The following SSSI Board members have been elected for the 2011 period. The SSSI Board is responsible for the governance, strategic planning, fiduciary oversight and monitoring against the SSSI Strategic Plan.

Members of the SSSI Board of Directors are President; the immediate Past President; the President-Elect, appointed from and by the Consultative Council; the Treasurer, selected by the Consultative Council following nominations from general membership; and four members elected from and by the Consultative Council, at least one of which must be a member of the Young Professionals Group and one in a director or managerial position in private practice.

Members of the SSSI Board

Gary Maguire – President

Gary is a GISP-AP and has worked in the spatial industry for over 25 years. This experience includes participation in major State Government projects and teaching GIS at the University of SA. Gary is currently employed by the Department for Families & Communities as the Manager of Business and Location Intelligence Services. He is currently leading a group of innovative staff that are delivering new and exciting integrated business solutions. The development of these applications will allow the organisation to share its corporate knowledge with other government agencies and partners while ...

06 Jun, 2011

Gypsy Bhalla – Past President

Gypsy Bhalla has a degree in Applied Science, majoring in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems from University of Canberra, Australia. She has worked in the commercial sector in spatial information technology focussing on client delivery of imagery and GIS based integrated products, analysis and modelling; and subsequently moved to Australian Government where she has remained within the remote sensing and spatial data areas for over twenty years within the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing and the Department of Defence. Her current role is within Geoscience Austral...

06 Jun, 2011

Jonathan Saxon – Treasurer

Jonathan Saxon is the Managing Director of Clement & Reid trading as Project Surveyors. Jonathan is a Registered Land Surveyor in NSW since 1993, and holds a Bachelor of Surveying Degree from UNSW (1988). Jonathan also has a Masters of Management degree from Macquarie Graduate School of Management – a world ranked Management School, and a part of Macquarie University, which he obtained in 2001. Jonathan has been primarily employed in the private sector as a Surveyor since graduation, and has been managing his current business since 1995, as one of 3 directors.His areas of expertise...

06 Jun, 2011

Renee Bartolo – Director

Renee has worked in the spatial profession for the past 13 years. She is currently a Spatial Scientist with the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Populations and Communities' Supervising Scientist Division. As a spatial scientist, Renee has done time in the lowland swamps of southern New Guinea and the wetlands of the Top End. Renee completed her PhD in remote sensing methods and application in 2005.Renee was involved in many levels of governance within the former SSI and was part of the SSI-ISA Merger Working group. She is a Fellow of the SSSI. In her 'spare' time, Ren...

06 Jun, 2011

John Minehan – Director

John Minehan commenced his surveying career in January 1963 as a trainee survey draftsman. Since then he has worked as a full time TAFE teacher, lectured to University Surveying students and from 1977 to the present conducted a private survey practice in NSW as a sole practioner. He holds a certificate in Land and Engineering Survey Drafting from Newcastle TAFE, a Bachelor of Applied Science (Surveying) degree from WAIT (now Curtin University) and a post graduate Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers College. He became a Registered Surveyor in NSW in 1976. John is a Fellow ...

06 Jun, 2011

Simon Ironside – Director

Simon is a Level 1 Certified Hydrographic Surveyor and a Registered Professional Surveyor. He holds a Higher Diploma in Land Surveying from the North East London Polytechnic and a Bachelor of Surveying degree from the University of Otago.He worked in the North Sea oil and gas industry from 1980 until his return to New Zealand in 1991. He has also worked throughout the Middle East, South East Asia and West Africa. He was involved in all stages of the hydrographic surveying and positioning elements of offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production as a hydrographic surveyor, party chief...

06 Jun, 2011

Simon Callaghan – Director

Simon is the GIS Coordinator at DC Mt Barker in Adelaide, having previously worked within private consulting and the South Australian State Government. He has sat on the SA Young Professionals’ Committee for the past 7 years, including holding office as its Chair in 2007-08. He also sits on the SA Regional Committee, and SSSI's Consultative Council. Simon undertook his undergraduate studies at Flinders University, completing a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Environmental Management, and a Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems. In 2011 he will complete a Maste...

06 Jun, 2011

John Trinder – Director

John Trinder graduated from UNSW with a BSurv (1963), MSc (1965) at ITC in The Netherlands, and PhD from UNSW (1972). He was employed at the School of Surveying and SIS at University of NSW from 1965 to 1999, progressing to the position of Professor in 1991 and Head of School from 1990-1999. He is currently Emeritus Professor in that School. John has undertaken teaching and research at UNSW for about 45 years, specializing in a range of topics in spatial information, and has published more than 160 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has received several a...

03 Jun, 2011

Jim Curnow – Company Secretary

Jim, as a private practicing surveyor, has elevated the profession of surveying, devoted considerable energy and pride to his professional activities and has served the Institution of Surveyors, Australia at the highest level both in his state and nationally. He continues this by demonstrating the same level of exemplary dedication, commitment and service to the spatial community through his involvement with the spatial sciences institute and now the surveying and spatial sciences institute. Throughout his career, Jim Curnow has worked energetically and enthusiastically for the profes...

03 Jun, 2011

Roger Buckley – CEO / Company Secretary

Roger currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of the SSSI and has done so since September 2009. In this role he is responsible for the Leadership and Strategic Direction of the Institute at the National Level. Prior to joining SSSI he was the General Manager at the ACT & Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry where he was responsible for the daily managerial functions of the organisation. He also held the position of Director, Employment, Education and Training where he was responsible for administering two government funded programs relating to Education and Train...