Richard Price
Chairman

An Executive Director of Macquarie Capital Advisors, Richard is responsible for Macquarie's Corporate Finance business in the Resources / Mining Sector. Over his 20 years with Macquarie Richard has been involved in a number of major corporate finance assignments, covering a diverse range of industries including resources, manufacturing, agriculture, retail, building sector and cooperatives.

Such assignments have included mergers, acquisitions and divestment advice, takeover advice and general financial advice to many major companies within Australian and internationally.

In addition, Richard involves himself in numerous philanthropic activities such as being an Ambassador of the Melbourne Museum.

Neil Barker
Board Member

Neil is a former primary school principal with over 25 years experience in the education industry. He has taught from Kindergarten to University level in a variety of regular and specialist schools. He has worked as an education officer for the Australian Government agency, Emergency Management Australia and for the Zoological Board of Victoria.

Andrew Baxter
Board Member

Andrew Baxter was made CEO of the BADJAR Ogilvy Group in Melbourne in November 2009. This followed two and a half years as Managing Director, where he oversaw the highly successful merger between BADJAR and Ogilvy, major account wins such as Officeworks and MYER, and the opening of a number of companies within the Melbourne office including One20, Neo@Ogilvy and Ogilvy Action. Prior to that Andrew had been the Executive Director of Singleton Ogilvy & Mather Sydney, where he retained client responsibility for the KFC, Kimberly Clark, NSW Government and News Ltd accounts.

He joined Singleton Ogilvy & Mather in 2004 as the Brand Development Director on Unilever and Kimberly Clark, across Australia and New Zealand. He had spent the previous two years at Advertising Associates as their Managing Director, where he utilised his strategic communication and brand knowledge to the advantage of their clients, which included Shell, Honda, the Victoria Racing Club and Toll Ipec. Before that, Andrew spent nine and a half years with one of Australia’s largest agencies, Young & Rubicam, rising to Head of Account Management in Sydney. Across both their Melbourne and Sydney offices, Andrew managed and strategically directed award winning and successful campaigns for clients such as Nintendo, Chupa Chups, Converse, Mortgage Choice, Colgate-Palmolive, Jim Beam, H&R Block, Taubmans, Accenture and RSPCA.

Nicholas Brand
Secretary

A founding Director of Bazzani Scully Brand, Nicholas is a commercial litigation and dispute resolution practitioner with extensive experience in all jurisdictions dealing with contractual, intellectual property, trade practice, corporations, property and employment disputes.

Ros Casey
Board Member

Ros has worked in both the private sector and with government in a range of seemingly diverse positions. However, her work has always involved stakeholder management, project management, community relations and culture change. Ros worked at the Australian War Memorial for many years where she oversaw a wide ranging publications program, managed major national ceremonies and events and developed the Memorial’s first major fundraising program. She has held senior positions at the Institution of Engineers, the Secretariat to the National Council for the Centenary of Federation and was a consultant to the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership. In 2007 she was appointed as Director of Development, Victoria University (VU) where she is assisting VU to develop its own strategic approach to fundraising, cross-sector collaboration and business - community engagement.

Duncan McGregor
Treasurer

Duncan is a director of the Melbourne firm of Chartered Accountants, McGregor West Wong Pty Ltd. He has been in public practice for over 35 years specialising in advising small business in growth strategies, organisation structuring, systems taxation and all areas of administration and compliance.

Annette Rome
Board Member

She brings with her the learning gained from being brought up in Brunei, Malaysia, the UK and Australia as well as wide-ranging experience outside schools. Her extensive involvement in bodies such as the Australian College of Educators, Science Teachers Association of Victoria Council, business corporate affairs divisions (including Orica) and the James Macready-Bryan Foundation ensure that she brings a range of perspectives and skills. She is delighted to be involved in an organization such as The Song Room, which encompasses her great love of music, education and contributing to society.

Caroline Aebersold
Chief Executive Officer