Dr Ines Rio

MBBS (Hons), MPH, GDip Ven, DCOG, FRACGP, FAICD

Ines Rio is a local GP and senior clinician, Head of the GP Liaison Unit at the Royal Women’s Hospital and Medical Advisor for the City of Melbourne.

Dr Rio has extensive experience as an educator, service developer and manager and public health advisor. She has held board and senior committee positions for more than 12 years in federal, state and local governments and in the not-for-profit and profit sector including the Victorian and federal branches of the Australian Medical Association (AMA).

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria Board Member
• Victorian AMA Chair of the GP section
• Federal AMA Council of General Practice member

Nancy Hogan

MBA, Grad Dip Rehab Studies, BA (Political Science), Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, MAICD, Centenary Medal 2002

Nancy Hogan is currently a member of the MSC Sisters Financial Advisory Board.

In 2017, she completed 10 years at Peninsula Health, the last five as Chairperson. Her considerable board experience includes Chair of Aged and Community Care Australia, Victorian Aged and Healthcare Association, Melbourne GP Network and Catholic Healthcare Victoria.

Ms Hogan has also held board positions with Hazlewood Power Corporation, Superpartners, HESTA, Industry Funds Management, Victorian Healthcare Association, Inner North West Melbourne Medicare Local, Private Hospitals Association, Church and Charitable Hospitals Association and Mayfield Education Centre.

She has been a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Services Management including Past President Victorian Branch and a Federal Councillor. In 2016/17, she was a member of the Victorian Mental Health Review Team, which completed a major review for Victoria police.

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• MSC Sisters Finance Advisory Board
• Galante Business Solutions Executive Director Health and Aged Care

Robert Gerrand

BA, FAMI, FAICD

Robert Gerrand is Principle of marketing and communications consultancy Gerrand & Associates, Chair of Healthy Parks Healthy People Global Ltd and a Director of the Dax Centre. He also chairs an Australian Institute of Company Directors Nexus group, a peer-to-peer professional development forum for company directors.

His extensive governance experience includes Chair of Parks Victoria and directorships of Alfred Health, the Financial Planning Association of Australia (serving on the Audit and Risk Management Committee of each and as Chair at the FPA), the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne City Marketing, Melbourne Convention and Marketing Bureau and the Koorie Heritage Trust.

He is a former General Manager of Group Public Affairs at ANZ and was previously Director of Turnbull Fox Phillips. He is a published author whose books include Rewrite Your Life! and Rewrite Your Relationships!, co-written with Eve Ash (Penguin), about how to entrench new behaviours.

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Gerrand & Associates Principle
• Healthy Parks, Health People Global Chairperson
• The Dax Centre Non-Executive Director

Dr Catherine Hutton

MPH, DRCOG, MBBS, FRACGP, GAICD, FAMA

Catherine Hutton has worked as a local GP for more than 30 years, mainly in Melbourne’s north-west. Her extensive experience includes general family medicine, chronic disease management, preventative health and care of marginalised people.

Dr Hutton is an experienced board member specialising in clinical governance, strategy and GP-hospital integration. She has served as a director of North West Melbourne Division of General Practice, AMA Victoria and the Royal Women’s Hospital.

Dr Hutton was also on Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre’s board for five years, where she was the Chair of the Community Advisory and the Quality Committees. She has a Fellowship of the College of General Practitioners, a Masters of Public Health from Melbourne University and is a Graduate member of the Australia Institute of Company Directors.

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Western Health Board member

Paul Montgomery

LLB, BA, MAICD

Mr Montgomery has been involved in a number of organisations where his role has been to develop strategic growth.

He first did this at Freehills, Melbourne as managing partner taking that law firm to number one in the Melbourne market. Mr Montgomery had been a partner of Freehills for 28 years and developed a particular leadership style where individuals are encouraged to excel, and organisations attain exceptional business results.

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Royal District Nursing Service Limited Chairman and Non-Executive Director
• Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria President; Chair of Carer and Consumer Committee
• Deakin University Geelong Member, Clinical Leadership Advisory Board (Medical School)
• Medisecure Chairman
• Now Hiring Pty Ltd Chairman

Genevieve Overell

BA LLB Dip. Fin. Mgt. FIPAA, FAICD

A lawyer by background, Genevieve has extensive and wide experience on boards. 

Previously a Deputy Secretary in the Victorian Government responsible for land-use planning, building, environment and heritage, Genevieve served as Head of Environment with the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority with broad management, coordination and delivery responsibilities across Federal, State and Local Governments. 

Before Government, Genevieve was a partner at KPMG, specialising in major public infrastructure projects including the development of Federation Square and Melbourne Docklands.  

She has been a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Services Management including Past President Victorian Branch and a Federal Councillor. In 2016/17, she was a member of the Victorian Mental Health Review Team, which completed a major review for Victoria police. 

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Victorian Opera Chair 
• State Revenue Office Victoria Audit Committee Independent Chair 
• Starlight Children’s Foundation Non-Executive Director and Audit & Risk Committee
• Australian Institute of Architects Independent Non-Executive Director 
• German Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Policy Advisory Committee

Dr Kathy Alexander

BA, BA (Hons), GDip Public Health, PhD (Public Health Management), Graduate of the London School of Business Proteus Program, 2012

Dr Alexander is an experienced board member and chair in public, private and not for profit organisations with an international reputation for stakeholder management, community engagement and effective public relations in complex and politically sensitive environments.

She has held many board and chair roles in her previous roles as CEO of the Royal Children’s and Royal Women’s hospitals in Victoria and other health services in South Australia and as CEO of the City of Melbourne. Recent board roles include Chair of Administrators of the City of Greater Geelong, following the dismissal of the council, and Chair of Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network.

Current Appointments/Memberships:

• Porter Davis Homes Independent Board Director 
• Naomi Milgrom Foundation Board Chair

Damian Ferrie

B. Theol, GDip Conflict Resolution, M. Applied Science (Social Ecology)

Damian is currently the CEO of the Star Health Group Ltd, a community health provider in the Bayside suburbs of Melbourne. He is Chair of Mental Health Victoria and a Director of the Inner South East Metropolitan Partnership. Recently has held positions of the Boards of the Victorian Healthcare Association and Port Philip Housing Association (now Housing First). 

As well as experience in the not for profit sector including the acute hospital sector, Damian has held a number of senior executive positions in the New South Wales and Victorian Governments in areas which included housing, community renewal and transport.

Dr Jennifer Anderson

Jennifer is a general practitioner who currently practices part-time in the Melbourne CBD, but has also practiced in the small town of Lancefield. She was elected as councillor onto the Macedon Ranges Shire Council, where she has been Mayor for three years.

She graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Director’s course in 2016, and was appointed Board Chair of the Loddon Mallee Waste and Resource Recovery Group in 2017. She and seven other directors work towards reducing waste and increasing reuse and recycling across almost 25 per cent of the area of Victoria.

Jennifer also worked for over 10 years at The Royal Children’s Hospital as its GP consultant, designing and implementing systems to improve the transition from community to hospital-based care and back again.

The combination of these roles provide her with knowledge of health care issues in both urban and rural settings, along with an understanding of the potential role of local government, primary and community care, and hospitals in assisting people in their health care journey.

The environmental impact of such care, and the difficulties of service provision across diverse communities and a large geographical region are two other areas her experience will bring to the Board. When otherwise unoccupied, her interests include: travel, gardening, cooking, cycling and hiking.