Chris has extensive experience spanning the defence, industry and commercial sectors and working with Government. He also served for 37 years in the Australian Defence Force, most notably as an Air Vice-Marshal.

His most recent appointment was Chief Executive at Northrop Grumman Australia. Prior to that he worked for Airservices Australia as the program executive for OneSKY, responsible for delivering the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System for Australia.

Chris returns to CASG after previously holding the role of Senior Program Manager where he managed more than $25 billion of complex acquisition and sustainment programs including the Joint Strike Fighter, Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control, Multi Role Tanker Transport and Collins Class Submarine.

Chris has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Sydney. He was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) in 2007, and recognized in 2016 as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).

Dan has spent the last 25 years delivering and expediting complex solutions across government and the private sector.

Dan is a versatile Delivery Executive who specialises in best practice engineering, delivery disciplines and empowering teams to deliver mission critical outcomes quickly and efficiently.

He has spent the last two and a half decades establishing and delivering large transformational programs across multiple industries.

His strong leadership skills and pragmatic approach to strategy development, delivery, governance and critical path management has been refined by lessons learnt across multiple challenging industry sectors. 

Christina N. Snyder, CCEA® currently serves as the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA) Board President. Mrs. Snyder is a CCEA® certified cost analyst with almost two decades of probabilistic modelling experience and is a senior analyst with Systems Planning & Analysis (SPA). In her current role, Mrs. Snyder acts as a strategic advisor to multiple clients, delivering products such as business case analyses, analysis of alternatives, risk/opportunity quantification, life cycle cost estimates, cost assurances, and “what-if” analyses. Building upon her mathematical foundation, her recent research has focused on effective communication to decision makers and within teams. Wanting to improve the literature on how to communicate cost estimates in a way that would inspire action and resonate, Mrs. Snyder presented “Storytelling for Cost Estimators” at the ICEAA Virtual Workshop in 2020.

In 2021, she received a best paper award for her original research surveying the cost estimating community to question “Does Cost Team Leadership Matter” –discovering that the soft skills of the cost team lead ultimately do impact team effectiveness. Knowing that technical skills alone will only take estimators so far, her 2022 paper “CE2: Communication and Empowerment for Cost Estimators” leveraged communication and empowerment training to demonstrate how all cost estimators can use soft skills to exponentially impact their analyses. Both of these papers were then published in the Journal of Cost Analysis & Parametrics.

In addition to continuously supporting the annual ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop, she has presented training to the U.S. Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Canadian National Defence Virtual Comptrollers’ Conference. Ms. Snyder holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Applied Computational Mathematics with a Concentration in Statistics from Virginia Tech.