PURIFIC - Key Persons


Dr. Eran Avraham

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher at the Electrochemistry

Dr. Isaak Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher at the Electrochemistry - Chemistry Department of Bar - Ilan University, Israel. Expert in Desalination and Separation Processes by Electochemical Means

Stephen Richard Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Dip Sec Risk Mgmt, Dip Quality Assurance Director
  • Founder and Director of AvSec Consulting Pty Ltd
A former Naval Officer, Detective and senior executive with Australian Airlines and Qantas, Steve Lawson is a founder and Director of AvSec Consulting Pty Ltd, Paradym and Purific. Steve has worked in the security/risk industry for over thirty years. As an executive with Australian Airlines and Qantas he has been responsible for developing many of the measures now accepted as vital to the security of aviation and air cargo. He is passionate about advancing security and risk management and works as an advisor to government and industry around the world, he writes a regular column on aviation security.

William Dent

Bill has over twenty-five years' experience in security operations, intelligence, threat and risk management, both with the Australian Government and in the private sector where he worked for Qantas Airways as its International Security Risk Manager. In 2007, Bill formed AvSec Consulting with Steve Lawson , Paradym in 2017, focussing on non-aviation consulting, and in 2020, Purific (Australia). Bill has consulted nationally and internationally, undertaking projects for governments and private industry covering aviation security, infrastructure security, security strategy, and policy.