Ewan Brown
President

Resident of Canberra since March 1774.  Moved to Ngunnawal in late 1994 & registered to participate in the Telstra Broadband Trial (aborted).  Represented small & micro business on telecommunications & e-commerce issues for 17 years up to January 2008.  Co-ordinated the initial broadband survey in Gungahlin 5 years ago & lobbied extensively for removal of RIMS & pair-gains in the area so residents could get ADSL & ADSL 2. Set up Regional Development Australia ACT from July 2009 & campaigned for many infrastructure improvements to benefit Gungahlin.  Former Chairman of ACT Little Athletics.  Currently involved in a national project to encourage the recruitment & retention of mature age people into the workforce.

Interested in keeping Gungahlin residents better informed about what is going on (& not happening) in their community & building on the excellent work of the Gungahlin Community Council.

Peter Elford
Vice President

I'm a born and bred Canberran, raised and educated in Canberra (Aranda Primary, Canberra High, Hawker College, ANU), and have lived in a variety of locations on the Northside. My family and I have been residents of Gungahlin since 1996 when we moved into Ngunnawal, where we were one of the most northerly homes in Canberra for a while.

Jacob Vadakkedathu
Secretary

Born in India, Jacob has been living in Canberra since 1998 except 3 years in between during 2000- 2003 in Sydney as part of a career move. He has Masters Degree in Business Administration from University of Canberra.

Living in the Gungahlin suburb of Nicholls, Jacob is actively involved with lot of Community and Social  activities.

Apart from being as the Secretary of Gungahlin Community Council, Jacob also holds the position of the President of the Federation of Indian Associations in ACT (FINACT). He is also a Board Member of the Maribyrnong Primary School appointed by the ACT Department of Education and Training and actively involved with few other community and charity activities.

Jacob has wife and two kids. He is currently working at the Department of Finance & Deregulation.

Kevin Cox
Public Officer, Gold Creek Homestead Committee

I have been a resident of Ngunnawal since 1998 and previously built a house in the green fields site of Evatt in the early 1970's. My daughter and family live in Ngunnawal.

My professional background includes time as a Civil Engineer building dams and roads but most of my life has involved building and designing usable computer systems. See a Win interview on Water Rewards at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJrxLiiZD08.
Visit http://m.fasfind.com/wwwtools to view a newsletter published since 1996 on using technology in education.

Read my blog at http://cscoxk.wordpress.com to see ideas on what happens when we give each of us power and control over our electronic online information. Visit http://www.edentiti.com to see the work of the company I founded in 2005 to help make this happen.

Visit http://mealsatourplace.blogspot.com/ to see a few of the meals we have had at our place.

Francis Stiegler
Treasurer

I have been a Palmerston resident for the past 7 years after moving to Canberra from Melbourne.

I am a retired professional engineer with experience in machine design, estimating, customer service, etc.

Since my retirement I have been actively involved in a number of different volunteer roles.  As treasurer for the Gungahlin Community Council I hope to assist in achieving the Council’s objective of improving the overall well-being of the residents of Gungahlin.

Dave Bockett
Website Administrator

Having grown up in New Zealand, I have done what most Kiwis do and moved to Australia to make my fortune! After completing my IT degree in Palmerston North, I spent 2 years in Wellington before moving to the UK to see more of the world. After a number of extensive overland trips to South America, the Middle East and thru northern Asia I ended up back in Christchurch. After a couple of years I moved to Australia and now find myself happily settled in Canberra for the foreseeable future. My wife, my 2 children and I have been in Ngunnawal since March 2007 and recently moved to Amaroo.

Alan Kerlin
Spokesman - Planning, Transport and Environment



I've been very pleased to represent the Gungahlin community as the president of the Community Council from 2006 to 2010. They've been very fruitful years, with great gains in the areas of planning, transport and the environment. But four years was enough in that role, and I realised that I'm making the greatest difference when I can give time to these important areas for Gungahlin's future. So I stepped down from the GCC President role, so I can instead focus on a spokesperson role.

I was born in Queensland and spent the majority of my life there - mainly on the Sunshine Coast. However, I have a connection with Canberra going back to when we lived here in the 1960s and 70s. Some of my earliest memories include watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon on Red Hill Primary's only black and white TV, and being among the first students at the new Scullin Primary, when it was right on the outskirts of town adjoining sheep paddocks.

So to now find myself living on the very outskirts of town, opposite sheep paddocks in Harrison's Wells Station, has a certain amount of deja vu! We - my wife Gaylene, two young children and me - were I think the fourth family to move into Wells Station. And we are here for the foreseeable future, having built a wonderful passive solar designed house that we designed ourselves, and rates better than 6 Stars on the energy efficiency scale.

Canberra is a gorgeous city with postcard pictures everywhere you go, and it's a wonderful place to bring up children.

My recent work history, and experience I bring to the GCC, include:

• elected Councillor on Maroochy Shire Council, with emphasis on town planning, environmental policy, and airport management
• Brisbane City Council's greenhouse team, where I worked on the Sustainable Housing Code - a draft policy for all the Councils of South East Queensland and which has now been adopted in large part by the Queensland Government
• managing a large and very successful Landcare group in Holbrook NSW
• worked in the employment side of DEEWR since 2005.

So clearly, I have an emphasis on planning and environmental issues in this role - I think they are critical things to get right when you are building an entire community in a few short years as is happening here in Gungahlin. It has to be right, because we are stuck with the consequences of poor decisions for decades.

I enjoy working with the people of Gungahlin to help build a community of pride and belonging.

Alan writes on many issues other than related to Gungahlin on his blog "The Beach House" at http://alankerlin.blogspot.com/