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).
Justin Blumfield
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.
Paul Bowers
A seasoned purpose-driven leader with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams and partnerships. I’m recognised as a supportive peer, a mentoring leader and a generous partner. Kind, insightful, driven and tenacious, I deliver nation-scale purpose while growing capability.
Values-driven, I’m both strategic and action oriented, delivering by balancing purpose, stakeholders, customers and profit. A noted specialism lies in connecting the big picture to all the tiny details: shaping strategy from vision, turning strategy into plans then delivering and operationalising. Adept at shaping and communicating a compelling vision and making complexity digestible, I am as comfortable in the Tea-Room as the Board Room.
Bridgid Cowling
Bridgid Cowling is a Special Counsel in Arnold Bloch Leibler’s renowned public interest law and native title practice. She provides advice in relation to corporate governance, structuring, taxation and commercial issues to a broad range of clients, with a focus on assisting charities and not-for-profit organisations, Aboriginal Land Councils and Native Title Representative Bodies. Bridgid began her legal career working across northern Australia as a native title and land rights lawyer before returning to her home city of Melbourne with her family and developing an extensive charity law and governance practice.
Bridgid is chair of the Law Council of Australia Charities and Not-for-profits Committee, former chair of the Tax Institute Not-for-profit Technical Committee and director of environmental charity Country Needs People Ltd
Paul Devlin
Born and raised in Ireland. Educated in California. Battle tested in Asia. Based in Australia.
Paul has over twenty years of experience driving business growth by partnering with ambitious organisations and serving as a trusted advisor to chief executives, senior management and boards.
He is known for starting, supporting, and scaling high performance, multidisciplinary teams that deliver great outcomes for customers on a commercially viable basis. His experience spans multiple sectors, consumer segments and competitive situations.
With expertise and connections from his experience serving global financial institutions, Paul counsels senior executives on their most challenging issues, including strategy, M&A, change & crisis management and improving organisational performance, through re-engineering processes, re-structuring operations and re-imagining product/service propositions.
He is passionate about coaching teams and individuals to cut through complexity, implement their ideas and realise outstanding results.
Ruth Jones
Ruth Jones is Director, Global Markets, for AVPN, a funders’ network based in Singapore. Prior to this, she was CEO of the Social Venture Partners Network and held senior roles at Community Foundations of Canada and Philanthropy Australia. She was Chief Executive of the Australian Film Institute before moving to the field of philanthropy.
朱迪-威廉姆斯，副主席
朱迪-威廉姆斯曾在维多利亚国家美术馆（NGV）工作近二十年，拥有丰富的艺术管理经验。2004 年至 2014 年，她担任基金会与筹款部主管，负责制定和实施 NGV 的筹款战略，包括遗赠、遗产和年度捐赠。作为其职责的一部分，她制定并实施了 NGV 150 周年筹款活动--墨尔本的杰作。在此之前，朱迪曾担任 NGV 对外关系与活动经理，负责伊恩-波特中心（Ian Potter Centre）开幕和 NGV 国际馆重新开馆的活动策划与实施。
罗杰-麦克莫兰
罗杰的专长是重大项目实施和组织转型。此前，罗杰曾在英国、俄罗斯和澳大利亚从事国际房地产开发工作。
罗杰热衷于最大限度地发挥人的潜能，为组织和项目带来真正有意义的变革。他认为需要换位思考，让组织成为未来的自我创造者。罗杰认为，与其被外部影响所颠覆，不如让组织成为其专业和行业的颠覆者。
2018年，罗杰与克莱尔-瓦利斯（Claire Vallis）共同创办了 "绿船"（THE GREEN BOAT），帮助企业简化业务、发展文化、设计未来。目前，他正在成为适应性文化集团（Adaptive Cultures Group）的认证从业者，以丰富自己的业务和企业经验。
工作之余，罗杰喜欢爬山。他最大的挑战是写一本关于他在俄罗斯生活和工作 6 年的书。
蒂姆-东北
蒂姆-东北（Tim Northeast）是一位企业家，在墨尔本市内拥有并经营着多家酒店和音乐场所，其中包括标志性的 Corner 酒店。
蒂姆的所有企业都是白手起家，他对中小型企业面临的问题有着深刻的理解，在娱乐和酒店业有着丰富的经验，在团队建设、财务管理和物业管理方面也有很强的技能。蒂姆曾担任的董事职务包括维多利亚州当代音乐最高机构--维多利亚州音乐协会的董事会董事和主席。
彼得-萨默斯
彼得是一名特许会计师，拥有丰富的管理经验。在他职业生涯的大部分时间里，他受雇于著名的住宅开发公司 AV Jennings 有限集团。他在 AVJ 工作了 37 年，其中 15 年担任财务总监/首席财务官，13 年担任常务董事/首席执行官。
近年来，彼得开始从事非执行董事、咨询和行政人员培训工作。彼得目前担任伯班克集团顾问委员会主席。
2021 年，彼得成为阿伯兹福德修道院审计和风险委员会成员，并于 2021 年底被任命为该委员会主席。
彼得还在圣基尔达足球俱乐部（St. Kilda Football Club）董事会工作了 10 年，其中 5 年担任主席。在他任职期间，圣基尔达足球俱乐部采取了一系列重大举措，包括举办首届 AFL 光荣之战和引进女子足球。俱乐部还回到了位于 Moorabbin 的精神家园，对设施进行了全面重建。这涉及到大量的筹款、会员和利益相关者的参与，以及地方和州政府的支持。
他目前是新西兰 AFL 的非执行董事。
彼得对人、组织的 "原因 "以及创建成功、可持续的企业充满热情。此外，彼得在管理方面也很有实力，重点关注战略、业务驱动力、财务结果和问责制。
叶大伟
大卫是一名高级技术主管，拥有 20 多年领导高性能团队和管理大额预算以交付企业级系统和服务的经验。 他曾在 IBM、DXC 和 Salesforce 等全球技术巨头担任地区领导职务，推动变革并为各行业的企业客户提供极具影响力的业务价值。 大卫还是高等教育和数字医疗领域公认的思想领袖，在为这些领域带来跨行业创新和启动重大数字转型项目方面拥有丰富的经验。 大卫的专长在于创造性地解决问题、发现和实现机会、执行利益相关者参与、通过业务与 IT 之间的紧密合作实现战略价值，以及领导大型跨职能全球团队交付复杂的技术项目。
大卫拥有墨尔本大学的双学士学位和新南威尔士大学的高级管理人员工商管理硕士学位，并且是澳大利亚公司董事协会的毕业生。
