About Us

Chief Executive Officer, TAD

Anthony is Chief Executive Officer at TAD, Vice President of TAD Australia, and Convenor of Actuaries Institute’s Public Policy Council Committee. He was formerly Chief Executive Officer at Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, co-lead of the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Survivorship, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University. Prior to joining Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, Anthony was Chief Operating Officer at the National Breast Cancer Foundation. He has held senior executive positions in the financial services industry in Australia, the US and UK, ultimately becoming Executive Director and Asia-Pacific business group leader at Mercer Wealth Solutions.

Executive Manager, Musica Viva Australia

Trish has spent over 30 years in arts management in Australia, first as CountryWide and Export Manager at Musica Viva, then as Relationship Manager in the Major Performing Arts division at the Australia Council for the Arts. She is now enjoying her second placement at Musica Viva. She was closely involved in managing the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music which ran for 12 years in the 1990s/early 2000s. She sat on the Board of the Australian Youth Orchestra, served as Chair at Arts on Tour and on the Board of Governors of the Federation of Asian Cultural Promotion.

At Musica Viva from 1983-2002 she was also responsible for curating and implementing the Cultural Relations Program for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) internationally. Prior to her involvement in the arts, Trish spent ten years serving abroad in DFAT’s diplomatic service. She graduated from Deakin University with majors in Public Relations and Journalism.

Associate Professor, Universal Business School Sydney

Wayne is an Associate Professor at the Universal Business School Sydney and brings his wealth of experience in accounting, teaching and business in a number of national and international companies over a commercial career extending in excess of forty years. His senior finance positions include National Finance Director for Ernst & Young and Finance Director for the Bank of New Zealand in Australia. While his primary industry focus was in the financial services and insurance industry, Wayne has experience across many industries including manufacturing, services, logistics and teaching. Wayne is a qualified CPA, a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders and was a graduate member of the Australian Institutes of Company Directors. He also recently achieved Chartered Manager status at the Institute. In addition, Wayne is currently a member of the Academic senate for UBSS, a member of the Course Advisory committee and Chair of the Academic Integrity Committee.

CEO, Bundanon Trust

Rachel Kent is the CEO of Bundanon Trust, and was the Chief Curator of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) for 20 years from 2001-2021. She has presented exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the United States and Canada, working with artists such as Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Tatsuo Miyajima, David Goldblatt, Cornelia Parker and, forthcoming, Doug Aitken. Rachel’s exhibitions have been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Rachel has extensive public speaking experience, interviewing Yoko Ono and Grayson Perry at the Sydney Opera House; delivering talks for Frieze London. She speaks on creativity and the visual arts, environmental themes, and human rights. Most recently she delivered a TEDx talk on Art & Interconnection in difficult times. She is passionate about creativity in all its forms, including live art, performance and music. Rachel completed her postgraduate studies at The University of Melbourne; and is a graduate of the Women and Leadership Australia (WLA) advanced leadership program.

Managing Director, OCT Emissions Solutions

Marni is the Managing Director of OCT Emissions Solutions, a technology incubation start-up delivering large scale climate action. As an experienced Sustainability executive, Marni brings an energetic and pragmatic approach to developing and delivering Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies to enable operations to move forward on their sustainability programs. As a power electrical engineer with over 20 years of experience in business and engineering roles, she is drawn towards cross-sector collaborations to drive industry defining solutions. Marni has a demonstrated history of working commercial and philanthropic partnerships. In addition to EO, Marni holds Board roles with Pollinate Group, and the Global Institute of Intrapreneurs.

She has an honours degree in Electrical (Power) Engineering from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management. She also is an Eisenhower Fellow, a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, Institute of Energy Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Alumni and Centre for Ethical Leadership Alumni.

Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Simon is a business leader in Australia, as a Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and experienced for-purpose non-executive director. He founded and now leads BCG’s AI and advanced analytics business ‘GAMMA’ across the Asia-Pacific. He has deep experience in government, having held executive roles with both the Australian and NSW Governments. Simon serves as Chair of Mission Australia Housing and as a non-executive director at Mission Australia and Trinity Grammar School.

Artistic Director

Internationally acclaimed Australian percussionist and artistic director of Ensemble Offspring, Claire Edwardes is the only Australian to win the ‘APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual’ three times and is a committed advocate of gender equity in classical music and new music more broadly. She has built a career out of innovative project and program development and has a great deal of experience at many levels of the music presentation and production scene in Australia and overseas. She is one of the biggest direct commissioners of percussion solo and instrumental ensemble repertoire in Australia evidenced in the number of listings on the AMC website with her name associated. Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Academy has grown to become one of the most competitive summer school opportunities in Australia. She has broad ranging skills in performance, ensemble leading, programming, curation, teaching, marketing, commissioning, audience development, funding applications, budgets, tour management, philanthropic development, lobbying, public speaking – all the while bringing up two girls and holding down a casual teaching position at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Sydney Grammar School.

Clarinettist

Jason Noble is one of Australia’s most versatile clarinettists, spanning the classical to highly experimental and improvisatory genres. As a core member of Ensemble Offspring for about 20 years, Jason has performed contemporary new music at festivals from Warsaw to London, Shanghai to Kabul, and around Australia, working largely with living composers. His album releases include THRUM (2020) – a collection of improvised ambient sounds created with Kim Cunio on piano – and Chi’s Cakewalk (2017), an album of new Australian works for clarinets. He has also made guest appearances on albums for Gurrumul, Sally Seltmann, ABC Classics, Paul Mac, Gondwana Voices, Ngarukuruwala and Halcyon. Jason collaborates with emerging composers, and is an in-demand music educator and examiner. He has been invited to teach two winter academies at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, and maintains links with staff and students there. www.jasonnoble-clarinettist.com