IAPA Advisory Committee
The IAPA Advisory Committee helps guide our strategy and campaigns to support analytics professionals and promote the recognition of analytics' vital role across the organisation.
The Committee's wealth of knowledge and years of experience will aid IAPA in promoting the strategic and increasingly central role data and analytics plays in business and to support the needs of those in the industry.
Amanda Schenk
General Manager
IAPA (Institute of Analytics Professionals Australia)
Amanda is passionate about data-driven decision making and the power of community and brings a unique perspective to IAPA as we usher in a new era for Australia’s only analytics association.
An innovative, award-winning professional, with a wealth of diverse experience and a genuine curiosity for client needs. Experienced in building new teams in dynamic and challenging environments, she leads with stability, efficiency and growth.
With a career spanning tourism, events, higher education, and state and federal government, coupled with supporting income-generating projects for orphaned children through aid work in Kenya and Nepal, and a side hustle as a Marriage Celebrant, Amanda thrives on engagement and opportunities for connection and new adventures.
Through 15+ years of dedicated public service experience, with an extensive background in the immigration and settlement and multicultural affairs portfolios, including offshore deployments to India and Nauru, Amanda maintains a keen interest in Australian migration policy and opportunities to embrace and support the diversity that migrants bring to enhancing Australia.
Kathryn Gulifa
Head of Data & Analytics
Catch
Deputy Chair, IAPA
Kathryn is an IAPA specialist advisory committee member.
Coert Du Plessis
Chief Executive Officer
MaxMine
Coert is one of those high-energy people that loves to build products, businesses, teams and communities. At heart he is an entrepreneur, avid water athlete and regular keynote speaker and investor.
Coert is CEO of MaxMine, a world leader in productivity technology for miners combining expert coaching, AI, Industrial IoT, and Software as a Service.
Coert’s impressive career in digital and data change, which started from a Commodore VIC20 computer on a remote farm, has seen him lead BHP's global digital transformation, building BHP's innovation mine, and lead BHP's global data strategy and data initiatives reporting to the Executive Leadership Team. Prior to BHP, Coert was a Senior Partner with Deloitte leading the data analytics practice specialising in machine learning and application in energy and resources.