Meet The Team
Say hi to the friendly faces of our team!
Academic Supervisors
Our Academic Supervisors are from the Monash University Faculty of Engineering and are responsible for mentoring the team.
Management
Upper Management
Top row: Anthony Brady (he/him; Team Lead), Emile Akbarzadeh (he/him; Technical Research and Development Lead)
Bottom row: Hannah Mroczkowzski (she/her, Outreach Lead), Eliza Negus (she/her; Operations and Partnerships Lead), Anika Ku (she/her; Marketing and Media Lead)
Upper Management is made up of the leads of each division, including a Team Lead. They are responsible for the direction of the team and the wider vision for the future. They progress goals and ensure all members are achieving their best.
Division and Upper Management
Back row: Benjamin Curnow (Workshop Manager & Safety Officer), Sophia Maisey (Beyond Plastic Manager), Vihanga Maddumahewa (Outreach Manager), Reyner Tjen (Finance Officer), Aleksandar Naumoski (HR Manager)
Middle row: Cherry Maniyar (she/her; Technical Research and Development Manager), Loan Do (Marketing and Media Manager), Lisa Zheng (Products Manager), Kara Lawlor (Operations and Partnerships Manager)
Bottom row: Hannah Mroczkowzski (Outreach Lead), Eliza Negus (Operations and Partnerships Lead), Anthony Brady (Team Lead), Anika Ku (Marketing and Media Lead), Emile Akbarzadeh (Technical Research and Development Lead)
Division and Upper Management is made up of the leads and managers of each division. Together they drive the direction and everyday task management on a more micro level. Division managers are primarily responsible for weekly tasks, while leads look ahead at longer intervals.
Divisions
Marketing and Media
The Marketing team develops and implements strategies to promote brand awareness and produces all the visual materials to represent the organisation. They focus on maintaining the website, creating content for various social media platforms and promoting key messages and events to the community. They also have involvement in original campaigns including waste reduction campaigns on campus and behaviour change campaigns!
Technical Research and Development
The Technical Research and Development team is in charge of researching new and emerging technologies, processes, plastic materials and tools and developing the current and future machines. They are primarily responsible for our well-renowned Integration Unit, but also maintain and develop our other machines like ovens, sheet presses and granulators.
Operations & Partnerships
The Operations & Partnerships division liaise with important stakeholders to form partnerships and collaborations across all divisions of the team. The team deals with all the finances and transactions, as well as maintaining internal communications and operations within the entire team. The newly found consulting team within the division aims to work with businesses to transition to more sustainable practices.
Products
The Products team is responsible for developing and producing products. They plan to create products that reflect the community’s needs and expectations. The development of new and innovative products are intended to drive engagement and sales in the market.
Beyond Plastic
Beyond Plastic is a sub division of Technical Research and Development. They specifically focus on researching biodegradable alternatives to plastic as well as different methods to produce products. Our BP division is new and unique, developing new solutions to plastic reduction in a materials based way.
Outreach
The Outreach team is responsible for planning, organising and implementing all the events, which aim to educate the community. Most of our attendees are students of all ages, as well as sustainable members of the community. Our Outreach division also creates resources which are available as open source to the public.
All Members
Precious Plastic Monash, Semester 1, 2023
