James Bradley - ASA DirectorJames Bradley is an author and critic. His books include Wrack, The Deep Field and Paper Nautilus. He has been a member of the Australian Society of Authors Executive Committee since 2001, and the Committee of Sydney PEN (2002-03).
Alexis Clark - Independent Director
Associate Director, Corporate Finance at Westpac Institutional Bank, Adelaide, with a particular focus on structured commercial financing.
Prior to Wespac, Alexis worked as Associate Director, Corporate Lending, GE Commercial Finance, Adelaide, and was responsible for originating and executing structured finance transactions in Melbourne and South Australia for GE Capital.
Alexis joined GE in 2004, prior to that he worked in Leasing & Structured Asset Finance with ANZ for five years where he worked on large structured finance deals with various Australian corporates.
Prior to the ANZ, Alexis worked in London at Greenwich NatWest. Before that he worked with Coopers & Lybrand Tax division where he provided tax advice to various corporations in a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on Financial Services.
Alexis has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst programme, is a Chartered Accountant and has Bachelor Degrees in Commerce and Economics from the University of Adelaide.
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Sandy
Grant - APA DirectorSandy Grant is Chief Executive of Hardie Grant Publishing, the holding company for four separate publishing companies - Hardie Grant Books, Hardie Grant Magazines, Hardie Grant Egmont and Explore Australia. Mr Grant is Chair and or Director of the four entities. Hardie Grant Publishing is an independent group established in 1998.
His publishing career includes roles as Marketing Director Pitman Australia, Deputy Managing Director Pitman UK, Managing Director Heinemann Publishing Australia, Managing Director Reed Books Australia and CEO Reed Books UK.
He was President of the APA 1998-2002 and 2003-2004.
He is currently a Director of CAL, a Director of the Australian Publishers Association and a Director of Meanjin. He was a former Chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival and a former Director of the Australian Republican Movement.
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Libby Gleeson - ASA DirectorLibby Gleeson BA(H) Dip ED, Cert TESOL is the ASA appointee since August 2005.
Libby is Treasurer of the ASA and was Chair of the Association 1999 - 2001.
A former teacher in secondary and tertiary institutions, Libby has been a full time writer for fifteen years. She is widely published in children's and youth literature.
Libby was a director of OzAuthors 2000 - 2004 and has been a director of BookMite, Pty Ltd since 1996. She is also the winner of the 2005 Meritorious Service to Public Education and Training Award.
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Brian Johns - Independent Director and Chair
Brian Johns was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the Queensland University of Technology in March 2000, and is also currently the Chairman of QUT's Cultural Precinct.
Prior to this he served a five-year term as Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) March 1995 - March 2000.
Brian has extensive experience in journalism, book publishing, public broadcasting and cultural development. He has played a leading role in the development of communications and cultural policy in Australia over many years.
From 1992 until joining the ABC, Brian was Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), and prior to this was Managing Director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) (1987-1992).
Before joining the SBS, Brian spent eight years as Publishing Director of Penguin Books (1979-87), greatly expanding its Australian titles.
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Malcolm Knox - Author Director
Malcolm Knox started work at The Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet journalist in 1994, after studying at the Universities of Sydney and St Andrews . He has held a number of positions at The Sydney Morning Herald including chief cricket correspondent from 1996 to 1999, assistant sport editor from 1999 to 2000 and literary editor from 2002 to 2006.
He covered the Sydney Olympic Games for the newspaper and the 2000 US Presidential election as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri, which won him a Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004. His newspaper and magazine journalism has been published in Australia , the USA , the UK , and several other countries. Since 2000, Malcolm Knox has published six books including the novels Summerland and A Private Man, winner of a Ned Kelly Award and a finalist in seven other Australian and international prizes. His non-fiction book Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo prize for research and was serialised on ABC Radio.
As a member of the MEAA since 1994 and the Australian Society of Authors since 2000, as a journalist and literary editor, as an author, and as an editorial consultant for the publisher Pan Macmillan, Malcolm Knox has extensive and diverse experience on most sides of journalism and book publishing, and a familiarity with copyright issues as they affect different interests.
Rodney Martin - Publisher Director
Rodney Martin was a primary school teacher, administrator and curriculum writer in South Australia for 14 years and during that time began writing for various educational publishers.
In 1971, he founded his own publishing company, Era Publications. Works written or edited by Rodney have been translated into 17 languages other than English, published or distributed in more than 30 countries and have achieved national and international literary recognition.
His boardroom experience includes Director on the Board of Australian Multimedia Enterprise Limited (AME) from 1995 to 1998. Rodney is on the Board of the Exporters’ Club in Adelaide and a member of the Executive Committee of Family Business Australia (SA Chapter). He is currently the convenor of the SA Publishing Cluster.
As both an educational author and publisher, Rodney has a keen interest in and practical experience with the enactment of copyright law both within Australia and overseas. His publishing work includes both print and digital products and his experience in the multimedia industry and as a director of AME made him aware of the impact of technology on copyright works. He has observed the changing nature of authors’ royalty streams over the last decade and sees the role that CAL has to play, particularly with educational publications, as pivotal to the future earning capacity of authors and educational publishers.
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Ian
Reinecke - Independent Director
Dr Ian Reinecke comes to CAL as a highly regarded expert on information and communications strategy and implementation.
He has extensive experience in policy development, strategic planning and implementation of large-scale information technology projects and is the author of five books on the impact of information and communications technology on society, organisations and individuals.
Ian has held a number of strategic positions in both the public and private sector. These include Chief Information Officer of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, adviser to the NSW Government’s Information Industries Business Advisory Board and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Queensland.
Currently, Ian is involved in a number of assignments including advising Macquarie University on the future of E-Learning and Chairing DSTC Pty Ltd, a commercial organisation that manages a multi-university and industry partner Cooperative Research Centre in Information Technology.
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Martin Spears - Publisher Director
Martin’s interest and career in educational publishing has spanned 19 years. He spent 10 years with Heinemann, and then Rigby Heinemann (now Harcourt Education) before joining Longman in 1995. In the period since, Longman has combined with Harper Schools, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall to become Pearson Education, Australia’s largest educational publisher.
Currently, he is General Manager of Pearson Education Schools Division and a member of its Board.
Since 2000, he has been a member of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Board and an elected member of the APA Schools Committee since 1995.
Martin will seek to represent the interests of publishers, broadly defined, and CAL members generally to ensure payments are maximised and distributed without delay.
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