Tel: +39 02 7767 4228

Sheralyn Derrick has been with Austrade in Milan since 2002. She is an Investment Manager with a focus on investment attraction in the agtech, fintech and biotech sectors.

Sheralyn is also responsible for the international marketing and promotion of Australian education in Italy and has extensive experience in this area.

Prior to joining Austrade, Sheralyn worked in a wide variety of industry sectors with companies such as Alcoa, Adidas and National Australia Bank and has considerable experience in the areas of sourcing and contract management, planning and logistics and project implementation.

Tel: +39 02 7767 4222

William Peasland joined Austrade in December 2011. In his role as Investment Manager he focuses on supporting Italian companies to invest Australia in the energy and resources, infrastructure, rail and green building sector.

Before joining Austrade, William worked for UKTI based in Milan focusing on Inward Investment and responsible for the energy and infrastructure sectors. Before that he worked for an Italian environmental engineering company (waste-to-energy).

William was born in Italy and is a dual national (British/Italian). He has a degree in environmental economics from the University of York and a Professional Diploma in Performance Management and Change from the Open University.