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Defence Connect can announce that two new members are set to join the Aquaterro Advisory Board, marking a point of continued growth for the company.
MAJGEN (ret’d) Gus McLachlan AO and former Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Ross Guenther APM will serve as rotating co-Chairs on Aquaterro’s Advisory Board to provide a range of strategic governance and development advice to the company.
Founder and managing director of Aquaterro, Graeme Bulte has expressed his appreciation in having these two esteemed new members, saying in a press release:
"To have two such respected professionals as Gus and Ross join our team in advisory board roles, is an honour.
"The service they have both given to Australia during their decades in uniform, and in their senior leadership roles in the Defence Force and Australian Policing respectively, is inspiring."
McLachlan has a range of advanced experience and expertise in the defensive field, serving thirty-seven years with the Australian Army, retiring eight years ago as a Major General.
His previous experience as Head of Strategic Planning and Modernisation and lead of the Land Forces Command for the Australian Army is likely to support his activity on the Aquaterro board, as will his extensive experience of coordination of Australian efforts with the United States and the Pentagon.
Guenther, formerly the Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police, will also serve on the Board, bringing his experience of forty years of service in the police force.
Throughout his policing career, Guenther has led a range of multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams and has supported the Five Eyes partnership in critical ways through his counter-terrorism expertise and police command.
He is formerly the President of the Leadership in Counter Terrorism Alumni and currently serves as a member of the IACP Committee on Terrorism.
"Their reputations for integrity and performance in those roles, is well deserving of the regard in which they are held by their former colleagues in uniform, government, industry, and the wider community," said Bulte.
"Together they bring to Aquaterro the kind of governance-level guidance and leadership that an organisation could normally only wish for."
Whilst on the board, the co-Chairs are set to attend and advise on a multitude of engagements that Aquaterro will venture into in the coming months and years.
Bulte summarised saying "...these two individuals will provide Aquaterro with exactly the vital advice and guidance needed to continue our growth in support of our mission; to provide professional personnel, operating in dangerous environments, with protection against threat by means of equipment and systems of the highest quality and performance – and to come home safe.”
