Tim Lindquist : Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Tim Lindquist has an extensive background of more than 15 years in the management, development and commercialization of high technology.

Prior to joining Portus, Tim was an eCommerce Strategist and Business Development Executive at Canon creating Internet businesses in the printed materials domain. Tim also worked extensively in graphics and image processing at Canon, where he was involved in product development, chip design, algorithmic and intellectual property development. He started his career at Paxus, where he was the lead designer of parallel processing systems for business computing. Thereafter, he spent several years in telecommunications, first in satellite communications at Codan, and then in broadband multiplexor design at Scitec Communications Systems.

Tim holds a Master of Business Administration from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering (Elec) from the University of Southern Queensland. He has appeared regularly at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management as a guest lecturer in Strategy and is also the inventor of a number of patents in domains as diverse as parallel processing architectures, image processing, image compression and Internet business models.

Rick Turner : Co-Founder and Director

Rick Turner has contributed at a Senior Executive and Board level for more than 20 years in a variety of roles with a number of international and domestic banks. Most recently he was Chief Operating Officer Investment Banking within J.P. Morgan Australia Limited, having been Head of Strategy Management during the integration phase of the JPMorgan/Chase Manhattan/Ord Minnett merger. He was General Manager Finance at Advance Bank Australia Limited prior to its merger with St George Bank Limited and before that a director of State Bank of New South Wales Limited until its acquisition by Colonial Group Limited. Rick has also been a director of Funds Management, Property Development and Venture Capital companies.

Rick holds a Master of Business Administration from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a Master of Commerce (Economics) Hons from the University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australia Society of CPAs and of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Economics at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and in Bank Strategic Management at the University of Western Sydney.

Graeme Hannel: Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Graeme Hannel is one of Australia's pioneers in the Hi-Tech arena. He attended one of the country's earliest computing degrees at Monash University in the late 1960s and therafter entered the workforce in a number of operational and technical roles in both national and multi-national organisations, including Monash University, IBM, IDAPS and STC Australia.