Title: Chair

Qualifications: Bachelor of Business; Graduate Diploma of Management; Master of Town Planning; Doctor of Philosophy; Certified Practising Accountant; Chartered Accountant; Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Chair Governance Advisory Committee

Experience and expertise:
Peter has enjoyed a diverse working life here in Tasmania and in the UK. He is a past state manager of the Tasmanian Heritage Council and past CEO of Aged and Community Services Tasmania.

In addition, Peter has worked as an advisor in ministerial offices for both Labor and Liberal state governments, and from 2010 to 2020 was Chief of Staff to federal independent MP, Andrew Wilkie. Most recently he has been Advisor to state independent Kristie Johnston MP, until his retirement from full-time work in September 2024. He is also a current Director of the Tasmanian National Trust.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma of Business and an Executive Masters of Public Administration

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Governance Advisory Committee

Experience and expertise:
Jacqui has worked as a senior executive in the public sector in Western Australia and Tasmania in areas such as arts, tourism, hospitality, community services and economic development. She has also undertaken a range of board roles in the not-for-profit sector including childcare, social housing lending and aged and disability care.

With many years of practical experience developing and delivering government policy and programs, she is a nationally recognised practitioner of Public Value strategy. She currently runs a consulting practice assisting clients with strategy and project management.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Qualifications: Registered Psychologist

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Governance Advisory Committee

Experience and expertise:
Angela has extensive experience across practice and leadership roles across services that support the Tasmanian Community, with a particular focus on the Youth Mental Health sector. Angela’s knowledge, practice and experience has focused on the health and wellbeing needs of the Tasmanian Community. As a Registered Psychologist with AHPRA, Angela has experience working 1 on 1 with clients, their families and friends, through clinical service delivery, while more recently working in Senior Management and Leadership positions overseeing the delivery of holistic youth health services through The Link Youth Health Service, the Lead Agency for Headspace Hobart, of which Angela holds the position of CEO.

Angela has supported and developed initiatives and programs aimed at improving the health and wellbeing outcomes for young people in Southern Tasmania, with a particular focus on program development and ongoing sustainability of service provision to the Tasmanian outside of the capital city. Angela is passionate about equality in accessibility of health and wellbeing services for all Tasmanians and strives for everyone to be able to access the right support at the right time. Angela is committed to contributing, advocating and delivering safe and confidential support services for participants/clients, their families, friends and supporters.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Qualifications: Bachelor of Business, MBA and Company Directors Course Diploma, CPA and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Chair Finance Audit and Risk Management Committee

Experience and expertise:
Raylene is a resourceful financial professional with 30 years’ experience who has worked in both not for profit and for- profit organisations. As a CPA her experience in financial management has been in a range of industries that include, education, mining, financial services, manufacturing, wholesaling, distribution, facilities management, professional services, and biotech. With extensive hands-on experience in business leadership, corporate governance, strategic planning, policy development, business development, change management and project management.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Finance Audit and Risk Management Committee

Qualifications: Company Directors Course Diploma

Experience and expertise:
Frank has worked in the legal industry and professional regulation for in excess of 20 years. Since 2008 Frank has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Legal Profession Board, the principal regulator of the legal profession in Tasmania.

Frank is also currently appointed as a member of the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (TASCAT) for both the Mental Health Stream and Health Practitioner Stream. Prior to being appointed to TASCAT Frank had been a community member of the Mental Health Tribunal Tasmania since 2012.

Frank has had significant experience in national health practitioner regulation and has served as a Board member for both the Chiropractic Board of Australia and the Psychology Board of Australia (Regional Board). He has held other Board positions including the Australian College of Midwives, Podiatry Registration Board of Tasmania and more recently has been appointed to the Architects Board of Tasmania.

Frank’s past senior management positions include General Manager, Supreme Court of Tasmania and State-wide Client Services Manager for the Public Trustee.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Finance Audit and Risk Management Committee

Qualifications: BSc (Hons) University of Sydney, Graduate Diploma of Education Charles Sturt University, graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Experience and expertise:
Honours in Science led Kim to a broad and diverse career including more than 15 years with ASX100 and the last 10 years in Non-Executive director roles in government, For-Purpose and private entities.

Kim has significant experience in national health practitioner regulation and is currently in her third term as a Community member on the Dental Board of Australia and member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra). She is also on an Advisory Board for HomeSuper, which is launching a new superannuation product that will pave the way for Australians to invest their super into their own home.

