australia and overseas in countries including France, the UK, USA, Indonesia, Dubai, Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Malcolm has lived in the Redlands for more than 39 years and actively participates at board level in a number of organisations including the Australian Beerage Council. He offers substantial experience of the manufacturing industry with his credentials supported by  six Sigma Black Belts (in continual improvement). 

An avid cricketer and supporter, he is married to Nicole with a son (now nearly two), 

 Employment

Scott Connolly is presently the Executive Officer for the Transport Workers' Union of Australia (TWU).  He is also responsible for co-ordinating and managing the Union's interests in the National Aviation industry.

Formerly based in Canberra, Scott has held a range of roles within the industrial relations sector.  This includes roles as Industrial Relations Advisor at the Registered Clubs Association of NSW and  as Media and Government Relations Officer at the NSW TWU. In Canberra, he was also elected to the position of TWU Secretary.

Throughout his career, Scott has gained experience and expertise in dealing with all levels of business, government, the media, relevant areas of the law, and associated interest groups.  

He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney and has partially completed both a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Labor Lw.

A keen runner, Scott has only recently moved to the Redlands from Canberra and is keen to make a contribution to the community where he hopes to raise his young family.

Garry Cooper is Queensland Manager for Cathay Industries, a multinational Chinese company manufacturing high-quality products in the areas of general chemicals, phosphonates and pigmentss. 

Born in Marrickville, Sydney, Garry completed Higher School Certificate in 1981 and went on to complete a Certificate of Retail Management. He worked for Grace Bros Department Stores in various management roles before departing for the chemical company, Bayer where he served in a variety of roles for 17 years.  

The coastal Brisbane suburb of Cleveland was Garry's first port of call after leaving Sydney some 13 years ago where he fell in love with life in the Redlands. After a brief departure to the Logan shire he moved back to the Redlands and now lives in Southern Redland Bay.

Garry's keen interest in the Redlands lead to his appointment in 2007 to the Redland Bay South Investigation Area Community Reference Group. On this committee he has demonstrated a commitment to finding a balance between business, development, the environment and the individual.

Garry has served on the Redlands Institute's Steering Committee since its inception in early 2008.  His interests include responsible development and youth affairs. 

David Bray is the Technical Services Manager at Darwalla Milling Company, one of the largest employers in Redland Shire. Darwalla is a family-owned poultry integrator that has been operating since 1993.  The integrated business includes breeder rearing, breeder production, hatchery, feed mill, broiler grow-out and associated activiteis such as transport.

Darwalla Milling produces approximately 20 million chickens per year for the purpose of poultry meat production.

In his role, David oversees the feedmill, the planning and construction of infrastructure including hatchery, breeder and broiler farms, and the management of local and state government regulations including environmental licencing.

His responsibilities also include the planning and development of Darwalla's renewal energy electrical generator, a revoutionary new technology utilising poultry manure to produce around 7.5 Megawtts of electricity per hour.  Some 10% of this 'green electricity' will be utilised in an adjoining poultry proessing plant with the balane injected into the local network.  

The project will result in a reduction of around 120,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

David holds a Certificate in Animal Production, specialising in artificial breeding and stud cattle.

Environment

Simon Balthais currently manages  one of Moreton Bay's largest  community based scientific monitoring pr ograms, Seagrass Watch but also coordinates many public education programs.

Amongst Simon's senior executive  positions on various state based en vironmental organizations, he is the secretary for the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland Bayside Branch, one of Redlands most respected  and pro-active environmental groups.

Simon has broad experience in community campaigning, media, Environmental  Law and Town Planning matters, particularly within the Redlands.

Simon has served in the Aust ralian Army, Queensland Police Force and has 15 years in IT and currently works as an Operations Manager.

He offers university qualifications in Information and Technology and is in the final year of his Marine Science studies through the University of Queensland. He has traveled widely in Australia and overseas. Calling Redlands home, he is one of Shire's strongest advocates for protecting its many and varied natural assets and values.

Simon has voluntarily served on numerous community, government and industry committees including Secretary,  Queensland Conservation Council, State President, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Vice President, Sustainable Population Australia, SEQ Branch,  Member on Queensland Fishing Industry Research Advisory Committee, Programme Manager, Moreton Bay Community Seagrass Watc Programme Manager for Mangrve Watch, Watch, Secretary, Wildlife Preservation Society of QLD Bayside Branch (Qld) inc, Friends of Peel Island Associa tion, and the Port of Brisbane  ;Community Consultative Committee.

Adrian Caneris is Managing Director of BAAM Pty Ltd and a  Principal Wildlife Expert.
His areas of expertise are in  vertebrate fauna assessment and identification, assessment of terrestrial habitats, ecological monitoring, wildlife management, biodiversity planning, feral species management and community liaison and facilitation.

