SPEAKERS
International Speakers
Andrew Fraser
London School of Economics, UK
Andrew Fraser is an Independent Adviser to a number of Government Bodies and Corporations, and a frequent commentator on globalisation and European issues. He is a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the London Business School (LBS). He also serves as President of Worldaware, which is the UK-based organisation supporting Development Education, and as a Director of London First Centre. He is also a member of the Development Council of Shakespeare's Globe.
For six years (July 1994-Sept 2000) he served as Chief Executive of Invest-UK - the Government body responsible for marketing the UK to international investors. During his tenure the stock of UK inward investment more than doubled.
Prior to joining Invest-UK, Andrew enjoyed an extensive career in international advertising.
Andrew was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1950. He was educated in the UK, graduating from the University of Sussex School of English and American Studies, and on scholarship programmes at Harvard School and UCLA in North America.
Jon Fredrikson
President, Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, California, USA
Jon Fredrikson is a wine industry consultant with more than three decades of diversified experience in the wine business. He is President of Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, a professional consulting firm founded in 1948 by wine industry pioneer Louis R. Gomberg.
Before acquiring Louis R. Gomberg & Associates in 1983, Mr Fredrikson was with the wine divisions of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons for thirteen years, where he held the positions of Executive Vice president of The Seagram Wine Company and Peel Street Wine merchants. A former Naval Officer, Fredrikson was a Fulbright Scholar and received his MBA from Columbia University.
Mr Fredrikson publishes The Gomberg-Fredrikson Report, a private wine industry business report issued monthly and the WINEDATA Wine Pricing Report. A recognised authority on the wine industry, Mr. Fredrikson is quoted frequently in the press and his wine market segmentation terminology has been widely adopted.
Mr Fredrikson serves on the Board of Directors or Advisors of six Californian wineries and Internet marketers. He has been a certified professional wine judge at the California State Fair since 1985.
Australian Speakers
Richard Gibbs
Division Director and Head of Economics, Macquarie Bank Limited
Richard Gibbs is a Division Director and the Chief Economist at Macquarie Bank. He has worked for Macquarie Bank for the past 9 years and is responsible for the formulation and presentation of the Bank's economic scenarios and forecasts for Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the major industrial economies. He also acts as a specialist adviser to several of the Bank's major corporate clients.
Richard is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading global analysts with extensive experience in the analysis of the Japanese and North East Asian economies, where he has maintained a close association with leading policymakers and business leaders for the past 15 years. He also provides regular briefings to the Australia-China Business Council (ACBC) and in August 2002 delivered the ACBC's annual China Economic Update.
Richard holds a Masters degree in Economics and Finance and a Masters degree in Business Administration as well as a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. He is also a Trustee of the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).
Lawrie Stanford
Manager, Information & Analysis, Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation
Lawrie Stanford has worked for the Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation for more than four years and is currently Manager, Information and Analysis. He has been analysing the wine industry for many years, through his prior employment with the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE) in Canberra where he worked as the horticulture commodity analyst. After earning a Masters Economics degree at Adelaide University in 1991, he took up employment with ABARE in 1992 and then joined the AWBC in July 1997.
Lawrie is in a good position to talk about wine industry supply as one of his responsibilities at the Corporation is to manage the industry's Statistics Working Group. The priority of this group in the last three years has been to improve the accuracy of winegrape statistics and their accessibility to industry, with industry projections and planning rely heavily on data generated through this work.
Lawrie has assisted in facilitating better dissemination of information to the industry through the creation of the Wine Industry Information Service that is co-funded by the AWBC and Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation and the service operates out of the AWBC. Other activities of the Corporation's information services section that are expected to improve the accessibility of information to industry are the development of on-line systems for delivering data to industry and an overhaul of the Corporation's web presence (awbc.com.au).
Philip Laffer
Chief Winemaker/Director, Orlando Wyndham Group
Philip has been employed in the wine industry since 1963, initially with Lindemans Wines Pty Ltd as a winemaker. He remained in the company for 27 years in a number of roles including Deputy Managing Director and Marketing Director. He was the Lindemans Executive Director - Operations and Chief Winemaker when he left the company in 1990.
