Our people

Bachelor of Arts/Law

Tim Adam is a retired lawyer and successful businessman. In his business career he was a long standing Partner of Melbourne law firm, Moores Legal. Throughout his professional career he worked extensively across commercial legal practice, and ethical and social justice issues. Tim was a leading practitioner in personal injury law and employment law.

Among other professional roles, Tim also worked as lawyer for Eastern Health Ethics Committee, as a volunteer lawyer for Camberwell Legal Aid, Chairman of Surrey Hills Church of Christ Board, Trustee of Churches of Christ Properties Corporation Lawyer for Churches of Christ Professional Standards Committee

Tim is committed to developing young people through social group interaction, sport and a local Church environment. Tim also brings lived experience of disability to the board.

Fellow Australian Institute of Company Directors

Cain joined Deloitte in 2022 to focus on risk roles for the Health, Human Services and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) markets. As the inaugural head of Markets and Pricing for the NDIS, Cain led the implementation of the Scheme’s supply-side market infrastructure, including pricing, and National provider benchmarking and analytics.

In 2018, Cain joined the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to co-ordinate work between the Social Services, Human Services and Veterans Affairs portfolios and the Cabinet, before being seconded, at the recommendation of the Prime Minister’s Office, as the Special Advisor and head of strategy, to establish the Royal Commission into Violence Abuse Neglect & Exploitation of People with Disability.

He is one of the few people in Australia to have held leadership roles across all disability stakeholder groups and was the first NDIS participant to regularly attend Cabinet meetings. He is a former Chair of the NSW Disability Council and former Non-Executive Director of Cerebral Palsy Alliance.

Cain co-founded the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation and the Attitude Foundation and is a non-executive director of Disabled Wintersports Australia (the NSO for paralympic winter sports).

He is the recipient of the 2020 Australian Academy of Developmental Medicine Outstanding Achievement Award and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Masters in Social Science, Post Grad Dip in Health Services Management

Adam is the CEO of Austin Health. He has a strong background in operations health service management, both locally and in the UK, with the NHS.

As a graduate of the NHS’ Management Training Scheme in the UK, he held a range of operational management roles in the NHS. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Consulting Practice, where he undertook financial and operational improvement projects across NHS Trusts and Social Services departments.

Adam spent 8 years at Monash Health in charge of operations at Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin Hospital, and ambulatory and community-based services. He also held the Executive Portfolio of Strategy and Planning and was the Executive Director for Jessie McPherson Private Hospital.

Before taking up his current role, Adam was the deputy CEO of Melbourne Health and prior to that, Director of Performance and System Design at the Department of Health and Human Services. In this role, Adam was responsible for the monitoring and management of performance across Victoria’s 85 health services, including Ambulance Victoria.

Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Marketing

Dean Ireland is a Partner with Maritana and works as a consultant, coach and business leader in senior leadership and organisation design. With broad industry exposure, hands on management experience and his international career he brings creativity and selectiveness to his work.

Dean has served listed, private equity, multinational, investment fund, family, government, NGO and NFP organisations. He has advised on chief executive, CFO, senior executive and Board succession for many ASX/NZX and private organisations.

Previously Dean was the Melbourne Managing Partner of a global executive search firm where he worked for 15 years. He began his career in management consulting and investment banking, before joining Pacific Dunlop in Hong Kong. Later, at General Electric (GE) he held several business development positions, served as the CEO of the Energy and IT divisions in Australia and Head of Strategy with GE’s Energy division in the US.

Dean holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Marketing from Melbourne Business School and formally qualified as a chartered accountant. He has served on the boards of Melbourne Business School and Opportunity International.

Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration, Fellow Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow Institute of Chartered Accountants

Chris Leptos brings a wealth of corporate and government experience to our Board.

He is an experienced company director and is Chairman of the National Heart Foundation, a Non-Executive Director of IDP Education Limited, and Senior Adviser to Flagstaff Partners.

Chris has undertaken a number of sensitive government reform processes including a recent independent review of social and affordable housing. In 2021 he was appointed as the Independent Reviewer for the Food and Grocery Code under the Competition and Consumer Act.

In 2000 Chris was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia for services to business and the community, and in 2022 was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to the not for profit sector.

Authentic Leadership (Harvard Business School)

Caro Llewellyn is CEO of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas – centrepiece of Melbourne’s status as a vibrant UNESCO City of Literature – and is dedicated to championing the transformative power of conversation and informed public debate.

As the former artistic director of several large-scale literary festivals, including the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the PEN World Voices Festival chaired by Salman Rushdie in New York, and an international literary festival for Columbia University’s campus in Paris, she has worked with many of the most distinguished writers and brightest thinkers of our time.

She is the author of four works of non-fiction including the 2020 Stella Prize shortlisted memoir, Diving into Glass, about her experiences living with disability – her father’s and her own. Caro is a specialist in authentic leadership and engagement, diversity and communications in the business, cultural, educational, and not-for-profit sectors.

Master of Applied Finance, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chartered Accountant, Bachelor of Business Administration, Fellow at the Governance Institute Australia.

Michelle Somerville is an experienced non-executive director, bringing deep and relevant finance, risk and governance experience to the Board, having worked in the financial services industry in both her executive and non-executive roles.

Michelle has a deep understanding of the business and value drivers with a focus on alignment with purpose and maintaining social licence to operate. She is someone who believes in the value of strong governance and improving the quality of financial information and risk management processes to provide greater confidence to stakeholders. Michelle has a goal to use her professional skills to help organisations meet these objectives.

Previously she was an audit partner with KPMG Australia for nearly 14 years, with a focus on the financial services industry in both Australia and overseas. Michelle is currently a non-executive director on the boards of GPT Group, IOOF Holdings and the Epworth Foundation.

PhD, GAICD, BAppSc (Occ Ther), Grad Dip Neuroscience, Grad Dip AppSc (Comp Sci), Master of Applied Science

Di Winkler is an occupational therapist who has worked with people with severe brain injury for more than 20 years. Di started a PhD and then established the Summer Foundation in January 2006 after becoming frustrated by the lack of appropriate housing and support for young people with disability who were being admitted to nursing homes for the aged. In 2012 she completed her PhD at Monash University, which involved a series of studies that focused on young people in nursing homes.

In 2018 Di was conferred with a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from Monash University for her distinguished service to the community through her leadership as a practicing occupational therapist and researcher.

In 2019 Di was appointed as a member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) for significant service to people with disability. Di is the Chief Executive Officer at the Summer Foundation and leads the Research Unit. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University. Di also sits on the Board of Summer Housing Ltd.