MEET TEC CHAIRS

Biography:

Jim has a very diverse background in general management and chief executive roles covering primarily advanced technologies and professional service organisations. He served as Manager of the Risk Management practice for Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1978 to 1980 and then was the inaugural Manager of the Potter Partners Cash Management Trust.

Jim, with two partners, started a software publishing and distribution business in 1983. Within eighteen months the business, Software Corporation of Australia was listed and then subsequently sold. Jim was then appointed Managing Director of the third party engineering and computer maintenance services group, Datronics Corporation Limited. Since that business was sold to ICL in 1990 Jim has worked in a broad variety of government, academic and corporate roles.

He worked as an adviser to the Strategic Industry Research Foundation (SIRF) in Victoria representing this government body on the Board of X-Ray Technologies Pty. Ltd. and as Chairperson of the Victorian Industrial Designer Roundtable and the Victorian Incubator Manager Roundtable. He also represented SIRF in the successful bid for Federal funding of the Information City incubator program for ITC start-ups. He continued his government work after the closure of SIRF as a member for four years of the Victorian Government Small Business Advisory Council.

He also lectured strategic management to the business management students at both Monash and Deakin Universities in 1995 and 1996 and still continues as a guest lecturer at Melbourne University. In 2009 Jim retired from the position of Chair of the Industry Advisory Board to the Centre for Global Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the University of Melbourne.

Jim has also had extensive Board experience. He was a director of the publicly listed Sonnet Corporation Limited and of the digital media entertainment group, destra Corporation Limited, and was a non-executive Director of the ePayments business, Centricom Pty Ltd. He is currently a director of the manufacturing services company, Formero Pty. Ltd., the B2B network services provider, Leadtec Systems Australia Pty Ltd, and the developer of nutraceutical and health management products, AquaConneXions.

Specialties:

Mergers & Acquisitions; Directors' Duties; Commercialisation of New Technologies; International Business; Stakeholder Management.

Education and Associations:

Jim has been a TEC Chair since 1998 and has also delivered a number of Chair development programmes for TEC.

He has Fellowships of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Personal:

Jim is married to Georgina, an owner of an aged care services business , and has two adult daughters, Anna who is a practicing lawyer and Kara who is a dietician operating a nutritional services business.

Jim Landau's TEC Group experience:

TEC 46 is a group comprising primarily CEO's of substantial organisations reporting to Boards as well as Asia-Pac regional executives in leadership roles. Members are drawn from both profit & not-for-profit organisations including government. We have professional services, retail, health, manufacturing, construction and ITC industries represented in our group.

KEY 102 is a group comprising executives hungry to learn and develop in support of the leaders of their organisations.