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Ms Lucy McNamara, Vice-President Talent and Development, Upstream International, Shell
Mr Chris Richardson, Director, Deloitte Access Economics

Mr Philip Askew, Vice President - Australia, Schlumberger
Mr Michael Bissell, Principal Consultant, Indigenous, Environment and Water Services, GHD
Mr Philip Bullock, Chair, Skills Australia
Ms Kaye Butler, Vice President Human Resources, Chevron
Professor John Cordery, Winthrop Professor, Management and Organisations Group, UWA Business School
Mr Todd Creeger, President Australia-West, ConocoPhillips
Ms Trina Diallo, Director – Business Immigration Services, Ernst & Young
Mr Peter Dunn, Indigenous Services Global Business Leader, GHD
Mr Peter Dyball, Principal, Pit Crew Management Consulting
Ms Lynn Farrell, Managing Director, Pilbara Institute
Ms Joanne Fox, Group Manager, Remuneration & HR Operations, Santos
Mr Andrew Gray, Training and Development Manager, Arrow Energy
Mr Matthew Guthridge, National Talent Management Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Ms Jill Jamieson, General Manager Training ServicesChallenger Institute of Technology/Australian Centre for Energy and Process Training
Ms Barbara Jinks Australian representative, International Gas Union
Mr Ron Kessels, Special Counsel, Fragomen
Mr Stuart Manifold, Industry Skills Development Leader, General Electric Australia and New Zealand
Ms Dani Nazzari, National Manager, Social Consulting Services, Worley Parsons
Mr Francis Norman Engineering Manager, Kvaerner Oil & Gas Australia and Engineers Australia
Mr Hitoshi Okawa, Director Corporate Coordination, Inpex
Mr Craig Pasch, Manager Indigenous Relations, Woodside Energy
Ms Catharine Payze, Executive Vice-President, People & Organisation Development, Clough
Mr Brendan Petersen, Executive General Manager – Energy & Resources, John Holland
Mr Richard Potok, Director, Aurora Project, and Executive Director, Charlie Perkins Trust and the Roberta Sykes Foundation
Ms Bronwyn Struthers, Safety Leadership Development, ERGT
Dr Daria Surovtseva, Deputy Director, North Australian Centre for Oil & Gas, Charles Darwin University

 Vice-President Talent and Development, Upstream International, Shell

Plenary Session 6: Global Industry Perspectives
Thursday 19 July - 8:30am-10:00am

'The challenges of resourcing technical talent — a global perspective'

After graduating from Leeds University, UK, in 1993, with a degree in French and Management Studies, Lucy – who is British - joined Shell in the UK as an HR graduate.  She worked in generalist HR roles in EP for 2 years in Lowestoft, followed by 2 years in Aberdeen, during which time she met her Dutch husband who also worked for Shell at the time.   The couple moved to Argentina in 1998 where they worked for Shell CAPSA in Buenos Aires; Lucy focused on Competency management, the internall Shell People (Employee Engagement) Survey, Training and latterly provided generalist HR support to Exploration and Production in Argentina, including helping to manage a merger with Shell's Gas & Power business in Brazil.

Lucy moved to the Netherlands in 2001, where she has remained since.  She initially worked as the Retail Competency Programme Manager, leading a small virtual European team whose objective was to improve the competency and motivation of staff working on the Company's Retail service stations.  Thereafter, she was heavily involved in the globalization of Shell's Downstream business in the Programme Office for the reorganisation.

Lucy was appointed to the position of HR Manager, Sales & Operations, Retail, at the beginning of 2005 – her proudest achievement during that assignment was co-leading a programme called People Make the Difference Real, which aimed to drive operational excellence through focus on people.  She had two sons during her time in Retail, and started to work four days a week after the birth of her first child. 

At the end of 2008, Lucy moved to Shell Global Solutions as Talent Manager, responsible for the Global Skillpool Team supporting a number of Shell's businesses, and for Talent activities in that business.  She moved to her current position of VP Talent & Development, Upstream International, in September 2009 - Lucy had a third child in February 2011.

Besides her home country of the UK, Lucy has lived in Brazil, France, Mexico, the Netherlands and Argentina, and speaks the languages of those countries with varying degrees of competence (although she enjoys trying!).  She joined, and has remained with, Shell, because of its international opportunities, which she continues to believe is a great privilege, as well as the values of the organization, and its staff.

