Our Board of Directors

Qualifications and experience:

• Chair of the JDRF Australia Board
• Co-chair of the JDRF Australia Advisory Board.
• Chair of Sydney Theatre Company
• Chair of the advisory board of UNSW’s Gonski Institute of Education
• Former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CBA
• Chief Executive Officer of SEEK Ltd.

Qualifications and experience:

• Vice Chair of the JDRF Australia Board
• CEO, Allianz Retire+
• Former Non Executive Chairman, Stake
• Former Global Head – Financial Markets, IRESS
• Former Executive Director, Banking and Financial Services Group, Macquarie Group
• Former Business Analyst, Credit Suisse

Qualifications and experience:

• Chair, JDRF Funding Committee
• Member, JDRF Research Committee and JDRF Finance & Audit Committee
• MAICD
• Managing Director, Adscensio
• Former Managing Director, Viatek Technology
• Director, Unlisted Marketplace
• Founder, DNS IT and Hosted IT
• Father of a son with type 1 diabetes

Qualifications and experience:

• Member, JDRF Talent Committee and JDRF Finance & Audit Committee
• Head of Human Resources, Optus
• Former General Manager, Human Resources Westpac Institutional Bank
• Former Managing Director, Chief of Staff and Co-COO Goldman Sachs Australia and New Zealand
• Advisory Member of Pride in Diversity’s Strategic Executive Forum
• Forum member of Chief Executive Women and Scholarship Committee Member

Qualifications and experience:

• Chair, JDRF Talent Committee
• BA/LLB
• Non-Executive Director, Hydro Tasmania
• Non-Executive Director, DWS Limited
• Non-Executive Director, The Reject Shop Limited
• Non-Executive Director, Victorian Opera
• Non-Executive Director, Nuchev Pty Ltd
• Advisory Board Member, TLC Aged Care Pty Ltd
• Former Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Qualifications and experience:

• Chair, JDRF Finance & Audit Committee
• Head of Portfolio Construction, NSW Treasure Corporate (TCorp)
• Former Board Member, MRSA
• Former Director Listed Equities, Future Fund
• Former Director Market Insights and Portfolio Implications,Future Fund
• Former Head of Australian Macro Research, Macquarie Group
• Former Head of Quantitative Analysis, Credit Suisse
• Former Director of Not for Profit
  organisations – MS Research Australia, Oz Harvest, the
  Anika Foundation and Macquarie Group Foundation

Qualifications and experience:

• Director and CEO, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
• Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland
• Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
• Member of the QIMR Berghofer Council, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
• Former Head of the Department of Pathology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne

Qualifications and experience:

• Head of Retail Life Insurance at Zurich
• Former Head of Product and CX at Allianz Retire+
• Former Head of Product at IRESS
• Former Division Director Macquarie Bank

Qualifications and experience:

• Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN)
• Former Deputy Secretary, Commercial and Procurement Group, NSW Treasury
• Former Board Member, NSW Telco Authority
• Former Board Member, NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp)

Qualifications and experience:

• CEO of Gandel Group
• Executive Director of Gandel Group Pty Limited
• Chair of the Investment Committee for Gandel Group and Gandel Foundation
• Former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
• Former COO of Goldman Sachs’ investment banking business in Australia and New Zealand