Strata and Community Title in Australia for the 21st Century II Conference

Conference Organising Committee Members

Professor Chris Guilding (Chair)

BA (Hons), MBA, PhD, CMA

Director of Griffith University's Service Industry Research Centre and Professor, Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management.

Professor Chris Guilding works with Griffith University's department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management and is also Director of Griffith's Service Industry Research Centre. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has taught accounting and finance in universities in England, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. While at the University of Auckland he won a teaching award in 1995. Chris has more than 30 publications and papers in a range of top tier academic journals. In recent years, he has developed a specific interest in accounting for tourism and hospitality issues. In 2002 his book 'Financial Management for Hospitality Decision Makers' was published by Butterworth-Heinemann. In 2005 Chris acted as chairperson for the “Strata and Community title in Australia for the 21st Century” conference. He has secured two research grants, for $25,000 in 2004 and $29,000 in 2005, from the CRC for Sustainable Tourism in connection with research into management issues arising in tourism based strata titled complexes. More recently he has secured a grant of $20,000 from the National Community Titles Institute to develop an Australian strata title data base and has secured further strata title research funding from the property developer Nifsan. His academic papers on strata title management have appeared in the following journals: International Journal of Hospitality Management (2007), Australian Property Law Journal (2006), Tourism Management (2005), and The Queensland Lawyer (2004).

Gary Bugden, OAM (Chair, Program Sub-Committee)

Gary Bugden's name has been associated with strata titles since 1973. In the past 30 years he has actively participated in all sectors of the industry - as a strata manager, specialist lawyer, academic, development consultant, government consultant, author, commentator and law reformer. The breadth and depth of this experience has resulted in him being described as Australia's leading authority on strata titles. Most of Gary's legal career was as a partner in national law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, initially in Sydney and later in Brisbane. He practised extensively in structured land titles and common interest subdivisions throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. He undertook projects for the World Bank in Vietnam and Cambodia and was external consultant to the Vietnamese Government on its 1994 land law reforms. Following extensive overseas travel and research in the early 1980's, he pioneered air space development in Australia and was the driving force behind the introduction of community titles to this country. He was the external consultant to the Queensland Government on the 1997 community titles legislation. That legislation was innovative in its departure from a generic regulatory approach to a more project specific approach. Gary has authored 3 loose-leaf services, a loose-leaf book and 3 other books on strata and community title management. He was a part time lecturer in strata titles at a Sydney Law School for some 9 years, served as National Editor of the Australian Property Law Bulletin for many years and has presented well over 200 papers at conferences and seminars both in Australia and overseas. He retired from legal practice 5 years ago but has maintained his involvement in the industry through his writings, speaking engagements and strata related company directorships.

Peter Berry

Peter was the Manager of Property Policy in the NSW Office of Fair Trading which is the State Government agency responsible for the administration of the strata and community schemes' management laws. Peter has more than 30 years experience in legislative and policy development on strata issues. He has a wide range of experience on strata concerns at a state and national level.

Kelly Cassidy

Assoc. Dip Bus (Travel and Tourism), MIntTourHospMgt (Hons1), PhD candidate

Strata Title Researcher, Griffith University

Kelly is currently on scholarship, working on her PhD study in Strata Title Management. She is also working on CRC Sustainable Tourism funded projects in the same area. Kelly gained her Master of International Tourism and Hospitality Management (First Class Honors) degree from Griffith University in 2003. Kelly has worked as a tutor at Griffith University and a lecturer in travel and tourism at Gold Coast College of Business, Northern Territory University and Victoria College in Melbourne. Prior to her work in tourism education, Kelly's industry experience included employment with travel wholesalers Indah Travel, Pacific Island Holidays and Swingaway Holidays and international corporate/groups consulting with Harvey World Travel.

Anna Edwards

Director of Adelaide Strata and Community Management

Anna Edwards is the director of Adelaide Strata and Community Management, a company providing strata/community mangement services in South Australia for 14 years, she is also a founding member of the National Community Titles Institute, Past National President and current National Education Co-ordinator. As a passionate and committed advocate of the Industry in Australia, Anna has been instrumental in the creation of a competency based training program which will not only be delivered Austalia wide but also used as a platform for the harmonisation of regulation.

John Hood

Independent strata title hotel/resort management consultant

John has been involved in the management of Strata Titled Hotels, Resorts and Serviced Apartments for over 30 years. During this time he has been a Director of a major management company managing strata titled serviced apartment hotels and apartment properties in resorts on the Gold Coast, interstate and overseas. He has been a consultant for the past 15 years to major hotel management companies, strata management companies, owners and developers. John has also taken an active role in the Strata and Community Title Industry, serving on Industry Committees, and more recently with Griffith University's Service Research Industry Centre promoting research and dialogue between all stakeholders in the Industry and Government.

Graeme Juniper

Joint Managing Director, Juniper Development Corporation

Graeme Juniper has over 30 years experience in property development, focussing on tourist accommodation and strata title unit developments. He is past President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (Sunshine Coast) and is a Fellow of the Institute.

Dr Jan Warnken

Senior Lecturer, Griffith University

Dr Jan Warnken is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental and Applied Sciences at Griffith University and is also Program Convenor for the BSc in Ecotourism. His PhD examined the quality of EIA for Australian tourism developments (mostly strata-titled). He has produced more than 50 publications in the area of impact assessment and management of nature-based tourism and has compiled two reports for the Gold Coast Visioning project (Hinterland natural assets audit and Infrastructure audit). Dr Warnken has worked as a consultant for the European Union (EU), major tourism developers and an environmental engineering firm in Germany and has lived at, and/or traveled to, many destinations in the US, Europe, Arabian Penninsula, Russia, Japan and of course Australia/New Zealand. His current research activities focus on planning and legal issues of strata-title complexes in the context of environmental and destination management.

Caroline Wylie

Conference Organising Committee Secretary

Caroline Wylie is Griffith University's Service Industry Research Centre Administrative Officer and is acting as secretary to the "Strata and Community Title In Australia for the 21st Century II" conference organising committee. Her previous administrative positions have been with the National Gallery of Victoria, University of Newcastle and Bond University. Prior to this, Caroline worked for several years in Montreal with Concordia University's department of finance.