Leon Milford - Interim Chairman

Dip Bus (FLM); Adv Dip Bus Mgt; Adv Dip Bus Recordkeeping

Leon has extensive experience encompassing the areas of finance, marketing, distribution, and manufacturing.

Having held the position of Victorian Secretary and Accountant for global organisation, Hills Industries Ltd, Leon brings to the Board sound financial management expertise.

Responsible for a diversified product base including exporting and global budgeting, Leon’s broad knowledge combines a thorough understanding of the product manufacturing process right through to the distribution level.

In later years, Leon held management positions in finance and sales, combined with directorships held in the Automotive, Real Estate and Aged Care industries.

Leon sits on a number of Boards, including holding Directorships with Sharksafe Pty Ltd, and AU Pacific Ltd.

Leon currently oversees an investment portfolio involving Manufacture, Mining and Development companies including international operations.

Luceille Outhred - Director and Chief Executive Officer (Australia)

M Ed St, M Dist Ed; Ad Dip HRD Mgt; Dip T, Dip Trg & Ass

Luceille has steered Digislide from its earliest stage as a fledgling technology company, to a Research and Development Technology company that has attracted government grants, gained national and global awards and acknowledgements, to a company that has delivered quality products to market on five continents.

Her unswerving commitment to Digislide’s shareholders saw the company successfully navigate through all the issues surrounding early stage technology companies in Australia, and her relentless perseverance saw the company emerge from the trough, known as the Global Financial Crisis, as an ASX listed company.

Luceille is a co-inventor of many of Digislide’s patents, including Digismart Swap™, Digismart™, Digivision® and optical engine patents.

Since incorporation, Luceille has been responsible for capital raising, technical risk management for research and development, product design and development, corporate expansion, contractual issues, Intellectual Property and Human Resource management.

Prior to her appointment to Digislide, Luceille spent 13 years as Corporate Leader of the Workright Group, which is involved in Education, Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship. She has had extensive start up and business development experience, and her strategic leadership resulted in the establishment of a number of global relationships and off-shore franchise operations on behalf of the Workright Group.

Luceille was designated as a member of the Southern Area Sports Complex Management Team by the South Australian Parliament. In 2000, Luceille was selected as a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (SA) award; and, in 2007, she was again selected as a finalist in the Telstra awards; this time in two categories: ie the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award, and the Australian Government Business Innovation Award.

Luceille is an international speaker.

Luceille is also on the board of Digislide Americas, Ltd and carries the responsibilities of President.

Malcolm Leahy - Non-Executive Director (Australia)

Dip Bus (FLM)

Malcolm’s experience is in the engineering and plastics industries in South Australia. He has had significant manufacturing experience for and on behalf of major brand owners and has business relationships with engineering firms (toolmakers) and plastics manufacturers in China. Malcolm brings practical engineering insights to Digislide, at Board level. He is able to provide engineering, tool-making and manufacturing advice to executive management on a “needs basis”.

Malcolm is a Member of TEC Group and holds directorships with Creative Moulding Pty Ltd, Arkidelo Pty Ltd, The Fitness & Leisure Business Pty Ltd, Sharksafe Pty Ltd and Is That So Pty Ltd.

Luceille Outhred - President

M Ed St, M Dist Ed; Ad Dip HRD Mgt; Dip T, Dip Trg & Ass

Luceille has had extensive start up and business development experience, having spent 13 years as Corporate Leader of the Workright Group, which is involved in Education, Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship. Her strategic leadership has resulted in the establishment of a number of global relationships and off-shore franchise operations on behalf of the Workright Group.

Luceille was designated as a member of the Southern Area Sports Complex Management Team by the South Australian Parliament. In 2000, Luceille was selected as a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (SA) award; and, in 2007, she was again selected as a finalist in the Telstra awards; this time in two categories: ie the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award, and the Australian Government Business Innovation Award.

