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 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, she 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 extensive 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
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 of 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 in stakeholder engagement.
During his career, he has also held several contract senior executive roles in Tasmanian Government businesses, overseeing planning and delivery of major business transformation projects.
JJohn brings a broad range of expertise to board roles, including professional services, business technologies, commercial strategy, risk management, and good governance. He is currently an Independent Chair for TasBuild Ltd, Trustee Director for Order of St Lazurus of Jerusalem Australia Foundation and is the former Deputy Chair of CareSuper. He is also the 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 thirty 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, and member of the Audit and Risk Committee reporting to the Board of Directors of RSL (Queensland).
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.
Dianne Day
BA, MBA (Hons), FAICD, FCISI
Dianne is a professional Non-Executive Director with extensive experience in the governance of regulated investment and superannuation funds. She brings a diverse, global perspective to her role, having held positions on fiduciary boards in Australia, NZ and the UK over the past 20 years.
During her executive career, Dianne held a variety of senior positions in Australian investment management, including BT/Westpac and NRMA Motoring & Services. Her appointment as a Trustee Director to her staff super fund board led to further studies in Australia and the UK, where she spent a decade as a professional trustee. She held independent roles on the boards of leading employee retirement trusts including Fidelity, Mercer, HSBC, Intercontinental Hotel Group and Virgin Money.
Returning to Australia in 2024, Dianne has made her home in Launceston with her Tasmanian family. She brings a broad range of expertise and leadership in investments, risk management, regulatory compliance and customer engagement.
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