About Us - Consultant Profiles

• Chris Connolly - LLB - Director
• Peter van Dijk - BSc LLB - Managing Director
• Richard Weatherley - MSc - Director
• Ian Booth - BA LLB - Associate
• Fiona O’Loughlin - BSc LLB - Associate
• Eddie Smith - BFinAdmin - Associate
• John Jones - BSc (Hons) MSc Physics - Associate
• Yee Fen Lim - BSc LLB LLM (Hons) - Principal Consultant
• Francis Vierboom - BSc (IT) LLB - Senior Consultant
• Steven Robertson - BSc BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) - Senior Consultant
• Amy Vierboom - Research Consultant
• Jessica Kivell - Research Consultant

• View all consultants

Chris Connolly - LLB - Director

Chris is a director of Galexia, and provides specialist consulting services for Internet law, privacy and electronic commerce projects. He is also a lawyer and researcher, and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of NSW where he lectures in several Masters of Law courses, including Data Surveillance and Information Privacy Law, Cyberspace Law and Electronic Commerce Law.

Peter van Dijk - BSc LLB - Managing Director

Peter is a founding director of Galexia and engagement director for large projects.. Peter has a background in law plus software and web development projects, with a focus on enterprise software development, digital certificates and identity management. He has lectured at undergraduate and postgraduate level on electronic legal research, electronic legal applications, digital certificates and Internet law. Peter provides technical input to Galexia projects on smart cards, digital certificates, biometrics and electronic authentication.

Richard Weatherley - MSc - Director

Richard Weatherley is a founding Director of Galexia. Richard has 15 years’ experience in providing Internet consulting services and ‘best of breed’ integrated information systems solutions to a broad range of commercial, governmental and non-governmental clients in Australia, Europe and the US. Richard provides technical input to Galexia projects on security, identity and access management, cryptography, smart cards, digital certificates, and electronic authentication. Richard was also the Lead Identity Architect for Vodafone Australia Access Controls identity and authentication solution and the Australian Taxation Office identity management architecture.

Ian Booth - BA LLB - Associate

Ian Booth specialises in the legal, privacy and authentication aspects of electronic commerce, having been a senior legal and policy manager with the National Office for the Information Economy from 1998 until mid-2002. Previously, Ian was regulatory affairs manager for the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Farmers Federation and the Metal Trades Industry Association. Since mid-2002, he has been an active e-commerce consultant. Areas on which Ian has advised include privacy legislation, the status and validity of electronic transactions, public key infrastructure and digital signatures and product liability law reform. Much of Ian's legislative analysis, review and development work has involved productive consultation with stakeholder industry, community and government organisations.

Fiona O’Loughlin - BSc LLB - Associate

Fiona O’Loughlin has practiced as a commercial lawyer since 1993, specialising in Information Technology law. Having reached the level of Senior Associate with Allen Allen & Hemsley, Fiona practiced in the UK in the IP/IT Department of Herbert Smith. Fiona's experience includes advising IT suppliers and customers on Internet, e-commerce and privacy issues. Fiona worked extensively on Galexia’s project for the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner and the National Office for the Information Economy, developing privacy guidelines for the use of digital certificates by Government agencies. She is also the co-author of an Intelligence Report on Privacy Impact Assessments.

Eddie Smith - BFinAdmin - Associate

Eddie has over 15 years consulting and architecture experience. He was a co-founder and technical director of Agreon (2001-2008), a leading Identity Manager solution provider. In this role, Eddie performed and directed customer consultations, strategy development, presentations, architecture and design, proofs-of-concept and major implementations using a range of identity and access management products from the major vendors. At Agreon, Eddie built successful relationships with major IAM vendors including Sun Microsystems, Oracle, CA, BMC Software, Microsoft and Ping Identity.

Eddie's identity and access management customers include: ANZ, Telstra, Promina, Australian Bauru of Statistics Bigpond, OCBC Bank, Vodafone Australia, Fortis Bank, NSW Attorney Generals Department, Lloyds TSB, Vodafone New Zealand, AMP, Roads and Traffic Authority NSW, IAG, Samsung, Optus and West Australian Department of Education.

Eddie previously worked with:

• Access360 (now IBM Tivoli Identity Manager);
• Deloitte (Manager - Security Consulting);
• British Telecom;
• Credit Suisse; and
• Roberts & Morow.

Eddie has worked closely with Galexia on recent identity management projects, including Galexia’s work on the Australian Government Online Service Point.