Following his departure from Lindemans he joined Orlando Wyndham Group as Operations Director. He has since moved to company Winemaker, Chief Winemaker and Director of Viticulture and Winemaking and is now Chief Winemaker / Director of Winemaking.
Philip has held roles including Chairman of The Australian Wine Research Institute, Deputy Chairman of Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, Chairman of Viticulture 2000, President of the SA Wine and Brandy Industry Association, Board member of the National Wine Centre, and was a past judge at Australian national Wine Shows.
Philip is a graduate of Agriculture and Oenology, Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia.
Stephen Harvey
Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Stephen Harvey is the Lead Partner for the Assurance and Advisory Services group in the Adelaide office. He is also the Partner in charge of the Adelaide Corporate Finance group.
Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) from Adelaide University and joined Deloitte in 1995 as a result of the merger of the South Australian practice with Pannell Kerr Forster.
With more than 20 years' experience, Stephen provides a wide range of services to a large group of organisations. His specialist skills lie in technology, racing, gaming and corporate finance. He also has expertise in the wine industry and his clients include Banksia Wines Ltd, Petaluma Wines Ltd and McGuigan Simeon Wines Ltd.
Stephen is involved with many boards and professional organisations including: Chairman of Thoroughbred Racing SA Limited; Board member of Racing SA Pty Ltd; a member of Racing Industry Advisory Council (SA); a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia; a member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association; a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors; and a member of Finance & Treasury Association.
David Trebeck
Managing Director, ACIL Pathways
David Trebeck is Managing Director and co-founder of ACIL Consulting Pty Ltd, one of Australia's leading economic consulting and strategic advisory companies. His work focuses on providing corporate advice and analysis of microeconomic reform issues and policy developments. He has recently completed a major inquiry for the Commonwealth Government into problems facing small and medium wine companies.
He is a director of two publicly listed companies, Incitec Ltd and GrainCorp Ltd. He was also a director of Pipers Brook Vineyard Ltd until it was taken over in December 2001. Prior to founding ACIL in 1983, David worked for 11 years with the National Farmers' Federation and its predecessors. He has an honours degree in Agricultural Science, a Master of Economics degree and is a Churchill Fellow. In the mid 1980s he served as a board member of the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation.
He has mixed farming interests in Southern NSW.
David Crawford
Managing Director, CMV Farms Pty Ltd
David Crawford is Managing Director of CMV Farms Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary company of the CMV Group. The CMV Group is a privately owned company employing more than 500 staff with major interests in the truck and car industries in Adelaide and Melbourne.
David was educated at Urrbrae Agricultural High School in Adelaide and Marcus Oldham Farm Management College in Victoria.
After working on a variety of agricultural properties in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, he established CMV Farms in 1979. Between 1982 and 1997 he established a pistachio orchard and vineyard at Robinvale in Victoria.
He is now largely based in Adelaide and commutes between the various CMV Farms' properties. CMV Farms has 510 hectares of wine grapes on three properties in the Riverland, Sunraysia and Langhorne Creek. The fruit from these vineyards is contracted to three major wineries.
Jamie Odell
Managing Director, Trade Asia Pacific, Beringer Blass Wine Estates
Jamie Odell is Managing Director Trade Asia Pacific for Beringer Blass Wine Estates, a global leader in premium wine and a major division of the Australian-listed multi-beverage company, Foster's Group.
Jamie has an extensive background in general management, having run stand-alone medium sized and large beverage organisations in Australia and the UK. Previous positions include Regional Vice President (Asia Pacific) for Allied Domecq Duty Free, based in Singapore; Managing Director of URM Brands Ltd., based in the UK; and Managing Director of Tetley Australia, based in Melbourne.
He graduated with an MBA from the University of Sussex and a Diploma in Wines and Spirits (Hons) from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, London.
Moderator
Ian Doyle