Board of Directors

Chairman

Rod is currently Professor of public policy at the Australian National University, and Chair of the Competition Research Policy Network at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Paris.

In March this year, he completed 11 years as Chair of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Prior to this, he had a wide range of commercial and public sector roles in many countries, including Director and Partner at commercial advisory firm Port Jackson Partners Limited, Chair of project development company InfraCo Asia based in Singapore, Director of Ingeus Limited which was then Europe’s largest welfare-to-work company based in London, and Chair of the State Rail Authority in NSW.

Rod was previously also Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, responsible for all domestic policy issues, and Deputy Secretary in the Department of Transport and Communications.  From 1988 to 1990 he was the Principal Economic Adviser to Australia’s Prime Minister, Bob Hawke.

He has a love of opera, and has been a subscriber, and then a patron, of Opera Australia for over 30 years.

Warren  is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide 2012–2017 and before that Deputy Vice Chancellor (University Affairs) at the University of Melbourne.

Prior to his time in university management, Warren had a long career in music, as Dean of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for 17 years, before that Head of Music at the University of Queensland for 6 years, and he taught at the ANU School of Music. He won  a ACTL Citation for “30 years of outstanding teaching in music” (2008), his publications include the  Oxford Companion to Australian Music, and he was for 10 years the music member of the International Advisory Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He studied musicology and conducting in New York as a Fulbright Scholar, and remains a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.

Warren is also Chair of the Board of Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, Chair of the fine arts college LCI Melbourne, and Chair of the autism peak body Amaze Inc.

Greta Bradman is a registered psychologist, founder, writer, ABC broadcaster, recording and performing artist.

As a practising psychologist Greta specialises in anxiety disorders as well as high performance and values coaching in the arts and business. Maintaining her connection with classical music, at ABC Classic Greta presents Weekend Brunch and Mindful Music.

Prior to stepping back from singing at the end of 2019, Greta released four No.1 solo albums; two with Sony Music and two with Universal Music (Decca), as well as contributing to various other albums. Aria nominated, she was Limelight Magazine’s Australian Artist of the Year in 2015 and was the 2013 winner of the Australian International Opera Award, enabling her to further her singing studies in the UK. Greta has appeared as a principal soprano for Opera Australia and other opera companies as well as countless ensembles and orchestras across Australia and the UK, EU, and USA.

Greta is a Trustee at Arts Centre Melbourne and chairs the People Committee and sits on the Audit and Risk Committee. She is a board member of the Bradman Foundation. Prior governance roles include being a member of the Federal Government’s Creative Economy Taskforce during Covid-19, a board member of the Alfred Foundation and Australian Mental Health Prize, and advisor for the Arts Wellbeing Collective. Qualifications include MBA (Melbourne Business School, prize winner); MPsych(Clinical); PsychHons 1A(dux); GAICD; MAPS; ANAM Fellowship; GradDip(voice); BMus(voice).

Warwick Bray guides infrastructure investors and companies across Asia Pacific and Europe to address the economics and infrastructure implications of 5G, capital allocation and improvement to ROIC, and create value though cost and customer service transformation for both operators and infrastructure owners. His work has resulted in several innovation and organisational award wins across Asia Pacific, Europe and globally. He has previously held Board positions at CSL (HK) and GSMA’s strategy committee, as well as Chairman of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association and Foxtel’s Audit and Risk Committee. He currently is a Board member of the Audit and Risk Committee at Spark NZ.

Previously Warwick was CFO of Telstra and Group MD and Head of Telstra Mobile. He led company-wide customer service and cost transformation and created mobile broadband and Asia’s leading “Internet of Things” businesses. As a McKinsey partner in the 1990s, Warwick provided operational and strategic assistance, to second operators, integrated telecommunications companies, energy companies, and institutional and private equity funds, for the introduction of 2G in Europe. As a securities analyst in Europe in the 2000s Warwick valued integrated and cellular telecommunications companies. He was also MD and Global Telecoms Sector Leader at JPMorgan and DrKW London.

Michelle Kam is a Strategy Consulting Partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in the Strategy& division, leading Australia’s Katzenbach Centre, a global PwC specialist organisation that focuses on culture, leadership and change. With a Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology (UNSW) and as a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Michelle provides strategic advice to many ASX listed companies to navigate the increasingly complex global environment and transformational change through creating agility, focus and mobilisation of employees and valuing diversity so people thrive. She works across a variety of sectors including financial services, telecommunications, mining, media, not-for-profit and the public sector. She also supported PwC’s CEO to develop the firm’s growth and Future of Work strategies and the firm’s stance on anti-racism.

She is passionate about the arts and education. She served as a Non-Executive Director at Shaun Parker and Company over 2016 - 2018, and is a current member of the Alumni Council for the University of Sydney.