Leadership

Phillip Cenere FAIM GAICD is an experienced and seasoned C-Suite executive with demonstrated success in strategic management of large and complex world-class institutions.

For more than 20 years he has served in senior leadership roles including as Associate Vice Chancellor, CEO, Executive Dean and Professor. During this time, he has made a distinguished service to higher education management, the business professions and executive education through his governance roles, fostering professional and business ethics education and volunteering for charitable and not-for-profit causes.

Phillip’s most recent appointments include serving as CEO of Australian Vision Research, Executive Dean, Professor and CEO of the Australian Institute of Business Intelligence and Associate Vice Chancellor and Head of Campus (NSW) for CQ University.

Phillip has served on the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ (AICD) NSW Council as well as the institute’s National Education Advisory Committee, Curriculum Development Committee (responsible for the flagship Company Directors Course) and Director Professional Development Committee. He has also served on the councils and committees of the Banking and Finance Oath, RDA Sydney, Australian Business Deans Council, Australia China Business Council, Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM), Public Relations Institute of Australia, Early Bird Marketplace and as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA).

Email

ceo@chancellor.education

Phone

+61 415-124-877

Dr Matthew Minehan has held various academic positions during a career spanning nearly two decades, including Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame (Australia) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University’s Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security. His areas of expertise include ethics and evidence-based criminology.

Dr Minehan also has considerable public sector experience with a focus on interagency collaboration. In 2020, Dr Minehan was awarded a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (Australia) to research international ethics and misconduct prevention training and strategies.

His academic qualifications include:

• Doctor of Philosophy, the University of Sydney (2007).
• Master of Studies in Practical Ethics with Distinction, the University of Oxford (2022).
• Master of Studies in Applied Criminology and Police Management, the University of Cambridge (2020).
• Master of Education with Merit (Higher Education), the University of Sydney (2007).
• Master of Criminology, the University of Sydney (2011).
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours Class I – Philosophy), the University of Sydney (2003).
• Associate Degree in Policing Practice with Distinction, Charles Sturt University (2009).

Email

research@chancellor.education

Ala Altaani is an experienced manager with a demonstrated history of working in international higher education. He is skilled in Business Development, Strategic Planning, Marketing Management, Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Coaching, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

His academic qualifications include:

• Master of Business Administration (2019 – present), UNSW
• Graduate Diploma in Migration Law and Practice (present), UTS
• Master of Applied Linguistics, Functioal Grammar (2010 – 2011), University of Sydney
• Bachelor’s degree, English for Specific Purposes 2002 – 2005), Jordan University of Science and Technology

Email

international@chancellor.education

Phone

+61 448 441 191

Chris Gray is Managing Director of Twenty6Forty4 Communications, a consulting firm that provides organsiations with public relations, communication and issues management support.

Chris formed Twenty6Forty4 (a nod to the 26 letters and 44 sounds of the English language) in May 2021 after running several firms in the communications field over the past 25 years.

He was co-founder and Managing Director of PR firm ICON International Communications (part of the global Ketchum PR network), Daylight Agency (an advertising and communications agency) and First Light Consulting, a specialist risk and reputation consultancy.

Chris has worked for a range of public, private and NFPs across most industry sectors. He regularly advises CEOs and management on reputational matters and undertakes training in the areas of media, crisis, sales and presentation skills. He provides ‘on-call’ support to several organisations and has responded to major crises both here in Australia and overseas.

He has provided strategic consulting advice and support to a range of organisations in the tertiary education field including International College of Management Sydney (ICMS), University of Technology (UTS) Sydney and La Trobe University. He has sat on industry bodies and advisory committees for the University of Notre Dame Sydney, Central Queensland University (CQU) Sydney. He has also been an adjunct lecturer at Notre Dame and a guest lecturer at UTS.

He is a life-time member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia, a member of the International Association of Business Communicators and a regular contributor and speaker at industry events on the topic of branding, marketing and crisis management.

Prior to working in the PR and communication field, Chris worked as a journalist for News Corporation and Nine/Fairfax.