The AIPIO Board is a volunteer body of members elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to manage the affairs of the Institute, and to advance the interests of its members. The AIPIO Board comprises Executive members - President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer – and a range of non-Executive members, as determined by the Executive.
All Board appointments are for an initial period of 12 months, and will not exceed seven consecutive years, except Executive board appointments, where a person shall not hold the same appointment for longer than five consecutive years.
Prior to each AGM, we call for nominations for those who wish to be a part of the Board. Please consider assisting us in the important work we do for the profession.
PRESIDENT: Dr Philip Kowalick
Dr Philip Kowalick, a former senior executive officer with the Australian Federal Police, led the law enforcement contribution to the Counter Terrorism Control Centre and played a central role in the development of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Model and Strategy. An expert in law enforcement, intelligence and security and is highly skilled in organisational approaches, Phil also managed the AFP's strategice and operational intelligence functions.
Phil has a PhD in Law from the University of New England. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at the Queensland University of Technology also serving as a member of the School of Justice Advisory Board. Phil teaches in intelligence, law enforcement and national security at UNE and QUT and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences.
VICE PRESIDENT: Samantha Rush
Samantha Rush is currently an Executive Manager for a large Insurance company. For the last 8 years, she has focused on using business intelligence to achieve optimum financial and regulatory outcomes.
Samantha hold tertiary qualifications in international business, industrial relations, psychology (hons.) and an MBA.
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TREASURER: Kirsten Williams
Kirsten Williams commenced employment as a Policy Advisor with Department of Justice in 2002. Having always wanted to pursue a career in criminal intelligence, Kirsten joined Victoria Police in 2005 as a civilian intelligence practitioner and has performed analytical roles in a range of operational and strategic intelligence areas. In 2008, Kirsten assumed the role of Intelligence Manager and developed the inaugural Road Safety Intelligence Unit. In 2010, Kirsten developed and managed Victoria Police’s State Tasking and Coordination Model. More recently, Kirsten has been a Senior Specialist Analyst responsible for providing strategic advice on intelligence and state-wide assessments. In 2015, Kirsten was appointed the Executive Advisor to the Assistant Commissioner, Intelligence and Covert Support Command.
Kirsten holds undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Criminology, post graduate qualifications in Criminology (The University of Melbourne), Criminal Intelligence (Charles Sturt University) and Management (Victoria University).
Joining the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) in 2004, Kirsten has undertaken various roles on the AIPIO board including State Representative, Regional Representatives Manager and Strategy and Planning Coordinator. Kirsten is passionate about professionalising intelligence and developing emerging leaders in all practices. This has led to Kirsten taking on her current role as Deputy Chair of the Alpine Valleys Community Leadership Program.
SECRETARY: Elaine Ogden
Elaine is currently employed by the National Measurement Institute, a division of the Department of Industry Innovation and Science, as a Section Manager responsible for; Compliance and Enforcement, Program Governance and Projects, Trade Measurement Licensing, plus Stakeholder Relations. Her current work includes managing change projects and initiatives, financial management, risk management, governance and stakeholder engagement.
Previously Elaine worked with the Attorney General's Department in a number of roles progressing her experience through; IT project management and governance, stakeholder engagement, audit, policy, operational task force management (serious organsied crime), business process and systems improvement, including working with academic and industry partners on capability development projects. Prior to this, Elaine worked with Australian Customs as an officer, trainer, Intelligence systems manager, international and domestic liaison manager and Investigator.
Elaine is an advocate for professional development and for collaborative approaches being used to address the challenges face by government agencies. Her professional interests include coaching and professional development, promoting good governane and using professional expertise, tools and technology to enhance capabilities.
