David is regarded as one of the most senior and experienced e-services and ICT experts in Australia.

The formative years of David’s career were spent in senior financial and general management roles. He then held the positions of CIO/CTO for a major multinational group of companies for 7 years.

David founded and built Australia’s largest privately held e-services consulting firm (ETC) during the 1990s. This company was acquired by a leading listed ICT security group in 2000.

He led the projects to develop the original e-government strategies across all jurisdictions and many corporates and industry sectors in Australia. He has remained a key adviser to these clients for over 15 years leading over 400 projects during this time.

Over the past six years, David has led many of the major public sector Authentication and Identity Management framework projects in Australia.

He chaired the Australian Government’s Expert Panel on the National Authentication Framework and served on the Government’s IT Expert Advisory Group.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Accountancy, Higher Diploma in Business Information Systems

Alistair Muir is an experienced e-service and ICT services consultants in Australia having been involved in this field for nearly 15 years.

His formative years were spent in senior roles in the mining and energy utility sectors.

Alistair led the Electronic Services Delivery unit of the South Australian Government for a number of years, prior to joining ETC, one of Australia’s leading e-business consulting firms, where he worked as a senior manager for 5 years.

Over the past 7 years Alistair has worked extensively in the design and deployment of systems into rural and remote Australia.  Using a selection of largely Australian technologies we have made major advances in establishing end to to end solutions that are performing in some of the remotest and environmentally harsh locations in outback Australia  

Alistair has extensive experience in e-Government both at the State and Local Government level. He has worked with all portfolio agencies. He has developed innovative strategies for the progression of whole of local government on-line services strategies that have been adopted Australia wide. 

Qualifications: Bachelor of Applied Science, Graduate Diploma in Management

Andreas has been involved in electronic business consulting for both industry and government in Australia since 1998, when he joined ETC as partner and director of that company’s business in the financial services sector.

Prior to that, he was Managing Director of DigiCash (Asia/Pacific), and Vice President of DigiCash (USA), supplying electronic payment technology to banks, including Deutsche Bank, Citibank, UBS, and Advance Bank (later St George).

Andreas has spent the past two years in senior technology and management roles in the capital markets industry.

Andreas has considerable experience in Internet based electronic commerce technologies, information system development, and electronic payments and security technology. He provides a strong business focus combined with detailed technical expertise.

Andreas also has considerable experience in software development, having run a software development company in Germany, and having led outsourced software development projects for Sabre/American Airlines, and Siemens. He helped conceive and build commercial Internet business applications since 1991, when commercial use of the Internet was still rare.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Computer Science (Honors), Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Economic Theory.