Membership

Peter has been a member of the Wesley College Council for 13 years. He is the President of the Wesley College Council and the President of the Wesley College Foundation. Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and is Managing Director Finance of AECOM (a large consulting engineering company with global operations) and has been a managing partner of accounting and legal firms in Melbourne. Peter is a former student of the College and two of his children attended the College.

Ian is the Moderator’s nominee on the Wesley College Council and the Vice President of the Wesley College Council. He has been a member of Council for eleven years and serves on the Nominations Committee. Ian is a Minister of the Uniting Church, serving in the Camberwell Parish and has a background in education. His daughter attended the College.

Helen joined the Council on her appointment as Principal of Wesley College in 2003. Prior to this she was the Academic Director for the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), based in Wales UK (1997-2002), and the Director for the Asia Pacific Region, based in Singapore (2002-2003). Before her overseas appointments, Helen held the position of Head of Campus, Glen Waverley at Wesley College (1994-1997). In October 2007 she completed the Advanced Management Program in The Harvard Business School at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Helen is currently an elected member of the State Executive of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Governing Board of the International Baccalaureate (IB), the Board of the Centre for Strategic Education (CSE) Australia and the Council of Queen’s College, University of Melbourne. She is the current Chair of the APS Heads (2010-2012). Helen is a former Wesley teacher and parent and she brings extensive national and international experience to her role.

Lynda joined the Wesley College Council in November 2011. She is Director of Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions at Pratt Holdings/Visy Industries and has held other positions, including Chief Financial Officer, since joining in 2005. After commencing her career at Blake Dawson, she moved into investment banking and spent nine years working with JPMorgan in their Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco and New York offices.  Lynda is a Non Executive Director of South East Water Limited. She has a son and a daughter who are current students at the College.

Peter was appointed to the College Council in 2010 and is a member of the Finance and Risk Management Committee. Peter is a senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and also a member of the Australian Board. Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia. Two of Peter’s children attended the College.

Janet was appointed to the College Council in 2010 and serves on the Property Committee. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design at The University of Melbourne and has an award winning practice that works primarily on residential projects. Earlier in her career she worked for a range of architectural practices including MGS, Bochsler & Partners, Cocks Carmichael Whitford, and Bates Smart McCutcheon. She left full time practice in 1998 to develop her own firm, Janet McGaw Architects, and complete first a Masters and then a PhD by Creative Works at The University of Melbourne. Janet has a son and a daughter who are current students of the College.

Andrew joined the Wesley College Council in 2010 and serves on the Property and Strategy committees. Andrew is CEO Investments at Linfox Property Group where he has worked since 1998. Prior to that he was a lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron from 1990 to 1998. Andrew has a daughter and three sons who are current students of the College.

Philip joined the Wesley College Council in May 2008, and is the Chair of the Finance and Risk Management Committee. Philip, who attended Wesley in the early 1970’s, has a commerce background being a Chartered Accountant and has held senior roles in insurance, finance and property. He is a Director of Kidder Williams Limited, a corporate finance advisory firm. Philip has two daughters who both attended the Glen Waverley campus.

Marianne has been a member of the College Council since 2006 and is Chair of the Nominations Committee and a member of the Finance and Risk Management Committee. After 12 years in various management roles with Ford Credit Australia Ltd, and 10 years of secondary teaching experience in Catholic and Independent schools, Marianne is currently Executive Director of the Stillwell Family Council. Marianne is also an active director of the family company, the Stillwell Motor Group, which operates ten motor vehicle dealerships and property investments across the Melbourne metropolitan area. Marianne has two sons and a daughter who are current students of the College.

Douglas was appointed to the College Council in 2005 and is the Chair of the Property Committee. He is a director of a locally based consulting structural engineering and building firm, TD & C Pty Ltd. Douglas brings his valuable consulting experience in the building and construction industry to the Council. He has been involved in the development of many school and education facilities such as Mowbray College, Melton, a project he was involved with from its inception. Douglas, his father and his brother all attended the College and his twin daughters both attended the St Kilda Road campus.

Sue originally trained as a teacher. She began her theological education at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji and completed it in Melbourne at the United Faculty of Theology. Sue has over 20 years experience in education, both with secular and Uniting Church schools including 15 years in the field of School Chaplaincy. Sue was ordained in 1997. Her School Chaplaincy work began at Geelong West Technical School and she later worked at Methodist Ladies’ College for 10 years. From 2003-2006, Sue was Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. She has a great interest in adolescent education and is very pleased to contribute to the Wesley College Council.