Board of Directors

Kylie is a strategic, collaborative and results-driven leader across science, technology, and engineering sectors with a focus on evidence-informed decision-making. She has held a range of senior executive roles and specialises in seeding and convening impactful conversations, strategy, action and investment towards a thriving, healthy, inclusive and connected Australia supported by science and technology.

With board chair experience spanning from Australia’s National Commission for UNESCO to the National Research and Innovation Alliance, and National Science Week, Kylie has also been a director of community and health sector organisations. Kylie is a Professor at Flinders University, visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and a member of Chief Executive Women. She has an honorary doctorate from Charles Sturt University and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to science and gender equity.

As a legal practitioner of 32 years standing, Fraser has legal expertise in environmental and planning law and climate change. He is a former Treasurer of the Law Society of South Australia and a past SA/NT Councillor with the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Fraser was awarded the Presidents medal by the Law Society in 2025 for Services to the Society. 

Fraser sits on several profit-for-purpose Boards, including as Chair of Belberry Limited and Chair of East Waste. His board experience spans over two decades, with time serving as Chair of a general practice medical group, hospital foundations and contemporary arts organisations. Fraser has a longstanding interest in the healthcare sector having sat on the Nurses Board of South Australia. 

He has a keen interest in business development and extensive experience in industrial and commercial property and regularly advises on environmental aspects of property acquisitions and disposals. 

He has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a recommended lawyer in the South Australian planning and environment legal market and acknowledged by his peers as one of the best lawyers in Australia for Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Planning and Environmental Law. 

Gary is the Immediate Past Chair of Anglicare Southern Queensland, having served for 10 years on the board from 2015. He is a former Chair of the Anglicare SQ Audit & Risk Sub-Committee, an Advisory Member to Diocesan Council and a member of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane Audit & Risk Committee. Gary was the inaugural Program Co-Director of the Master of Laws in Enterprise Governance at Bond University and a Semester Professor teaching subjects in strategy, risk and compliance together with reputation risk and social responsibility. Gary has a background in tertiary sector research collaboration and commercialisation, as well as fundraising and university-industry partnerships.  

Prior to his tertiary career, Gary held senior executive positions with ASX listed companies BHP and James Hardie Industries and was a Managing Partner in business advisory specialising in strategy development and implementation, data analytics and revenue led turnaround. Gary holds a Master of Business in Marketing, a Bachelor of Economics and is a Graduate of the AICD Directors Course. 

Professor Gillian Caughey (FISPE) is the Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Pharmacoepidemiology at the Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University and Associate Director of the Registry of Senior Australians Research Centre, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, where she co-leads a team of 32 researchers. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow (2024-2028). Gillian is a pharmacoepidemiologist whose research focuses on improving the care and health outcomes for the older population, with a specific focus on aged care using large population-based data. This includes examination of medication utilisation, effectiveness and safety, development of quality indicators to monitor the safety and quality of care and health service delivery. She has made significant clinically relevant contributions contributions to her field and is internationally recognised for her work on medicines safety, multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the older population, using large population-based data or registries. She has collaborated with Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, authoring key reports on clinical indicators of quality and safety of care, to develop a national outcome monitoring system for Australia’s aged care population and contributing to subsequent national aged care policy and practice reforms.

Judith has been a dedicated advocate for people experiencing disadvantage for more than seven decades. Her leadership across early childhood, disability and career development has focused on empowering individuals and communities through evidence-based practice and collaboration. 

A Flinders University graduate and former senior visiting lecturer in disability, Judith’s impact extends to various voluntary roles as board member and chair for many not-for-profit associations. Recognised for her significant contributions to the community, Judith was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 and holds multiple professional honours. 

Her recent voluntary work includes advocacy for older citizens to self-manage their lives and interests in their chosen communities. Judith is also an Ambassador for the Caring Futures Institute and contributes her expertise to various research advisory panels and groups. She is actively engaged with the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying, and is a passionate advocate for people with dementia. 

Judith has recently been conferred with the honorary award of Companion of the University by Flinders University in recognition of her generous contribution of time and expertise in advancing the aged care workforce and improving the lives of older Australians and their families. 

Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Veronica Jamison is a Senior Executive with extensive aged care, public health, community and primary care experience. A strong strategic thinker who is skilled at working collaboratively to drive change agendas. Veronica has a passion for helping people and has been involved in Aged Care most of her working life. Veronica currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Shepparton Villages, Victoria’s largest regional standalone community owned aged care organisation.  

Veronica is an experienced CEO, Executive & Board Director, having headed up several Healthcare and Community Care organisations in Victoria, she is a former Board Director of the Victorian Healthcare Industrial Association (VHIA), a former State Branch Councillor with the Australasian College of Health Service Managers (ACHSM), former Director of Shepparton Villages & former Chairperson of the Loddon Mallee Palliative Care Consortium. Additionally, she has held senior leadership roles in the Victorian Public Healthcare system, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) and with well-regarded Aged Care Provider, Benetas.

Veronica is a believer in lifelong learning and as such holds a Master of Human Resources Management, a Masters of Business (Leadership) a Graduate Diploma of Business (Management), and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy.

Trailblazing Indigenous STEM champion, Founder and CEO of DeadlyScience. 

Corey is a Kamilaroi man from Nowra, NSW, and a STEM champion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As a young person, he developed a love of STEM subjects but found little encouragement for Aboriginal people to pursue careers in STEM. In 2018, Corey founded DeadlyScience, a not-for-profit organisation that provides STEM resources to remote schools in Australia and connects young Indigenous people with STEM professionals. 

In 2020, Corey was named the NSW Young Australian of the Year and a Human Rights Hero by the Australian Human Rights Commission. In 2021, he received an Australian Museum Eureka Prize and in 2022 a medal of the Order of Australia for service to Indigenous STEM education. In 2023, Corey was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Science at Western Sydney University. Corey is a director of Firesticks Aboriginal corporation and the co-Chair of EPAWA. 

Corey has authored four books, the highly awarded “The First Scientists”, followed by “This Book Thinks Ya Deadly” and two new titles; “Caution! This Book Contains Deadly Reptiles” and “Come Home Bigibila”. Corey takes pride in championing First Nations STEM knowledge and building the future generations of the First Scientists. 

Kim Smyth is a strategic leader with deep expertise in digital and data transformation with a particular focus in health and life sciences.  She brings a track record of advancing evidence-based innovation in highly regulated environments both within Australia and internationally.

Previously she has served as GM Investment for ANDHealth, a non-profit organisation supporting growth of the digital health sector in Australia, where she facilitated advisory meetings to select participants and projects for $33m of funding across three incubator programs.  Her career spans senior innovation and commercialisation roles in the pharmaceutical industry in Australia and the US, including leadership roles in major global transformation programs.  She has extensive management consulting experience in advising executive teams and boards on corporate strategy, with a focus on emerging technologies and growth.

She is participating as a Board Observer with ARIIA through the WILD for STEM  BoardX program, which prepares women in STEM for governance roles.