In 2018 Kim was a finalist in The Third Sector Awards, Director of the Year, for her work as Chair of Hear For You Limited, an ACNC NDIS-accredited charity that empowers deaf and hard of hearing teenagers. One of her most proud moments was also the Inaugural Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award in 1999 which Kim accepted on behalf of Lend Lease with Lend Lease Chair elect Peter Willcox from The Hon John Howard OM AC, for Lend Lease Community Day (that Kim created and implemented) and its work with Mission Australia.

Having moved to Tasmania in 2022 where she and her husband run an export cherry orchard, Kim brings transferable skills of financial management, governance, business transformation, sustainability, marketing and communications, stakeholder diplomacy, customer service, and collaborative engagement from broad and diverse sectors – health practitioner regulation, financial services, superannuation, corrosion, marine science, oceanography, zoology, education, and music.

Kim received an AICD scholarship for Advanced Not-For-Profit Governance and is a member of Women On Boards.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Office Bearer/Committee Membership:Finance Audit and Risk Management Committee

Qualifications: Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) University of Tasmania

Experience and expertise:
Phil is the CEO of Primary Health Tasmania, a non-government, not-for-profit organisation working to connect care and keep Tasmanians well and out of hospital. It was established under the Australian Government’s Primary Health Networks Program to support and enable a coordinated, primary care focused health system.

He has worked in the general practice and primary health care sector for more than 27 years at both program management and executive leadership levels and is well known to providers, government and system, policy and organisational administrators across the state and nationally.

In these roles he has led several transformative system and organisational reconfigurations and establishment of new and innovative services and solutions supporting the system and primary health providers to improve the health of Tasmanians.

He sees his current role working with providers and communities to build evidence, understanding and capacity to influence the changes to our health system that Tasmania needs. Working in complex system environments, especially in a small island state presents a myriad of challenges. Phil enjoys the opportunities to contribute to the development and evolution of a contemporary evidence base for sustainable system transformation, enabling the primary health sector to play a stronger role in a more balanced and sustainable health system.

Phil is a member of the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare Primary Health Advisory Committee, the Tasmanian Health Senate, and Premier’s Advisory Committees for Primary Care and Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, is also a member of the Tasmanian Data Linkage Management Committee and Chairs the national PHN Primary Health Insights (National Primary Care Data Warehousing and Analytics) steering committee.

Title: Non-Executive Director

Office Bearer/Committee Membership: Governance Advisory Committee

Qualifications: Bachelor of Nursing, Post Graduate Diploma of Nursing, General Practice stream.

Experience and expertise:
Aleara has enjoyed over 15 years as a Registered Nurse, with diverse experience across the acute, primary, aged and rural sectors in Tasmania. She is a committed and passionate advocate for vulnerable populations, with a keen interest in assisting clients to remain independent and safe in their own homes.

Aleara has recently been reappointed for a second term as a practitioner member of the Tasmanian Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, where she enjoys delivering outcomes focused on protection of the public and sound regulation.

Allyson joined Community Based Support as Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary in December 2019.

She has a diverse set of skills in leadership, corporate governance, service delivery, financial management, change management, marketing and communications, strategy, risk and policy development.

Previously Allyson spent more than seven years as CEO of General Practice Training Tasmania, overseeing strategies to ensure healthy Tasmanian communities through accreditation of general practices, hospital terms, training of GP registrars and supervisors and workforce distribution and planning.

Allyson has spent a significant period of time during her career in senior roles in membership organisations/associations including CPA Australia, City Heart Business Association, Australian Mines & Metals Association and RACT, with a focus on member and client service delivery.

Allyson is a 26TEN Coalition Member and occupies positions on the Tasmanian councils of both the Aged and Community Care Providers Association and National Disability Services.

She holds a Bachelor of Business and Company Directors Course Diploma, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) and is former President of the Australian Marketing Institute (Tas) and Public Relations Institute of Australia (Tas).

Allyson’s non-executive director roles span over 25 years, most recently six years as a Director of Primary Health Tasmania (Chairing the Governance Advisory Committee), and Chair of the Board of Cancer Council Tasmania. Her experience in regulation and compliance includes nine years on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, at which time she Chaired the Finance Governance and Communications Committee, as well as being nominated as a member of the AHPRA Finance Audit and Risk Committee.

Allyson’s current directorships are as Chair of the Tasmanian Pharmacy Authority, Board Director Australian Primary Healthcare Nurses Association and Member of the Independent Communications Committee for the Commonwealth Government Department of Finance.

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