Committee members and office bearers, as elected at the Annual General Meeting 19 May 2011, are as follows.

Other committee members are Emily Baxter, Emma Brown, Rhys Goodey, Atat Li-Kim-Mui, , Liza Rybak, and Chandra Senaratne.

Chris Golis is an alumni of Sidney Sussex who matriculated in 1964.  He read Part I Natural Sciences and Part II Economics.  At Sidney Sussex he gained college colours at Rugby and won a 5 bump oar.  He was President of the Junior Common Room in his final year.  Since leaving Cambridge he has obtained an MBA (with distinction) in 1973 from the London Business School and the ASX prize for Course Dux in the Diploma Course of the Securities Insitute of Australia.  He has worked both in the Information Technology industry (finishing as a divisional general manager) and in Financial Services (finishing as a venture capitalist for 23 years).  He is now semi-retired and developing a third career as a speaker and trainer as Australia's expert in practical Emotional Intelligence based on his published books: Empathy Selling—New Sales Techniques for the 21st Century and The Humm Handbook: Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence.  He has sat on some 30 boards of listed and unlisted companies, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Managment.  Chris was elected Treasurer of the Cambridge Society in 2007 and Chairman in 2008.

  • Administrator: Suzie Ruse

    Suzie Ruse, (Oxford Brookes University 1989-1992) is an infiltrator to the Cambridge Society of NSW and acts as the Administrator.  She now specialises in admin work and is Secretary to the NSW Polo Association  and Millamolong Polo Club .

     

  • Vice President: Chris Dawson

    Christopher Dawson (Selwyn College, 1962-65) is a freelance journalist who for 17 years served on the Woollahra Council (Mayor 2000-2001). He was a senior journalist on The Australian and six years editor of The Higher Education Supplement. His book, To Sandakan, The Diaries of Charlie Johnston, Prisoner of War 1942-45 was published by Allen and Unwin in 1995.  He has worked on The Sydney Morning Herald, The Yorkshire Post, The Evening Standard, The Express and the London Daily Telegraph.

     

  • Secretary: Jonathan Negus

    I moved to Australia in 2006 with my wife Katherine (Magdalene 1996-2003, VetMB). We lived in Manly, as I had a Orthopaedic Registrar job at Manly hospital. It was a wonderful start to life in Australia, as I managed to spend many of my mornings surfing and many afternoons on Manly beach. The 4 registrar jobs that I rotated to elsewhere in Sydney soon changed that.
    We have since moved to Coogee and enjoy the Eastern beaches instead. We are both finishing our PhDs from the University of Sydney and I will be back in Surgical training for a final few years in 2012.
    Before moving to Australia, I was a surgical trainee in London based at St Mary's in Paddington. I completed my MSc in Surgical Technology at Imperial College, London and passed the exams for Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2006. My main areas of interest are hip and knee replacement surgery, rehabilitation and applying technology to surgical problems in novel ways.
     

  • Treasurer: Alistair Newmarch

    Alistair Newmarch holds a Masters from Cambridge University, majoring in Economic Geography where he was awarded the David Richard’s scholarship. He also represented the University in Rugby and Boxing.  He joined Archer Capital in 2006 as an Investment  Manager, having previously worked for Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services, KPMG Corporate Finance in Singapore as an analyst and for Barclays Bank in the UK.

Emma Brown holds a Masters in Engineering with Management Science from Cambridge University. She represented the University in Rowing as a coxswain, and was President of the Sidney Sussex College Boatclub. She joined the Commonwealth Bank in 2006 where she works in strategy consulting and project delivery, having previously worked in the UK at Arup, a global engineering consultancy. Emma emigrated to Australia in 2004 where she’s making the most of the sport-friendly culture and climate by participating in numerous ultra-marathons and ironman triathlons.

  • Rhys Goodey

     

    Rhys Goodey read law at Cambridge from 1974 until 1980. He was told by his Constitutional Law supervisor, who had also supervised the unrelated Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor etc) that he should become the leader writer for the Daily Express. Union debating, acting at the ADS and rowing in the graduate boat at Magdalene were his finest moments at varsity. He now does the next best thing to leader writing, blogging in his spare time for the London Telegraph. Rhys entered Cambridge as a very skinny youth but now weighs in alongside the Big Marn due to his love, learnt in Academe’s groves and by dreaming at prep school, of food and drink. After being admitted to the Bar in New Zealand in 1981 he set sail for the world again and lectured in law in Malaysia, then in London worked for a leading firm of Solicitors in the City as they developed the new expertise of computer law and intellectual property. His Damascus conversion came at a convention of Young Lawyers in Paris in 1986-within a year he was spruiking vintage port and Chateaux first growths back in the Antipodes. Since Bicentennial Year 1988 he has been a wine merchant in Melbourne and Sydney with his own firm Ark Wine Agencies, promoting the wines of the Yarra Valley , Canberra Region, Hunter Valley, and now Cahors, Tuscany, Bordeaux , Alsace, Puglia, Veneto and Spain. He also imports extra virgin olive oil.

    Rhys has been known to pick up a golf club, whereupon everyone scatters, a shotgun (likewise) a camera (likewise)and a book of raffle tickets to help many worthy causes. Other interests-Traditional Latin Mass,the Monarchy,heritage & nature conservation, cats big and small,truffle-hunting and  high Victorian art.

  • Atat Li Kim Mui
  •  Liza Rybak

    In 2005, Dr Rybak graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University, Faculty of Law (Peterhouse).  Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Simon Deakin, entitled “Arrow, Sen and Stakeholders: Towards an Interdisciplinary Examination of Take-over Regulation”, considers legal and economic theory, and more specifically aspects of corporate and administrative law.  Her recent publication in an international peer reviewed journal offers an inter-disciplinary explanation of the firm:  “On the Logical Difficulties, Philosophy, and the TCE Explanation of the Firm”, Review of Social Economy (Routledge, London 2009).

    Dr Rybak is the inaugural Director of Research at the Federal Court of Australia.  The Director of Research is responsible to the Principal Registrar/CEO and ultimately the Chief Justice for the management of the Federal Court’s Research Directorate.  The Director is a member of the Principal Registry’s Senior Management with reporting responsibility to the Policy and Planning Committee.  The primary role of the Director is to provide research leadership and management of a team of Research Assistants, to support and assist judges nationally so as to enable the earliest possible delivery of judgments.  This includes undertaking more complex legal research in the Court’s broad jurisprudence, preparing high quality submissions on novel questions of law, and providing judgment writing assistance on significant Federal Court cases.  Notably, the Director undertakes work for Federal Court Judges nationally.  Her research leadership includes designing the Court’s research programme and developing highly skilled research teams in specialised areas of Federal Court jurisprudence. 

    Previous to her appointment at the Court, Dr Rybak was an academic at the Department of Law, Macquarie University, with research and teaching leadership in Administrative and Constitutional Law, Competition and Consumer Protection Law and Contracts.  In addition, Dr Rybak has been an Associate to a Deputy President of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeal Tribunal.  A Cambridge scholar and academic, with extensive management experience, Dr Rybak brings a strong pedagogical and collegial approach to her work.

    • Chandra Senaratne