Liesl Jordan
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Liesl is the founder and principal of eLM&Jay Business Advisory. Liesl’s career spans 27 years in government, multi-lateral organisations and the private sector in diverse geographies such as Australia, north Asia, south Asia, Europe, Africa and the UK. Liesl is a strong operations professional skilled in Strategic Planning, Strategic Advisory, Project Management and Business Development. She was a senior consultant for a global Big 4 company where she consulted to federal governments and private sector providers on the implementation of major change agendas. Later as co-owner of Rann Strategy Group, she advised major international corporations on their business transformation and government relations strategies, drawing on her experience working in and outside government and with former political leaders and government ministers. Most recently, she has since been involved in supporting entrepreneurial and innovative start ups in sectors as diverse as technology, health, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, and social impact. |
Beulah Davies
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Beulah is an accredited Consultant in Extended DISC Behavioural Profiling, professionally trained Human Behaviour & Performance Coach and Certified Practitioner of Meta Dynamics™ She is also a Practitioner of NLP and has a Degree in Criminology (majoring in Human Behaviour). |
Kelly Perry
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Kelly Perry has enjoyed a varied intelligence career across defence, law enforcement and the private sector with experience in the tactical, operational and strategic spheres. She commenced serving at operational Australian Defence Force Headquarters as an intelligence specialist in 2003, before working in multidisciplinary teams targeting organised crime and corruption in the Queensland public sector in 2007. In 2016 she joined the corporate world, where she now manages the Fraud Intelligence team’s delivery of timely, relevant and actionable fraud insights and strategic fraud risk mitigation opportunities. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Management and has enjoyed completing a range of other intelligence-specific courses. |
John Schmidt
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John is the founder of CANSYNTH, and pracitices and promotes the discipline of synthesis in intelligence and other fields. He also consults and teaches on foresight, strategic intelligence, strategic planning, organisational development, risk analysis and management and counter terrorist resourcing. John 'retired' in 2015 from FINTRAC (Canada's financial intelligence unit (FIU)), where he had been since its beginning in 2000. During that time, he filled several roles from Manager, Planning, to Team Leader, Strategic Research and Analysis. Between 2006 and 2011, John was seconded to Canada's Integrated Threat (now Terrorism), Assessment Centre (ITAC). Prior to joing FINTRAC, John worked for the Alberta Attorney General's Department, the University of Canberra, the Australian Attorney Generals Department and AUSTRAC. John has several publications in area related to foresight, terrorist resourcing, strategic intelligence and human brain function. |
Dorothy Seidel Hooke
Dorothy has been working in Intelligence within law enforcement for the past 6 years.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice) and the George Washington University, she spent 2 yesars teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan. Dorothy then moved to Australia, where she completed her Master of Criminology at the University of Melbourne. She is currently completing a Master of Arts (Intelligence Analysis) at Charles Sturt University.
In her role on the AIPIO board, Dorothy looks forward to supporting the development of intelligence professionals.
David Ellis
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Dave Ellis is a Senior Sergeant in Victoria Police and manages investigation, intelligence and tasking operations in Western Region Division 4 in Western Victoria. He has been working in the intelligence and investigation fields since 1998. Dave has a Masters in Terrorism and Security Studies (Charles Sturt University), Bachelor of Policing (Investigations) and is currently studying as a post grad student at Griffith University. Dave has been a member of AIPIO since 2015. |
Julian Claxton
Julian is a Behavioural Scientist with specific expertise in the provision of strategic security, counterespionage and technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) services. He maintains close ties with the Intelligence community both professionally and personally. His primary area of interest is in researching verbal and non-verbal indicators of deception, with a focus on identifying nefarious behaviour amongst trusted insiders. Professionally, Julian runs a successful counterespionage consulting practice providing TSCM and Insider Threat Management support. He is a seasoned company director, board advisor, and global traveller with extensive consulting experience within government and corporate sector environments.
In addition to his role on the Board with AIPIO (with which he has been a member since 2004) Julian is a Founding Member of the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Institute in London. Furthermore, he is a long-term member of American based ASIS International and the Espionage Research Institute International.
Julian has a Master's Degree (MSc.) in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis, a Postgraduate Diploma in Behavioural Analysis and Investigative Interviewing, a Diploma in Security Risk Management, and CPD qualifications in the Linguistics of Interpersonal Communication.
Col Lapworth
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Col Lapworth has 25 years’ experience as an intelligence professional - with a background in law enforcement and protective security. He is currently working for Thales Australia, and has previously worked for NSW Police and the Australia Securities Investment Commission. |
Travis Cunningham
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Travis has worked in intelligence roles for over 20 years, working across defence, border protection and national security, law enforcement, regulation and more recently human services. Travis started his intelligence career working at the Department of Defence, working as an analyst then manager at the Defence Intelligence Organisation. Seconded to the New Zealand Defence Force Directorate of Defence Intelligence and Security in 2002, he returned to take up a position at the Australian Customs Service. While there he led the intelligence unit responsible for what was at the time the world’s largest MDMA seizure, 1.2 tonnes of the drug detected at the Port of Melbourne. In 2010, Travis was recruited by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to build an intelligence capability supporting the agency's product safety activities. Travis then spent built the intelligence capability at Consumer Affairs Victoria, which resulted in the agency winning the AIPIO Organisational Award, and established the Victorian Regulators Intelligence Community of Practice. Travis has now moved to Health and Human Services, where he has been responsible for developing an intelligence framework and a number of other strategic projects. |
PUBLIC OFFICER: Ernie Roughley
Ernie is an Australian Principal Consultant and client advisor for Intelligence, Investigations, and Biometrics to the Public Safety & Justice sectors.
Based in Canberra, ACT, Ernie brings experience gleaned from over 20 years’ experience with the AFP as a sworn member and 15 years in business consulting.
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