Board Members

Joanne Booth

  • Chairperson

  • Member of Finance Committee

  • Member of Audit and Risk Committee

Joanne is an experienced executive and company director having worked throughout her career in the health, public and not-for-profit sectors, including 10 years as a Chief Executive Officer.  She now operates a business and management consultancy and combines this with her board and committee responsibilities.  Joanne is a Director, Victorian Healthcare Association; Director, Workways Australia Ltd; Independent Member, Gippsland Water Audit Committee; and Member, Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation Health Grants Panel.

Joanne's qualifications include a Masters of Public Health (Monash), Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health (Monash) and Bachelor of Arts - Sociology/Politics (Swinburne).  Her early career was as a registered nurse.  Joanne is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of Women on Boards and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
  

Adrian Jackson

  • Vice Chairperson

  • Member of Audit and Risk Committee

  • Member of Gippsland Lakes Community Health/Bairnsdale Regional Health Service Alliance

 

Adrian arrived in Papua New Guinea as a Patrol Officer in 1952, as a colonial representative of the Australian Government under the Mandate from United Nations.  The position involved obligations such as magistrate, police officer and other responsibilities.  Adrian then studied law (Bachelor of Law) and became a Barrister and Solicitor in PNG and subsequently Australia.  He has held positions of Legal Counsel to the Papua New Guinea Electricity Commission, Senior Defending Officer of the Public Solicitor’s Office, Legal Counsel to the Northern Territory Electricity Commission and a Criminal Law Barrister in Melbourne. 

Since Adrian’s arrival in Lakes Entrance 10 years ago, he has utilised his professional background to support the local community and a variety of organisations, including the scallop industry, as an unpaid consultant. The Department of Justice appointed Adrian as a Community Visitor in 2008 and as an Independent Third Person in 2009. 

Edward Hare

  • Director

  • Member of Finance Committee

Qualifications:

Diploma of Civil Engineering, Teachers Certificate

Experience: Principal/District Liaison Principal; former Board Member Lakes Entrance Community Health Centre 1987-93; Gippsland Regional Board of Education 1987/88; member and chairperson of numerous committees throughout career as College Principal and District Liaison Principal.

Bill Morison

  • Director

  • Member of Audit and Risk Committee

Bill has been involved with numerous local committees and community groups, such as: the founding President and member of the Hospice Lakes Entrance committee of management (5Yrs); Founding Treasurer, Public Officer and member of the Lakes Entrance Neighbourhood House committee of management (11Yrs); Chairperson of the former Lakes Entrance Police Community Consultative Committee (8 Yrs); Area Coordinator, Lakes Entrance Neighbourhood Watch EGP19 (11Yrs); Palliative Care Volunteer, Gippsland Lakes Community Health (3Yrs); Volunteer Member of the former Lakes Entrance Unit of the Cancer Council of Victoria (3Yrs); Member of Lakes Entrance Cancer Support Group (2Yrs); Member of Consumer Reference Group, Gippsland Integrated Cancer Services (1Yr); Member and Trip Leader, Ben Cruachan Walking Club (7yrs).

Jeff Wilson

  • Chair of Finance Committee

  • Member of Gippsland Lakes Community Health/Bairnsdale Regional Health Service Alliance

 

Jeff was employed with the Victorian Department  of Education for 37 years, including  9 years as a Primary School Principal prior to his retirement. Jeff has worked as an Education Consultant for 4 years . He served as the Deputy Chairperson on the Mallacoota Water Board (4 Yrs), Chairperson of the East Gippsland Network of Schools (5 Yrs) and was the Chairperson of the Gippsland Lakes Community Health Board for 10 years.  Jeff has been a member of the Rotary Club of Lakes Entrance (5 Years) and is a volunteer for Gippsland Lakes Community Health.  Jeff has extensive financial and leadership experience in community and  sporting organisations.

Jeff holds a Diploma of Education, a Graduate Diploma in Electronic Computing and a Diploma in Metallurgy.

Mike Anketell

  • Director

  • Member of Finance Committee

Experience:

Board member National Furniture buying and merchandising group (12 Yrs).

Anne Mwagiru

  • Director

  • Chair of Audit and Risk Committee

Qualifications: Masters in Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science and currently completing a Masters in Business Administration.

Experience: Private and public health organisations. Board member, Gippsland Grammar.

 
 

 Paula Morgan

  • Director

  • Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association Representative

Qualifications: Bachelor of Nursing.

Experience: Executive Officer of the Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association. Has strong connections with local aboriginal communities.

Special Responsibilities: Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association representative.