Professor Emeritus Andrea Hull AO is currently a Non Executive Director of Melbourne Forum Ltd, the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, and The Melbourne Prize. She was the Deputy Chair of the National Museum of Australia and of the Breast Cancer Network of Australia. Andrea is an Executive Coach with Foresight Global Coaching Partnership, and has a consultancy specialising in diagnostic and problem solving. Her previous  executive role was CEO/Director of the Victorian College of the Arts.

James Macneil is General – Manager Airports, General Manager – Management Services and Victorian Regional Manager with responsibility for 250 staff in the Melbourne office, for multi-disciplinary engineering, management and planning consultant Beca. He is also Director of Beca Consultants. Born and educated in Melbourne, he spent 10 years in London working as a journalist and fie in Auckland as a project manager. He is an Alumnus of Leadership Victoria’s Williamson Community Leadership programme, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and currently Chair’s the Victorian Committee of Consult Australia, the business association for firms consulting in the built and natural environment.

Justin Bokor is a senior consulting professional with 20 years experience in strategy, growth and business transformation.

He has extensive international experience, having led strategy and growth programs in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the UAE and the Philippines.

Justin is actively involved in the community and not-for-profit sector, including the Melbourne Forum, the Balibo House Trust and World Vision Australia.

Andrew Stops is a lawyer of just on 30 years standing.  In his spare time he like’s to use his skills in community engagement activities.  Ironically almost 20 years ago the person who persuaded Andrew to do this was MF member Margaret Jackson.

The sorts of things that Andrew has achieved are:

1.     With a group of alumni (including member Michelle Beveridge) Andrew started the Melbourne chapter of the AGSM alumni.  They are completely self funded and raised more than $50,000 for a scholarship for people working in the third sector supporting disadvantaged people to do an MBA at the AGSM.  Two scholarships were awarded before the scheme was taken over nationally by the AGSM.  Andrew served 10 years on the Alumni Board of the AGSM assisting in raising the profile of these scholarships and creating similar chapters in Asia, Europe and the USA.

2.     Once in 2011 and then again in 2014 Andrew raised funds for and then walked the Kokoda Track with teenagers from disadvantaged areas and the Victoria Police.  The 2014 venture was the first time from the Wyndham area and Andrew was the only non-police member on the organizing committee.

Robynne Berg is a strategy consultant and authority on customer-centric innovation. She is the principal at innovation consultancy thinkplayact.

Robynne works with Boards and executive teams to help them meet the challenges of societal, regulatory and digital change and set the strategic agenda for innovation and future growth.

She has a Masters of Business (Marketing). She is qualified Blue Ocean Strategy® practitioner and a part of an international network of consultants, academics and government officers.

She is a Non-Executive Director of St Martins Youth Arts Centre.

Helen Sykes is the Director of Future Leaders, President of the Trust for Young Australians, Vice President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Council Member of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, Member of the Future Justice Executive, Summit Governor of the Hillary Institute and Board Member of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation. She has published and edited many books.

Dr Sheila Nguyen is committed to industry work and research evidencing the influence sport has as a change agent for social & environmental good.

Sheila has a PhD from Florida State University (USA), specialising in corporate social orientation and stakeholder management with ongoing research interests including corporate social responsibility, environmental responsibility, measurement and research design.

She has had experience working with licensing/marketing (PGA Tour, USA), corporate consulting (William Morris Agency, Beverly Hills, USA), and she worked as part of the broadcasting team at the 2010 Asian Games (Guangzhou, China) with clients such as NHK, Al-Jazeera, KBS, and CCTV.

Sheila is an alumna of both the Committee for Melbourne’s business leadership program and Cranlana’s Executive Colloquia.

She passionately advocates for environmental leadership within the sport industry and its communities and does so in her role as Executive Director of the Sports Environment Alliance Inc (SEA), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to: EMPOWERING SPORT TO DO MORE {for the world} WITH LESS {footprint}.

Sheila is committed to using her energy to improve our environmental health for public good, and she sees her role at Melbourne Forum as an avenue to do so, starting with her city.

Mark Avery is a senior executive, advisor and non-executive director with a proven successful history in starting up and establishing market leading companies with entertainment intellectual property brands, with significant global experience and success over the last 36 years in determining commercial strategies to identify, visualize, market and establish IP opportunities, matching people, stakeholders and resources, identify and mitigating risk and raising capital.

Mark’s companies have operated in 35 countries in 17 languages with partners like Universal Studios, Warner Brothers, Hit Entertainment, Nickelodeon, Disney, BBC Worldwide, Cirque du Soleil, Feld Entertainment, Anschutz Entertainment Group and recently was the co-founder of Yowie Group

Nina Christesen is Director of CQL that develops algorithmic trading systems for financial markets and Director and Investment Manager of CBlue (Aust) that manages a number of private, family-based investment funds.

In her spare time, for over 10 years, Nina produced social issue documentaries for not-for-profit organiasations in Australia, PNG and Asia.

Prior to this Nina had over 20 years’ experience as a consultant and educator in leadership, change management and innovation. In this capacity Nina designed and managed large scale corporate change programs driven by new technology and the largest corporate culture change program in Australia involving over 90,000 employees.

Simon Savage is the Principal of Lupine Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in strategic planning, stakeholder management and organisational resilience. Simon has had a varied career. Building on his postgraduate academic work in intelligence and security his career began in the Australian Foreign Affairs portfolio working on a range of issues around international affairs including illegal immigration, free trade negotiations and national security policy. After leaving public service, Simon spent 6 years in the UAE where he consulted to government and some of the largest government-owned organisations in the world. Simon moved to Melbourne in 2014 where he continues to work with clients in government and private sectors. Simon also serves on the Boards of Kiteboarding Australia, The Joanne Tubb Foundation and Ionic Industries.  He enjoys cycling, running and all the wonderful food and wine Melbourne has to offer. He joined the Melbourne Forum in December 2014.

Chris Gallagher has held senior roles in State and local government, including Deputy Director of Major Projects Victoria, Director of City Strategy at the City of Melbourne and Ministerial Adviser to two State Government Planning Ministers. She also worked as a strategy consultant for many years.

She has been a director of the Australian Print Workshop, the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority, Monash Property Management, VicSport, the Melbourne Convention and Marketing Bureau and the John Cain Foundation.  Government appointments have included a 6 year term as  Chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria and membership of several advisory committees to the Minister for Planning.

In addition to directorships of companies in which he has a personal interest, James is a member of the Darebin Creek Management Committee and the Darebin Creek Environmental Preservation Fund. Previously CEO at measurement and advisory firm Insync, James continues his executive role there leading the government and utilities practice. He is a graduate of the AICD and Williamson Community Leadership Program, and was formerly an Australian Volunteer Abroad in Solomon Islands.

Lyndall Tennant commenced as the Executive Officer with the Melbourne Forum part time in May 2013. She now organizes an average of 70 events per year with the Melbourne Forum and attends all committee and board meetings as the Executive Officer.

Lyndall is present at every event and balances her time between the Melbourne office and her home office. Due to the varying hours of events, she is always available via email or mobile to assist our members (and potential members) at any time.

Outside of the Melbourne Forum, Lyndall is a founding committee member of the HERA Network and wrangles her menagerie of children.