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.

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.

BCom, MBA, FAICD, FCA

Chris is an experienced company director, and his other Board roles include Chairman of Summer Housing and Non‑Executive Director of IDP Education Limited.

In his executive career Chris was Managing Partner Government for Ernst & Young, and global head of Corporate Development for Western Mining.

Chris has undertaken a number of sensitive government reform processes including a recent independent review of social and affordable housing for the Commonwealth. 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 was CEO of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas from July 2020 to August 2023. Prior to that, she was Director of Experience and Engagement at Museums Victoria.

Before her executive roles, she was 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.

Caro 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.

She is currently working on a novel due to be published in 2024 and developing an App for people living with disability.

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 Michelle 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 IOOF Holdings, Select Harvests 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.