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QMF Chair Kate Farrar said the Board is ecstatic at his appointment.

“Not only is James an international star performer, he is also an inspiring and highly experienced music educator who will champion the community development aspects so important to the Festival,” Ms Farrar said.

James Morrison describes his appointment as an extremely exciting new chapter in his life.

“Having spent many years performing all over Queensland, I have an appreciation for the breadth of music this State has to offer,” Mr Morrison said.

“I’m very much looking forward to working with the QMF team to continue and expand the spectacular work for which this Festival is renowned.”

QMF is a biennial state-wide celebration of music with a vision to transform lives through unforgettable musical experiences.

The Festival presents the best of local, national and international talent performing every conceivable style of music to Queenslanders from all walks of life, in Brisbane, and in regional and remote centres from Thursday Island to the Gold Coast.

With record audiences of 178,000 people, sell-out Brisbane shows, and both popular and critical acclaim for world premiere performances, QMF’s most recent Festival in July 2011 featured a staggering 202 events in Brisbane and 34 regional and remote centres throughout Queensland.

BSP Consultant: Tony Grierson

BSP Practice area: Arts and Culture

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AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for enterprises, makes physical and virtual desktop deployment possible by ensuring a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms. AppSense accelerates multi-platform desktop deployments by eliminating costly user management tools, enabling single-image application delivery, and ensuring users have the same experience from any desktop. AppSense technology is used around the world by companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Lowes, United Airlines, Wachovia and ESPN. AppSense has offices in New York and Santa Clara in the US, London and Manchester in the UK, and additional offices in Munich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Paris and Oslo. In fiscal year 2011, which closed June 30, AppSense increased its booked orders by 54 percent globally from the previous year, to just over $71M.  In February 2011, the company closed a $70 million investment by Goldman Sachs

In what is expected to become a $2.4 billion market in the next four years, user virtualization ensures a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms (physical, virtual, cloud, mixed, etc.). The AppSense User Virtualization Platform enables enterprises to transform their desktop estate and embrace the new trend of “bring your own device” by separating the user component of the desktop from the operating system and applications and managing it independently, ensuring that the user can access all of their information from any desktop or device.

Gillamor Stephens had known Darron Antill, CEO AppSense, for a number of years and when AppSense entered a period of hyper-growth there was a critical requirement to hire a number of executives into key positions. Darron turned to Gillamor Stephens initially to support the business in EMEA and successful searches were conducted to hire a VP of Central Europe and a Marketing Director Benelux. As the hiring requirements expanded further internationally, Steve Morrison of Gillamor Stephens was able to introduce Darron to his Access Search Partner colleagues in the US at Polachi and Australia at BSP who conducted successful search assignments to recruit a VP US Marketing and a MD Australia New Zealand respectively.

When Sean Caroll, a Partner at Polachi began the search for the VP, US Marketing, the initial strategy was to focus on candidates in the greater New York City area.  Following additional discussions with AppSense it was decided to open up the search to individuals in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco bay area.  Since ASP has a partner firm (SPMB) in the bay area, Sean had access to the SPMB database and was able to leverage their database and knowledge of the local candidates.  The search was successfully completed with a candidate from the bay area.  Sean Carroll of Polachi stated: “This is a great example of how ASP firms work globally to successfully complete demanding executive searches”.

The Managing Director ANZ role was a key appointment for AppSense as it positions the company to take advantage of the huge opportunities in the APAC region.  Phil McCann, who Heads BSP’s ‘Fin-tech’ practice, managed the search.  “We understand the appointed MD has already made significant inroads into the ANZ market after only a couple of months and 2012 looks to be a stellar year for AppSense.

Steve Morrison of Gillamor Stephens stated, “Not only has it been very exciting hiring key executives for AppSense in Europe, a company that is defining and leading a new sector of the technology industry, but it has been particularly satisfying to introduce our ASP colleagues into the business and support AppSense’s growth agenda in the USA and Asia Pacific regions. In forming ASP we have a global executive search capability underpinned by the strong sector specialisation, quality focus and commitment to supporting our clients in achieving their business and organisational objectives.”

Darron Antill, CEO of AppSense stated, “I have been impressed by the industry knowledge, energy and the attention to quality that Gillamor Stephens and their ASP colleagues have brought to our executive hiring activities. Most importantly we have been able to make some great hires. We are driving a growth agenda and rapidly expanding our global presence, I am sure we will be continuing to utilise their services”.

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Access Search Partners (www.accesssearchpartners.com) is a high performance partnership of five leading technology executive search firms that provide clients with specialist search services on a global scale.  ASP member firms are able to work with clients to achieve their goals against a variety of challenges.  ASP’s core objective is to change the search industry and deliver real value to clients by offering a no compromise alternative to traditional search firms on an international level.

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John’s career combines a long and successful tenure within industry and a strong association with academia. John has over 25 years of experience in the finance industry, with a range of senior roles in Financial Markets, Treasury, Investment Management, and Risk. As Head of Enterprise Risk Analytics at Westpac over the last 11 years, he has been responsible for analytical work of an enterprise nature, including credit provisioning, credit capital and operational risk capital methodologies. John has taught for the Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre since the early 1990s, and has held an appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for the last 5 years. John completed a PhD in pure mathematics at the University of Warwick and spent four years as an academic in his early career. His research interests are principally option pricing, derivatives, risk management, credit portfolio modelling and operational risk capital modelling, but reach across all aspects of quantitative financial modelling.

I would sincerely like to welcome John to the Faculty.  His industry experience and impressive background in financial risk will clearly be of great value in building our research strength in this area.

John will commence his new role on 27 February.

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BSP Practice Area: Higher Education

Professor Speed is currently the ANZ Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School and has been at MBS since 1992, during which time he has held a number of Associate Dean roles. “Given Richard’s very strong international research reputation, and his considerable experience in the context of teaching and learning and academic leadership, I am sure you will agree that this represents an extremely strong appointment to this important new leadership role” Professor Drake said.

“Following Professor Paul Collier’s recent appointment from Monash University as the Head of La Trobe Business School, the leadership team for the new Faculty of Business, Economics and Law is now fully established and we can feel very fortunate to have such a high calibre and experienced leadership team to support the successful development of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law”.

BSP Practice area: Higher Education

“We are very fortunate to have made such an excellent appointment to this very important leadership role in the context of the new Faculty structure and the development of a new Business School” Professor Drake said.  “Paul is an internationally renowned academic in Accounting with significant leadership experience in Business Schools and Business Faculties and also in the public and private sectors.  He currently holds the role of Associate Dean (Research Degrees) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University.  Paul has also previously held the role of the Director of Commercial Services at Aston Business School in the UK, where his responsibilities included Executive Education”.

Professor Collier’s start date is to be confirmed.

BSP Practice area: Higher Education

Roger comes to Bond from Griffith University where he was Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation with the Griffith Health Institute.  He brings to Bond a strong background in academic management and will add significant strength to the Faculty’s strategic management as the Faculty develops additional high quality programs.

Roger has a strong record in both teaching and research and in 2010 was the Recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. He is internationally renowned for his research on public health nutrition workforce development, previously working as external advisor to workforce development projects in the European Union and more recently in Indonesia for the World Bank.

Professor Hughes will join the Faculty Executive and plans to commence work at Bond University on February 6^th

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