Governance

Andrea Waters joined the Board in February 2018. She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand, a member and accredited facilitator of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a former partner with KPMG (until 2012) specialising in Financial Services Audit. For the past 13 years Ms Waters has been a professional Non-Executive Director and is currently a director of MyState Limited (MYS), Helia Limited and Chair of Grant Thornton Australia Limited.

Ms Waters was previously a Director of Citywide Service Solutions Pty. Ltd., Bennelong Funds Management Group, Cash Converters International Limited (CCV), CareSuper, The Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and Cancer Council Victoria.

Professor Geoffrey Donnan joined the Board in June 2019. He is a Professor of Neurology at The University of Melbourne, Co-Chair of the Australian Stroke Alliance and is a former Director of The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He actively continues his research at the Royal Melbourne and Austin Hospitals where his major interests are in neuroimaging and clinical trials. He has made major contributions to the understanding of stroke including establishment of new risk factors, the duration and evolution of viable brain tissue after stroke, the ischaemic penumbra.

More recently he has been co-chair of trials of thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke with Professor Stephen Davis and the establishment of Australia’s first mobile stroke ambulance.

Professor Donnan has previously served as a board member of the Stroke Foundation, Brain Foundation, Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA), Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH), World Stroke Organization and World Neurology Foundation.

Michael Fitzsimmons joined the Board in October 2020. He has had a successful career ininstitutional investing, with more than 30 years of experience managing equity portfolios for some of Australia’s largest investment institutions.

In 1998, Mr Fitzsimmons co-founded JCP Investment Partners ( JCP), in a joint venture with Jardine Fleming Asset Management (and later JP Morgan AM). He was JCP’s Senior Portfolio Manager, Chief Investment Officer, and Managing Director from 1999 until 2018. Before this, Michael was the Head of Australian Equities at ANZ Funds Management.

Colin Galbraith joined the Board in March 2013. Mr Galbraith was a partner in the law firm Allens Arthur Robinson until 2006 and then Senior Adviser to Gresham Partners Limited until the end of 2021.

Formerly, he was a Director of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australian Institute of Company Directors and CARE Australia (which he also chaired and in which he continues as a member of its Advisory Board).  Mr Galbraith is a Trustee of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation and a Director of the Susan McKinnon Foundation.

Tom Harley joined the Board in December 2022. He is Managing Director of Dragoman Pty Ltd, a political risk strategic advisory business he founded in 2009. He is a political scientist with an economics and finance background.

Mr Harley has extensive business experience; from 2008 to 2018, he was Non-Executive Chairman of Dow Chemical (Australia) and Senior Advisor to the Dow Chemical Company’s Executive Leadership Team (globally). He was previously a senior executive at BHP where he was: President of Corporate Development (for the whole group) and head of Mergers and Acquisitions for BHP’s Petroleum Group. Prior to his work in petroleum, he was involved in BHP’s financial restructuring and funding in BHP’s Corporate Treasury.

Mr Harley is a non-executive director of Biotech start-up Proto-Axiom.  He is Chairman of the Australia Saudi Business Council and Chair of the Edward Wilson Trust. He has previously served as President of the Victorian Arts Centre Trust, as an Australian member of the Asia-Pacific Business Cooperation (APEC) Business Council, Chairman of the Australian Heritage Council, President of UNICEF Australia and Chair of the Menzies Research Centre.

Melissa Reynolds joined the Board in July 2021. She is an accomplished senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in ASX-listed financial services, energy and media companies, including Executive roles at AGL Energy, National Australia Bank and Sensis. Ms Reynolds has significant strategic, commercial and operational leadership expertise including digital transformations, and has worked with the Not-For-Profit sector in a commercial context across several decades.

Ms Reynolds is currently Chief Executive Officer of State Trustees Limited and a councillor at Genazzano FCJ College. Until recently she was a Non-Executive Director of Teachers Mutual Bank and Chair of their Technology and Innovation Committee. In addition to her qualifications, she has completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, France.

Mette Schepers joined the Board in December 2022. She has over 30 years international senior executive and Board experience in banking, professional services and for purpose organisations. In that capacity, she has provided commercial and operational leadership at Mercer, ANZ, Fleet Partners and the Nous Group. Her early career was spent with PwC in Australia and The Netherlands. During her career she has also worked extensively in the For- Purpose sector in a voluntary capacity, including the Arts Institute of Chicago, 3MBS and PBS community radio in Melbourne and regional and rural environmental rehabilitation projects.

Currently Ms Schepers is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Judo (ASX: JDO) and member of their Board Risk and Audit committees. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Spatial Vision (and Chair of the Remuneration Committee), the Public Interest Journalism Initiative (and Chair of the Finance and Risk Committee), Central Highlands Water (including Chair of the Audit Committee and Strategy Committee), 3MBS Music Broadcasting Society and a variety of other commercial organisations.

Ms Schepers is a Chartered Accountant. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (MLB), a graduate diploma in Applied Finance and Investments (now FINSIA), graduate diploma in mobile banking from Illinois Institute of Tech and an Associate Degree in Design (Furniture) from RMIT.