John Maddock - Chief Executive Officer
Phone: +61 (0)3 9286 9267
Fax: +61 (0)3 9890 5209
Email: ceooffice@boxhill.edu.au
Office: E3.G43, Elgar Campus
Post: Private Bag 2014, Box Hill 3128, Victoria - AUSTRALIA
Executive Assistant
Name: Maree Basemore
Phone: +61 (0) 3 9286 9267
Email: ceooffice@boxhill.edu.au
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma of Business, RMIT University
- Graduate Diploma in Education, Hawthorn Institute (now Melbourne University)
- Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD)
- Fellow, Australian Institute of Training and Development ( FAITD)
- Member, American Society for Training and Development (MASTD)
- Trustee of Committee for Economic Development (CEDA)
Areas of Responsibility
John has been Box Hill Institute’s Chief Executive Officer since early December 1999. He was formerly director of Gordon Institute of TAFE from January 1996 until December 1999.
He is responsible for educational leadership within the Institute. This includes strategic positioning and promotion of the Institute within government, industry and the community as well as strategic planning and development. He is also accountable for the Institute’s business growth, management and financial performance and is the Managing Director of Box Hill Enterprises.
Professional Background
John has wide experience in vocational education and training (VET) across areas of responsibility such as a strategic and business planning; business development; marketing and public relations; information services; international education; VET program delivery; development of flexible delivery modes; entrepreneurial and commercial activities; VET research; quality and customer service initiatives; and financial management.
His previous roles include:
CEO at the Gordon for 4 years from January 1996 to December 1999
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Five years as Deputy Director at Box Hill Institute of TAFE [Jan ’90 – Dec 95] responsible for both the strategic planning and operations of the commercial business development for the Institute including its international operations
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Ten years prior to that, held a variety of management roles at Moorabbin Institute of TAFE
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Four years in secondary teaching at Glenroy Technical School
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Before entering his career in education, John was employed by one of the big six accounting firms, Arthur Andersen & Co., working in their small business management and business consultancy areas
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Chair of the Victorian Government State Training System Industry Training Development Program; a State-wide strategic initiative to assist TAFE colleges to become commercially viable in the provision of services to industry and so generate self-funding income
Government Committees and Advisory Groups
- Board Member of the Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA)
- Board Member of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)
- Board Member of Box Hill College, Kuwait
- Board Member of Box Hill Institute
- Board Member of Box Hill College Enterprises
- Board Member of Basketball Australia/National Basketball League
- Board of Trustees Member of the for Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre [VTAC]
- Deputy Chair Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre [VTAC] & a Member of the Management Committee of VTAC
- Chair of the Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Authority Audit Committee
- Member of the Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Authority Post-Compulsory Curriculum and Assessment Committee
- Member of Monash Faculty of Education Board
- Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Biotechnology Strategic Planning & Evaluation (DIIRD, BSDP)
- Chair of Global Education Network from July 2008
- Executive Committee member - Post Secondary International Network of Presidents of Community Colleges (PIN) Immediate Past President; An Alliance of Postsecondary Institutions Dedicated to the Furtherance of International Education and Understanding through A Sharing of Experience
Internationally John has been Chair of the Global Education Network since July 2008 and is a current member (and Past Chair) of the Executive Committee (Board) of Postsecondary International Network; An Alliance of Postsecondary Institutions Dedicated to the Furtherance of International Education and Understanding through A Sharing of Experience. He is also appointed by the Singapore Minister of Education as a member of the External Review Panel (ERP) of the ITE Quality Assurance Framework (IQAF).
John is also a member of the Board Member of Basketball Australia and Chairs Basketball Australia High Performance Commission which has responsibility for our twelve national teams and the pathways leading up to them.
John is Australia’s delegate to the FIBA, the world governing body for the sport of basketball plus he in on the Board of FIBA Oceania Basketball and is a member of FIBA’s International Competition Commission.
John commenced his playing career with one of Australia’s leading national league clubs; the Melbourne Tiger’s in their junior program and represented that club for a period from 1965 through to 1980 in State and National championships at both junior and senior level.
During that period he was also selected to represent Australia at the National Titles at the international level and was a regular member of the Australian squad during the 1970’s.
John attended one Olympics and six World Championships. Two of them, as a player and four as Head of Delegation including receiving a Gold Medal at the Brazil World Championships as Head of Delegation for the Opals achievement. He was also a Board member of the organising body for the World Championship for 22 and Under Men, held in Victoria in 1997 at which Australia won a gold medal.
He will also be Head of Delegation at both the Men’s World and Women’s World Championships in August and September this year making it eight world championships/Olympics he will have attended either as a player or administrator representing Australia.
John has been awarded Life Membership of Basketball Victoria and also awarded a Prime Minister’s medal for volunteer services associated with the Sydney 2000 Olympics.