Senior Centre Staff

Senior Sea Power Centre - Australia Staff Biographies

Portrait	Name	Position	Biography
	Captain Sean Andrews	Director Sea Power Centre - Australia	Captain Sean Andrews is a Principal Warfare Officer and Under Sea Warfare specialist. Receiving a commission in 1990 as a Seaman Officer, he has completed extensive sea service in destroyers, frigates and patrol boats. Captain Andrews has enjoyed the full range of operational sea postings including Command. Captain... Full Bio
	Commander Richard Adams	Deputy Director Sea Power Centre - Australia	Commander Richard Adams, RAN, was an Australian Fulbright Scholar to Yale University where he was a Global Justice Fellow. He was, additionally, the inaugural Chief of Navy Fellow and a Visiting Research fellow to the Changing Character of War Centre at Pembroke College, Oxford. He holds a doctorate from the University... Full Bio
	Mr John Perryman	Director of Strategic and Historical Studies	John Perryman joined the Royal Australian Navy in January 1980 as a 16 year old Junior Recruit. During a career spanning 25 years he attained the rank of Warrant Officer Signals Yeoman and later commissioned as a Lieutenant. Throughout his service he saw much of the world and participated in numerous exercises and operations... Full Bio
	Mrs Mellisa Bowers	Director Business and Heritage Operations	Mellisa Bowers has worked for the Australian Public Service since 2006, having had a broad and experienced career across the Department, working alongside Australian and foreign governments, non-government agencies, international organisations, industry and academia. Mellisa is the Director Business and Heritage... Full Bio
	Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick	SPC-A Fellow	James Goldrick joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1974 as a 15 year old Cadet Midshipman. A graduate from the RAN College, he holds a BA degree from the University of NSW and a Master of Letters from the University of New England. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School (AMP 168). He was... Full Bio
	Captain Raymond Saad	Captain Visiting Naval Fellow	Biography currently unavailable