Meet TEC Chairs

Mike Sullivan

Name:

Mike Sullivan

Chair since:

2007

State:

VIC

TEC Group:

TEC 16

Biography:

Career & Achievements: In a diverse career Mike has had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of organisations. The span has included large scale food and pharmaceutical, through to privately owned small to medium manufacturing and service companies. Mike has, himself, initiated two successful start up ventures in the provision of people management services.

His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporatisation and privatisation of Government owned business enterprises and the development of outsourcing arrangements. Mike has also been the organisational design advisor to firms wanting to manage growth and start-up operations or wanting to rationalise their operations.

A high proportion of Mike's work has involved unionised work forces and he has an enviable reputation for achieving successful outcomes and relationships.

Mike's history has included board level roles in public and private companies as well as the general management of a global outsourcing business he jointly developed with PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this business the clients included: Federal Express (Global)Nortel Networks (Global)British Petroleum (U.K. and Europe)Australian Department of Finance and AdministrationAustralian Department of Agriculture Fisheries and ForestryAustralian Quarantine Inspection Service

Past roles: C.E.O. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Human Resource ServicesC.E.O. Alliance Strategy Pty LtdExecutive Director, Corporate Development Heinz Wattie CorporationExecutive General Manager Human Resources, Nissan AustralasiaNon Executive Director Burra Foods Pty Ltd

Mike took over TEC 16 in 2007.

Education & Associations M.B.A. Aust. Graduate School of Management U.N.S.WFellow Australian Institute of Company DirectorsChartered Member Australian Human Resource InstituteMember Aust. Assoc. of Careers CounsellorsMember Industrial Relations Society