IABCA Panel of Experts

IABCA PANEL OF EXPERTS 2022

IABCA annually engages with an independent panel of industry experts and leaders from across both nations to determine the finalists and winners of our annual awards initiative. Operating on an annual rotational policy, this credibility based approach ensures that entrants are assessed solely on merit, and requires a collection of highly qualified leaders who are willing to invest their time towards furthering the India-Australia relationship.

Please view our IABCA Awards Jury till date below:

Diane Tipping
Chair
Export Council Australia

Dr Jim Taggart OAM

Non-Executive Director

Moorebank International Company

Jodi McKay MP
Member for Strathfield

Kylie Bell
Executive Director
Trade and Investment, Investment NSW

Dianne has been the Chair of the Export Council of Australia for 7 years and has a long and varied career in international trade promotion and facilitation. She has over 40 years of experience in both business ownership and international project management. Dianne is the founder and Managing Director of Excon International Pty Ltd, a consultancy established in 1982 that focuses on facilitating movement of goods across borders and managing international projects on behalf of Australian exporters.

Dr Jim Taggart is a Chairman, Non-Executive Committee (Audit & Risk) Member, and Financial Services Professional with over 30 years of Board level experience across the public, private (finance planning, investment, development) and community (Church, local area support and fundraising) sectors.

Raised in the small town of Gloucester in country NSW, Jodi was an award-winning Newcastle journalist before moving into the private and non-for-profit sectors. She was one of the founding members of the Hunter Medical Research Institute and has been a non-executive director on a variety of health, research and advocacy boards.

Investment NSW, Trade and Investment team is led by Kylie Bell, Executive Director, Trade & International. Kylie has 25 years’ experience in global trade and investment and has worked in South Asia, ASEAN, Europe and Australia in senior consulting, business development and diplomatic trade and investment positions.

The Hon Lisa Singh

Deputy Chair, DFAT, Australia-India Council

CEO, Australia India Institute

Michelle Wade

Commissioner

South Asia, Global Victoria

Natasha Malani

Director

South Australian Leaders

Nick Hockley

Chief Executive Officer

Cricket Australia

Lisa Singh is a former Australian Senator and was the first woman of South Asian heritage to be elected to the Australian Parliament. She is currently the Director of the Australia India Institute and the Deputy Chair of the Australian Government’s Australia-India Council. As an influential professional, Lisa has been advancing Australia’s social and economic ties with India and the wider Indo-Pacific for the past decade. In 2014 she was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President of India for building friendly Australia-India relations, the highest civilian honour for a person of Indian origin.

Michelle is a highly experienced international trade official and has undertaken senior Australian diplomatic postings in Italy, Malaysia and Spain. Michelle is currently based in Bengaluru, India and oversees Victorian government’s promotion of trade, investment and education across South Asia. In 2020, Michelle led Victoria’s Covid response to international students, the $45m International Student Emergency Relief Fund. She grew up in the small town of Woolgoolga, home to Australia's first Sikh community, and has a Bachelor of Arts from University of Queensland and Postgraduate qualifications in Applied Law (UQ) and Business Communications (QUT).

Natasha Malani is delivering expertise to South Australian SME's to build their capability through the provision of expertise and access to her local, national and international network. Natasha launched SA Leaders in April 2016. South Australian Leaders assists companies to achieve sustainable growth, manage succession planning and evaluate entry and exit strategies for their business. Through experience and its networks, South Australian Leaders operates a range of initiatives designed to benefit companies at different stages of growth.

Nick was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cricket Australia in June 2021. He previously held senior roles with the organising committees for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, and as CEO of the ICC T20 World Cup 2020. Before his work in major events, Nick held senior corporate finance roles at PwC where he was qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Born in England, Nick completed his education at the University of Oxford.

Sai Sudha Chandrasekaran

Sr. Assistant Vice President

Invest India, Government of India

Simon Taufel

Partner

Integrity Values Leadership

Trudi Busch

Director of Marketing and Community
Homeworld

Sai Sudha has rich experience ranging from operations, strategy, investments and marketing from start-ups to national level organisations. She worked in a health care start-up in the USA from 2010-2012, following which she worked and lived in Hong Kong for 7 years where she co-founded 3 start-ups across various fields. She returned back to India in 2019 and joined Invest India where she serves as the Senior AVP. Invest India is the National Investment Promotion and facilitation agency set up under aegis of DPIIT (Ministry of Commerce), Government of India.

Simon Taufel has been a community and international cricket umpire for over 30 years. During this time, he has also contributed to other not-for-profit organisations such as PCYC, Highlands District Cricket Association, MCC, the Bradman Foundation, and Sport Australia. Prior to his sporting career, Simon was an operations manager in the printing industry for ten years. These days, Simon is a founding partner of Integrity Values Leadership and author of “Finding the Gaps,” allowing him to support others in developing their soft skills and sharing many learned high-performance traits that saw him recognised as the ICC Umpire of the Year for five consecutive years.

Trudi has over 25 years of experience in advertising and marketing to global and national brands and companies. Trudi is the Director of Marketing and Community for the HomeWorld Group of Companies, which is a co-operative of 50 leading building companies across NSW.