Outside work, Lucy focuses on spending time with the family and her friends, many of whom are spread all around the world.  She enjoys jogging in an attempt to keep fit, and reading when she can find the time (which is a constant challenge!). 

Director, Deloitte Access Economics

Plenary Session 1: The Big Picture
Wednesday 18 July - 8:30am-10:15am

'Macro-economic overview of Australia's productivity and oil and gas industry contribution to the Australian economy and skills'

Chris Richardson is a Director of Deloitte Access Economics and is one of Australia's best known economists.  Chris heads Deloitte Access Economics' forecasting and modelling unit.

Chris writes the Business Review Weekly's Eco column. His comments on trends in the economy and their effect on business regularly appear in daily media coverage.

Vice President - Australia, Schlumberger

Plenary Session 7: LNG Skills: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday 19 July - 10:30am-11:40am

'The Future of Oil and Gas Industry through the Human Resources len'

Philip is a Vice President for Schlumberger Business Consulting in Australasia. Philip is an experienced consultant, engineer and general business manager with oil and gas industry experience in Australia, Thailand, India, and United Kingdom. Philip experience spans across numerous functions such as growth strategies, operational excellence, financial modeling, reorganization and change management. 

Philip is also Schlumberger Business Consulting Organization and HR practice leader for the Asia region, in which he led numerous Human Resources related exercise for oil and gas organizations, e.g., transformation of organization HR strategy, development of organization structure, shaping of competency management system to ensure adherence to government regulation and heighten management of safety critical positions.

Philip holds Bachelor of Engineering (Petroleum), First Class Honors from University of New South Wales, Australia. He also holds Masters of Business Administration from University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business, USA.

Principal Consultant, Indigenous, Environment and Water Services, GHD

Concurrent Session 4A: Indigenous Employment
Wednesday 18 July - 3:15pm-4:30pm

'Work ready oil and gas skilled labor: Indigenous enterprise as a catalyst'

Michael Bissell is a sustainability professional with fifteen years' experience across the private, public and community sectors.  Michael's experiences encompass strategic policy, legislative, regulatory, operations and community development across the oil and gas, mining and Indigenous sectors.  Michael played a lead role in developing and implementing the new environmental regulatory regimes for mining and oil and gas in Queensland, and was Manager, Environmental Regulation of mining and oil and gas in Victoria.  In a senior sustainability role with the Minerals Council of Australia, Michael had national responsibilities for Indigenous relations with a focus on community agreements and specifically, education, employment and enterprise development.  

More recently Michael has spent several years as the CEO of a significant Aboriginal community organisation in Victoria, and was responsible for developing and implementing one of the most successful Aboriginal employment initiatives in Australia.  In this capacity he worked closely with many major national corporates such as Transfield, ANZ and Wesfarmers and local Aboriginal people to support the companies and community members to achieve sustainable employment outcomes.

Chair, Skills Australia

Plenary Session 2: Labour Markets and Productivity
Wednesday 18 July - 10:45am-12:00pm

'Utilising skills for better outcomes and resources sector skill needs'

Philip Bullock brings an extensive combination of high level leadership skills, a strong industry background and a commitment to education and training to the position of Chair of Skills Australia. Mr. Bullock has more than 25 years experience working with IBM, culminating in his appointment as Vice President, Systems and Technology Group IBM Asia Pacific Region. Prior to this Mr. Bullock was CEO of IBM Australia and New Zealand.

He also served on the Board of the Australian Information Industry Association, the Business Council of Australia, where he also chaired their Skills and Innovation Taskforce, the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission and the Advisory Committee to the Australian Graduate School of Management. He is currently a non-executive of Perpetual Limited, a major provider of financial services and CSG Limited, which is one of Australia's leading IT and print services companies. He was previously a non-executive director of Healthscope Limited a significant provider of private health services. He also serves on the Federal Government's Education Investment Fund, which provides billions of dollars to tertiary institutions to enhance their infrastructure and the Australia India Education Council.

