About UsAbout Us - Board of Management
Chair
Ms Amanda Milledge
Secretary
Mr Ian Sanders
Members
Georgina Costello
Ms Cheryl Delalande
Hon. Robert Knowles
Mr Jim Pasinis
Mr Stephen Schmidtke
Professor Steve Wesselingh
Hon. David White
Anex Board of Management
Amanda Milledge (Chair)
Amanda Milledge has a background as a commercial lawyer working in private practice and as an in-house lawyer. After some years as a senior associate with large commercial law firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, she changed career direction taking on the role of Pro Bono Coordinator in Mallesons’ Melbourne office.
Amanda has a particular interest in strategic philanthropy and in helping business, government and the community work together effectively to address important social issues. She is an accredited broker under the Partnership Brokers’ Accreditation Scheme, and a director of the Victorian Prostate Cancer Research Consortium.
Ian Sanders (Secretary)
Ian Sanders is an audit partner with Deloitte, with over 20 years experience in Australia and in the US. He has a strong understanding of the services, automotive, manufacturing and distribution businesses, alongside multinational and US GAAP complexities.
He led the Victorian Assurance and Advisory practice in the Melbourne office of Deloitte in 2007 and 2008, and now leads the Energy Infrastructure and Resource cluster within this group in 2009. Prior to 2007, Ian led Deloitte Accounting Advisory Services for three years, and spent 18 months in the Deloitte Stamford Connecticut office in 1995-1997
Ian has also spent 15 months as project manager for the BHP Billiton IFRS implementation and subsequently was also the lead accounting partner on the delivery of the fair value accounting for BHP Billiton’s acquisition of WMC Resources.
Georgina Costello
Georgina was an articled clerk and solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques before coming to bar in 2003. She read with Debbie Mortimer SC and Edwin Lorkin.
In 2007, she was associate counsel to a panel chaired by Paul Volcker reviewing corruption-related issues at the World Bank. She worked as a consultant investigator of internal fraud and misconduct at the United Nations in 2008. She has tutored property law at Newman College and speaks Italian.
Georgina is admitted to practice in New York, where she was a commercial litigator at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, working on anti-trust (trade practices) and securities litigation. Georgina has also researched human trafficking law and policy in the United States and Italy as a Winston Churchill Fellow.
Georgina regularly appears in trials and appeals with senior counsel and on her own. She accepts briefs in the areas of Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Trade Practices, Corporations Law, Civil Liberties, Administrative Law, Migration, International law, Property and Construction law, Professional disciplinary/misconduct matters and occupational health and safety.
Cheryl Delalande
Cheryl Delalande has been involved in the HIV/AIDS and harm reduction sectors for the past 23 years. She first worked in the field of HIV/AIDS, starting at the Albion Street AIDS Centre in 1986. Cheryl established one of the first NSPs in northern Sydney in 1989, and established and managed the first outreach NSP in Gosford, NSW. She is currently the Manager, Drug & Alcohol Services which includes the NSP Outreach Program, the Steroid Education Program and the Pharmacotherapy Prescribing Service at Darebin Community Health
Cheryl was responsible for the establishment in 1995 of the first incorporated peak body of NSPs in Victoria, the Association of Needle & Syringe Programs (ANEX Inc.). She has continued to contribute on the Anex Board of Management since then.
The Hon Robert Knowles AO
Rob Knowles has been the Chair of the Mental Health Council of Australia since April 2006. He is a member of the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission, and also Chair of the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia, Chair of the Royal Children's Hospital Campus Council, and a member of the Board of the Brotherhood of St Lawrence. He is a former Victorian Minister of Health, Housing and Aged Care and has a strong interest in services for consumers and their families and carers. Rob was awarded an Order of Australia in 2007.
Jim Pasinis
Jim Pasinis has extensive experience within both the private and public sector and has been in senior management roles for the last 30 years. Through his 23 years experience as the chief executive officer of community organisations, he has a strong understanding and commitment to leadership and more importantly has championed the concept of community ownership and control.
Jim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Banyule Community Health, the leading provider of primary health in the North West Region. He was for ten years a board member of the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association, seven years as the President of the North East Migrant Resource Centre, and a member of both the board of the Victorian Healthcare Association and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ethnic Affairs. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.
Stephen Schmidtke
Stephen Schmidtke has broad clinical experience in the health and welfare sector for the past 18 years. His skills include crisis work, case work, case management, outreach and counseling within a variety of service systems.
His career began in the homeless sector. Since then he has held a variety of clinical and management positions. He is currently the Executive Manager, Primary Health at North Richmond Community Health Limited. His portfolio of responsibilities includes the Drug Safety Program, Medical and Specialist Medical Services, Nursing and Allied Health Program, Counselling and Casework Program, Yarra Oral Health Program, and the Inner Melbourne Post Acute Care Program.
Professor Steve Wesselingh
Professor Steve Wesselingh is currently Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. Prior to taking up the Deanship in October of 2007, he was Director of the Burnet Institute. Professor Steve Wesselingh is recognised internationally as an expert in viruses that affect the human brain, and holds major grants from both the National Institutes of Health and National Health and Medical Research Council.
Initially trained as an Infectious Diseases Physician, in 1991 he was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellowship to continue the study of the neuroimmunology of HIV at the Neurovirology Unit in the Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. In 1993 he was appointed to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as Assistant Professor and was co-investigator on a successful National Institutes of Health program grant. In January 1999 he was appointed Professor and Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Monash University.
The Hon David White
David White was a Minister in the Victorian Government for more than 10 years. As Minister for Health he was responsible for the introduction of a free needle exchange and the establishment of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. David is now a director of Hawker Britton and a Council member at the University of Melbourne.
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