About Resolve Global:  Key Personnel

Colin Ingram is the Managing Director of Resolve Global Pty Ltd with over 30 years experience in environmental land management, protected area management, outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism management.

Colin has extensive experience in environmental planning and feasibility assessment for eco and nature based recreation and tourism facilities in natural, remote and protected areas. Colin worked in two State protected area agencies for over 25 years.

Colin has extensive experience and understanding of government processes having worked in and for government on a wide range of tourism and recreation projects in recent years.

Colin’s key skills and experience include:

• Recreation planning – recreation facilities, trails development;
• Strategic planning – tourism, recreation and protected areas;
• Feasibility assessments – technical, social and financial aspects;
• Government liaison – networks, processes, policy and legislation;
• Community consultation and involvement;
• Community and stakeholder engagement;
• Indigenous engagement and consultation, and
• Environmental planning - planning, performance monitoring and reporting.

Colin’s Industry experience includes involvement membership of government committees and key industry bodies including the Coastal Planning and Coordination Council, as the Deputy Chair of FACET, a member of Ecotourism Australia and a Board member of the Tourism Council of WA.

Ray has been a consultant in the tourism and property development industries for more than 20 years and has particular industry exposure to hotel development, commercial tourism development, and sustainable tourism development in protected areas in Western Australia. To supplement that direct industry experience, Ray has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, has undertaken two study tours (one of sustainable Tourism and one on sustainable city development) and has undertaken broad based research on development, procurement, sustainable tourism, forms of contract (including leasehold), Native Title process and the environmental influences on specific functional use facilities (e.g. remote aboriginal communities).

Specific industry experience includes:

• Tourism accommodation, refurbishment, feasibility and procurement, Rottnest Hotel redevelopment/refurbishment, Rottnest evaluation of sustainable camping, refurbishment of Rottnest visitor cottages (including Heritage Council of WA compliance), Broadwater Resort developments feasibility and procurement for Geraldton, Bunbury and Kalgoorlie, and the analysis, assessment, feasibility and procurement of private developer for the Old Treasury Building site in the CBD;
• Tourism Facility feasibilities, business planning, procurement, leasehold contract strategy, negotiation and evaluation criteria; Various Rottnest commercial leases, Redevelopment on new Tearooms on Rottnest, SW timber village conversion into sustainable tourism accommodation with a forest experience, Food and Beverage facilities in national parks, Diamond Tree Tourism facility development planning and feasibility, Lighthouses precinct development at Augusta and Cape Naturalist Sustainable tourism accommodation facilities;
• Strategic assessment and planning and procurement for Purnululu, Karijini, NW Cape Ningaloo, Dampier Archipelago, Rescherche Archipelago (Esperance), Woodman’s Point, Wedge and Grey redevelopments.
• Project management including the Geraldton Foreshore redevelopment, Mandurah Cultural Centre Foreshore Tourism Precinct.

Ray has the experience and expertise to:

• identify and undertake assessment of the tourism potential of specific sites;
• undertake assessment of sites for tourism, recreation and visitor experience;
• appreciate and understand the cultural sensitivities of landscape;
• understand the logistical and development risks of remote locations; and
• has significant interest in the relationship between commercial tourism demands and ecological conservation.

Chris Haynes is a private consultant specialising in the area of indigenous participation and involvement in the development of policy, planning and management of protected areas, natural resources and tourism projects, with particular expertise in co-management and related governance arrangements.

Chris has over forty years of experience and achievement in protected area and natural area management. Since the early 1970s, when he worked in the forestry section of the then Northern Territory Administration, he has been interested in the involvement of Aboriginal people in land management and recently completed a PhD thesis in the discipline of anthropology at Charles Darwin University on the joint management of Kakadu National Park. He has also maintained a strong interest in tourism in protected areas, co-authoring an internationally circulated book on the subject with Paul Eagles of the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Stephen McCool of the University of Montana, USA.

Chris has had extensive experience in senior positions in both the State Government of WA and the Commonwealth Government – as Director of National Parks in the Department of Conservation and Land Management from 1985 to 1994, and Director of Regional Services in the same department between 1994 and 1998, and as Project Coordinator and Assistant Director in the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service between 1980 and 1985, responsible for Kakadu and Ululu National Parks, among others. He was also Manager of Kakadu National Park from 1979 to 1980 and again from 2002 to 2004. During these periods he has travelled extensively and is very familiar with the major national parks of North America.

While in the public service Chris was frequently required to represent his respective agencies and departments at the most senior level – with ministers and senior officials of other departments, senior representatives of industry (especially in mining and tourism), local government, Aboriginal groups and other NGOs.

Whilst he has maintained his interests in protected area tourism and natural area management (including the publication of books and papers on biogeography and ecology), Chris is now mainly concerned with the interactions between Aboriginal people and Western society, especially in natural area management. His PhD work on Kakadu National Park focussed on how Aboriginal and white staff view their work in jointly managing the park and on the nature of the intercultural domain.