Sheryle Moon
CEO, Australian Information Industry Association
Sheryle Moon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), the peak body for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in Australia. She joined AIIA in November 2006.
Sheryle has worked in the ICT sector for more than 25 years in senior leadership positions including vice president of CSC, and a managing partner with Accenture.
Prior to her role at AIIA, Sheryle was director of Recruitment and Staffing Solutions, Australasia for employment services provider, Manpower Services Australia.
Mary Ann Maxwell
Group Vice President, Gartner Executive Programs
Mary Ann Maxwell is a group vice-president for Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) and is based in Sydney. Mary Ann holds a number of senior roles, including product development and providing a high-level coaching facility for CIO members of EXP.
She has a powerful blend of technical, management and people skills. During her successful career in both Australia and the US as a CIO, technology consultant and businesswoman, Mary Ann has worked in the financial services, insurance, health, consumer product and also telecommunications industries. She was recognised as an outstanding CIO, capable of driving change while meeting stakeholder needs.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mary Ann assisted META Group Executive Directions clients with speeding up executive decisions and with IT/business value delivery. Before META Group, she was CIO and CTO of Westpac Banking Corporation, where she led development of an enterprise- wide IT solution and managed strategic outsourcing partnerships with IBMGSA and Telstra. Previously, Mary Ann worked for Countrywide Credit Services, Health Net and Zenith Insurance in the USA.
Mary Ann received an MBA in Management from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science from California State.
Munir Kotadia
Editor, ZDNet Australia
Munir started working with ZDNet Australia (a CNET Networks Australia property) after relocating from CNET Networks’ UK subsidiary.
Munir has been interested in technology since he got a Commodore 64 in the early 80s. That inspired his passion for technology and all things electronic. He later studied computer science and learned to program in BASIC, Pascal and Modula-2 before going on to learn about HTML and Web-based technologies.
Mun’s diverse background in the technology sector ensures that he is able to apply this experience of the market place to de-mystify user and enterprise security concerns.
From 1996, he became part of a small team that created (.tv), the UK’s first television channel dedicated to computers and technology with SKY News. He produced television programs covering a broad range of consumer and SOHO issues including a future technology guide for gadgets, an Internet users guide, a hardware buyers guide and a technical trouble shooting program called “Chips with Everything”.
Mun first became involved with online publishing in 1999 when he joined ZDNet UK and later moved into print publishing as Chief Reporter for IT Week, part of ZDNet UK, a weekly trade newspaper targeted at Enterprise IT managers. Following this, he wrote in a freelance capacity for the IT and Technology industries. He later moved back into online publishing as Senior News Reporter for ZDNet UK.
With his wealth of experience, he has reported for Sky News and has made guest appearances on Radio 5 Live (UK) and the BBC World Service and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Munir was recently recognised as Best Technology Columnist at the 5th Annual Sun Microsystems IT Journalism Awards, an accolade he also won in 2006. In the same year he was named Best News Journalist at the Consensus IT Writers Awards.
Brian Haverty
Editorial Director, CNET Networks Australia
Brian Haverty is Editorial Director for CNET Networks Australia and is responsible for the company's CNET.com.au, ZDNet Australia and Builder AU online titles.
Brian has been editing and writing on an extensive range of technology subjects for 10 years in Australia but the areas he specialises in are digital publishing and production systems. He has launched a number of print publications in Australia, including Technology & Business and C|Level, and has served as Editor-in-Chief for the Australian editions of PC Magazine and Windows Sources.
Prior to working with CNET Networks Australia, Brian was Editor of a number of magazines in Japan including Winds (the in-flight magazine for Japan Airlines) and Tokyo Journal, the English language city guide to Tokyo.
Calling on that experience, Brian has been asked to present at a variety of speaking and media engagements. More prominently, in 2005, he was the chairperson of the RFID World Event held at the Sydney Convention Centre, and he also chaired the Security in Government Conference 2004 held in Canberra. Brian works regularly with other media outlets to provide content and commentary on consumer technology topics. Most recently, he has been working with 2GB to produce podcasts on subjects including iPods and big screen TV reviews – flat plasma v. LCD.
Brian’s personal interests include music and he has played in bands professionally in the US. He is also very interested in music-related technology, from iPods and music players to digital recording, mixing and production.
