Gillian Franklin, Chair
Gillian Franklin is recognised as one of Australia’s most innovative marketers with a passion and commitment to supporting women in business. She is the Founder and former Managing Director of The Heat Group Pty Ltd – one of Australia’s leading personal care companies. Gillian is also an accomplished Company Director, with broad experience over 30 years in Director, Deputy Chair and Chair roles across business, sport, the Arts, community and medical industries. Previous experience includes Melbourne Theatre Company (10 years), CEDA (7 years) and Deputy Chair of The Australian Grand Prix (Director 23 years) amongst many others. Gillian is also a Founding member of the Australian pre-eminent women in business organisation, Chief Executive Women (CEW).
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Since retiring from a successful 148 game AFL career highlighted with the achievement of an AFL Premiership with the Essendon Football Club in 2000, Justin has spent the past 14 years working within the commercial property industry. Justin commenced his property career with top 50 ASX listed property company, The GPT Group. He held various positions during this time in both the retail and commercial office sectors including Marketing Executive, Retail Manager, Centre Manager and Regional Manager in Victoria.
Currently Justin is the General Manager Residential for Ingenia Communities. Prior to joining Ingenia Communities, Justin spent seven years at Vicinity Centres, a world leading top 30 ASX retail property group owning and managing circa $20 billion of commercial real estate. Most recently, he held the position of Director of Shopping Centre Management. In this role, Justin was responsible for the strategic asset management of Vicinity’s 56 core shopping centre assets across Australia, including the country’s leading outlet brand DFO.
Vivienne Nguyen AM
Viv has an extensive track record as a business executive and a community leader in the corporate, community and government settings. She has held roles at AMP Asset Management and ANZ Banking Group where she was the Head of Risk for the ANZ Margin Lending portfolio and their diversity strategy.
Viv became a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to Victoria’s multicultural communities. She has played a critical role in the Victorian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Viv Co-chairs the Family Violence Multicultural Working Group and is a member of the Chief Commissioner, Victoria Police’s Strategic Human Rights Advisory Committee, amongst many other interdepartmental committees and ministerial advisory taskforces and councils.
Along with her corporate career, Viv is a tireless advocate for grassroots participation and representation, in civic engagement and participation.
She is a recipient of the Centenary Medal, Victorian Women’s Honour Roll and a member of the Chief Executive Women.
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David is a senior technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams and managing large budgets to deliver enterprise-scale systems and services. He has held regional leadership positions with global technology giants such as IBM, DXC and Salesforce, driving change and delivering high-impact business value to enterprise clients across industries. David is also a recognised thought leader in higher education and digital health, with a track record of bringing cross-industry innovation to these sectors and launching significant digital transformation programs. David’s expertise lies in creative problem solving, opportunity identification and realisation, executive stakeholder engagement, delivering strategic value through tight partnerships between business and IT, and leading large cross-functional global teams to deliver complex technology projects.
David has a double bachelor’s degree from the University of Melbourne, an Executive MBA from UNSW, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Peter Summers, Deputy Chair
Peter is a Chartered Accountant with extensive management experience. For much of his career he was employed with the AV Jennings Limited Group, a well-known residential development company. In total he spent 37 years with the AVJ, 15 as Finance Director/CFO and 13 as Managing Director/CEO.
In recent years Peter has moved into the areas of non-executive directorship, consultancy and executive coaching. Peter is currently Chair of the Advisory Council for the Burbank Group.
In 2021 Peter became a member of the Abbotsford Convent Audit and Risk Committee and in late 2021 was appointed Chair of that Committee.
Peter also spent 10 years on the Board of St. Kilda Football Club, the last 5 as President. During his time, St. Kilda undertook a number of significant initiatives including hosting the first ever AFL Pride Game and the introduction of women’s football. The Club also returned to its spiritual home at Moorabbin with a complete rebuild of facilities. This involved considerable fundraising, member and stakeholder engagement, and support from Local and State Governments.
He is currently a Non-Executive Director of AFL New Zealand.
Peter is passionate about people and the “why” of organisations and creating successful, sustainable businesses. Peter is also strong in terms of governance with a focus on strategy, business drivers, financial results and accountability.
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Roger’s expertise lies in major project implementation and organisational transformation. Previously, Roger worked in international property development across the UK, Russia & Australia.
Roger is driven by a passion for maximising the potential of people and delivering real and meaningful change to organisations and projects. He believes in the need to think differently, and for organisations to become the self-authors of their futures. Rather than being disrupted by external influences, Roger believes in the need for organisations to become the disruptors of their professions and industries.
Roger co-founded THE GREEN BOAT in 2018 with Claire Vallis to help organisations simplify their business, evolve their culture and design their future. He is currently complimenting his business and corporate experience by becoming an accredited practitioner with the Adaptive Cultures Group.
When not working, Roger loves to climb mountains. His big unresolved challenge is to write a book about his 6 years living and working in Russia.
Tim Northeast
Tim Northeast is an entrepreneurial owner and operator of several hospitality and music venues in inner Melbourne including the iconic Corner Hotel.
Having built all of his businesses from the ground up, Tim has a strong understanding of the issues facing small and medium sized businesses and has extensive experience in the entertainment and hospitality industries as well as strong skills in team building, financial management and property management. Tim’s previous Director appointments include Board Director and Chair of Music Victoria, the peak body for contemporary music in Victoria.
