Associates

Born and educated in Adelaide, Peter is a highly successful executive with wide experience, gained at the highest levels of administration and facility management throughout Australia in areas of change management, people development and strong fiscal responsibility. Peter has led organisations such as the National Basketball League (NBL), South Australian Netball Association (SANA), Greyhound Racing SA (GRSA), McLaren Vale Grape Wine and Tourism Association and Legacy SA & Broken Hill. Peter demonstrates strong analytical skills, encompassing business strategy, relationship building and financial aptitude, applied within these environments.

Amongst his successes, are his acknowledged ability to coach, mentor, empower and motivate teams or individuals to achieve personal goals.  He has excellent interpersonal and communication skills with 40+ years management experience gained working at all organisational levels.  Peter competed at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and he credits this experience with making him the professional that he is today.

Allison has extensive experience in board governance, and board administration. She specialises in implementing and analysing Board and CEO Performance evaluation surveys, minute-taking, and providing board support to ensure effective governance practices.

Currently, Allison is the Board Secretary for SASY and ECH, where she supports governance processes and strategic decision-making. She previously served as the Company Secretary for GPEx, contributing to effective governance structures and leadership support.

Allison spent 7 years as Education Executive at the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) for South Australia and Northern Territory. In this role, she managed the implementation of education programs, including the Company Directors Course, supporting the professional development of company directors.

Before her work at AICD, Allison held roles as Marketing Manager at EY South Australia and Membership Manager at the Adelaide Convention Bureau, where she developed her skills in strategic communication and stakeholder engagement.

Allison holds a Bachelor of Management (Marketing) and an Advanced Diploma of Tourism. She is dedicated to supporting best practices in governance and contributing to effective leadership and strategic decision-making.

A globally respected, empathetic and courageous leader with excellent strategic, audit and risk management skills and proven commercial judgement and instinct.

With extensive international and cross-sector experience as an executive and board director, and a record of successfully starting, growing, merging and transforming businesses in a number of industry sectors. Particular strengths in strategy development and implementation, governance and risk, culture change, stakeholder engagement, compliance, audit and commercial judgement. Demonstrable people management, negotiation and relationship building skills with experience in sensitively managing a wide range of stakeholders and institutional shareholders.

Proven commercial experience, with a successful, entrepreneurial track record. Earl is recognised internationally as a collaborative, trusted, astute people and business leader, with extensive Chair and Non-Executive Director experience in public, private and government sectors.

Earl’s expertise and experience enables him to provide services in;

• Governance
• Risk Management
• Board Performance review

Megan has experience in the implementation and data analysis of Board, Chair and CEO Performance evaluation, project management, minute taking, board administration and support. She has 13 years’ experience as the Events and Professional Development Executive with the Australian Institute of Company Directors SA/NT, responsible for the implementation of events and management of education program budgets and sales including the AICD Company Directors Course.

She is currently Program Manager at Doctors’ Health SA and Board Secretary for estara and MNDSA. Previous roles include State Office Manager SA/NT of the Australian Institute of Project Management and Membership Officer at the Australian Property Institute. She has an Advanced Diploma of Tourism (Business) and is a graduate of the AICD Company Directors Course.

Kim is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in accounting, governance and risk management within the funds management industry. She is an experienced company secretary for both listed and unlisted entities and has worked on a number of corporate due diligence projects either for capital raising or sales processes. Kim has over 20 years’ funds management experience both at Lighthouse Infrastructure Management and also at Hastings Funds Management where she was Company Secretary and Head of Compliance. Prior to that, she was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young in their assurance and advisory financial services team.

Kim has had a number of other board and committee roles both in financial services and the not-for-profit sector, previously on the board at Gowrie Victoria and was Chair of its Finance and Risk Committee. Kim has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Kim’s expertise and experience enables her to provide services in;

• Governance review and framework
• Risk management framework reviews including risk and risk appetite workshops
• Board Policy review
• Board Performance review

She is currently:

• Independent Audit Committee member
  • Equity Trustees Limited
  • Equity Trustees Wealth Services Limited
  • EQT Responsible Entity Services Ltd
  • Australian Executor Trustees Limited
• Independent member
  • Victorian Ombudsman Audit Management Committee