Managing Director
Angus M Robinson MAICD FAIML FAusIMM (CP) is an experienced executive, strategist and registered industry lobbyist (Australian, NSW, Victorian, and Queensland Governments) with extensive recent experience in industry and professional society groupings, particularly relating to the development and application of new industries and technologies. Angus also specialises in new industry development in the area of enhanced, nature-based tourism, having regard to his education and early training as an exploration geologist.
Angus enjoys an extensive range of key contacts throughout the Australian innovation and business system across a range of industry sectors, with an extended network within economies of the Greater China Region, particularly China and Taiwan. He retired as Chief Executive of the Australian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers’ Association Ltd (AEEMA) in 2008. Notably in collaboration with the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (TEEMA), he developed and delivered the landmark Australia Taiwan Strategic Framework Agreement for the ICT Industries, forming a key plank of the Australian Government’s Electronics Industry Action Agenda (2003-2008). In 2003, Angus was responsible for arranging and convening the 9th World Electronics Forum, a first for Australia, after which time, he negotiated collaborative agreements with various ‘sister’ industry associations in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, the USA, and the UK.
During 2009, Angus served as part-time Executive Director of the Australia-Taiwan Business Council Ltd.
Angus has previously served as inaugural General Manager of the Australian Technology Park in Sydney, and prior to 1998 he served for five years as the General Manager of The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, an industry-linked foundation of The University of Sydney. Earlier executive roles have included Director, Commercial Services for the Zoological Parks Board of NSW, Director of The Earth Exchange Museum in Sydney, various senior roles in the NSW Department of Mineral Resources, and as Area Manager of the Mount Hotham Alpine Resort in Victoria. From 1969 to 1977, Angus was employed in exploration roles, principally engaged by US-based, mineral resource companies.
As a longstanding formerly eco-certified member of Ecotourism Australia Ltd (and accredited by the Queensland Tourism Industry Council) his business, Leisure Solutions® is currently focused on geotourism industry development in Australia. Angus is also a Member of Tourism Central Australia, a Special Member of the Savannah Guides Network a member of Wildlife Tourism Australia, and a member of the Nature Foundation of SA , Linnean Society of New South Wales , and the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Inc.
Since 2011, Angus has undertaken the role as inaugural Chair of the Geotourism Standing Committee of the Geological Society of Australia until November 2018 as well as the Expert Spokesperson on Geotourism for the Australian Geoscience Council (AGC), the umbrella body representing the eight geoscience professional societies in Australia. Since 2018, Angus has undertaken the enhanced role, on a ‘pro bono’ basis, of developing and coordinating the National Geotourism Strategy (rebranded in 2024 as Geotourism Australia) that was formally launched in April 2021. During this period, Angus has championed in 2014, the execution of a MOU between Ecotourism Australia Ltd and the Taiwan Ecotourism Association; in 2016 a MOC between the Geological Societies of Australia and China; and later in 2023, the MOU between the AGC and the Indonesian Geoparks Network, an agreement that has led to the successful delivery of the GEOFEST 2024 Sydney Workshop in July 2024.
Angus is a member of the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife and a former Vice President and Board member of this grant-making organisation. In February 2023, he was appointed a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Specialist Group on World Heritage. This Group is a relatively new, expert-led thematic group within the WCPA focused on supporting IUCN’s work on natural World Heritage sites, developing expert capacity, monitoring threats, evaluating nominations, and ensuring quality management and conservation standards align with global biodiversity targets.
As a long-standing member of the Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment Inc, Angus is co-directing the development of the Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion project which embraces the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the coastal area of the Northern Beaches of Sydney.
In the minerals sector, Angus is both a member of the Management Committee of the Social and Environment Society and the Heritage Committee of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM). He also serves as a member of Standards Australia committee ME-095 Smart Manufacturing – representing The AusIMM.
His professional accreditations are as a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Chartered Professional Fellow of The AusIMM, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders ANZ, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, and the Geological Society of Australia. Angus is also a Rotarian of long standing (a Paul Harris Fellow and Past President of Rotary EClubOne).