The Joinlox Team
Dean Cameron
Inventor/Director
Dean’s interest in environmental engineering has seen him win 11 prestigious awards including Australia’s highest science innovation award, The Clunies Ross Award, for his Biolytix wastewater treatment technology.
Dean has also received the National Innovation Hero Award from the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, the (Asian) Wall Street Journal’s Asian Innovation Award 2007, and two Australia and New Zealand Innovation Awards 2008 (Building Products & People's Choice). In 2008 Dean won the ABC New Inventors’ Invention of the Year award for Joinlox.
Glenn Turner
Director
Glenn is Chairman of Kip McGrath Education Centres Limited (ASX), the Hunter Medical Research Foundation and Deputy Chairman of Newcastle Innovation Limited, based at the University of Newcastle. He is also a non-executive director of a number of private companies. He spent much of his executive career in the manufacturing and construction industries in Australia and overseas. His last executive role was as Managing Director of Ludowici Limited (ASX) from 1996 to 2007, during which time that company increased market capitalisation five-fold to $160 million and delivered significant increases in profit and dividends.
Glenn is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, a Companion of the Institute of Engineers Australia and a Member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
Jenny Allen
Marketing & Media
Jenny, an author and media specialist, has a strong record of taking young companies to market, principally writing websites and generating media articles. She has worked closely with multi-award-winning company Biolytix Water. Jenny is the author of Smart Permaculture Design. She has designed more than 100 gardens and taught Permaculture Design in Australia, Jordan, Bangladesh and the Palestinian Territories. Prior to this she worked with the Canadian Government in Namibia and assisted Mother Teresa in Calcutta. Jenny worked for Oxfam in a number of capacities, including Media Officer and Co-ordinator of Work Against Want Environmental Campaign. She has a double major in politics from the University of Melbourne.
John Pettigrew
Chief Executive Officer
John adds substantial industry experience gleaned from a variety of roles spanning a wide range of products and equipment supply including: coal seam gas and minerals exploration, energy, mineral processing, water storage and treatment, procurement, production and service management. John holds a Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical). Prior to joining Joinlox John held senior executive roles located in Australia and internationally for both private and large publicly listed organizations. He is passionate about new technologies that make a difference. Most recently he was responsible for the development and strategic growth of a range of innovative technology-driven products globally.
Richard Allen
Branding & Media
Richard has worked in the media for 20 years – ten years as a journalist (BRW, Business Sunday, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Sunday Telegraph (UK), Far Eastern Economic Review) and ten years in financial public relations, where he has worked with hundreds of CEOs and boards to improve their corporate communications. Richard has Commerce and Arts degrees from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. He is the author of four books.
Tom Percy
Industrial Designer
Tom has worked extensively in the water industry and in design consultancy. Tom uses his skills to take concepts to manufacturing, then to market. Tom has a Bachelor and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Design, and is currently completing his Masters in Business Applied Finance at Queensland University of Technology.