Luceille was initially seconded to Digislide International Pty Ltd, a predecessor company to Digislide, in 1998, to assist in the embryonic stages of the commercialisation of the Company’s core technologies. Since that time, she has been responsible for establishing the corporation, capital raising, technical risk management for research and development and product design and development of MantaRay™, Digiscope™ and the Digismart™ Miniature Projection Technologies. Luceille is a Designated Inventor of Digislide’s Digismart Swap™, Digismart™ and Digivision^® patents.

Luceille is also on the board of Digislide Holdings Ltd and carries the responsibilities of Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Grant Chapman - Director (Australia)
Business and Management Consultant - Company Director - Retired Australian Senator.

Experience and Capability Statement
Grant Chapman has brought to successful conclusion a number of projects during a distinguished business and parliamentary career.

With a background in marketing management and business consulting, from 1987 he was elected on four successive occasions as a Senator for South Australia in the Australian Senate, before retiring in June 2008. From 1975 to 1983 he was the Federal Member for Kingston in the Australian House of Representatives

Throughout his time in Federal Parliament, Grant Chapman was involved in numerous committees. Most notably, during the life of the Howard Government, he chaired the Joint Statutory Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services from 1996 to 2007, working closely with the then Federal Treasurer, Hon. Peter Costello, in reforming Australia’s corporations law and the regulation of financial services. For the same period, he also chaired the Federal Government Industry, Resources and Small Business Committee and from 1995 to 1997, two Senate Select Committees on the resources/energy sector. He was recognised as one of the Parliament’s experts on financial and taxation issues, together with industry and resources policy. In this context, he had high level engagement with new technology/start-up companies and the Government’s support for research and development.

In 2001, Grant Chapman was appointed by the United Nations to its “Panel of Eminent Persons to Combat Desertification,” reinforcing his strong interest in green technologies and enhancing the outstanding links he has developed with international business and political leaders as the leader of a number of key Australian overseas delegations and as the Australian Government representative on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (world body of parliaments) Council from 2002 to 2005. In 2003, the President of Chile bestowed on him the highest honour awarded foreigners, the Grand Cross, Orden Bernardo O’Higgins, for his contribution to international relations. This international experience has given Grant Chapman strong links with business and political leaders in Chile, Argentina, China, Thailand, Taiwan, USA, UK and the European Community.

A keen sportsman, former SACA Grade cricketer and Amateur League Australian Rules footballer, Grant Chapman was a founder of the Australian Council for Inter-Parliamentary Sport and a participant in international parliamentary cricket, rugby, tennis and golf competitions. Since 2009, he has been a participant in the Australian Sports Advocacy Group and periodic consultant to Sports Hydrant, an innovative, interactive sports information and marketing website.

Since early 2009, he has been founding Chairman of MyATM Pty Ltd, which has engaged successfully new investors in automatic teller machine/multi-function kiosk ownership and operation, while also undertaking key business consulting assignments, continuing to manage a family investment portfolio comprising farming and grazing properties, equities and residential real estate and serving voluntarily on several not-for profit boards.

Recently, he was appointed founding Chairman of Greenlink Energy Ltd, a cleantech incubator company with current interests in solar energy manufacturing and marketing and which is undertaking an IPO to expand its cleantech portfolio.

He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from Adelaide University, where he also undertook post-graduate business management studies.

Christian Outhred - Vice President and Non-Executive Director

B Int Bus; Ad Dip Bus Dev Mgt; Dip Bus (FLM); CPMgr

Christian is Chairman of the Board of the Workright Group and Vice President of the Board of the Company’s US wholly-owned subsidiary, Digislide Americas Ltd.

Christian has had over 13 years of international business development experience, on four different continents. Christian was the Workright Group’s Business Development Manager from 1995 to 2003. In 2003 he relocated to London, where he worked for Michael Page International and Pure Recruitment Group, specialising in financial services senior search and selection. In 2004, he was awarded first prize by the Financial Times in a highly-competitive, UK-wide B2B business development contest.

Christian provided a range of services to the Digislide Group of Companies from 1998 - 2008, including corporate incubation services, recruitment, consulting and business development.

Christian is currently working an Associate Director with Brewer Morris Global Taxation, an international recruitment and executive search consultancy.