Cos is an Economics graduate and a Qualified Practicing Insurance Broker (QPIB). He is also a Member of the Australian Insurance Law Association and has over 30 years of insurance experience. He is currently the National Business Manager of Planned Cover and Manager of the company’s SA/TAS client base and has been specialising in the provision of Professional Indemnity/Liability Insurance and Risk/Claims Management advice to Construction professionals for over 25 years.

SEAN RYAN (FBR LAW)

Having been thrown in the deep end at Floreani Coates and Co within 6 months of graduating from law school in 1991, Sean was forced to swim or risk drowning. Thankfully he managed to service the needs of 50 clients from day 1 and successfully develop a skill set in the general practice that was owned and operated by Bob Floreani and Michael Coates, both at Goodwood and Port Lincoln. In 2001 Sean created FRS Legal, which has since merged, reformed and grown as FBR Law. He has developed a unique skill set in the property, development and construction sector and since 2008 has been recognised as “property lawyer of the year”, and as ‘pre-eminent’ in the SA legal profession (Building and Construction).

SARAH PADDICK (TOTALSPACE DESIGN)

Trained in Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Sarah has been a director in her own Architecture and Interior Design practice since 1993.  Her main area of expertise is in Secure Facility Architecture, undertaking over 100 projects in secure facilities in South Australia. In 2010 she undertook a worldwide tour of Women’s Secure Facilities in her role as the Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholar, focusing on residential parenting programs. She is currently working as a consultant to the South Australian Department for Correctional Services as a design advisor on their major redevelopment programs at the Yatala Labour Prison and Adelaide Women’s Prison. She is a member of the Stronger Foundations and Clear Pathways Women’s Ministerial Work Group.

Paul studied architecture at Adelaide University, graduating in 1983. For the next 10 years, Paul worked and travelled extensively overseas in Europe, Asia, India, the Middle East, Central and South America including working in Sydney, London, Brisbane and regional Queensland. On his return to Adelaide in 1993, Paul joined Steve Grieve Architects. Grieve Gillett was formed in 2000, becoming Grieve Gillett Andersen in 2015. Paul believes in the creative, collaborative and collegiate nature of architecture and architectural practice. As with all great human endeavours, architecture requires collective and integrated input from clients, consultants, contractors and community. Architecture is a creative, functional but complex art form and Paul believes that it is the art married with the technical complexity and the necessary collaboration that makes the struggle so rewarding and so worthwhile.