John Jones - BSc (Hons) MSc Physics - Associate

John has over 20 years of consulting experience in the IT industry in both Australia and the United Kingdom. John brings this experience to stakeholder consultation, business analysis, strategy development and enterprise architecture. John’s focus over the last few years has been on Identity Management and Service Oriented Architecture. John has developed partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Oracle and IBM, providing professional services and training resources in the area of Identity Management and SOA.

John’s identity and access management customers include: Vodafone, AMP, Roads and Traffic Authority NSW, Education Queensland, the Northern Territory Government, Infomedia and Sydney University AAF (Shibboleth).

John has previously worked for Sun Microsystems for a period of six years in a number of Senior Technical Leadership roles. He initially joined Sun's Java Centre and acted as a Senior Java Architect for four years. Following that, he became an Enterprise Architect, providing architectural leadership across several projects in any given account. His last role at Sun was that of the Australia and New Zealand software CTO.

John has also worked in a variety of roles including Middle-ware Architect at Barclays Capital, consultant for Object Consulting, Technical Director for Infonics, and Principal Engineer for DKS. The work covered a diverse range of technical areas from real-time embedded systems through to enterprise class systems.

John’s recent articles and conference presentations include:

• Identity & Access Management for Mobile Content. A Case Study: Horizons Conference, Sydney 2008
• SOA Center of Excellence: Horizons Conference, Sydney 2007
• Java for Business Integration: Enterprise Java Australia, Melbourne 2005
• .NET and J2EE Compatibility: Enterprise Java Australia, Sydney, 2005

John is a member of the IEEE, the Australian Institute of Physics and the British Institute of Physics.

John has worked closely with Galexia on recent identity management projects, including Galexia’s work on the Australian Government Online Service Point.

Yee Fen Lim - BSc LLB LLM (Hons) - Principal Consultant

Yee Fen LIM is a principal consultant at Galexia and assists with Galexia’s regional projects. Yee Fen is based in Singapore where she is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

Yee Fen is uniquely qualified as she holds degrees in computer science and law with Honours from the University of Sydney.

She was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Law at a university in Sydney and she has over ten years experience as a senior academic specialising in E-commerce law, Internet Law and Intellectual Property Law. She has served on the law faculties of the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and Macquarie University. Yee Fen also has considerable experience as an IT professional having being a consultant on key Internet and database projects in the 1990s.

She is author of one of Australia’s leading texts on Internet Law - Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials, (Oxford University Press). The second edition of this seminal work was published in early 2007, with a Foreword by the Honourable Justice Gummow AC QC of the High Court of Australia.

Yee Fen has published widely on E-commerce Law, Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law and Technology Law in the US, Europe, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand and in prestigious journals such as the Australian Law Journal and International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. She is also co-author of E-Commerce and the Internet: Technology, Law and Policy, published by Thomson Legal & Regulatory in 2007.

Yee Fen is a sought after speaker and her speaking engagements have included those in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She also sits on the editorial boards of a number of international IT and IP journals.

Publications list »

Francis Vierboom - BSc (IT) LLB - Senior Consultant

Francis Vierboom is a senior consultant at Galexia. He assists Galexia on technical and legal aspects of a variety of projects. He has recently completed significant research into distributed identity systems (Liberty Alliance and WS-Federation) and PKI interoperability models, and has particular expertise in identity management strategy and implementation.

His casenote on the leading Australian case of Dow Jones v Gutnick was republished in the Butterworths In-House Counsel journal and he has written an article for the Internet Law Bulletin, Internet jurisdiction only deeper in confusion. Francis has also written several Bytes for this publication.

Francis holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney.

Steven Robertson - BSc BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) - Senior Consultant

Steven is a senior consultant at Galexia. He has expertise in domestic and regional privacy laws, and global privacy developments. Steven has participated in a number of Galexia’s recent Privacy Impact Assessments, including PIAs for the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority and the Department of Defence. He has also assisted with Galexia’s recent regional privacy management projects and law reform submissions. He recently worked on a comparative analysis of Indonesia’s omnibus electronic commerce and cybercrime law, and has previously assisted with Galexia’s work on online authentication and identification systems in the Asia-Pacific.

Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in philosophy and German, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) at the University of Sydney.

Amy Vierboom - Research Consultant

Amy is a research consultant at Galexia, and is undertaking a combined Bachelor of Laws and Practical Legal Training, Bachelor of International Studies course at the University of Technology Sydney.

Amy’s primary area of research to date has been the UN Convention on Electronic Contracting. Her analysis of privacy law developments in Asia in 2007 was recently published in the Internet Law Bulletin.

Jessica Kivell - Research Consultant

Jessica recently joined Galexia as a research consultant and office administrator. She is in the second year of a combined Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Law degree at the University of Technology, Sydney.

[up to consultant profiles] [up to about]