The People Behind Eidos
A diverse team committed to convening Australia's wisdom across generations, cultures, and perspectives to address our nation's most pressing challenges.
Leadership
Dr. Lindley Edwards
Chair
As Chair, Lindley brings 30+ years of experience bridging capital, innovation, and social impact. From Macquarie Bank to Citibank to leading AFG Venture Group, he has championed ventures that reshape industries. His focus on digital transformation and AI-driven futures perfectly aligns with Eidos's mission to convene new forms of collaborative intelligence. Lindley's expertise in venture capital and strategic growth ensures Eidos remains at the forefront of innovation, connecting diverse stakeholders to prototype Australia's next generation of solutions.
Jim Varghese AM
Director
Jim's remarkable career spanning government, education, and business makes him uniquely positioned to lead Eidos's cross-sector convening work. As former Director-General of four Queensland Government departments and current Chancellor of Torrens University Australia, he understands how institutions can collaborate for public good. His leadership of the Australia India Business Council and mentoring of executives reflects Eidos's core belief: wisdom exchange across differences creates breakthrough solutions. Jim embodies the intergenerational bridge-builder our mission requires.
Bruce Muirhead
Founder & Director
Bruce founded Eidos Institute in 2004 with a radical vision: that Australia's greatest challenges could only be solved by bringing diverse minds together in unprecedented ways. In 2017, he left Eidos to establish Mindhive as a commercialised spin-off, taking Eidos's collective intelligence work to a global platform, later awarded World's Boldest Crowdsourced Platform. As co-founder of System Operating, Bruce continues pioneering professional AI that enhances rather than replaces human creativity. He rejoined the Eidos Board as Director in 2025, bringing decades of innovation in facilitating dialogue across generations, sectors, and nations.
Ryan Menner
Director & Chair, Research Committee
Ryan brings 15 years of multidisciplinary experience across research, higher education, and multi-stakeholder partnerships, and a deep history with Eidos spanning seven years including as Partnerships Manager and Board secretariat. Now Chair of the Eidos Research Committee and Senior Research Strategy Coordinator at QUT, Ryan bridges academic rigour with practical community engagement. His work on Indigenous research engagement, educational evaluation at the University of Sydney, and his Vice Chancellor's Award for Partnerships Excellence reflect exactly the kind of cross-sector, intergenerational leadership Eidos was built for. Ryan holds an MPhil and LLB from QUT.
Strengthening Generational Perspective
We're proud to welcome Ryan Menner as our newest Director, fulfilling our Year One commitment to ensure accumulated wisdom is complemented by lived experience of emerging systems. This appointment extends Eidos' principle of intergenerational dialogue into governance itself.
Our Partners
Mindhive
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Commercialized from Eidos Institute in 2017, Mindhive enables new forms of dialogue and collaboration amongst humans, agents, and proxies for a better world. Now a separate partner organization providing Eidos's online dialogue platform.
Our supporters
The English Family Foundation
Cornerstone supporter
Eidos would not be continuing as one of Australia's longest-running public think tanks without the English Family Foundation. Their support has underwritten the Institute's move beyond its first two decades and into a forty-year horizon.
That support came in two forms. The Foundation invested in commercialising and launching the collective-intelligence technology Eidos had developed as a charity, which became Mindhive, since named an AFR BOSS Most Innovative Company and awarded World's Boldest Crowdsourced Platform at the BOLD Awards in Venice. It is a rare, working example of the Foundation's own thesis: that charities can generate revenue and impact from their own intellectual property, capabilities and services. The Foundation then backed Eidos' future strategic direction with further funding and human resource support.
We are grateful to Allan and Tessa English, to CEO Belinda Morrissey, and to the broader English family, and proud to be part of a transition that shows what patient, values-led philanthropy makes possible.
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