Brisbane ITS Business Networking Event 2023

As Director-General, Neil leads the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), with a budget of $10.5 billion, including capital expenditure of $4.5 billion, and managed assets worth in excess of $92 billion.

Neil joined the Queensland Public Service in March 2012 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TransLink, where he was responsible for the public transport network across Queensland. He was appointed Director-General of TMR in March 2013.

In September 2014, Neil became Commissioner for the National Transport Commission (NTC) and joined the Roads Australia Board in November 2014. Neil is Chair of Austroads and Deputy Chair of the Australian Road Research Board, and sit across a number of other Boards.

In September 2014, Neil became Government Champion for the Woorabinda Indigenous community. From 2015–2017, Neil was the Queensland Public Sector’s CEO Champion against domestic and family violence. In 2017, Neil won the Australia’s CEO Challenge Race, a fundraising initiative that raises money and awareness for domestic and family violence prevention.

Since joining the NHVR as Chief Executive Officer in May 2014, Sal has focused the NHVR on becoming a customer-centric, risk-based, data-driven modern regulator.

By driving a significant program of reform across Australia’s heavy vehicle industry, he has enabled a more streamlined approach to service delivery, education, compliance and enforcement, and a greater degree of consistency in how heavy vehicles are regulated.

He has led the NHVR far on its journey to becoming a single national heavy vehicle regulator, successfully transitioning, to date, regulatory services from four states and territories improving compliance and safety outcomes.

From a Portal where the heavy vehicle industry can conduct all service transactions, to the automation of identification of the operators and vehicles who pose the greatest safety risk, Sal has championed data-sharing, new technologies and innovative practices to deliver enhanced productivity and safety outcomes for governments and industry. Over six years of the HVSI grant program, he has overseen the provision of $28.3 million for 117 projects that deliver tangible safety benefits to the industry and the community.

Sal brought to the NHVR extensive knowledge of heavy vehicle policy, strategy, regulation, and business reform, having held senior leadership roles in transport, freight, ports and logistics, strategic land use and transport planning, business process improvement and innovation across state and local government and the private sector. This has proved invaluable in understanding the needs of, and building effective relationships with, the NHVR’s diverse range of stakeholders across the freight and supply chain sector.

Cameron joined the NHVR in January 2022 to take up the position of Chief Data and Technology Officer, with responsibility for IT, analytics, data, and digital across all NHVR core functions.

With more than 20 years as a senior technology executive, he specialises in large transformation programs in technology-driven organisations.

Prior to joining the NHVR, Cameron held key appointments in leading organisations, including Chief Information Officer of Virgin Australia, Aurizon and TEG, as well as senior technology roles at Suncorp, Bank of Queensland and Queensland Health. He has led culture change across a wide range of industries, including aviation, banking, insurance, heavy haul rail and freight.

Nuño has a Communications Engineering background and over 20 years of professional experience.

Over his years of experience in SICE, he has contributed to successfully delivering highly complex critical transportation and infrastructure projects, proving his exceptional technical knowledge, solid leadership and management skills, most recently, the WestConnex M4-M8 Link delivering the OMCS and the Integrated OMCS (IOMCS), which operates the entire WestConnex motorway scheme using SICE's SIDERA software.

Since he joined SICE in 2006, he always has had a clear international focus in his career by executing ITS, Tolling and Transportation projects all over the globe in Australia, the USA, Saudi Arabia and Chile as the WestConnex M4-M8 Link, and WestConnex M4E in Sydney, T2E Pacific Highway upgrade in Byron Bay, the Campus Transit System at King Saud University in Riyadh, the I-595 in Miami, or the Eastlink Project in Melbourne.