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Aust Government IT Innovation Council members named

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Glen Boreham - managing director, IBM Australia & New Zealand;
Michael Clifford - Queensland state secretary, Finance Sector Union;
Professor Peter Cole - associate professor & dean, School of IT, Murdoch University (also president, Australian Council of Deans of Information & Communications Technology);
Steve Conolly - vice president, Siemens IT Solutions & Services, Siemens Ltd;
Tom Crago - CEO Tantalus Interactive Pty Ltd;
Bob Cupitt - CEO The Learning Edge International Pty Ltd;
Peter Dalton - group general manager innovation, ANZ Bank; Belinda Dennett - adviser, office of the minister for broadband, communications & the digital economy (observer);
Ros Eason - senior industrial officer, Communications Division, Communications Electrical & Plumbing Union;
Tracey Fellows - CEO Microsoft Australia;
Mia Garlick - assistant secretary, digital economy, DBCDE;
Dr Graham Hellestrand, - CEO Embedded Systems Technology Inc (also a NICTA board member);
Amanda Heyworth - CEO, Playford Capital Pty Ltd;
Anne Hurley - CEO, Communications Alliance (also president, National ICT Industries Alliance);
Jan Janssen, senior vice president, design and development, Cochlear Limited;
Paul Kristensen - executive chairman, Capital Technologies Pty Ltd;
Mike Lawson - general manager, competitive industries branch, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research
Kumar Parakala - CEO President & Chairman, Australian Computer Society;
Suzanne Roche - director, Smartnet Pty Ltd;
Neville Stevens AO - chairman, NICTA;
Randall Straw - deputy secretary, Department of Innovation, Industry & Regional Development, Victoria;
Chris Winter - manager new services, ABC Innovation;
Dr Alex Zelinsky - director & group executive, CSIRO Information & Communications Technologies Centre.

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