Vice President Human Resources, Chevron

Concurrent Session 4B: Attraction and Retention
Wednesday 18 July - 3:15pm - 4:30pm

'Engineering your success: Chevron Australia and Challenger Institute of Technology Training initiative — engaging women in engineering careers in the oil and gas sector'

Kaye joined Chevron Australia as the General Manager – Human Resources for Australasian Strategic Business Unit in 2007.  During this time Chevron Australia has increased its staff from approximately 500 employees to over 3500 employees and has gone from a small employer to one of the leading resource employers in Western Australia if not Australia.  Chevron Australia is currently building the largest resource project in Australia's history – the $43 Billion Gorgon LNG Project and is fast moving to final investment decision of the $30 Billion
Wheatstone LNG Project.

Kaye has worked in the resources industry for most of the last 21 years.  She has a strong background in Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management holding graduate and post graduate tertiary qualifications in Organizational Psychology.

Prior to joining Chevron  Kaye has worked for a large global Alumina producer in a range of positions including line management; Health and Safety Manager in a large alumina refinery and Senior Human Resource Manager covering six large mining and refining operations with a workforce of approximately five thousand people.

Kaye has also held senior corporate positions in Health and Safety Management which included responsibility for global Health and Safety process improvement.

She has lead a global change management project which sort to rapidly enhance the change management competence of senior business leaders such that there was a significant improvement in the successful implementation key business initiatives.  This project included Kaye
working with business leaders and their teams across a range of countries and business divisions (including Russia; Brazil; China; Europe; North America and Australia).

Kaye has had a long involvement and leadership role in people development and organizational improvement.  She has lead many organizational redesign initiatives at various levels within large complex organizations

Kaye has been strongly involved in promoting diversity within the workplace and has often been the lead manager on corporate strategies focused in this area.  She has been involved at a senior level in the support and deployment of a global women's network and is currently the sponsor of Chevron Aboriginal Employee Network.

Kaye holds positions on the Governing Council of Challenger Institute; the Advisory Council of the Australian Institute of Management and the Human Resource Advisory Committee for the University of WA.

Winthrop Professor, Management and Organisations Group, UWA Business School

Plenary Session 3: Diversity, Design and Participation
Wednesday 18 July - 1:00pm-2:45pm

'Designing the jobs of the future'

 John Cordery is Winthrop Professor of Management and Organisations in the Business School at the University of Western Australia.  He is a behavioural scientist, who studies how people react to changing organisational and work configurations.   He has over 25 years experience working with organisations to improve the design of work systems to promote employee and work-unit effectiveness.  Current industry-based research projects focus on improving collaboration across geographical and structural boundaries within multinational organizations and helping organizations to increase their return on training investments through better training transfer practices.

President Australia-West, ConocoPhillips

Plenary Session 1: The Big Picture
Wednesday 18 July 2012

'Matching supply to demand; the skills gap and a business challenge' 

J. T. (Todd) Creeger is president, Australia West, forConocoPhillips.

Creeger began his career with ConocoPhillips in CorpusChristi, Texas in 1986. He held a number of engineeringpositions supporting onshore and offshore operations inthe southern USA and Gulf of Mexico.

In 1996, he transferred to Russia to join the Polar Lights JVworking as the engineering & operations manager, and in2000, he was appointed extraction manager for Conoco'sNorwegian business unit in Stavanger, Norway. With themerger of ConocoPhillips in 2002, he became exploitationmanager, Caspian business unit and established theCaspian exploitation group in Stavanger.

In 2003, Creeger moved to ConocoPhillips' corporateheadquarters supporting the office of the Executive VicePresident of Exploration & Production as director, projectauthorization and performance.

In 2005, he relocated to Lagos, Nigeria as president, WestAfrica, and managing director, Nigeria. In 2007, herelocated to Farmington, New Mexico as General Manager,San Juan business unit, responsible for the operation ofConocoPhillips' assets in the San Juan basin. He relocatedto Brisbane in January, 2009 to assume his role as projectdirector for Australia Pacific LNG, a joint venture betweenOrigin Energy and ConocoPhillips. He was appointed to hiscurrent role in 2010.

Creeger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in PetroleumEngineering from Texas A&M University in College Station,Texas in 1986. He is a registered Engineer in the state ofTexas and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Creeger has been active in supporting philanthropic andcommunity service efforts in the locations he has workedaround the globe.

