Board of Directors
Kate Boyle is an experienced solicitor and risk manager, with a particular interest in strong corporate governance practices. Kate has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and is an accredited company secretary. Her experience spans over ten years across a range of public and private organisations including Macquarie Bank, Deloitte and NAB.
Kate's current role is as a business manager with MLC. Her responsibilities include strategic and operational management, with a key focus on staff engagement and change management. Kate's previous roles include specialisations in conflicts management, regulatory relationship management, audit and assurance activity, administrative law and meetings practice and procedure.
Kate's volunteer experience includes a Directorship with the Child Abuse Prevention Service, Look Good... Feel Better supporting women with cancer, the Historic Houses Trust of NSW as a tour guide, and the Law Society of NSW as a mentor to high-school students.
Kate's involvement with Life Changing Experiences Foundation includes experience as a Big Sister,consulting on strategy and governance matters, and fundraising and events management including leading the first ever SASSI team.
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Cathy McBride (Chair)
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Cathy was appointed to the role of Chairman in October 2011.
She has more than 20 years experience in professional services and the banking and finance industry with expertise in taxation, finance, compliance and risk and has served on Boards for the past 10 years.
Cathy holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law from UNSW and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Catherine commenced a very successful career in banking after her completing an honours degree in Commerce. Her particular areas of expertise were in optimising risk return in a complex financial environment, retail and wholesale funding, interest rate and balance sheet risk management, and product pricing. Of particular note was Catherine's ability to communicate effectively with her peers and with executive management to improve their understanding of the complex aspects of treasury management. Senior roles included Treasurer of Australia's largest finance company and Treasurer of one of New Zealand's major banks.
In 1996 Catherine became a director of Sunnyfield, a not for profit organisation caring for people with an intellectual disability. During her directorship, and as Chair since 2004, Sunnyfield has grown from its home base on the northern beaches of Sydney to being one of the major providers of services to people with a disability in NSW. In 1999 Sunnyfield provided 277 services to people with a disability; in 2009 Sunnyfield provided over 1600 services. The Sunnyfield story is not just one of providing care and support for people with a disability. It is about striving to be a truly person centred organisation with visionary leadership, strong organisation wide values, sound and viable financial health and a clear strategic direction.
Catherine is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of Women on Boards. Her contribution to the not for profit sector has been recognised by inclusion in Who's Who of Australian Women in 2010 and 2011.
Mychelle Vanderburg is currently the Youth Publisher at Pacific Magazines. As Group Publisher, Mychelle has P&L responsibility for all projects as well as developing the market and business strategy for all her titles which include Girlfriend, Total Girl and K-zone magazines. She works directly with decision makers and manages a large team of editorial and marketing experts.
As leader across these youth categories, Mychelle has been directly exposed to the challenges young people have in their lives. She's proud of the fact that the brands have been able to make a difference, through the power of media, to be a positive influence in the lives of readers.
Since her appointment three years ago, many initiatives have been launched across the titles through campaigns to address the concerns of today's youth. The titles aim to educate and inspire readers in positive ways. Campaigns under her guidance have included Girlfriend magazine's Self Respect campaign, Positive Actionista, Total Girl's Make Your Dreams Come True issue and the Girlfriend of the Year Awards.
For all of these initiatives, Mychelle has gained experience with relevant experts, communities and organisations in the partnerships.
In the past 20 years, Mychelle has also held a series of senior marketing roles in companies such as The Freedom Group (Freedom, Captn' Snooze, Guests and BaySwiss), Strandbags Group (including eQUIP) Levi's and Bose.
Based on her experience at Levi's and Bose, where these organisations had a strong association with supporting causes and foundations, Mychelle was able to go on to introduce new partnerships with other organisations she worked at including Freedom, eQUIP and Strandbags. At these businesses, Mychelle led the development of relevant products into the retail stores, resulting in proceeds or profits being raised to support much needed funding for the relevant organisations. Her strong belief that everyone can make a difference, coupled with her ability to implement initiatives on a large scale across the retailers she worked for, has enabled her to gain a wide range of experience.
Mychelle loves working across the youth titles she manages and she has a natural affiliation with the youth of Australia. This is demonstrated in the work and partnerships she has implemented between retailers she's worked with and associations she built with the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia, CANTEEN, Inspire Foundation and the Butterfly Foundation. She recognises the importance of making a difference to the young people's lives and is extremely excited to join the board and continue her work on youth initiatives.
In 2005, Mychelle completed her Master's Degree in Business and has a total of 20 years experience in marketing roles at a senior level, across strong global retail brands.
Daniel Clarke was announced the 1999 NSW Young Australian of the Year in the Career Achievement category and has also been a member of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Young Leaders Forum, the 2000 National Youth Roundtable, the Australia Day Youth Committee, various World Vision conventions and several technology based industry bodies. He is currently a Director of Life Changing Experiences Foundation Ltd, chairs the not-for-profit public company, the Enterprise Network for Young Australians Ltd, is a member of the Australian Tax Office Personal Tax Advisory Group and is a volunteer for the Youth and Enterprise Legal Centre.
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Life Changing Experiences Foundation
Jessica Brown
B.Mus.Ed, A.Mus.A
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Jessica's career started with teaching music in secondary schools after completing a degree in music education at the University of New South Wales. Her 10 years' teaching experience together with her unchanging devotion to her students in both private and public secondary schools led to her many achievements, including the NEITA Foundation's highly prestigious National Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching.
Jessica's personal goal, to reach out and help alleviate the suffering of disadvantaged and underprivileged youth, led her to form the Life Changing Experiences Foundation (LCEF) in September 2003, giving young girls the chance to break the cycle of destitution and abuse by attending the SISTER2Sister program. This 12-month mentoring and personal development program matches successful corporate and business women with troubled teenage girls.
Jessica won the Pride of Australia Award in 2006 for common sense, compassion and wisdom while teaching, coaching and mentoring others to be the best they can be. She was the youngest medal winner for the 2007 Manly Daily Centenary Medal for Outstanding Service to Education. Jessica was runner-up for the Australian Centre for Leadership Women's 2007 National Leadership Achievement Award for Women, in recognition of her outstanding leadership skills and achievements as a leader in the Australian community. She also won a Zonta Women of Achievement Award in 2008. Jessica has been featured on Sky Business News, 60 Minutes, the ABC's Stateline, Sunrise, 9am with David and Kim, Today Tonight and Kerri-Anne promoting LCEF's SISTER2Sister program. She was profiled in the Sunday Magazine, Who's Who of Australian Women, the Daily Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Notebook, New Idea, Vive, BRW, That's Life Magazine and Who.
Jessica was a 2011 NSW finalist for the prestigious Australian of the Year Awards. She is the 2011 NSW representative for Commonwealth Bank's Launching Local Heroes program, and, in addition to being the face of the Launching Local Heroes program in branches throughout NSW, Jessica writes daily on her Local Hero Facebook page, which can be found on the Commonwealth Bank website
www.commbank.com.au/localheroes or through Facebook directly Jessica Brown-Local Hero.
In 2011 Jessica co produced her first book Cooked with Love-recipes my mother taught me and was most recently profiled in Amanda Cole's book “Who Needs Prince Charming".
In 2011 Jessica was nominated for Telstra Business Women of the Year and most recently Life Changing Experiences Foundation was named a finalist in the City of Sydney Business Awards.
