Advisors
Prof. Sam Phan : International Advisor
Prof. Sam Phan is the Group’s International Advisor. He has over 50 years of business experience in the US and around the world. He holds senior positions in a number of organizations around the world, in particular EVG Entwicklungs- und Verwertungs-Gesellschaft m.b.H Austria, the world’s leading company in welded wire mesh design and development. Prof. Sam Phan has been instrumental for the success in developing EVG-3D Panel construction systems in many countries around the world.
Over the past 5 decades, Prof. Sam Phan has established a number of large corporations throughout the world, ranging from marketing, manufacturing, finance, insurance, and mining. He has been Chairman of most of these corporations. His business wisdom, corporate relationships, advice and entrepreneurialism will help take Questech to the next level.
Dr. Eric Willmot : National Advisor
Dr. Eric Willmot is Questech foremost Australian advisor. Dr.Eric Willmot was Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at James Cook University of North Queensland. He was then appointed Head of the ACT Schools Authority and later became the Director General of Education in South Australia. He is a prominent member of the Australian Aboriginal community and served as chairman of the management committee for Aboriginal Education programs at both the University of Queensland and at the University of Newcastle in NSW. He was a lecturer at the University of Canberra, a Director of research at the Australian National University, Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and Deputy Secretary in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Eric Willmot has taken a renaissance approach to his career. He is one of Australia’s leading educationists and was honoured by the Australian government for his contributions in that field.
He was the presenter in a film on Australian Prehistory Trade Routes and is widely published in a number of disciplines, including anthropology and history. He had made many radio broadcasts on a wide range of subjects. He has also pursued a career in the physical sciences and in particular engineering. In 1981 he won Australia’s ‘Inventor of the Year’ and has twice won the coveted Medaille d’or at Geneva in mechanical engineering first in 1981 and again in 2005. In 1986 he delivered the ABC Boyer Lectures. This is a series of lectures broadcast nationally on subjects relating to Australia in an international context. Each year a prominent Australian is invited to present the series. The title of Willmot’s Boyer Lectures was Australia the Last Experiment. This lecture series was highly acclaimed by the critics and illustrated the extraordinary breadth of Willmot’s own research and interests. Today he lives in Melbourne, where he is a bestselling author and a consulting engineer. He has occupied positions on the boards of numerous statutory authorities and companies. In May 1987 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Melbourne University. He was awarded a Doctorate of Letters from Newcastle University, New South Wales in 2005.
