Tony Hill, Director and External Relations Manager
Tony Hill has over two decades of experience in linking research to
commercial and other community outcomes, particularly through more
advanced approaches to research management. In 1999 he established his
own consulting business, Capital Hill Consulting Pty Ltd, to help foster
improved approaches to cooperative research projects. In 2007 he jointly
founded IPv6Now Pty Ltd to support uptake of the next generation of
Internet technology, having been President of the Internet Society of
Australia from 2001 to 2011. He was chair of the Australian National ICT
Industry Alliance from 2005 to 2007 and is chair of the Australian IPv6
Summit Steering Committee.
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Kevin Karp, Director and Business Manager
Kevin Karp, B.E.(Hons), B.Sc, GradDipSIA, is the founder and Managing Director
of PPS Internet. He has over 25
years of experience in board-level commercial management of ICT and investment
industry enterprises. In 1995 PPS established Semper.Net, one of Australia's
first Internet managed services networks. In 2007 Kevin negotiated and directed
PPS's acquisition of Studentnet, Australia's oldest schools education network,
and jointly founded IPv6Now. He is a founding member and Secretary of the
Internet Society of Australia, a Senior Member of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia
(FINSIA).
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Michael Biber, Professional Services Manager Michael
Biber is founder and President of the IPv6 Forum in Australia
and was Chair of the AARnet IPv6 Working Group. During 1998-2005, he was the
Executive Director of the Advanced Networking Forum Australia (ANFA), which
managed the MPLS Forum, ATM Forum and Frame Relay Forum in
Australia. He has led strategic architecture projects for large, complex carrier
and enterprise network solutions, ranging from regional/rural broadband
networks to dedicated government and enterprise networks throughout Australia
and internationally. Michael is IPv6Now's specialist in customised
IPv6 services and training.
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Dr Kate Lance, CEO
Kate Lance, BA BSc PhD (Astronomy, ANU), has worked in Internet technology
since the late 1980s, starting out as a Unix system administrator. She was
System Manager and Director of Internet Services at the pioneering ISP Connect.
She was a founder of the Internet Society of Australia and Executive Director
from 2002 to 2006, and has been Communications Manager of IPv6Now since 2007.
She is also an author: Redbill: From Pearls to Peace and Alan
Villiers: Voyager of the Winds have both won awards. Her novel, The Turning
Tide, was published in 2014 by Allen & Unwin.
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