Innovation Program

Jeremy was responsible for the planning, design and implementation of GHD’s award winning global innovation program incorporating 6,000 staff operating in 5 continents.  He now manages this successful program.  He also works with governments and private industry to build innovation capacity to identify opportunities and then to deliver on the new ideas and concepts that add value.

Building on these experiences, he now leads in the design and establishment of the Innovation Interchange, a business to business global community that identifies and solves infrastructure challenges through connection and collaboration.

He has held the position of Non Executive Director for a number of companies, with involvement primarily relating to strategy, global operations and governance.

He has lived and worked in a variety of locations (lived for 14 years in Asia and the UK) and specifically in the following countries: Philippines, Singapore, England, China, Oman, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia.

Project experience is wide ranging, relating to both small and multi billion dollar project development/management. Projects are typically in the sectors of infrastructure, such as water, transportation and urban development. Input has occurred throughout all phases from due diligence/feasibility, planning, design and implementation, through to asset and maintenance management.

Jeremy was previously the Regional Director - Asia for GHD and was responsible for the strategy, establishment and management of a number of offices in Asia. He was also a member of the Sustainability Advisory Group and the Strategy Committee.

Jeremy is Group Manager - Innovations and Chairs GHD's Innovation Advisory Group.

Position: Group Manager - Innovations
Tel: 61 3 8687 8341

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Nicole Keating is an Innovation specialist who combines consulting experience in the private and public sectors with entrepreneurial endeavours such as starting a successful manufacturing business. Her most recent project experience being a full time role project managing the global implementation and management of GHD's innovation program.

Some of her key achievements working on GHD's Innovation program have included:

• Innovation Training & Facilitation: Developing and delivering training material in idea generation and opportunity identification;
• Stakeholder Engagement: Supporting culture change through the coordination of a communication and engagement strategy;
• Technology Development: Preparation of business requirements and end user documentation for the construction of GHD's innovation technology platform; and
• Commercialisation: Involvement throughout all stages of the technology commercialisation process including analysing and building business cases for investment consideration.

Nicole holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University's Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship

Position: Commercial Strategist - Innovations
Tel: 61 3 8687 8943

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Julie comes from an entrepreneurial background in product design which combined with studies in business  has given her a diverse range of skills including marketing and communications, opportunity identification, idea analysis and education. Some of her key achievements whilst working on GHD’s Innovation program have included:

• Commercial Analysis: Intensive market research, identifying opportunities and developing business cases for innovative ideas;
• Communication: Designing and implementing marketing and awareness campaigns as well as creating artwork for the program’s activities;
• Innovation Training & Facilitation: Conducting ongoing brainstorm sessions to generate and develop ideas as well as workshops to train and develop innovation integration into daily business; and

• Internal engagement: Building internal integration of the program and providing support to idea generators.

Position: Commercial Analyst - Innovations
Tel: 61 2 9239 7027

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Claire comes from a civil engineering background, with more than 8 years of national and international experience in the water sector.  She brings engineering design, project management and strategic planning skills to the Innovations Team. 

Claire is the Program Manager for the Innovation Interchange, which GHD is delivering with support from the Victorian Government.  She has experience consulting to the public and  private sectors, and working in strategic planning in the public sector.

Her experience includes:

• Management of complex multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• Alliance contract Innovation programs
• Value Engineering processes throughout major infrastructure projects
• Development of strategies, feasibility studies and business cases for major infrastructure investments

Claire holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Positions: Program Manager - Innovation Interchange & Senior Water Engineer
Tel: 61 3 8687 8668

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Tammy is an established creative marketing professional with a background in business and marketing, and experienced with delivering 'business to business' and 'business to customer' marketing campaigns for medium and large international organisations..

Tammy is leading the development and implementation of the Innovation Interchange's stakeholder communications and engagement plan. She also supports GHD's Innovations program by improving the usability of GHD's innovation technology platform (the Zone) and providing creative design input in the program materials. Her key achievements to date include.

• Project managed end to end strategic marketing campaigns to achieve client acquisition and retention objectives
• Designed and implemented creative concepts to raise brand awareness in both online and offline channels
• Delivered and managed local and international sponsorship events and business forums
• Performed complex market segmentation
• Developed websites and skilled designer of marketing communication artwork

Postion: Marketing and Communications - Innovations
Tel: 61 3 8687 8519

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