Adrian is a regularly engaged ecological expert for the Planning and Environment Court and Land Court in Queensland.

He has been involved in research, management, consulting, tertiary teaching  and community based studies of terrestrial ecology, particularly vertebrate fauna, throughout South- East Queensland for more than 20 years.

Adrian has also provided expert assessments and advice to the Redland City Council on all aspects an d issues relating to wildlife management.

Since 2002, Adrian has undertaken specialist consultancy work for local and state governments and private organisations, primarily associated with fauna investigations, recommendations for fauna management and species recovery planning.

He has been appointed to a number of advisory committees, council's and trusts and is currently providing an expert peer review for the Sunshine Coast Regional Council  Biodiversity strategy.  Adrian was also one of three community representatives on the previous Redl and Shire Councils Greenspace Advisory Committee Adrian including the Ipswich City Council Environmental Advisory Committee (1993- 96), the National Heritage Trust  (1997- 99), the QPWS Macropod Management Advisory Committee (1997- 2000), the Wildlife Preservation Society  (Past President and Vice- President), the Koala Coast Conservation  Council Redland Shire Council Representative (1999- 2002), the South East Queensland Conservation Strategy Committee (1999- 2003), the Recreational & Commercial  Animal Management Committee (1999- 2002), the Wildlife Land Trust Ltd Qld. (2000- ongoing, Director), and the Qld Pest Animal and Plague Advisory Commit tee (2001-2003).

Bob Bishop is the managing director of TTGroup, a telecommunications company based in Coorparoo and currently employing 60 staff.  It is the largest privately owned telecommunications company in Queensland specialising in design, sales, installation and service of data, voice, video, internet and mobility business communications solutions.  

Bob has been in the telecommunications industry for over 42 years having started as a PMG Technician in 1967.  In that time he has held several roles: 10 years with PMG/Telecom first as a techician, then as a Senior telecommunications consultant, 9 years as State Manager for STC (now Alcatel), 7 years as State Manager for Ericsson Australia, and 17 years as owner/dealer principal/CEO of TTGroup Communications incorporating two Ericcson business phone centre franchises, the Ericsson corporate networks franchise, PacLink QLD/NT, Envisage Media, SmartSpeak Solutions and the Sony Virtual Travel distributorship in Brisbane.

Formerly an Army captain, Bob holds a degree in Marketing from QUT and has completed communications study tours of Austria, Vietnam, USA, Singapore, Israel and New Zealad.  He has been Ericsson/Damovo National Distributor of the Year for five years and Telstra Dealer of the Year for 6 tears.  His company, Virtual Travel, has also been awarded the national distribution rights for Sony video conferencing.

Bob is a committed community citizen with representations on a number of boards and committees.  As the current President of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (QLD), he joined the Trade Mission to Israel led by the Hon Alan Stockdale. He is also a past Chairman of the Queensland Government's Bayside Health Community Council responsible for the Redlands Hospital, Wynnum Hospital, Moreton Bay Nursing Care Unit and Bay Islands.  As well he's a Divisional Chair and judge of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) Management Excellence Awards Board, and is a Director of the Board of AIM Queensland and NT.  Additionally, he participates on the Lord Mayor of Brisbane's Multicultural Round Table.

Bob is married to Dr Lyn Bishop, a former Australian Entrepreneur of hte Year who established Redland's leading school, Sheldon College.  Bob is a founding Board Director of Sheldon College and the Sheldon College Foundation.  The couple have three adult children, Debbie, Michael and Shelley.

Information, Communication & Technology

Brett Hooker is the managing director of Roarz Computing which is also a major sponsor of Redlands Institute.  He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading ICT professionals with more than 17 years experience in the national and international sectors, applying his business applications and software technology specialties to private and public firms.

Brett is an innovative, passionate ICT ambassador.  He has made varied and profound contributions to the IT industry from outstanding works within Oracle Corporation to countless contributions to up- and-coming IT professionals through his efforts with universities.  Brett Hooker's passion and vigour to assist businesses increase customer satisfaction and improve efficiency is tireless and commendable.

In 2007, Brett was awarded the prestigiouse National Pearcey Award for Young Achievers.  This prestigious ICT industry honour is awarded to one of the State Winners from the previous year who has demonstrated innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to research and development within the ICT industry early in their career. 

In 2000, Brett received an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the QUT’s IT Faculty in recognition of exceptional professional achievements and contributions to the community.  Brett, an active alumnus of QUT, is also currently a QUT IT Faculty Academic Board member and the QUT Alumni Board President. 

In 2005, Brett was featured in the “Queensland: A great state of mind” book, launched by State Premier Peter Beattie during Queensland Week.

Brett has also presented numerous worldwide conferences relating to a range of subjects such as E-business and software development, enhancing a company's reputation; and promoting benefits the ICT industry brings to the marketplace as a whole.

