The Wayne Purvis Award
This annual award is made by the Pet Food Industry Association to provide
recognition to individuals who have put in to the Industry.
The Award was instituted in 2007 and named after Wayne Purvis a long
standing industry supporter and pet food personality who died in his prime
years while still serving his employer, Nestle Purina.
2011 - Shane Walsh
Shane Walsh has been involved with the PFIAA for a long time and was keenly interested in a number of landmark projects including numerous reviews of the industry Code of Practice.The current PFIAA structure includes representation to a number of external stakeholders such ...
2010 - Paul Beattie
Paul Beattie has had a lengthy career in the meat industry before joining with partner Paul Holt to establish Nature's Gift in 1990's where he has been Managing Director since the business commenced.Paul has served on the PFIAA Executive for over 14 years and during this pe...
2009 - Phil Jackson
Phil Jackson has been a very longstanding supporter of PFIAA and has served as President, most recently 2001-2004. He has represented PFIAA on numerous committees and currently on the AQIS Biologicals Consultative Group.Phil is holds the position of Regulatory Affairs with Ne...
2008 - John Morkunas
John Morkunas has had a lengthy career in Petfood, starting with Arnotts then Friskies then Nestle and culminating as General Manager of Supercoat for Greens General Foods.John is still active in the industry maintaining his position on the PFIAA Executive Committee. ...
2007- Paul James
Paul James worked a life time for Bush's Petfood and is a fitting and worthy inaugural recipient of this prestigious industry award. Paul first worked in production at Bush's plant near the Sydney airport. This plant made some of the first cans of petfood in Australia.The a...