SEFA PARTNERSHIPS BOARD
David Rickards – Chair
David was formerly the Head of Research and an Executive Director at Macquarie Bank. After he retired in 2012 he co founded Social Enterprise Finance Australia Ltd (SEFA). David founded SEFA Partnerships in 2016. Before joining Macquarie Bank he was responsible for establishing the risk management company, BARRA International, in Australia. Until recently, David was also Director and Treasurer of Bush Heritage Australia for nine years. David is a member of the NSW TCorp Investment Committee, a trustee of the Australian Museum Foundation and a director of the Australian Environmental Grant Makers Network or AEGN.
Kylie Charlton – Director
Kylie is the Chief Investment Officer of Australian Impact Investments. She has actively contributed to the emergence of impact investment in Australia and has written widely and spoken publicly on the topic. Kylie is a Venture Partner on the Giant Leap Fund, co-founder of Unitus Capital, member of the Investment Committee for the DFAT supported Investing in Women initiative of Patamar Capital, Co-Deputy Chair for RIAA’s Impact Investing Forum and sessional lecturer for impact investment at the University of New South Wales. Prior to transitioning her career into impact investment, Kylie spent 11 years in commercial and investment banking. Kylie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Canberra and has an MBA from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Scarlet Reid – Director
Scarlet is a highly experienced workplace and regulatory lawyer and is a Partner in the Sydney office of McCullough Robertson. As a former prosecutor with SafeWork NSW, Scarlet is an accomplished litigator and conducts employment, regulatory, corporate and criminal law related litigation matters in various courts and tribunals throughout Australia. Scarlet is the Australian Founder and Australian Chapter Leader of the Womens’ White Collar Defense Association, which is a global organisation that promotes the common business and professional interests of women lawyers who specialise in white collar crime.
Belinda Drew - Director
Belinda has over 20 years’ experience in the community services industry having worked across the fields of disability, homelessness, child protection and housing. During the most recent decade of her career, Belinda was focused on building the social investment market in Australia in her role as the CEO of Foresters Community Finance. Most recently Belinda joined the Community Services Industry Alliance as inaugural CEO of a company focused on representing the value of the community services industry to government and the business sectors. Belinda has a passion for the community services industry and contributing to the task of building a strong, sustainable and contemporary sector across Australia.
Louise Sylvan - Director
Louise was previously CEO of the Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA), a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission, and Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. She has also been Chief Executive of the CHOICE-Australian Consumers’ Association, President of Consumers International, Deputy President of the Council of the Medical Foundation of the University of Sydney, a non-executive Director of the UNSW Diplomacy Training Program, and has chaired the OECD’s work on Economics for Consumer Policy. Other roles include six years on the Australian Prime Minister’s Economic Planning Advisory Council, 11 years on the Australian Statistics Advisory Council to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and memberships of the Expert Group on Electronic Commerce and the Self Regulation Task Force.
Andrew Cairns - Director
Andrew joined Community Sector Banking as CEO in March 2016 having previously been with the Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Group for over 15 years. His prior roles include CEO of Community Telco Australia, and senior positions in the engineering, mining and pay TV industries where he gained a reputation for growing start-ups and fostering innovation. Andrew is also actively engaged in his community and the not-for-profit sector as chair of Western Water and a Director of Haven; Home, Safe.
Jay Bonnington - Director
Jay has over 20 years’ experience as a non-executive director on public and private companies, as well as government and advisory boards. Jay has experience operating in a range of industry sectors including construction, engineering, energy, manufacturing, utilities, financial services, superannuation and health. She also has experience as a CEO and senior executive in international organisations. From a chartered accounting background, with over thirty years’ experience in various sectors, she has deep operational corporate finance experience. Prior to developing a board portfolio, Jay was a CFO/Finance Director in various sectors overseas and within Australia, and a National CEO of a NFP organisation.
Jack Beetson - Director
Jack is a Ngemba Aboriginal man, from western NSW, who has played an active role in Aboriginal Affairs in NSW, nationally and internationally for the last thirty years. He is a qualified adult educator, with a Diploma of Aboriginal and Community Adult Education and a Bachelor of Adult Education from UTS. He has completed the Certificate course run by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), recognised as the definitive program for company directors in Australia. In 2008, he was appointed an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the University of New England.
STAFF
Hannah Miller - Capacity Building Program Manager
With a Bachelor of International Studies in Globalisation, Hannah has spent the last 5+ years building partnerships across the entertainment, media, government, not-for-profit, commercial and social enterprise sectors, and is fascinated by the ways in which communities evolve to best support themselves and each other. Interested in how cross-sector engagement and learning can create change, Hannah’s role is to explore and deliver capacity projects that support sustainable social impact.
Contact: hannah.miller@sefapartnerships.org.au