Board
David Thompson AM
Chair
David Thompson is CEO of Jobs Australia Limited, the national peak organisation for more than 270 non-profit providers of employment and related services for unemployed people. David has a keen interest in social justice and equity issues.
David is also Director of the National Roundtable of Nonprofit Organisations Limited, Director of the Australian Council of Social Service, Chair, Jobs...
Peter Quarmby
Peter is Executive Director Strategic Development of Community Sector Banking.
Peter has worked in the Community Sector for over 25 years. He has been CEO of two successful community-based employment services providers (Enterprise and Training Company of Coffs Harbour and Access Community Group in Wollongong).
Peter developed the concept of Community Sector Banking and was instrumental in the...
Leah Armstrong
Leah Armstrong is the Chief Executive Officer of Reconciliation Australia.
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Leah is a Torres Strait Islander.
On moving to Newcastle in the late 1980s, Leah began working with the Aboriginal community at the Awabakal Newcastle Aboriginal Cooperative before helping to establish Yarnteen— a not for profit company which provides Aboriginal people with training and...
Paul Vandenbergh
Paul Vandenbergh is a Wirrangu man from the West Coast of South Australia.
He previously played professional basketball with the Canberra Cannons in the NBL and was a member of development squad for the Melbourne Tigers.
Throughout his sporting career, he continued to work and held positions across a number of Government departments including Aboriginal Health, Aboriginal Housing and Aboriginal E...
Mr Ray South
Secretary
Ray South is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.
Having gained his initial qualifications at Cooper Brothers (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) he took executive positions in the share-broking industry, The Stock Exchange of Melbourne and the Australian Stock Exchange.
He held a...