Our Board of Directors are appointed by the Treasurer and the Attorney-General. This is based on the recommendation of the current Board members. They are also selected on the basis of their complementary skills and ability to add value to our Board.
The Board has adopted a Charter setting out its powers and functions and operational details relating to the Board.
Therese Taylor
BCom (Journalism), BA, Dip.Ed, GradDip Administration, GAICD
Therese brings extensive governance and executive leadership experience to the Board developed through a diverse career working across social and economic portfolios. She has held senior roles in government, business and the not-for-profit sector, including CEO of Colony 47 for 10 years.
She has a successful track record leading major organisational transformation and driven cultural change in complex environments. As well as strategic and organisational management, Therese brings experience and understanding of the client experience to inform strategy and decision making for Boards. She has demonstrated a commitment to improving the lives of vulnerable individuals.
She has comprehensive experience working with diverse stakeholders and has developed a number of sustainable partnerships and collaborations.
A professional non-executive director, Therese has held numerous directorships and chair roles across a broad range of industries over a 30-year career, including health, education, human services, rescue services, arts and theatre. Most recently she has held directorships with the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation, Primary Health Tasmania, Contemporary Arts Tasmania and Hobart Community Shed.
John Mazengarb
FCA, FCGI, FGIA, MAICD
John is an experienced non-executive director, including organisations operating in highly regulated and customer competitive environments, and a joint owner of an independent Tasmanian-based management consultancy business.
He is a Chartered Accountant and governance professional with over 30 years consulting experience including with PwC and IBM advising public and private sector organisations in Tasmania, interstate and overseas. He is also highly regarded as an experienced senior level program and project advisor, facilitator, and effective communicator in board roles and stakeholder engagement.
John has also held several contract senior executive roles in Tasmanian Government businesses overseeing planning and delivery of major business transformation projects.
He brings a wide range of professional services, business technologies, commercial, risk management and good governance skills to the board roles he has undertaken, including as former Deputy Chair of CareSuper, Independent Member of the Investment Committee for TasBuild Ltd, and former National President of the Governance Institute of Australia.
In 2015 he co-founded a Tasmanian consultancy business, GSD Advisors Pty Ltd, which currently employs 30 experienced Tasmanians with diverse business, project, change, technology and process advisory consultancy skills.
Mark Grey
BA, CS, GDACG, FCPA, FAICD
Mark was born and raised on the NW Coast, educated in Launceston, followed by UTAS in Hobart. A successful businessman in Tasmania during the 90s, he was the Managing Director of EOAO Marketing Communications, managing iconic campaigns for Gun buy-back, Social Services, Health, Road Safety, Tourism and Qantas. Mark returned to Tasmania after 20 years abroad working in marketing and e-commerce.
Mark is a former Telstra and Tasmanian Government Business Proprietor of the Year. He has extensive experience serving on Boards nationally and internationally. Mark is currently a Director on the Board of RACT, St Giles and the Australian Society of Ophthalmologists, Chair of the General Practice Registrars Australia, member of the Audit and Risk Committee reporting to the Board of Directors of RSL (Queensland) and Advisory Board Member representing Australia on the Asia Logistics Council.
Kim Barker
BA, Dip Ed, MAICD
Kim has vast experience in various high-level health, social justice and human rights roles as a member of a range of boards and tribunals. She worked in the guardianship and administration regime for nearly two decades, most recently as Tasmania’s Public Guardian and prior to that as a member of the Guardianship and Administration Board (now a Division of TASCAT). She was also a long-term member and Deputy President of the Mental Health Tribunal, a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and of the Parole Board.
Kim’s corporate governance experience includes directorships on the Motor Accidents Insurance Board and the Relationships Australia (Tasmania) Board.
Kim currently serves as a Commissioner on Tasmania’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Commission.
Michael Dontschuk
BSc (Hons), FFTP, GAICD
Michael is a finance professional with over 45 years’ experience in investment, finance, treasury and financial risk management.
He currently is a professional non-executive director and sits on several company Boards including, Australia Ratings and the Public Trustee. Previously he has been an executive and non-executive director with Grange Resources Limited, group treasurer of ANZ Bank, managing director of Treasury Corporation Victoria, President and director of the Finance and Treasury Association of Australia, manager at Bankers Trust, director at Motor Accidents Insurance Board (Tasmania), and has worked extensively in corporate financial advisory and investment banking.
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