Gail is CEO of the Southern Alpine Resort Management Board and has public sector capital funding and infrastructure expertise with 9 years’ experience in the Victorian State Government.

Prior to this she spent more than 10 years in private sector finance roles in the UK and Australia. Her specific areas of expertise are people management (negotiations, relationship management etc), budget formulation and submission (and the Victorian capital budget processes), program budgeting and evaluation, project management, procurement, policy and strategy development, and assessing project delivery mechanisms.

She has a particular passion for the planning and execution of projects, capacity building within high performance teams, change management (business process re-engineering) and quality management (through six sigma, lean thinking or Gateway methodologies).

Gail was accepted into the PhD program 2009 at RMIT in the School of design Construction & Project management (supervisor Prof Helen Lingard). She is active in supporting the development of staff and became a mentor for the Youth (under 36) division of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) program.

She has remained interested in science and technology and in order to retain a current connection with engineering, and has been a regular judge for the Victorian Engineering Excellence awards for Engineering Australia.

Now at the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne (as of June 2013), Gail is enthusiastically adapting and looks forward to a successful transition to the university sector.

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