Advisory Board

Stephanie Cleary

Craig Rubinstein

Stephanie Cleary is the Emergency Program Manager for AAI. She holds Post Graduate degrees in Quality Management in Healthcare and Addiction Studies and also holds Diploma's in Nutrition, Remedial Therapies and various other diploma's and certificates in health, finance and project management. Stephanie has worked in emergencies in Sri Lanka, East Timor, Aceh (post tsunami), Philippines, India, Indonesia and also in Cambodia and Vietnam. In 2005 she relocated to Bangkok to spearhead the regional partnership development across Asia for an INGO, resulting in significant funding being secured to support program development and delivery. She has held senior posts in state and federal Australian governments' and specialises in managing change management, operational efficiency and program delivery. In the past Stephanie has been principle adviser to the Minister of Health and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Ambulance Service Royal Commission. She started her career in Aboriginal Health, where she was a nutritional educator and a residential alcohol and drug worker for women.

 

Mr Craig Rubinstein

Craig Rubinstein

Mr Craig Rubinstein, is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS), qualified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, including Cosmetic Surgery and qualified as a Master of Surgery (MS), from the University of Melbourne.

Mr Rubinstein is a member of The Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Having also trained in Switzerland and as a Plastic Surgery Fellow in Britain and America for several years he has a commitment to continuing professional development and education.

Mr Rubinstein has numerous publications in prestigious Australian and International medical journals and continues tutoring anatomy to surgical trainees at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Michael Hillardt

Mike Hillardt

Michael Hillardt is a Professional Athletic Coach who has been involved in running at an elite level for nearly 30 years.

Mike is an Australian middle distance running champion having won the Australian 1500m tiles in 1980, 82 and 88 and the 800m in 1981 and 83. He held the No 1 ranking for the 1500m and mile for 8 years since 1980 and still retains two Australian Junior Records. He has represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games on two occasions and also the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles in 1984.

In addition to these achievements, he has competed in numerous World Cups, World Championships and World Indoor Games where he won the 1500m title held in Paris in 1985.

Mike is now a member of the Queensland Athletic Board and a Selector for Athletics Australia.

Paul Reardon

Paul Reardon

Paul Reardon works as a senior copywriter at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, one of Australia's largest and most respected advertising agencies. He works in all mainstream advertising mediums across a diverse range of clients.

In the past two years alone, Paul has received more than 20 nominations and awards, both national and international, for his creativity in advertising. This includes two major awards at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival held in France.

Paul has travelled extensively, living and working in Europe and the United Kingdom and studying in South America. He is a keen adventurer and is trained in a wide variety of outdoor activities.

Francis Galbally

Francis Balbally

Francis Galbally is presently Executive Director of Novus Capital Partners Pty Ltd.

Francis has had over 30 years experience in international business. He is a graduate (First class Honours) in Law at Melbourne University and practised in business law for 15 years. As an investor and corporate advisor Francis specialises in the Technology, Environment, Food, Mining and Energy sectors. He recently founded and listed on the ASX Australia's leading environmental solutions company.

Francis has also had first hand operational experience in growing small cap companies. He founded a leading company in IT security hardware.  He grew the company  from a sub $20 million company to more than $300 million and became included in the S&P ASX 300 index. Under Francis' leadership the company became the world leader for securing military, police and financial services communication networks throughout the world  including the US, Australia, Middle East and Asian Government and banking organisations. Francis is also a Director of Childwise. A charity devoted to protecting Children's Futures.

Michael Carr

Michael Carr

Michael Carr is a partner with Mason Sier Turnbull, Lawyers and conducts a broad commercial practice with a focus on advising on major sale and purchase of land and business transactions for public and large private corporates.  He has acted on behalf of clients in relation to Initial Public Offerings and capital raisings generally.

Michael has accepted director and secretary appointments with various clients, including a public company, a commercial fishing venture, a wine producer, and the Law Institute of Victoria industry superannuation fund. Michael acts as the honorary lawyer to the Richmond Football Club.  Michael is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.

Felicidade de Sousa Guterres

Felicidale

Felicidade is currently a Commissioner representing Timor Leste on the Commission of Truth and Friendship between Indonesia- Timor Leste.

She has served as the Secretary of the National Dialogue Team established by the President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor and was a member of both the National Consultative Council of UNTAET and the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT).

She is a founding member of the East Timor Women's Movement Against Violence.

Between 1975 to 1998 Felicidade was an underground movement activist working for FRETILIN/CNRM (National Council of Timorese Resistance) which included acting as a courier and liaison for FALANTIL and Leader of the Organization for Timorese Youth.

Michael Hyde

Michael Hyde

Michael Hyde is a Strategy Planner at Clemenger BBDO where he works to develop innovative solutions for client's business, marketing and communication problems. Michael's diverse experience has seen him work across a variety of clients in the sport, tourism & leisure, arts, FMCG, automotive and media industries, as well as social marketing / cause related initiatives for Government and NGO's.
 
Having worked for Mediacom prior to joining Clemenger, Michael has unique experience in both creative communications development and in media strategy development, ensuring both content and context are aligned and compelling to the audience.  

Originally from New Zealand, Michael has made Australia his home since 2000. He is an avid traveller that likes to get off the beaten track as often as time and money permit and possesses an innate curiosity for new, exciting and challenging experiences.

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