Professor Emeritus Andrea Hull AO is currently the Chair of the Melbourne Forum Ltd and of the Melbourne Recital Centre;and Chair of the ABC Advisory Committee; a non executive director of the Florey Neuroscience Institute 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.

I am an experienced executive with project and general management experience in the consulting engineering and professional services sector. I am currently a commercial executive responsible for project financial and risk management with global consultant WSP.

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 32 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.

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.

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.

Drawing on a background as founding principal of The Talent Advisors and twelve years with the investment bank Goldman Sachs JBWere, where she was an equity partner, Dianne is skilled at guiding executives to be more astute when navigating to non-executive directorships. Experience at c-suite, partner, executive and partnership committee levels means she has a real understanding of which actions succeed in complex, networked businesses. Her focus is on improving business and leader impact by helping executives prepare for the next-level, to take stock of that new role, to jump-start change, to avoid transition pitfalls, to rethink their managerial leadership. She is also a member of coaching panels including the Melbourne Business School and Australian Institute of Company Directors and presents on board director applications for Women on Boards and Leadership Victoria. In her spare time, she can be found in recital centres, concert halls, galleries, theatres and discussion forums.

Prof Ian Dunn is a Melbourne Lawyer who has served as both President  and CEO of the Law Institute of Victoria . He was formerly a partner in the Melbourne firm Wisewoulds.

Since leaving the Institute in 2002 he has served as inaugural Chair of the Victorian  Commission  for Gambling Regulation, 2004-9 and as Ombudsman General Insurance at Financial Ombudsman Service 2010-3.

He is Adjunct Professor in Law at La Trobe University and a board member at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He is also a nationally accredited Mediator

Lyndall Tennant commenced as the Executive Officer with the Melbourne Forum part time in May 2013. She now organises 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.