Judges Biographies

Helen Connolly is the inaugural Commissioner for Children and Young People (CCYP) for South Australia.

Helen has held a number of leadership roles in South Australia and nationally over many years.

A significant part of this work has included work with and for children and families.

Helen advocates at a systemic level to improve the development and wellbeing of South Australian children and young people, directly engaging with them to seek their views on how to promote and protect their rights and interests, and support their participation in decision making.

Helen approaches her work from a community participation, citizenship and rights based framework.

Helen ConnollyCommissioner for Children and Young People, CCYP

Michelle Price is the CEO for AustCyber. She was the inaugural Chief Operating Officer of AustCyber, joining the company in January 2017 and appointed as CEO in April 2018. Prior to joining AustCyber, Michelle was the first Senior Adviser for Cyber Security at the National Security College within The Australian National University, where she established an integrated approach to the College’s cyber security program across executive and postgraduate education and policy engagement.

Before joining the ANU, Michelle was with the Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), where she was instrumental to the delivery of the Australian Government’s 2015 Cyber Security Review and Cyber Security Strategy. In a previous role at PM&C, Michelle delivered the National Security Strategic Risk Framework (the first of its kind in the world) and Coordinated National Security Budget.

Prior to PM&C, Michelle worked in several strategy and risk roles across Government, having moved to the public service from the communication and media sector and the food safety segment of Australia’s food manufacturing sector.

Michelle is passionate about Australia’s cyber security sector enabling all Australian organisations to grow and take advantage of the cyber world. She is also a strong advocate for increasing diversity in the cyber security workforce and helping people be inspired by the possibilities of cyber innovation.

AustCyber was established in 2017 as part of the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Centres Initiative and announced both as part of the Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda and Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy.

Michelle PriceCEO, AustCyber

David Goodman is the South Australian Government Chief Information Security Officer within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC).

David has extensive experience in the Cyber Security field over 2 decades including designing and implementing a number of ICT/Cyber security functions that have delivered significant improvements across organisations.

David leads the Office for Cyber Security within DPC and successfully released the South Australian Government’s inaugural Cyber Security Strategic Plan 2018-2021 in 2018 with the aim to boost collaboration within and outside of government, build cyber security resilience, and strengthen cyber security skills and leadership within government.

David Goodman Chief Information Security Officer, DPC

The Entrepreneurship Advisory Board including the Chief Entrepreneur provides high level, independent advice to the South Australian Cabinet on entrepreneurship matters.

The Entrepreneurship Advisory Board’s high-level aims are to:

• Provide strategic advice to enable entrepreneurialism across all forms of business, industry and public sector in South Australia

• Strengthen community awareness and appreciation of entrepreneurship and business through showcasing and championing South Australian businesses, entrepreneurial talent and the impact they have on South Australia

• Recommend measures to connect South Australia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem with networks nationally and internationally given the opportunities offered by the scale of global markets

• Advocate for the uptake of entrepreneurship education through strengthening communication with the school education system and tertiary education institutions.

With more than 20 years of experience in the cyber security industry, Mohan implemented ‘Privacy by Design’, giving the end user control of their data.

Mohan Koo Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dtex Systems