OBA Executive Committee

OBA Executive Committee

Adam Connolly – President

John Moller – Vice President

David Griffiths – Secretary

Ian Gardiner – Treasurer

Marcus Bartram – Scholarship & Events Chair

Adam Connolly

Adam is Head of Corporate Affairs for HBOS Australia. Previously he worked in a senior corporate affairs role for AMP and as a communications adviser for Cato Counsel – a consultancy firm specialising in strategic issues management for publicly listed companies. He has more than 20 years experience in journalism, politics and finance including a decade with The Australian and Daily Telegraph newspapers - in Sydney and the Canberra Parliamentary press gallery - before serving as Press Secretary to the Australian Prime Minister. More recently he has rounded out his financial skills as an investment banker with Macquarie Bank and as senior lobbyist for one of Australia’s largest industry associations. Adam holds a BA in economic history from the Australian National University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

John Moller

John is a Senior Engagement Manager at Partners in Performance (PIP). He specialises in transaction services work, primarily supporting Private Equity clients. Prior to joining PIP he was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group’s Sydney office where he worked for six years. While at BCG John worked on strategy cases throughout the Asia Pacific region in aviation, health, consumer goods, and private equity. Prior to joining BCG, John worked as a medical practitioner in Australia and New Zealand. John holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Canterbury, a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Auckland, and an MBA from the University of Oxford. John is a member of Al Gore's Climate Change Leadership Programme.

David Griffiths

David is a director of CompliSpace Pty Ltd - a consulting and software company that specialises in providing corporate governance programs and services to the small to medium sized enterprise market. David has over 10 years experience in commercial law. He has held senior management positions in both publicly listed and small to medium sized enterprises and he has also worked in-house with Lloyd’s of London on the London market. A solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, David holds a Masters of Law from the University of Sydney and an MBA from the University of Oxford where he also won a double blue in rugby.

Ian Gardiner

Ian is the Managing Director of Viocorp, Australia's leading internet broadcasting company. Viocorp specialises in the production and distribution of video/audio content directly to end users. Ian founded the company in 2002 and has successfully grown it into an established and profitable operation. Ian has been running technology start-ups for the last eight years. He was the founding employee of newsbase.com, a successful news, analysis, and business intelligence service from emerging markets. He also founded and ran lastorders.com, an on-line off-license in the UK. Ian is still involved in the continued success of both companies. Ian holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Oxford where he also won two rowing blues.

Marcus Bartram

Marcus is a Director of Business Development for Telstra Business. He has more than 15 years experience in the IT&T, financials services and mining sectors. Marcus has held board & senior management positions for KAZ, Citigroup, Honeywell and a successful startup, nscglobal. Marcus holds an honors degree in Engineering from the University of Adelaide and a MBA from the University of Oxford.