Mr Giroud is an engineering executive and technology industry leader with over 25 years of corporate leadership and engineering consulting experience. He was the former APAC head of Strategy and Transaction Services for Worley (Advisian), and former Chief Engineer for Jacobs Engineering, where he created and led a group of over 100 systems engineering and technology professionals. Mr Giroud has initiated and led business units and large-scale teams and been directly responsible for safely delivering more than $250m of complex disruptive technology projects for Tier-1 clients across a portfolio of more than $15B of major growth projects. Mr Giroud has worked across Australia, Europe, and the Middle East and has experience across the entire engineering and technology lifecycle from concept and design, through studies and major project delivery, into construction and leadership positions across site commissioning activities. As a prior visiting guest lecturer at the University of Western Australia across functional safety and advanced systems, and an independent advisor to emerging technology companies, Mr Giroud is experienced at early-stage technology ventures and commercialisation.