Tim Lindquist : Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Tim founded Portus and has led it through its early growth, closing several successful capital rounds and leading it to win the highest profile Connected Home initiative in the world.

Prior to Portus, Tim was Business Development Director and Internet Strategist at Canon leading the creation of Internet businesses in the printed materials domain. Tim also worked extensively in graphics and image processing at Canon, where he was responsible for product development, chip design, algorithmic and intellectual property development. Tim started his career at Paxus, as the lead hardware designer of parallel processing systems for business computing. Thereafter, he spent several years in telecommunications, designing new hardware architectures in both the satellite communications and broadband multiplexer domains.

Tim has four US and six Australian patents, in domains as diverse as parallel processing architectures, image processing, image compression and the printing of computer generated images. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern Queensland. He has also appeared regularly at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management as a guest lecturer in Strategy.

Rick Turner : 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.

Whilst at Alcatel (ne STC) he moved to sales and marketing roles and was responsible for a number of large accounts in the Enterprise and Government sectors. During this period he was successful in wining a number of large complex sales, including the re-establishment of Alcatel's business with the Australian Federal Government

Over the last decade, Graeme, via his company Lorem, has advised many vendor organisations, from small start-ups to large multinationals, to improve their sales and marketing activities. These companies have included IBM, Optus, Nortel, Avaya, Premier Technologies and British Telecom. Lorem has also provided strategic consulting services to assist businesses improve their customer services possesses and technologies. These clients have included Westpac, Unilever, AMP, AGL, IAG and Bangkok Bank.