Media

Brian Hurst is Managing Editor of the Bayside Bulletin and The Redland Times, the two major contributors of local news and information to the residents of the Redlands. The publications boast readersips of 93.4% and 80% respectively according to Roy Morgan Research.

Brian spent the first 10 years of his working life as junior public servant, before studying journalism, government and economics, part-time as a mature aged student. His first job as a journalist was for a national magazine Truckin' Life.

He has been at the Redland based newspapers for 25 years. 

Brian moved to the Redlands in 1984 and has been experienced the rapid growth of the Redlands since then.

He has been active in a number of community reference groups and represented the general community in Councils landmark Vision 2005 project.

Planning & Development

Ian Wilson is the founding director of the ULB Institute which was established with a mission to promote community and personal sustainability.  In ikne with this mission, the organisation aims to develop systems and related products and services.

With a Masters degree in Commerce and post-graduate qualifications in Urban Studies, Ian has worked for a range of multi-national organisations across a range of industries.  He has specialised in product management in the food and pharmaceuticals industries, working on brands such as Eta, Praise, Disprin and Dettol.

Ian also offers a background in investment banking having worked in the Treasury of Bankers' Trust.  He has also operated his own multi-disciplinary financial servies practice offering expertise in financial planning, accounting, legal issues and mortgage partnerships.  

Southern Moreton Bay Islands

Lee Shipley is the Editor of the influential online publicaition 'The Bay Journal'.  He is also a member of several Southern Moreton Bay Island organisations including Redland Tourism.  Lee is also one of the 10 appointees to the Redland City Council's Advisory Committee for the islands.

Lee arrived in the Redlands in 2002 after sailing his yacht from Sydney following his retirement.  Formely the IT Strategist for the Australian Stock Exchange, Lee's career includes a string of appointments in the technology sector spanning more than 15 years.  He has wide experience in the generation of corporate cultures geared to the effective use of computing.  

His eclectic background also includes stints as a journalist, a soldier, and 10 years as a practitioner and lectuerer in theatre.  Consequently, he has a great passion for the arts.

Lee says he loves the Redlands because it so closely resembles Woy Woy and the Central Coast of NSW where he grew up.  He hopes that the mistakes that were made there will not be repeated here. 

Tourism & Hospitality

Gerald Brock owns the historic Grand View Hotel located in Cleveland. Built in 1851, it's Queensland's oldest licensed hotel.

Gerald moved into the hospitality sector after more than 25 years in the oil and steel industries in Australia and overseas.

He bought the Grand View in 1992 and, together with his wife Karen and son Ben, converted the pub into a family-friendly venue catering for functions, book launches with local and international authors, art exhibitions and quality al fresco dining. The venue has since catered for in-bound tourists with koala and heritage tours.

With a degree in Economics, Gerald's considerable expertise in hospitality and tourism is supported by a wide range of community involvements. He has been a member of Rotary for more than a decade.

He was also the first Chairman of the Redlands Economic Development Board, a position he held for four years in the 1990s. He is also a former Board member of the local tourism body and member of both the Greater Brisbane Tourism organization and Brisbane Tourism.

Youth Affairs

Paul Stanley is the founder of the Matthew Stanley Foundation, established in 2006 to educate young people and convey the senselessness of youth violence.  The Foundations works closely with Queensland Police and the general community to educate young people about how to prevent youth violence.

The Foundation aims to alert schools, church and community groups, and individuals to hte risks young people face at parties and in the general community.  

Amongst its many initiatives, the Foundation has been involved in the distribution of Queensland Police Party Safe brochures in Redlands and speaking engagements wherere youth are directly targeted.

Paul is also a member of the State Government's Youth Violence Taskforce which is dedicated to ientifying what leads a person to behave violently, identifying trends, and developing strategies to reduce the incidence of brutalitly, 

Phil Weightman was formerly the Member for Cleveland, a position he held from September 2006 until March 2009.  In this role, Phil worked hard not only to voice community issues, but to ensure they were acted upon.

Prior to his election, Phil served as a Queensland Police Officer beginning in 1979, where he worked in Cleveland as a Senior Sergeant and District Duty Officer.

Phil and his wife Kerry have called the Redlands home for 25 years. They have two children, Matt and Madeline.

Phil is actively involved in his local community and currently serves as the patron of a number of community organisations including the Matthew Stanley Foundation, Bayside Community Radio Association Inc, Phoenix Lifestyle Support, Redlands Junior Rugby League Club, Stradbroke Island Sharks Rugby League Club and the Redlands Youth Association.

Phil is a member of the Moreton TAFE Advisory Council and is actively involved in the Point Lookout Surf Life Saving Club on North Stradbroke Island as a patrolling member and previously as a member of the Club's management committee.