Meet Our Board

Qualifications - MBA Macquarie University, LLB Sydney University

Experience - Chairman of Inteq Limited, an Australian corporate, strategic and financial advisory house; Chairman of Local Measure, a social media analytics company; member of the Advisory Board of UTS Business School, former Chairman of the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce, director of a number of private companies

Special Responsibilities - Member of Strategy & Revenue Committee and Audit & Compliance Committee

Experience - Deborah Thomas is an experienced executive and board director, across both the corporate and not for profit sectors. With over 25 years of expertise in leadership, management and marketing skills, Deborah is the ideal person to lead Camp Quality into its next phase.

Deborah has managed some of Australia’s most popular magazine brands, including The Australian Women’s Weekly, where she was Editor-in-Chief for nine years. In 2015 she was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Ardent Leisure Group.

Throughout her time in the commercial sector, Deborah has also been involved with many national Not-for-Profit (NFP) organisations, including the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation, The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation, Father Chris Riley’s Youth off the Streets and is a founding patron of the Taronga Conservation Foundation.  

On joining Camp Quality Deborah said, “I am honoured and excited by the prospect of working with Camp Quality and applying my skills and experience to such a worthy, trusted and important organisation. Camp Quality changes people’s lives for the better and I cannot think of a more fulfilling job than helping children and families deal with the trauma that comes with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.”

Qualifications - Management Certificate, College of TAFE, Diploma of Marketing, CIT/Holmes College Vic, Executive Program University of Michigan

Experience - CEO/Senior Vice President for DHL Express, Chairman of Asia Pacific Management Board for DHL Express, Director of Express Couriers Ltd New Zealand, Chairman of PDG Australia

Special Responsibilities - Chair of the Strategy & Revenue Committee

Qualifications - Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Chartered Accountant, MBA (Executive) Monash, Mt Eliza Business School

Experience - Partner KPMG CFO Advisory providing assurance and advisory services to Boards and senior management on financial, process, sustainability and corporate communications issues

Special Responsibilities - Chair of Audit & Compliance Committee

Experience - Chairman of Higgins Coatings, Chairman of Advisory Board for the Chair of Positive Psychology at Melbourne University, Foundation Board member of the National Gallery of Victoria

Special Responsibilities - Member of People & Culture Committee

Qualifications - BA Sydney University

Experience - Currently Chairman Of Camel Partners, A Private Advisory Firm, and The Camel Foundation, Director Of The Australian Rugby Union, The University Of Sydney Rugby Club Foundation, The University Of Western Sydney Foundation, The Australian American Leadership Dialogue, a Patron of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue and an Adjunct Professor at the UWS Business School. Former Group CEO of NAB, Chairman of Clydesdale Bank (UK) and Director of the Bank of NZ.

Special Responsibilities - Chair of People & Culture Committee

Qualifications - MBA University of Technology, BA Sydney University

Experience - Managing Director of Intel Australia/New Zealand. Director of the Australian IT Industry Association (AIIA) and Chair of the National i-Awards Steering Committee.

Special Responsibilities - Member of Strategy & Revenue Committee

Qualifications - BEc (Accounting Major), Sydney University. LLB, Sydney University. Harvard Business School Leadership Program

Experience - National Partner in Charge of KPMG Law and a senior corporate lawyer specialising in the provision of mergers and acquisition and equity capital markets advice.

Special Responsibilities - Member of Audit & Compliance Committee

Qualifications - Diploma in Business Management Wits University Johannesburg, Advanced Management Program Melbourne University Business School

Experience - David is responsible for Zebra Technologies in Australia and New Zealand helping deliver business-critical mobility solutions to the region’s largest retail, minerals and energy, transport, logistics, supply chain and healthcare organisations. He was appointed General Manager following Zebra’s acquisition of Motorola’s Enterprise business. He brings more than two decades of experience in the ICT industry with particular expertise in strategy, business development and corporate change. Previously, David ran his own consultancy for 19 years focussed on business development in the IT & Telecommunications industry.

Special Responsibilities - Member of Strategy & Revenue Committee

Qualifications: PhD FGLF FAICD

Experience: Amanda has over 35 years’ experience in health and academia including CEO and non-executive directorship roles across health care delivery, clinical (critical care), public health, research, ethics, and corporate governance advisory.

Amanda is current chairman of the National Blood Authority Australia and a non-executive director of Camp Quality. Following her twelve month Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellowship in 2017, she was invited back as a Visiting Scientist to join a partnership project between Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Business School (HBS). She is also a current advisory board member of HBS-led Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative.

Amanda is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, a Governor’s Leadership Foundation Fellow and a former Telstra Business Women Awards Finalist in two categories.

Amanda has received various awards and recognition for her business and community contributions. In 2018, she travelled to Sri Lanka working on a humanitarian project team fitting prosthetic hands to over 240 land-mine and other victims.

Experience - Mary Foley has a distinguished career in the health sector, holding leadership positions in state and federal government, the private sector and not-for-profit organisations.  In 2017 Mary was appointed Managing Director of Telstra Health (a subsidiary of Telstra Corporation), Australia’s largest Australian owned health digital technology company.

Prior to joining Telstra Health, Mary was Director General and Secretary of NSW Health for a five-year term. She has also previously held roles as National Health Practice Leader for PwC Australia, Chief Executive of St Vincent’s and Mater Health Sydney, and a senior executive of a major listed Australian healthcare company.

She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Science and Health at Western Sydney University, and a Board Director of Research Australia. Mary has previously served as Deputy Chancellor of Western Sydney University, a Director of the National eHealth Transition Authority, Deputy Chair of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council, Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Board President of the YWCA NSW.

Mary was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to public administration in health and education (2016), received the Centenary Medal from the Federal Government for her business leadership in the private sector, and she is a former Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year.