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Paul Jackson, F.AIRAH
President
Perth, WA
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Paul is the national contracts manager for ECS (Engineering Commissioning Services). He has over 35 years' experience in the building services industry. Having entered the industry as a service engineer, he has been involved in field diagnostics and commissioning of a wide variety of building services plant. Paul has a varied skill set encompassing mechanical, electrical, air conditioning, associated control systems, and BMS systems.
He has been extensively involved in the commissioning and project completion field including a range of very simple minor systems serving residential or light commercial through to large central plant systems in the resource sector in many parts of the world. Paul has also worked in various industry sectors including service, procurement, manufacturing, design and installation.
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Bryon Price, F.AIRAH
Director
Melbourne, Vic
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Bryon is a mechanical engineer with notable experience in energy efficient buildings. He is strategic development director for the A.G. Coombs Group and has been responsible for a wide range of energy and environmental projects. These have included innovative and award-winning long term energy management roles with a number of major financial, commercial and retail organisations, and various commonwealth and state government departments. Out of this experience his particular area of knowledge and interest is “whole of life” energy and environmental management in buildings. Bryon also has a strong track record of constructive and successful industry and policy advocacy.
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Chris Stamatis, M.AIRAH
Director
Canberra, ACT
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Chris is the director of CopperTree Analytics Australia. With over 10 years' experience in the HVAC industry, he has worked across multiple disciplines including mechanical design, building automation, and service. This has helped him understand the inner workings of air conditioning systems and how to analyse them.
He is passionate about building analytics and is continually working with building owners, maintenance providers, and consultants to improve how analytics is used in the industry. Chris is chair of AIRAH's Big Data and Analytics STG. |
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Liza Taylor, M.AIRAH
Director
Sydney, NSW
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Liza is the CEO and co-founder of Global IQ Group, a management consulting company specialising in the HVAC&R, sustainability and technology arena. She has spent the past 20 years working for some of Australia’s most loved brands – 3M, George Weston Foods, Pacific Brands, Hunter Douglas, and ActronAir. Her specialty is transforming ideas into business growth opportunities.
With over 10 years in the HVAC&R industry, her passion for business improvement led to the completion of a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt with The University of Technology. This project conducted an in-depth study with Housing Industry Association (HIA) to identify trends in the Residential HVAC category. Liza has completed a MBA (Executive) at AGSM and is a co-op scholar with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of New South Wales.
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Mikaila Ganado, M.AIRAH
Director
Sydney, NSW
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Mikaila is an associate and part-owner at GWA Consultants Australia. She is a mechanical engineer and is actively involved in the design and construction management of various projects ranging from main plant and controls upgrades to essential services and fit-outs across all industry sectors. Mikaila specialises in whole building energy upgrades and is passionate about improving the energy performance of existing buildings.
Mikaila is the Associate Director and President of AIRAH's NSW division and Chair of the Women of AIRAH STG. She also represents AIRAH on the Standards Australia ME-62 Committee.
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Ura Sarfejoo, M.AIRAH
Director
Sydney, NSW
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Ura is an experienced sales director with over 18 years of experience in the technical services industry, servicing clients in the commercial and industrial sectors. She has worked for global technology manufacturers like McQuay in Dubai, Trane (Dalkia) and Johnson Controls in Australia. Most recently she’s joined the sustainability and renewable energy sector, to gain a more holistic understanding of building management and energy efficiency. She currently is the country leader, integrated technologies – digital solutions at Johnson Controls.
Ura has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and in 2013 obtained a master’s degree in management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). Ura is also passionate about diversity and gender equality in the workplace. She was the founding chair of the Women of AIRAH STG.
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Nathan Groenhout, F.AIRAH
Discretionary Director
Brisbane, Qld
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Nathan is a business leader with over 20 years experience in mid to large firms achieving business results by understanding and managing risk, focusing on outcomes and building lasting relationships with clients, stakeholders and staff. He has demonstrated experience in building teams profitably in competitive environments through developing people, developing solid relationships with staff and clients, strategic planning, risk management and organisational development. He is passionate about creating highly engaged teams aligned to a strong, coherent vision.
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Tony Gleeson, M.AIRAH
Chief Executive
Melbourne, Vic
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Tony has over 25 years of international experience in the field of leadership, project and change management, and organisational integration. He is an innovative and energetic leader, skilled communicator and team builder, and an adept negotiator. He is recognised as a strategic business partner to executives throughout an organisation, developing and implementing projects and programs that facilitate attainment of corporate growth, revenue, and profit goals (both in a corporate and not-for-profit membership environments).
He has developed and implemented strategies and policies for organisations such as PWC, Deloitte, CPA Australia, and the Australian Institute of Management.
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Sami Zheng, Affil.AIRAH
Chief Operating Officer
Melbourne, Vic
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Sami is a CPA-qualified finance professional with a progressive 10-year career working within the hospitality industry and membership associations. She has solid all-round accounting skills in payroll, business activity statements, budgets, and reporting, as well as data modelling/analysis and process improvement.
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