People
Dr Julie Foreman
Dr. Julie Foreman is the Deputy Director for the Centre for Enterprise Performance. She has had a significant career in industry in both a small business environment and also with larger organisations such as Pacific Dunlop and Telstra. She has extensive experience in both financial and operational management roles. She has consulted widely on organisation cost management; customer value; and most recently, analysis of performance within the public sector, primarily emergency services and health. This recent research was aimed at evaluating evidence of productivity improvements and examination of the impact if any on desired performance outcomes. She has expertise in performance measurement systems; cost modelling and governance structures. Her two key research areas are corporate governance and performance measurement and her thesis examined links between governance and performance in the not for profit area.
Professor Louise Kloot
Professor Louise Kloot is a leading researcher in performance management, organisational learning and public sector management accounting issues. She has published in the management accounting and public sector management literature. She has supervised PhD and masters theses in areas including environmental management accounting, accounting education, budgeting in universities, entrepreneurial public practitioners and corporate governance. Louise is a director, audit chair and finance committee member of a public health board, and was a director of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) for three years.
Associate Professor Dr Alex Maritz
Dr Alex Maritz is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology. He is the Chair of the 8th Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, and also holds an appointment as Visiting Professor of International Business at Chang Jung Christian University in Taiwan. Alex has an executive background at Board level in various multi-national organisations, with extensive international experience in strategy and commercialisation. Alex’s research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing and commercialisation; and has published his research in international journals, periodicals, book chapters, case studies and periodicals. Citations and awards include an Australian Learning and Teaching Citation for excellence in entrepreneurship education; a Faculty Learning and Teaching award; a Faculty Research excellence award; and finalist in the United Sates Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Education Awards. Alex is also the recipient of a Stanford Technology Ventures Scholarship. Particular competencies and interests are in the domains of entrepreneurship education, coupled with research collaboration and consultancies in the innovation and commercialisation sectors. Alex is a Program Leader in Research Program 4: Innovation and Internationalisation.
Dr Len Gainsford
Dr Len Gainsford is Director, Audit and Assurance at the Department of Transport in Victoria and has occupied this position as a direct report to the Secretary since escaping from chartered accounting in 2005. He is also Chair of the Transport Ticketing Authority Audit Committee and Chair of the Transport Safety Victoria Audit Committee.
Dr Andreas Stierwald
Andreas joined the Centre for Enterprise Performance as a Research Fellow at the beginning of 2011. He was awarded a PhD from The University of Melbourne for completing his thesis with the title "Heterogeneity in Firm Performance - An Analysis of Large Australian Firms".
Andreas is an applied microeconomist, with interests empirical industrial economics and, in particular, enterprise performance. His work focuses on innovation related issues, such as the identification of the determinants of innovation and the characteristics of the innovative process at the firm level.
Rosie Beaumont
Rosie Beaumont has extensive experience as a qualitative researcher in the academic, corporate and community sectors. She has worked across a range of areas including Australian political history, ecologically sustainable development, industrial relations, public health and management studies. In 2000, Rosie co-founded, Reel Data, a research consultancy that incorporated audio-visual technology and documentary making techniques into social and market research projects. Rosie has an Honours Degree in Criminology and Politics from the University of Melbourne and a Masters Degree in Editing from the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School. She has also worked as a documentary editor and freelance writer.
Cara Steele
Cara Steele is experienced as both a qualitative and quantitative researcher. Her previous research experiences have focused on decision-making in complex, dynamic environments, and health workforce issues. Previous research engagements include working as a research officer for Rural Workforce Agency Victoria. Cara has completed an undergraduate degree and postgraduate diploma in Psychology.
Kalyca Baker
Kalyca Baker is experienced in statistical analysis and the management of large scale research projects. In her current role Kalyca performs statistical analysis, reports, presentations and literature reviews as well as general administrative duties for various projects within the Centre for Enterprise Performance. Kalyca works collaboratively with the chief investigators to develop research tools for the quantitative survey and qualitative interviews. Kalyca is currently finishing her Psychology / Psychophysiology double major degree at Swinburne and aims to continue on to postgraduate studies in the future.
Mohammad Azim
Mohammad Azim is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to commencing at Swinburne, Mohammad held appointments at the University of South Australia (UniSA), University of Adelaide and Australian National University (ANU). Dr Azim’s primary research interest is in the area of Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Reporting and Forensic Accounting. As an active researcher and research supervisor he also published several refereed journal articles in the area of auditing, financial accounting and corporate social reporting. He also acts as a reviewer for several international journals. Mohammad Azim has been a recipient of the Quality Teaching Award 2008 (UniSA) for excellence in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has over 10 years of teaching experience in Accounting and Finance. Dr Azim is a member of CPAAustralia and CMA Australia.
Subhash Abhayawansa
Subhash Abhayawansa is a Lecturer in Accounting at Swinburne's Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Prior to joining academia, Subhash worked in the fields of market research, management consulting and capital markets regulation. Subhash’s research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, and the measurement, management and reporting of intellectual and human capital. His doctoral research focuses on use and communication of intellectual capital information by sell-side analysts.
Grainne Oates
Grainne Oates is a Lecturer in Accounting within the Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology. She is currently pursuing a PhD investigating the effectiveness of corporatised statutory authorities in delivering community service obligations within the government property development industry. Prior to her academic career Grainne was formerly an Operations Manager with CSL, one of Australia 's leading pharmaceutical companies and has thirteen years experience in industry.
Jayanthi Kumarasi
Jayanthi Kumarasiri is an Associate Lecturer at the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne, Jayanthi worked as a lecturer at the Department of Accountancy of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. She is currently reading for her doctorate in the area of ‘Management Accounting and Environmental and Economic Sustainability'.
Janine Muir
Janine Muir is a Lecturer in Accounting within the Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology. Janine is a CPA qualified accountant with 15 years industry experience encompassing transport and logistics and publishing. She is currently working towards a PhD examining the Treasurer role and the governance and regulatory framework applicable to sporting and cultural clubs operating within the not-for-profit sector.
Jim Rooney
Jim Rooney is an Accounting Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Sydney. Jim has more than twenty years experience in senior management, service operations, business development, consulting, and information Technology roles. He has extensive and practical financial services industry knowledge with particular focus on consumer lending and mortgages. Jim is currently undertaking a doctorate examining management control of interfirm relationships within the financial services industry.