Operations and Management

Operations

• The registered office is located at the office of the Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd, at Riverside Corporate Park in North Ryde (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia). Accounts and orders are managed there under the supervision of Mr Peter Vaughan, Business Manager.
• The main Triticarte facility, delivering DArT^® services, is co-located with the laboratory of Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd based in the building of the CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products in Yarralumla (Australian Capital Territory, Australia). All the DArT® analyses are performed there by a team under the supervision of Dr Andrzej Kilian (Director) and Dr Eric Huttner (Manager).

Board of Directors

Dr Andrzej Kilian, Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd.

Dr William Rathmell, Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd.

Company Secretary: Dr Eric Huttner

Management Committee

Dr Eric Huttner, convenor, Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd.

Dr Neil Howes, Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd/ University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty.

Prof Peter Sharp, Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd/ University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty.

Mr Peter Vaughan, Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd.

Ms Clare Johnson, Value Added Wheat CRC Ltd.

The management team has a unique combination of skills and experience in biotechnology-driven crop plant improvement, with Australian and international reputations for leadership in:

• Plant molecular genetics
• Commercial plant breeding and variety commercialisation
• Bioinformatics in plant breeding
• Intellectual property management and service provision.