Project team

Key Personnel

Tony Allen

Project Director

CTSP, MSc, DTS, DMS

Tony Allen is Chief Executive of the Age Check Certification Scheme.  He is a Chartered Trading Standards Practitioner and Global Subject Matter Expert on Age Assurance, including:  

Andrew Hammond

Deputy Project Director

BSc

Andrew Hammond is a Co-founder and Director of KJR (K.J. Ross & Associates PTY LTD), an Australian software quality engineering consultancy business which believes in harnessing technology for meaningful impact. Specialising in software testing and AI implementation, KJR is the partner of choice for many of Australia’s leading enterprises, SMEs and technology challengers; they pride […]

Professor Toby Walsh

Independent Evaluator

FAA FAAAI FAAAS FACM FEurAI FRSN

Toby Walsh is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61. He is the winner of the prestigious Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science and was named on the international “Who’s Who in AI” list of influencers. He has given over 100 talks on […]

Professor Jon Rouse APM

Chair, Stakeholder Advisory Board

Jon Rouse served for 39 years with the Queensland Police Service in Australia. In 1996 he commenced investigating crimes against children at State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Group and in 2001 he began working at Task Force Argos where he implemented Australia’s first operation to proactively target internet child sex offenders.   During […]

Lyn Nicholson 

Legal Counsel

Lyn Nicholson has over 25 years of experience advising in privacy related matters, including product design in the credit reporting, fintech and MedTech areas where the application of law to emerging technologies and their uses in sometimes unanticipated ways has been a feature of the work. Lyn has acted for several clients in responding to […]

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