Greg Turnidge
Syndicates 1, 9 and M5-102

Chairman since: 
 2002

Current Executive / Board positions:
Managing Director: Melbourne Venture Partners Pty Ltd, Whise Acoustics Ltd;
Director: Melbourne Venture Securities Pty Ltd, Close the Loop Ltd, Whise Automotive Pty Ltd, Whise Technologies Pty Ltd, Precision Audio Pty Ltd.

Memberships:
Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors; Member of the Victorian Advisory Committee of CEDA.

Achievements:
Greg has had an extraordinarily diverse range of experience in his 30 year career. After working with the Reserve Bank in Sydney, Greg moved to Melbourne to take up a senior policy advisor role for the then Victorian Chamber of Manufactures. During this time Greg became a member of the Confederation of Australian Industry Economic Panel, was seconded to work in the Office of Management and Budget in the Victorian Government and was appointed a Director of the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research.
Greg’s business career began in 1984 when he was appointed Managing Director of a start up company, Aluminium Smelters of Victoria, which was ultimately sold by its owners (Victorian Government) in 1998. During the last 20 years Greg has worked on nearly every dimension of business. He has undertaken capital raisings, public listings, major foreign exchange transactions and cross border financings. He has negotiated joint ventures in the USA, France and China and engaged extensively in international trade arrangements.