Our Board
We are indebted to our Board of Directors who volunteer their time and expertise to help us achieve our mission.
The Board of Directors is elected each year at the Annual General Meeting. The board consists of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Directors.
The Board of Directors represent the interests of all members and is entrusted with responsibility for securing the continued well being and growth of the organisation. The Board of Directors has an overriding responsibility to ensure that ICLA is appropriately managed for the benefit of all stakeholders and offer their services to the organisation on a voluntary basis.
The primary role of the Board of Directors is governance, compliance, review and monitoring, risk assessment and focusing on the broader issues of organisational purpose, including the setting and monitoring of strategic directions and the establishment and monitoring of Board of Management level policies.
There is a formal selection criteria for new board members to ensure that ICLA has the optimum mix of skills, experience and expertise on the board. All directors are expected to actively participate not just at board meetings but also in areas applicable to their skills and expertise. ICLA has an active Finance and Audit Committee that also manages all Risk areas. ICLA has a Code of Conduct Policy and Charter for the board. Each director will be asked to undertake a self evaluation of their performance on the board each year, an evaluation of other directors and an evaluation of the board as a whole.
ICLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Marea Laszok – ChairMember since 2005 Marea has been involved in assisting many companies in their management activities as well as capital raising exercises. Marea has over 30 years experience in financial markets and banking. She worked with the HSBC Group for many years and held several senior positions including Chief Executive of Midland Bank, Australia and Managing Director of HongkongBank of Australia (now HSBC). She is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia and a Fellow of AICD. Areas of expertise - Banking, Finance, Management, Planning
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Nigel Harvey – Vice ChairMember since 2005 Nigel Harvey is an independent consultant specialising in market risk management. The practice developed after 21 years in the banking industry with Macquarie Bank, JPMorgan, Chase and Barclays predominantly marketing and management in wholesale energy and commodity risk management businesses in the Asia Pacific. Prior to that he was a business journalist in London and the Middle East. He is a member of AICD. Areas of expertise – Banking, Finance, Risk Management, Marketing
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Thomas Bombotas - DirectorMember since 2009 Thomas is a Chartered Accountant and is the principal of Btom Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, specialising in small business and professional individuals. Thomas has been involved with numerous not-for profit organisations over the years on a professional and voluntary basis. Areas of expertise – Finance, Accounting, Risk Management
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David Cunningham JP – DirectorMember since November 2011 David comes to ICLA with a wealth of firsthand experience, understanding and knowledge of living with a disability having cerebral palsy and a partial visual impairment being blind in one eye and resides with his family in Blacktown. He is a practising voluntary private advocate and registered justice of the peace (JP) in NSW having previously successfully supported people living with mental illnesses. Additionally, David’s a training presenter for Touching Base Inc and serves on the Management Committee of the Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW Inc. He is also the co-creator, producer and presenter of a developing collaborative project for a world first disability variety TV show concept for Australian Television and the Internet presently in progress from ffwoin Pty. Ltd Multimedia Productions known as the ‘Dangerous Dave Show’. Areas of expertise: Disability Issues, Mental Health, Policy Development, Communications, Advocacy, Lobbying and Networking. |
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Suzanne Kerwan - DirectorMember since 2011 Suzanne Kerwan is a senior IBM executive specialising in sales performance improvement. For over two decades she has held senior management roles in sales operations throughout IBM, including 2 years as Director of Sales Operations and Marketing, IBM Global Financing Asia Pacific. Since 2006, Suzanne has been Director of ibm.com for Australia and New Zealand. Ibm.com is the company’s fastest growing sales channel, touching 85% of clients and covering all of IBM’s hardware, software and services products. As Director for ibm.com A/NZ, Suzanne is responsible for creating a world class inside sales operation, improving sales productivity and growing customer satisfaction. In April 2007 Suzanne was elected as IBM Australia’s Executive Sponsor for the Environment – an issue about which she is passionate in her capacity as: a corporate executive, an avid bush walker, and a mother. Through her sponsorship role she works with all parts of IBM to both improve the company’s internal environmental performance and promote green IT and energy efficiency to the broader business community. Since her appointment, in 2008 IBM Australia reduced its energy use by 4.5%, saving $320,000 and cutting carbon emissions by 4,400 tonnes. Areas of expertise - Marketing, Management.
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Nick Coles - DirectorMember since 2001 Nick Coles has spent most of his working life in financial research and recruitment focused on the investment banking and broking industries with an added focus now on assisting financial professionals back into the market. Nick is one of principals of East Coles which also conducts Financial Research. Areas of expertise - Economics, Sector knowledge, Social Welfare, Research |