Director of Business Immigration Services, Ernst & Young

Concurrent Seession 4B: Skilled Migration
Wednesday 18 July - 3:15pm-4:30pm

'International recruitment: observations, best practice and recommendations'

Trina is a Director of Business Immigration Services in Brisbane. She is a Registered Migration Agent (MARN: 0324278) with over 10 years of strategic and operational experience in global immigration law and mobility frameworks. Trina has an extensive global immigration background overseeing regional immigration co-ordination teams and preparing strategic immigration planning and compliance advice for jurisdictions throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Trina's practice specialises in immigration planning and compliance advice for temporary and permanent business migration for the QLD market, as well as international and outbound coordination services to support local and international global mobility frameworks.

Indigenous Services Global Business Leader, GHD

Concurrent Session 4A: Indigenous Employment
Wednesday 18 July - 3:15pm-4:30pm

'Work ready oil and gas skilled labor: Indigenous enterprise as a catalyst'

Peter Dunn is the Indigenous Services Global Business Leader and professional facilitator with over 30 years experience working alongside Indigenous communities and organisations, public and private, to improve achievement of their business goals, performance and strategic planning. He has a sound career background in social policy and Indigenous affairs as both a community development practitioner and university academic. His experience with Indigenous communities spans over 32 years and includes 5 years pioneering the Remote Area Family Support Program in Cape York communities (1980-1985), advising Aboriginal youth diversion programs (Western NSW) and leading national Indigenous health research projects as Director, Australian Rural Health Research Institute. Key projects include the Indigenous Youth Suicide trials (Tiwi Islands and Bourke), Aboriginal health care access, Koori Terminal Illness Study and Aboriginal mental health.

Peter has held positions on State and Federal Government Consultative bodies, senior university academic positions, senior consultant roles and management of consultancy enterprises.  Within GHD he is leading their corporate social responsibility activities and their Indigenous focused commercial engagements, specifically promoting and supporting Indigenous economic development.

Principal, Pit Crew Management Consulting

Plenary Session 2: Labour Markets and Productivity
Wednesday 18 July 2012

'Economic trends and labour market analysis'

Peter brings over 25 years of relevant professional experience and knowledge to companies in the resources, construction and engineering sectors. He began his professional career as a Trainee Engineer in the BHPB Steelworks in Port Kembla NSW, and since 1985 has been involved in engineering, heavy industry, construction and resources. His work as a trainee, a site engineer, project and construction manager, as well business development manager informs the products and services that his company, Pit Crew Management Consulting Services (founded 2004) now provides.     

Consulting to the resources, engineering and construction sectors, Pit Crew are best recognised as an authority on labour market modelling, analysis, forecasting and reporting for major resources, energy and infrastructure projects. Pit Crew Labour Market Report subscribers are major project owners and engineering companies as well as industry bodies, government departments and service providers across infrastructure development, immigration, recruitment, skills, training and policy. 

Peter is currently a non-executive director on a number of company boards.

Outside of Pit Crew, Peter has a wife and two children (8 & 6). He enjoys motor racing, and will compete in a WA Formula Vee Championship this year. Peter is also a keen singer with Pan Pacific and Australian Champion Men's Harmony Chorus – Vocal Evolution. 

Managing Director, Pilbara Institute

Concurrent Session 8B: Engineering Skills Development
Thursday 19 July - 11:50am-1:00pm

'Woodside and Pilbara Institute — a collaborative partnership promoting excellence in mechanical engineering training in the Pilbara'

Lyn Farrell is the Managing Director of Pilbara Institute.  She has had over 20 years experience in the Vocational  Education and Training  sector. She has a Masters in Professional Education and Training and her research interests and work experience have focused on lifelong learning and cross cultural education and training. Most of her working life she has spent living and working in regional areas. She also spent a number of years working in Perth as the CEO of an independent indigenous RTO and then in the role of  General Manager Organisational Services for Polytechnic West the largest State Training Provider in WA. In her current role as Managing Director of Pilbara Institute she is keen to build the capability and capacity of the Institute to respond to the growing educational and training needs within the Pilbara.

Group Manager, Remuneration & HR Operations, Santos

Plenary Session 6: Global Industry Perspectives
Thursday 19 July - 8:30am-10:00am

'Contemporary remuneration and benefits to drive productivity and workforce engagement'

Joanne Fox is the Group Executive, Remuneration & HR Operations of Santos, a leading oil and gas producer listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Ltd) and one of Australia's top 20 companies. Joanne is responsible for strategies focusing on workforce planning, resourcing, rewards, compliance and HR governance.

