Hon. Alan Stockdale AO served as Treasurer in the Victorian Government from 1992 to 1999 and his responsibilities included the Government reform agenda and general financial management. As Treasurer, Alan was responsible for the privatisation of $A30 billion of Government business enterprises. He was also Minister for IT and Multimedia from 1996 to 1999, promoting Victoria as a leader in the application of multimedia and new information technologies.
In the private sector, Alan was employed by Macquarie Bank for a total of six years, co-leading the Macquarie team that successfully bid to acquire Sydney Airport. Taking on a number of other corporate advisory roles, he was involved in a wide range of infrastructure transactions, especially in the power, gas and transport sectors in Australia and overseas. Alan has developed a career as a company Chairman and director of a number of ASX-listed companies and of various unlisted companies and not-for-profit organisations.
He is Chairman of X2M Connect Limited and has been Chairman of Axon Instruments Inc (incorporated in the USA and listed on the ASX), Symex Holdings Limited, Senetas Corporation Limited and a director of Marriner Financial Limited – all companies listed on the ASX.
He was previously a consultant to Metro Trains, a consultant to Maddocks Lawyers, a member of the Advisory Board of Lazard Australia and Chairman of the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund. He was Federal President of the Liberal Party from 2008 to 2014.
Alan holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts, both completed at the University of Melbourne, is a Barrister of the Supreme Courts of Victoria and NSW and the High Court of Australia and was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Alan is based in Victoria and has been a director of Knosys since 30 April 2015.
