Mr Reg Gillard brings over 30 years experience in accounting and corporate finance to the Board. He has extensive experience and significant expertise in the evaluation and acquisition of businesses requiring development capital, initial public offerings, rights issues and placements, together with ongoing funding, corporate governance and compliance issues of listed public companies.

Mr Gillard is Chairman of Aspen Group and holds several other non-executive directorships of ASX listed public companies. He has developed close working arrangements with a number of substantial Australian and international investment funds and has been responsible for, and involved with, the funding of several listed public companies.

Mr Gillard is a Registered Company Auditor, Justice of the Peace, a Fellow of the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Licensed Real Estate Agent.

Appointed Independent Chairman on 24 December 2001 and appointed Chairman of the Nomination & Remuneration Committees on 9 June 2005. Member of the Audit Committee on 24 December 2001.

Mr Gavin Hawkins is a founding director of Aspen Group, and served as the Group’s Finance Director until his appointment to the position of Managing Director in June 2010. Mr Hawkins is responsible for the implementation of the Group’s strategy and overseeing all operational and administrative functions for the Group.

Mr Hawkins has in excess of 20 years experience in the public accounting and corporate sectors. As a Chartered Accountant, Mr Hawkins spent a number of years with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, developing expertise in audit, corporate governance, corporate advisory, and management consultancy. He further developed his skills and experience in the corporate finance and investment banking industry, spending several years in London working with major financial institutions including Sumitomo Finance and Barclays Capital.

Mr Hawkins holds a Bachelor of Business and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Appointed as an Executive Director on 31 October 2001 and a member of the Nomination Committee on 9 June 2005.

Mr Seng Fai Chan is a qualified barrister and solicitor with over 20 years experience as a legal practitioner, and has been and remains a member of the Australian Society of Accountants for the past 30 years. He specialises in the fields of commercial law, taxation, leasing, and company structures, and acts for a number of major high net worth offshore clients with particular interests in the Asian region. Prior to commencing his own legal practice Mr Chan spent several years with the Australian Taxation Office gaining valuable expertise in area of taxation law.

His experience and knowledge of both corporate law and property law is of significant benefit to Aspen Group.

Appointed Director on 1 November 2002 and member of Audit Committee on 9 June 2005.

Mr Terry Budge is a former career banker with over 35 years experience in the Australian banking industry and business. Mr Budge was most recently Managing Director of BankWest from 1997 to 2004 and previously worked with the National Australia Bank for 25 years in a number of senior executive roles.

Mr Budge is currently Chairman of Leadership W.A., Chancellor of Murdoch University, a director of Westoz Investment Company and Days of Change, and is a member of AON Risk Services Australia Limited Board of Advice. Mr Budge’s former roles included Chairman of LandCorp, National Director and Western Australian State President of AICD, the State President Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and a member of the Federal Government’s Financial Sector Advisory Council.

Appointed Director on 6 May 2005, Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee on 9 June 2005, and a member of the Nomination Committee on 11 November 2006.

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