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 networks, 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 and collaborate with a network of 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 network has space and spatial expertise including positioning and geodesy, data analytics, and spatial data management. 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 with a depth of experience delivering multi-party, multi-disciplinary collaborative R&D projects both locally and internationally. Through our extensive network, we can access the right expertise to meet the needs of each project, holding us in a unique position within the market. We offer several services including Advisory Services, Model Development, Applied Research & Research Translation, Case study development, Innovation Programs & Technology Testbeds, Technology Development, Stakeholder Engagement and Complex Project Management.

We provide the connection point, research services, expertise, technology, and collaborative model for our network to access, develop and apply space and spatial research development and innovation project outcomes into impactful and innovative solutions. Together with our network, 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, data analytics, and spatial data management.

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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 network needs with agility, flexibility 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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Patricia Sturgess

Chief Operating Officer & Deputy CEO
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Paula Fiévez

Chief Business Officer & Health Lead
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Phil Delaney

MapAI Chief Executive Officer
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Business Development

Paula Fiévez

Chief Business Officer & Health Lead
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Phil Delaney

MapAI Chief Executive Officer
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Laura Spelbrink

Resources Lead
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Eldar Rubinov

Positioning and Geodesy Technical Lead
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Alistair Towers

Property and Planning Lead
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Jia-Urnn Lee

Space and Defence Lead
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Kat Salm

NZ Lead
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Annmarie Mabarrack

Environment Lead
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Operations

Patricia Sturgess

Chief Operating Officer & Deputy CEO
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Samantha Bain

Head of Finance
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Research & Innovation

Phil Delaney

MapAI Chief Executive Officer
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Dan Woodrow

Business and Market Analyst
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Jess Keysers

Head of Delivery
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Eldar Rubinov

Positioning and Geodesy Technical Lead
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Lachlan Hurst

Spatial Development Lead
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Jia-Urnn Lee

Space and Defence Lead
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Lachlan Ng

Positioning Engineer
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Lavender (Qingxiang) Liu

Senior Earth Observation Scientist
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Claire Fisk

Project Manager and Data Scientist
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Gavin Kennedy

Geospatial Project Manager & Business Analyst
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Fang Yuan

Earth Observation Technical Lead & Insights Team Lead
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Madeleine Seehaber

Data Scientist
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Rebecca Thomas

Student Positioning Analyst
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James Leversha

Solutions Team Leader and 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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