judging
Simon Gillies - Chair
Simon Gillies is an experienced senior executive with more than 20 years of senior management and management consulting experience focused primarily around strategy development and execution within the consumer goods and telecommunications sectors.
Simon has recently resigned from his role as Managing Partner for Booz & Company in Melbourne to join the Consulting Leadership Team of PwC Australia.
He is a Non-Executive Director of Social Traders Ltd. Simon holds an MBA and a B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.
Leah Armstrong
Leah Armstrong is the Chief Executive Officer of Reconciliation Australia, an entrepreneur, adviser to corporate Australia and advocate for economic empowerment.
In 2009, The Australian Financial Review Boss Magazine recognised Leah as a “True Leader” and in 2012 Leah was recognised in the 2012 Australian Financial Review/Westpac 100 Influential Women Awards.
Leah holds several Board positions including Supply Nation and Jobs Australia Foundation and is Chair of the Indigenous Business Policy Advisory Group.
Ingrid Burkett
Ingrid is Managing Director of Knode, a social business that aims to build the knowledge base underpinning social innovation and to help community organisations, governments and businesses to foster and share innovative practice.
Ingrid is the President of the International Association for Community Development and also works part-time as the Social Design Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact, at the University of NSW in Sydney.
Ingrid has qualifications in Social Work (B.SocWk, first class Honours); Business (Masters in Business); and Community Economic Development (PhD).
Alastair Welsh
Alastair Welsh has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. For the last 20 years Alastair has worked at Westpac in both New Zealand and Australia.
Currently the General Manager for Commercial Banking in WRBB, Alastair has a team of over 1,100 people responsible for 17,000 clients and $38b of lending and $24b of deposits.
Alastair is a Chartered Accountant (NZ), holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (Victoria University, NZ) and holds a Masters of Business Administration with Distinction (Massey University, NZ).
Andrew McInerney
Andrew McInerney has more than fifteen years of international marketing and strategy experience. He is currently General Manager, Strategy and sits on the Senior Leadership team of Australia Post’s $2.3b Communications Management Services business.
Prior to joining Australia Post he sat on the leadership team of gemba Group, Australia’s leading sports and entertainment consultancy, was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and held senior marketing roles at Sara Lee in the Netherlands and in Australia.
Andrew attained his MBA (with distinction) from the University of Oxford and also holds a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Short List for Awards Announced
Chair of the judging panel Simon Gillies said the panel was extremely impressed with the vitality of the social enterprise sector in Australia.
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