Trust Members

Sue has previously held CEO roles with Open Family Australia, St John Ambulance and Mercy Private Hospital. Before this, Sue was CEO (Vic) and National Policy Development Manager for Ramsay Health Care for eleven years. Her previous Board experience includes Australian Private Hospitals Association, St John Ambulance and Shelford Anglican Girls’ School.

Currently, Sue is a Director of General Practice Victoria, GMHBA Health Insurance and Northern Health. Sue also Chairs Monash Centre for Bio Medical Imaging and Research together with Monash Centre for Green Chemicals Future. Sue is the Prime Minister’s representative on the Australian Bravery Decorations Council having held this position since 1999.

Fiona is Chair of WPC Group Limited and a Director of a number of entities including Alfred Health, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, V/Line Corporation and Heide Museum of Modern Art. Fiona is a Chartered Accountant, has held senior executive positions at BHP Billiton Limited and Coles Group Limited, and has been Chief Financial Officer at several organisations in the health sector.

Prior to joining AIM, Susan held various senior corporate management positions including Chief Operating Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy, ANZ Institutional Banking; Executive Director and Head of Banking (Melbourne), Rothschild Australia; and Chief Manager at Westpac responsible for one of Institutional Bank Victoria’s largest teams as well as responsibility for Institutional Bank Perth.

Currently Susan is a Board member of Museum Victoria and a member of the Federal Government’s Energy Efficiency Skills Consultative Committee. Previous Board appointments include NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited, Malthouse Theatre, the Australian Institute of Management Victoria & Tasmania, Southern Health Care Network and Water EcoScience Limited. She was also Chair of the Defence Reserves Support Council (Victoria), Deputy Chairman of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and was a member of the Victorian Government’s Finance Industry Consultative Committee.

Richard recently retired from a career in accounting, finance and governance across a range of organisations in industry, commerce and government. He spent the last 16 years in CFO and corporate planning roles within Victorian local government and retains his involvement in the sector through consulting projects and also membership of both the Brimbank and Casey City Councils’ Audit Committees.

Richard served as a member of the Lilydale Cemeteries Trust from 2007 and chaired the Trust’s Administration and Audit Committee from 2008. In early 2010 he completed a two year term as Coordinator of the Vermont Uniting Community Centre and continues with other local community volunteering roles.

Gaye is a CPA with relevant Board experience and community exposure. She was, until the amalgamation, an independent member of the Cheltenham & Regional Cemeteries Trust Audit and Risk Committee. She is a member of the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria and the Victorian Physiotherapists Registration Board.

As well, Gaye is a member of the Victorian Department of Health Audit & Risk Management Committee, the City of Port Phillip Audit Committee, and the Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) Finance and Audit & Risk Management Committee. She is a Director of the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) Foundation and a Victorian CPA Divisional committee member dealing with public community accounting.

Ian has had a successful career with the Victorian Public Service as a senior manager in Education, Health and Community Services. He is Principal Director of Eureka Solutions, a policy and governance consultancy. As well, he is a Director of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and is member of the Audit Committee, Quality Committee and Community Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Chinese Medicine Registration Board and a member of the Governance Committee. He is also member of the Board of Governance Uniting Care Connections and a member of the Policy Committee.

As well, Ian is a nominee of the Health Services Commissioner’s Investigation Review Panel. Ian is an assessor with the Quality Improvement and Community Services Accreditation program (La Trobe University).

For the last 12 years John has been Treasurer of the Monash Rate Payers Association and Secretary and Founder of the Historical Labor Graves Association for the past 19 years. His community service involvement has been within other committees ranging from Corrective Services to Housing Co-operatives, kindergartens and schools and the Vietnamese Welfare Centre.

Stephen has more than 20 years experience as a solicitor in property, commercial law and deceased estates. He currently practices with Taylor Splatt & Partners. He is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria and the current president of the Mornington Peninsula Lawyers’ Association.

Stephen is a past president of the Rotary Club of Seaford-Carrum Downs and past president of the Frankston Primary School Council. He is a past trust member of the Necropolis Springvale and was Chair of its Information Technology committee.