Who we are

FrontierSI is a social enterprise focused on bringing the best people together to anticipate and solve large problems using our space and spatial expertise.

Through government, research, and industry partners, we help bring innovative ideas through to real world products and services with a focus on creating both commercial and public good impact. We represent a partnership of over 30 organisations across Australia and New Zealand including research agencies, government departments and private sector companies who are global leaders in space and spatial solutions.

Our collaborative group has space and spatial expertise including positioning and geodesy, data and infrastructures, spatial analytics, and space advisory. This expertise can assist any sector, from space to health and resources, to improve location-based information and increase data accessibility for improved decision support and service delivery.

We are a trusted advisor, facilitator and collaborator and have a depth of experience delivering multi-party, multi-disciplinary collaborative R&D projects both locally and internationally. Through our extensive partner network, we can access the right expertise to meet the needs of each individual project, holding us in a unique position within the market. We offer several services including Collaborative Applied Research, Complex Project Management, Collaborative Project Formulation, Independent Advisory Services, Technology Development, Data Science & Analytics, Industry Engagement and Outreach, Business Case Development, Innovation Program & Test Beds, and Workforce Development.

We provide the connection point, research services, expertise, technology, and collaborative model for our partner network to access, develop and apply space and spatial research development and innovation project outcomes into impactful and innovative solutions. Together with our partners, we have transformed research outcomes into meaningful changes across several industries.

Our specialist teams and network allow us to define, formulate, negotiate, and deliver solutions within our technical expertise areas of positioning, applied geodesy, rapid spatial analytics, spatial infrastructures, and space advisory.

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OUR VALUES

We value collaboration, future focus, agility, integrity, and communication.

  • We are solutions-driven and achieve high quality outcomes through collaboration, being open-minded and embracing inclusion, working together as a team internally, and with our partners and clients;
  • We are future-focused, looking at what’s next: from tapping into the most promising technologies through to new application areas, to ensure we deliver;
  • We respond to our partner needs with agility, being flexible and deploying teams and effort as needed to adapt to our rapidly changing environment;
  • We work with integrity, we do what we say, and we are professional and respectful of others;
  • We communicate and share information effectively, we listen first, seek to understand other perspectives and simplify complex concepts into understandable stories.

Our Team

Executive Management

Graeme Kernich

Chief Executive Officer
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Kate Williams

Chief Delivery Officer
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Patricia Sturgess

Chief Operating Officer
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Paula Fiévez

Chief Business Officer
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Phil Delaney

Deputy CEO and Chief Transformation Officer
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Business Development

Kate Williams

Chief Delivery Officer
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Paula Fiévez

Chief Business Officer
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Phil Delaney

Deputy CEO and Chief Transformation Officer
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Eldar Rubinov

Positioning and Geodesy Technical Lead
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Jia-Urnn Lee

Space Technical Lead
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Kat Salm

Partner and Initiative Development Manager - NZ Lead
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Annmarie Mabarrack

Partner and Initiative Development Manager - Natural Resource Management Lead
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Amal Khatri

Partner and Initiative Development Manager - Mining Resources Lead
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Dr. Roberto Musotto

Partner and Initiative Development Manager - Defence Lead
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Veronica Perera

Communications Manager
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Operations

Patricia Sturgess

Chief Operating Officer
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Samantha Bain

Senior Finance Manager
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Serena Sun

Accountant
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Molly Chiwombe

Business Administrator
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Research & Innovation

Phil Delaney

Deputy CEO and Chief Transformation Officer
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Laura Spelbrink

Head of Delivery / Team Lead
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Dan Woodrow

Business and Market Analyst
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Jess Keysers

Senior Analyst and Project Manager
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Lachlan Hurst

Full Stack Developer
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Chris Marshall

Positioning Engineer and Project Manager
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Caitlin Adams

Senior Data Scientist
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Alex Linossier

Space Industry Engagement and Program Manager
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Rupert Brown

Positioning Australia Product Development Manager
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Roshni Sharma

Geospatial Project & Engagement Manager
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Jacob Shearer

GNSS Engineer
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Lachlan Ng

Positioning Engineer
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Lavender (Qingxiang) Liu

Earth Observation Data Scientist
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Gael Jerop

Spatial Data Engineer
Spatial Data Engineer
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Claire Fisk

Project Manager and Data Scientist
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Gavin Kennedy

Project Manager
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Fang Yuan

Earth Observation Technical Lead
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Madeleine Seehaber

Graduate Data Scientist
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Rebecca Thomas

Student Positioning Analyst
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James Leversha

Solutions Team Lead & Spatial Developer
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Science Leaders

Phil Collier

Consultant - Geodesy and Positioning
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Ivana Ivanova

Research Fellow Spatial Information Infrastructures
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Matt Duckham

Associate Dean, Geospatial Science, RMIT University
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Matthew Wilson

Professor of Spatial Information
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Chris Pettit

Director, Smart Cities
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