Mr Azad Hessamodini Australia

Wood Group is a FTSE250 listed company providing engineering services to the energy industry in 50 countries. Wood Group has been present in Australia for over 25 years with offices in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Wood Group
LinkedIn logo Vice President - Strategy & Development 
Bio

MBA qualified executive with broad, international commercial experience in energy, oil and gas, mining, consulting and private equity sectors.

In my current role I develop and implement Wood Group's strategy with particular focus on broadening our technical consulting service lines and geographical markets through organic growth, Mergers and Acquisitions or forming strategic alliances.

Specialities:

- Strategy Development

- Long Range Planning

- Deal Assessment

- Negotiation

- Integration Management

- Change Management

- Senior Stakeholder Management

- Mergers & Acquisitions

Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz Australia

University of Western Australia
Professor School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering 
Bio

Link to Research profile: http://tinyurl.com/hgr2v3b

Dr Jason Hoogland Australia

Analysis of electromechanical and industrial systems starting with fundamental physics.  Simulation of continuous and particulate materials primarily using OpenFOAM, the leading open source Computational Fluid Dynamics software.  Squeezing as much insight as possible from limited data.

Physisim
Bio

I have a BSc in applied physics from Melbourne University (1993), a BE in mech engineering from UWA (1997) and a PhD in aerospace/mechanical engineering from The University of Queensland (2012).

I was the Australian and Reentry System lead for the Mars Gravity Biosatellite project (2003-2013) which involved MIT and the University of Washington and worked to test the effect of martian level gravity on mice inside a small spinning Earth orbitting satellite.  I was a Computational Fluid Dynamics consultant with BMT-WBM in Brisbane for 5 or so years, working with clients to model industrial processes such as sewage flows, vibrating screen slurries and exploding coal dust by pioneering use of OpenFOAM.  My PhD involved experimental and computational simulation of the ablation from sacrificial heat shields using  (at the time) the world's largest expansion tube wind tunnel.

I became a stay at home Dad in 2011 and have been developing software (Java, Go, Rust, Pony) and toying with electromechanical designs for a few consumer devices.  I'm looking to learn more about the R&D and startup scene in Perth, and enjoy being creative and entrepreneurial.

Ms Angie Hughes

University of Western Australia
Development Officer 

Mr Jeff Hunter Australia

Primary Sales is a leader in specialised agricultural tillage and harvest tool technology.  The core business of the company is the manufacture and wholesale distribution of leading-edge agricultural tillage, seeding and harvesting products. 

By-products from this market include the application of wear resistant materials to industrial maintenance problems, manufacture and refurbishment of mechanical engineering products, manufacture of prototypes for research and development and providing solutions to engineering problems.

Primary Sales Australia
Managing Director 
Bio

has comprehensive qualifications, knowledge and experience in reverse engineering, civil, structural and mechanical engineering and drafting in the fields of power station design & repair, sewerage and water supply systems, agricultural engineering, road works, and harbour engineering.  He also has business qualifications in Operations Management, Quality Systems and Computing.

Director of EMICoL ( Engineering and Manufacturing Industry CoOperative Limited)

Member of CCIWA Manufacturing Forum

Desire to promote manufacturing of Quality value added products within Australia rather than import and lose manufacturing.