Advisory Board
The Hon. Lawrence Anthony
 Larry Anthony is currently a board member of Macquarie Media Group, Association of Building Societies and Credit Unions (Abacus), Indue Ltd and the National Chairman for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards Australia.
Larry has had experience in government sectors and finance including roles with Merrill Lynch and Potter Warburg. He is a former Australian Federal Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Community Services and the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade. He is also involved with various charities across Australia.
Larry holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, a diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a diploma of Applied Finance and Investment and is a Member of the Banking and Securities Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Colin Hoschke
 Colin Hoschke brings more than 45 years experience in the Australian IT industry to his role on the Advisory Board of Symbiotic Technologies Pty Ltd (TrustDefender). Colin is a very well known figure in the IT industry and sits on the board of six other software and IT companies.
He founded Wacher Pty Limited in 1969. Wacher has been the long-term leading supplier of software solutions to the Health Insurance and Local Government industries. In 1984 Wacher acquired Datec Pty Ltd, then Australia's longest-operating consulting company, later sold to the DMR.
Colin continued as CEO of Wacher until the company was acquired by Sanderson Limited of the UK in 1997, at which time he was appointed Chairman of the Sanderson Group in Australia, a group with over 500 staff. Colin served as a director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) for five years until 1993, including three years as Treasurer. Prior to founding Wacher, Colin studied actuarial science at the AMP Society and was operations manager of the Sydney Stock Exchange.
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Maria Lambides
 In a career spanning over 20 years, Maria has an outstanding reputation working with startup companies through to large business.
From mentoring and support roles, to consultancy and running her own successful small business, she has hands-on experience from every aspect. Maria’s expertise in strategic planning and marketing has directed and developed small businesses from a wide range of industries.
Over the last decade, Maria has specialised in developing benefits programs for major international corporations, as well as membership-based organisations.
Maria has now combined her passion, background and diverse experience to drive the "Dynamic Small Business Network", DSBN. Maria says: "My vision for is to empower start up companies and small business owners to succeed”.
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Peter Ager
Peter is a very experienced Banking and Finance Sector Solutions Architect with over 30 Years experience in the finance industry, specialising in systems design, implementation and remediation. Peter also has extensive knowledge and skills in the AML & CTF legislative space having chaired, negotiated and implemented key policies and processes for the banking industry.
Peters experience extends to development of leading edge technology solutions in the finance sector, public health and government business both in Australia and in global markets. Peter's former roles have included employment with Commonwealth Bank, Westpac Bank, Hewlett Packard, PWC and Colonial Bank.
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Prof. Dr. Martin Schottenloher
 Martin Schottenloher is professor of mathematics at the University of Munich, Germany (Ludwig-Maximilians-University) and he is currently the director of the department of mathematics. His research interests include primarily geometry and geometric applications in theoretical physics, particularly in quantum field theory. He has published two monographs in symmetries in physics and conformal field theory. In addition, he is also interested in applications of geometry to computer graphics and he has recently turned his attention to game theory (interactive decision theory) and its applications in economics and biology.
From 1993 to 2003 he administrated the "Graduiertenkolleg" Mathematik im Bereich ihrer Wechselwirkung mit der Physik.
Martin Schottenloher is active outside the university and supports the transfer of technology, e.g. in computer graphics, economics or technical applications of mathematics. The discovery of new algorithms for geometric objects and the positive experiences with Java and VRML have motivated him to found a software firm in 1996. For 5 years he actively supported this firm mainly as a director of sales.
He is currently board member of small innovative firms in laser technology, in medicine technology or services and in golf equipment.
Martin Schottenloher is board member of the industrial association ewf (engineering workflow) e.V. where he is engaged in the subject of inter-company co-operations. In this context he has studied co-operations also from the point of view of game theory. He has been co-organizer of an international conference in Brussels 2002 which has been carried through by the ewf.
Together with Peter Sachsenmeier he has published the corresponding proceedings of the conference Challenges between Competition and Collaboration – the Future of the European Manufacturing Industry (2003, Springer-Verlag).
Martin Schottenloher has recently been elected as a member of the German academy "acatech". Within acatech he manages a project on knowledge management.
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