Dr John Baxter BE (Hons), PhD, FTSE, HonFIEAust, FSAEA John’s 33-year career at Bishop Technology Group Limited involved automotive product and process R&D, IP management, marketing of automotive steering technology and international IP licensing. John was a member of the Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Industrial Property (ACIP) for IP Australia for the period 1994 – 2000 and, since 2004, has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at UNSW Engineering. Since 2009 he has been a Senior Commercial Counsel at Baxter IP, and is also a co-trustee of his family’s two philanthropic trusts. See baxtercharitabletrusts.org.au

John Baxter showed his outstanding promise early. As Dux of his school, then graduating with First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of New South Wales where he also gained his Doctorate, he was set for a brilliant engineering career.

This was to eventuate, and continue to this day, within the iconic Bishop Technology Group. Following its founder, the late Arthur Bishop, John Baxter has become the leading innovative mind in an extraordinarily successful Australian company. With notable engineering achievements behind him he is already taking the company into a far wider range of emerging technologies than those related to the automobile industry alone.