Vincent Gannon

Principle Consultant: Has over 20 years of experience in seafood harvesting, exporting, resource management and marketing experience. Starting as a seafood processor, he became an abalone diver, then company manager in charge of exports for a leading Seafood firm to the Executive Officer of the Victorian Abalone Divers Association.

He is recognized both here and overseas as an expert in sustainable resource management and fine spatial management in wild catch fisheries and has given many presentations both locally and internationally on the subject.

He has been a director on various boards ranging from local hospitals to Seafood Industry Victoria and Prime Safe Victoria and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has helped a number of organisations restructure their boards to provide good governance and strategically planned service.

Vin has successfully managed a range of large projects on behalf of interested parties such as factory refurbishments, designing and establishing live seafood holding facilities, research project s on spatial management.

He has designed and implemented industry workshops on sustainable resource management and employed a range of techniques to engage divers in participating in resource monitoring as part of responsible harvesting protocols. This program is now entering its 4th year and enjoys high attendance by both Government personnel and industry stakeholders alike and data collected by divers has resulted in a detailed resource management structure that is recognized as a leader in sustainable wild catch fisheries management.

 

Kelly Gannon

Office Administrator and Project Manager: Kelly Gannon is an accredited member of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Welfare Workers Association and has worked in the field of youth homelessness and community development for over 20 years. She has extensive experience in submission writing, project management, community consultation, empowerment and development, workshop design and implementation, lobbying and report writing and provides the administrative support for the business. The skills gained in this field means that she is able to assist a client group to identify issues and develop flexible solutions to meet their needs.

Recent campaigns that she has been involved in have been assisting local communities to form an action group and lobby State Government against proposed change in local State Forest status. This action resulted in a 1/3 of the proposed area being retained as Forest Park for community use.

Other campaigns have been the successful lobbying of Federal Government against the implementation of a Horse Disease Response Levy after the outbreak of Equine Influenza in 2007. This campaign resulted in a submission to a Senate inquiry and being called to give evidence at the hearing.

Other staff

Where required we use other specialists on an as needs basis. This has ranged from marine biologists, statewide campaign assistants to research divers in the past.