Ross Cooke
President
Bachelor of Commerce (Melbourne University)
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Director, Paxton Partners Pty Ltd
Director (and Chair of Audit Committee) of the MacFarlane Burnett Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (incorporating Austin Research Institute)
Independent Member, Finance and Audit Committee of the Health Roundtable
Ross Cooke has extensive experience with financial consulting in the healthcare industry. Paxton Partners is a corporate advisory firm providing an extensive range of management consulting and corporate services. Ross is an expert in governance responsibilities, analysing and improving financial performance, capital budgeting and risk management frameworks.
Appointed Director November 1998
Member: Executive Committee
Jeffrey Gole
Vice President
F.R.E.I
Certificate of Real Estate 1985
Certificate of Business Studies (Real Estate) 1988
Managing Director, Gole Property Pty Ltd
Licensed Estate Agent, Abercrombys Real Estate Pty Ltd
Associate of Real Estate Institute of Australia Ltd 1994
President of REIV 1999-2000
Fellow of Real Estate Institute of Australia Ltd 2001
Jeffrey Gole has been specialising in property sales and property management for over 30 years. His knowledge and experience of the real estate industry has heightened his awareness of issues around housing affordability, particularly for the vulnerable.
Appointed Director November 2001
Member: Executive Committee
Sue Rosenhain
PhD
Bachelor Applied Science (Physiotherapy)
Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion and Health Education
Sue Rosenhain has long-standing experience within the health care sector. She has a background in physiotherapy and health promotion. Sue works with organisations, tertiary institutions, partnerships and alliances on projects designed to strengthen health promotion and continuous quality improvement outcomes. She has worked in a range of health and community service settings including acute care, community health and aged care.
Appointed Director June 2003
Netty Horton
Bachelor of Arts (hons) (Exeter University UK)
Master of Public Policy (Melbourne University)
Netty Horton has a long history of working in the area of homelessness, beginning as an outreach worker working with people sleeping rough in 1988. Netty was the CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons for more than 12 years during which time she established and ran the first and second national conferences on homelessness in Australia and chaired the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the development of the Victorian Homelessness Strategy. Netty founded and is a former President of the Council for Homeless Persons Australia, a founding member of the Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations and Foodbank Australia. She has been the General Manager of Community Services with St Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community Services.
In 2001 she successfully completed a Churchill Fellowship examining Foodbanking and homelessness in the US Canada, Europe and the UK.
Appointed Director May 1998
Member: Executive Committee
Howard Ronaldson
Bachelor of Economics
Graduate Diploma of Accounting & Finance
Master of Business Administration
Howard Ronaldson is the Secretary of DBI (Department of Business and Innovation). He brings vast experience in negotiating complex commercial arrangements between the private sector and government and providing strategic policy advice. His early career included a senior position in a private company. After joining the Victorian Government, Howard held executive positions in the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD), Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) and became the Director of Gaming, the Director of Crown Lands and the Director of Housing and was the Chief Operating Officer of DOI from May until December 2002. He has been the Chief Executive and Under Treasurer of the Department of Treasury, ACT.
Appointed Director November 2002
Elizabeth Ozanne
PhD.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne.
Elizabeth Ozanne is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at The University of Melbourne where she also directs the Ageing and Long Term Care Research Unit. She is the author of several books, book chapters and articles on ageing and community care policy and practice in Australia and is completed a new book on Ageing and the New Longevity in 2006. She has also been the recipient of several ARC/Linkage grants on the evaluation of case management programs and the politics of ageing in Australia.
Appointed Director September 1994
Emily Grant
Bachelor of Accounting (Property Valuation) 1995
Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment 1999
Certificate in Real Estate Agency 1994
Portfolio Manager - VIC, SA, WA & QLD - Jones Lang LaSalle
Emily Grant is a valuer and licensed real estate agent with training in accounting. Ms Grant joined Jones Lang LaSalle in August 2004 and has responsibility for the state based property management teams who manage Colonial First State properties. Prior to her current role, Ms Grant held Asset Management positions at both Industry Superannuation Property Trusts (ISPT) and Centro MCS Property.
Appointed Director November 2001
Mark Stewart
Bachelor of Applied Science
Masters of Business Administration
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Chief Executive Officer Archicentre Limited
Mark Stewart has over 20 years of senior automotive industry management
experience, running businesses of up to $300M turnover.
Mark's career commenced as an engineer and scientist where he worked closely
with vehicle manufacturers and distributors. His subsequent success in
business unit general management saw him appointed as General Manager of
Dunlop & Olympic Tyres for the Australian region.
Currently Mark is the Chief Executive of Archicentre National Office. Mark has a strong
commercial and customer focus, and a vision for excellence in the delivery
of automotive services. Mark is a great advocate for lifelong learning having completed a Bachelor
of Applied Science, a Masters of Business Administration and he is currently
completing a Masters of Applied Finance. Mark is a trustee of the Committee
for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and a Member of the
Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Appointed Director November 2005
Bryan Lipmann AM
Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Social Work
Order of Australia 1999 for his work with the elderly homeless
Bryan Lipmann is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Wintringham. He is an economics and social work graduate who has vast experience working with homeless older people. Under Bryan’s leadership, Wintringham has obtained substantial funding and support to enable the establishment of a range of housing and services to many aged people who were living in poor and insecure conditions. His ability to develop and implement high quality services that are financially viable, has influenced Government policy and welfare agencies towards a more co-ordinated response to a group of people who are some of the most disadvantaged within Australian society. Bryan is a regular contributor to a range of local and international aged care and housing forums, and is the author of a book "The Elderly Homeless", which looks at the international provision of services to frail homeless men and women. He was made a Distinguished Alumni of La Trobe University in 2009.
Appointed Director November 2003
David Coombes
Master of Taxation Law (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Law (University of Melbourne)
Member of Advisory Board to the Diploma of
Transnational Law (University of Melbourne)
Member of Board of Examiners for Specialist Accreditation Taxation Law: Law
Institute of Victoria
David Coombes is one of Australia's leading
taxation lawyers. He is the national head of Deacons’ Taxation
Practice, and brings over 30 years of taxation law experience to his role.
David is an accredited tax law specialist and had particular expertise in
income tax law, capital gains tax, goods and services tax, stamp duty and
other indirect taxes and revenue imposts.
Appointed Director October 2008
Corrinne Armour
Bachelor of Science (University of Melbourne)
Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
Diploma of Project Management
Fellow of Leadership Victoria
Corrinne Armour has spent more than 15 years in leadership positions
within the corporate sector. She has lead large interdisciplinary teams in
multimillion dollar projects. She has worked with trustees of charitable
foundations, executives and community organisations to deliver effective and
efficient social profit partnerships. She is Director and Principal
Consultant of Extraordinary Future, a leadership coaching practice.
Corrinne was the Founding Chair of The Torch Project, a not-for-profit specialising in community cultural development. She spent two years living and working in a jungle refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border, an experience that has strengthened her views on social justice and democracy.
Appointed Director December 2010
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