Joanne has spent over twenty years working in the Human Resources field with prominent ASX companies operating globally. Her industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods and oil and gas.  Her work has included leading major change projects including M&A, divestments, culture development and organisational effectiveness reviews.

Training and Development Manager, Arrow Energy

Concurrent Session 8C: Developing The Industry's Skills Base
Thursday 19 July - 11:50am-1:00pm

'School-based trainees in the Surat Basin'

Andrew has over forty years experience in the industry - twenty eight of those years in training and development.  As Training and Development Manager at Arrow Energy, Andrew has responsibility for all areas of development from leadership, to professional and technical through to health safety and environment. 

Starting out as a technical trainer with Telecom (now Telstra), Andrew moved into supervisory training and adventure learning as part of Telecom's cultural change program Vision 2000.  After 21 years with Telecom a move was made to Queensland Alumina at Gladstone where the focus was on the emerging National Training Agenda and Competency Based Training.  This was followed by five years overseas with Kuwait Oil Company and EQUATE petrochemical, running the leadership & team building programs. 

On returning to Australia, Andrew joined Santos to help roll-out their competency-based training system in Queensland and South Australia.  Andrew also worked in Townsville at BHP's Yabulu nickel refinery developing training material for the plant expansion before joining Arrow in 2008 as their inaugural Training & Development Manager.

National Talent Management Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Plenary Session 3: Labour Markets and Productivity
Wednesday 18 July - 1:00pm-2:45pm

'Bridging the skills gap in resources'

Matt is a Partner in PwC's Melbourne office and he leads the Firm's Mining, Oil & Gas sector in Consulting. He has over 15 years of local and international experience working with clients on talent management and workforce optimisation, leadership, organisation design and change management topics. He has advised some of the world's largest oil and gas companies to help them make significant and sustainable improvements in their performance and underlying health. As a qualified psychologist, executive coach, mediator and facilitator, Matt frequently works closely with senior executives to improve their personal and team effectiveness.

General Manager Training Services, Challenger Institute of Technology/Australian Centre for Energy and Process Training

Concurrent Session 4C: Attraction and Retention
Wednesday 18 July - 3:15pm-4:30pm

'Engineering your success: Chevron Australia and Challenger Institute of Technology Training initiative — engaging women in engineering careers in the oil and gas sector'

Jill Jamieson, General Manager of Training Services, has been an executive member of the Challenger Institute since 2006 with responsibility for the training and workforce development services delivered by the Institute's eight schools and an applied aquaculture research centre. Jill has extensive experience across all education sectors and has worked with a wide range of regional and metropolitan communities and industry sectors to implement comprehensive workforce development strategies. Jill also has a strong interest in developing accessible education services, leading a range of national e-learning projects.

Australian representative, International Gas Union

Plenary Session 7: LNG Skills: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday 19 July - 10:30am-11:40am

'Gas industry skills and resources: global findings and common challenges'

Barbara Jinks has over 29 years of experience in natural gas projects,
in particular onshore and offshore high pressure pipelines and coal seam gas
field development. She has a good working knowledge of conventional and
unconventional gas projects from business development, project management,
landholder liaison, approvals, environmental, safety, design and construction.

Barbara has a civil engineering degree and two masters degrees; in
environmental management and commercial law.

She is currently the GHD's global Business Leader Coal Seam Gas and acts as
Project Director on various projects. She has been representing Australia with
the International Gas Union in leading research in the areas of gas transmission
and distribution.

Special Counsel, Fragomen

Concurrent Session 4B: Skilled Migration
Wednesday 28 July - 3:15pm-4:30pm

'Gearing up for the Australian resources boom: will our immigration system deliver?'

 Ron Kessels is Special Counsel within the Sydney office of Fragomen, in Australia and has practiced almost exclusively in migration law since 1993. Ron provides strategic advice and solutions designed to meet the overseas workforce needs of businesses in all sectors with a particular focus on resources. He is currently assisting clients with Enterprise Migration Agreements, Regional Migration Agreements and Labour Agreements.  Ron has been recognised for five consecutive years in the Australian Financial Review's Best Lawyers, one of the leading peer-based ranking of lawyers in Australia and overseas.