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John Ward, Chairman
John has been involved in primary industries all his life (some 60 years) and has a rich family history in broad acre farming in the Swan Hill and Balranald areas of northern Victoria. John has been involved in machinery and vehicle merchandising in Mildura and managed an agricultural machinery manufacturing company for 6 years. John has 150 acres of winegrape plantings of his own which he developed in 1997. John has been a board member of the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement Authority from 1981 to 1994 and the Chairman from 1983 to 1994. John has a sound understanding of governance issues and is keen to further advance the Murray Valley Winegrape Industry Development Committee.

Andrew Murdoch
NSW grower representative from Dareton - owns a 100% wine grape property.

Barry Cock
Director of private enterprises, Sam Sales Pty Ltd, Riversun Pty Ltd (citrus marketing), previous board member of Sunraysia District Citrus Co-operative Society and of the Murray Valley Citrus Marketing Board. Now owns numerous wine grape properties and is a NSW grower representative.

Bob Shields
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture - University of Sydney, president and captain of Mildura Golf Club, president of Mildura West Primary School Council.

Jan O'Connor
Jan owns and operates a contract mechanical grape harvesting business, manages vineyards in Robinvale and Clare Valley and is a member of the National Phylloxera Technical Reference Group. Jan is a Victorian grower representative.

Jeff Mitchell
Bachelor of Science - Monash University 1983. Sixteen years experience as an analytical chemist with expertise in the grape and wine industry. Fifteen years experience in managing wine grape vineyards in Sunraysia. Expertise in analytical chemistry, vine nutrition, wine grape quality assessment, soil survey and topographic mapping and land capability assessment.

Len Schliefert
Viticultural consultant specialising in vine health, member of Grape Vine Yellows Reference Group, member of Grape and Wine Research Development Committee Priorities Reference Group. Twenty years experience commercial vineyard management and a grower representative for Victoria.

Ron Hutton
NSW Govt representative, Deputy Director National Wine & Grape Industry Centre in Wagga Wagga NSW.

Stuart Holland
Victorian Govt representative, Senior Policy Analyst at Department of Primary Industries in East Melbourne.

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