About Neami | Board of Directors
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is the legal authority of Neami. Our Directors are entrusted with the responsibility for securing the continued well being and growth of the organisation. The Board of Directors has an overriding responsibility to ensure that Neami is appropriately managed for the benefit of all stakeholders. All Directors offer their services to the organisation on a voluntary basis.
The role of the Board of Directors is to oversee the governance, compliance, review and monitoring and risk assessment with a focus on the broader issues of organisational purpose, including the setting and monitoring of strategic directions and the establishment and monitoring of Board level policies.
Membership Requirements
Directors are drawn from a range of interest groups including consumers, carers, service providers and the community. They are recruited for their interest and commitment to the organisation. It is not expected that Directors represent the agency or group from which they are drawn but use the knowledge and experience this perspective brings to the whole Board, and therefore the organisation.
Neami Directors
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Julie Anderson – Vice President
Julie has been a board member of Neami since 1997. She has completed a Certificate in Business and is currently employed as a mental health project worker at Mental Illness Fellowship (Victoria).
“Neami has undertaken a strategic process with an integrated perspective that reflected on the organisation’s past and present to identify the key directions that will consolidate Neami’s future in order to fulfill our mission and vision.”
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Stephen Brand – President
A Board Member since the AGM in 2006, Stephen has managed a Mental Health Service in a rural New South Wales Area for quite some time. He is a social worker with a background as a clinician in the Mental Health field.
“I am pleased to be part of an organisation that is dedicated to high quality service provision and commits itself to evidenced-based practice and the process of research and evaluation. I am also pleased to be involved in an organisation which is growing interstate and is building strong infrastructure and systems to support a strong profile in a growing service delivery industry.”
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Remberto Rivera -Treasurer
Remberto Rivera joined the Neami Board in December 2008. He holds a BEcon, Post GradDip Bus, Post GradDip Aged Care Management, MBA, ASA. With more than 25 years experience working in accounting and business administration for the banking and not-for-profit sectors. His key experience covers the fields of accounting, human resources, industrial relations, facility management and information technology.
“Neami is financially well-positioned to achieve its strategic directions; it is a great pleasure to serve and to contribute to lead the vision of this wonderful organisation.”
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Lindsay Oades – Secretary
Joining the Board in September 2008, Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Head, International House at Wollongong University. With A BA (Hons) and MBA (Distinction), Lindsay has been involved in extensive research projects and development of the Collaborative Recovery Model which Neami implemented in 2010.
“Neami continues to make significant progress along its strategic directions. Research and evaluation capacity continues to grow, particularly recently in the area of recovery oriented service provision. I am very pleased to be able to contribute to the development of a national organisation – bringing it the opportunity to influence national policy.”
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Margaret Springgay
Margaret started her career as a registered nurse before gaining a Graduate Diploma in Health Counselling and the achieving a Masters in Health Care
Management.
A previous director of the Royal District Nursing Service, Margaret has just finished as Executive Director of the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia.
She joined the Board in 2010.
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Dawn Inman – Wyness
Dawn is a CEO/DoN within the aged and community care industry and has a personal interest in mental health and housing for the disadvantaged. A Registered Nurse, practising CPA and an MBA specialising in Corporate Governance, Dawn brings valuable experience to the Board which she joined early 2009.
“I am very proud to be a part of this leading national organisation that focuses on the needs of those people who experience a mental illness. Neami’s vision and mission is achieved by empowering and supporting consumers within the community.”
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Robert Bland
Robert has a PhD in Social Work and is currently the Professor of Mental Health at the University of Queensland after holding a similar position at University Tasmania for over a decade. He brings an intricate knowledge of mental health policy and models of service delivery to the Neami Board, and works in partnership with consumers and families. The Board made Robert welcome in May 2010.
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Douglas Holmes
Board member since 2007. St Vincent’s Hosp.(NSW) Consumer Participation Officer and is also a member of Finance, Assurance and Risk Management Sub-Committee.
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Brad Wynter
Brad holds an MBA as well as majoring in Psychology for his B.A. Currently employed as Manager, Organisation Improvement in local government, Brad is a strategic leader, thinker and innovator. He has well developed management and communications skills, is an effective change agent with sound political acumen and was made welcome to the Board in November 2011
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Graeme Doidge
Graeme Doidge joined the Board in August 2011. He is currently a Manager of Clinical Mental Health Services for St Vincent’s Health Melbourne. Over the last 30 years Graeme has worked in a variety of Clinical, Government, Research and Non Government settings related to Mental Health.
Graeme has broad interest across the sector in particular, Research and Professional Development, a Recovery focus to Service Provision, Partnerships and Teams. With Partnerships and Teams as in many areas of Mental Health ‘the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts’
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