Board of Directors

Chris Brown
LLB (Adelaide), FAIM

Non-Executive Chairman

Melbourne corporate advisor, Chris Brown, was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Senetas in May 2011 and Chairman of Directors in June 2011.

Mr Brown has extensive experience in corporate finance over more than 25 years in Australia and internationally, principally in mergers and acquisitions and equity capital raisings, including many major privatisation transactions. Formerly a Director of major investment banks Merrill Lynch, Rothschild and Investec, he also held senior roles with Chronworth, Melbourne and Baring Brothers Burrows, Sydney.

Working within a broad range of industry sectors, including telecommunications, he has advised the Australian Federal Government (both Labor and Liberal), as well as various State governmNents and the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Fiji Governments and other stakeholders in respect of major transactions and strategic assignments involving Government Owned Enterprises. These include the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, Australian Airlines, Telstra, OTC, Air New Zealand and State Insurance (NZ).

He is also the Chairman of The Conversation Media Group and of Preshafood Limited, and is the Principal of Gibbs Hill, a personal corporate advisory practice. Mr Brown recently stepped down as Chairman of the Australian Institute of Management Victoria and Tasmania, but remains a Director.

Ronald Warner 
B.A., J.D. (Hons)

Major-General James Connolly 
AO CSC (retired)

Non Executive Director 

Ron Warner is a non-executive director. Mr Warner is a senior corporate partner in the international law firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, one of the largest law firms in the USA, where he heads the firm’s transactional practice for Western United States.

Mr Warner received his Juris Doctorate degree with honours from New York University School of law, where he was appointed as an editor of the Law Review, after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University. 

In more than 30 years of practice, Mr Warner has been responsible for negotiating and supervising a large number of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and various types of financings, from emerging company growth financing through larger multi-national public offerings. 

Mr. Warner has also been involved as a principal in the start-up and development of several operating companies and serves on the Boards of Directors of Elite Interactive Solutions Inc and the and Advisory Boards of a number of technology and service companies in the United States and other countries

Non Executive Director 

Jim Connolly graduated from Royal Military College Duntroon in 1965. He is a graduate of Command and Staff College Camberley (psc – 1976); Joint Service Staff College Canberra ( 1986); the Royal College of Defence Studies London (rcds – 1991); and University of New England (Corporate Director’s 
Graduate Diploma Course – 1999). He served as an Infantry officer in the Australian Army until retiring in 1999. His appointments as a general officer were as Chief of Personnel of the Army; Chief of Operations of the Australian Defence Force; Director Defence Intelligence Organisation; and Commander 
Australian Theatre. 

He is now a beef producer in northern NSW. He currently is a director on the boards of Aerospace Australia Limited and Far North Coast Legacy.  
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Company Secretary, Chief Financial Officer 

Mr Wilson is the Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of Senetas Corporation Limited. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries Australia and has 16 years experience in the finance industry. He commenced his career with KPMG in the audit division focusing on the banking and broking industries. 

He has worked in the United Kingdom with Deutsche Bank and Natwest Bank Plc as part of corporate restructure teams and has extensive financial and administrative skills. He joined Senetas in May 2000 as commercial manager.