Board of Directors

Marc is a qualified lawyer with over 20 years commercial experience gained as a legal practitioner and in various corporate appointments. He also acts as a Crisis Practitioner and has assisted government instrumentalities and corporations in implementing crisis management strategies. Marc has traveled extensively throughout the Asia Pacific region and has been involved in emergency and humanitarian responses in Nias Island and Java Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.

Having seen the need for a NGO that provides specialised and community based primary health care programs that can have a marked impact on the number of people presenting for secondary level health care, Marc set out with Frank Tyler to create such an organisation.

Marc is also a keen adventurer and is active in scuba diving, rock climbing and marathon canoeing having completed a number of Red Cross Murray River Marathons. 

Frank has been involved in humanitarian operations for over 15 years in numerous disaster and conflict zones around the world including the Middle East, Balkans, Africa and South East Asia. Frank believes that by bringing together like-minded people to implement quality relief programs, AAI can achieve his vision of sustainable long-term solutions in disaster affected areas. Frank's experience ranges from emergency relief to post conflict development in both natural and manmade disasters. He is well known for establishing successful relief programs in some of the most remote and dangerous regions in the world.

Frank has a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Bachelor of Health Science Nursing, Certificates in Aviation, Underwater Medicine Training, and Assessment and a Diploma in Building Surveying. He is also a keen adventurer.