Gerard Dalbosco recently retired as a partner at EY, following a distinguished career where he held a number of senior leadership roles including Oceania Managing Partner and CEO; Asia Pacific Managing Partner – Markets, and Joint Deputy CEO; Oceania Managing Partner – Transaction Advisory Services; and Melbourne Managing Partner.

Prior to these roles he built a successful career advising many organisations, across a range of sectors, in respect of their capital agenda, including merger and acquisitions advice, and strategic, commercial and financial due diligence.

Gerard has considerable governance experience, including in current roles at Medibank Private Ltd (Director and Member of Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee), Gillespie Family Council and Gillespie Family Foundation (Chair) and Director of the Melbourne Prize Trust.

Previous governance roles have included at Committee for Melbourne (Director, Deputy Chair and Chair of Finance, Audit and Risk), Mercy Health (Director and Chair of Finance and Audit Committee), Berry Street (Director and Member of Finance Committee), Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak (Chair and Chair of Finance Committee), Newman College (Member of Finance Committee) and the NGV Business Council (Chair).

Róisín Annesley is President of the Victorian Bar, and a former long-serving member and Chair of the Victorian Bar Ethics Committee. Róisín practises in the areas of torts, professional negligence, insurance and professional disciplinary matters, and has a strong commercial litigation background in the areas of contract, misrepresentation, property and unconscionable conduct. In recognition of her leadership and excellence as an advocate, Róisín was appointed silk in 2013. Róisín is the author of the Good Conduct Guide: Professional Standards for Australian Barristers, which provides guidance to barristers in the ethical principles of good practice.

Alongside her background in Catholic education, Róisín also brings legal and ethical knowledge and experience to MACS. As the current President of the Victorian Bar Council and Chair of Lennon’s List Barristers, Róisín brings significant corporate governance experience to MACS. She is currently a director of three companies and/or charitable trusts associated with the Victorian Bar and is a director of the Australian Bar Association. Formerly she was a long-serving Trustee and Director of Law Aid, a charitable trust established by the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar Council, to provide assistance in civil litigation to those who would otherwise be unable to afford its costs.

Professor Greg Craven is one of Australia’s foremost education leaders and legal scholars, with a long and distinguished history of contributions to higher education, law, policy and the Catholic Church.

Educated at St Kevin’s College and the University of Melbourne, Professor Craven has held leadership, research and teaching positions at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Curtin University, the Victorian Parliament, University of Notre Dame Australia and the Australian Catholic University. An expert in public law, Professor Craven has researched and written on constitutional law, government, public policy, constitutional history and federalism. Professor Craven was the Vice Chancellor and President of Australian Catholic University for 13 years. Under his leadership, the university embedded a culture of performance and service excellence, continuing a legacy of Catholic intellectual tradition, faith and reason.

Professor Craven has a long history of service to the community, having served on many public bodies including the Truth, Justice and Healing Commission, the National School Resourcing Board and the Teacher Education Expert Standing Committee of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. He previously served as a Commissioner of the National Catholic Education Commission.

In recognition of his contributions to higher education, law, policy and the Church, Professor Craven was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia, and appointed by Pope Francis as a Consultant to the Holy See’s Congregation for Catholic Education and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great.

Frank FitzGerald is an education leader and former principal, with a strong commitment to Catholic education and school leadership. Beginning his career as a classroom teacher, Frank has served in a variety of positions in archdiocesan schools – as well as in regional and interstate schools – from the 1970s until his retirement in 2008. Frank served a total of 25 years as principal at Kilbreda College, Mentone (co-principal), Catholic Regional College, Melton (11 years) and St Bernard’s College, Essendon (13 years). As principal, Frank developed educational programs to meet the diverse needs of students, designed and introduced digital solutions for the curriculum and school administration, and led improvements to school facilities.

Following his retirement, Frank served as the CEO of Catholic Secondary Principals Australia – the peak body for more than 450 Catholic secondary principals. As CEO, Frank played a key liaison role with government and other agencies that oversee education in Australia. Frank continues to work with the Principals Association of Victorian Catholic Secondary Schools and is also the founding Director of Principal Assist Consulting.

Frank has made many trips to Africa to support Catholic works, including with Edmund Rice Ministries in Kenya and the Comboni Missionary Sisters in South Sudan. Frank brings a perspective that is deeply rooted in a strong commitment to the Catholic faith and a passion for raising educational standards and engaging school communities.

Fr Michael Gallacher is the Parish Priest of St Roch’s, Glen Iris, having been appointed there in January 2017. Ordained in 2012, Fr Michael completed postgraduate study in canon law. He served as assistant priest at Box Hill Parish from 2014 to 2015 and priest-in-residence at Blackburn South Parish in 2016. He spent seven years working in the Marriage Tribunal and still serves as a canon lawyer in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Fr Michael comes from a family of teachers and played an integral role on the Steering Committee, leading to the establishment of MACS.

Carolyn Ireland is an experienced company director with a distinguished, two-decade career in a variety of executive and directorial roles in the investment banking, health, not-for-profit, pharmaceutical and packaging industries.

A chartered accountant, Carolyn is currently General Manager, Investor Relations and Strategy, at Pact Group. Prior roles have included Head of Strategy, Merger and Acquisitions, and Investor Relations at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Group Treasurer at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Epworth HealthCare and Australian Unity, and Chief Financial Officer at GBS Venture Partners.

Carolyn brings a deep experience of the education sector to the MACS board as a director of the Xavier College Foundation. She is also a director at the International Women’s Development Agency, an aid agency operating across South-East Asia. Further, Carolyn chairs the Investment Committee as a director at Defence Health, one of Australia’s largest private health insurers.

Geraldine Leslie is a human resources executive with significant experience in leading people and business operations, including in human resources, safety, diversity and inclusion, culture, capability, change management, corporate affairs and customer services.

As the Executive General Manager, People and Culture, at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Geraldine is currently responsible for overseeing AEMO’s human resources, health and safety, culture, talent and leadership activities. Geraldine has worked in senior executive and leadership roles within a diverse range of organisations in energy, manufacturing, health and local government.

Geraldine has also been a past member of the White Lion Leadership Advisory Council, held roles on the Ai Group’s Victorian State Council and National Advisory Council and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

John McLindon is an executive leader with a distinguished career using data insights to develop policy and deliver effective communication and campaign strategies. John is the Co-Founder and Director of data and analytics firm The Red Fox Group where he advises some of the country’s most successful companies on data-driven strategies.

John also has experience at the highest levels of government, including three years as the Chief of Staff to Victorian Premier the Hon. Daniel Andrews, working closely with the Premier, the Victorian Cabinet and the heads of the Victorian Public Service on the implementation, delivery and communication of the Victorian Government’s policy agenda. John directly led a team of over 200 government ministerial staff and chaired a nine-member executive team whose members covered areas of policy, governance, strategic communications, media and digital, stakeholder relations and human resources. John also serves on the Board of Directors of Musculoskeletal Australia.

Lucinda Nolan has had a formidable career in public and emergency services, having served as the first female CEO of the Country Fire Authority (CFA), one of the world’s largest volunteer-based emergency service organisations.

Prior to joining the CFA, Lucinda spent 32 years with the Victoria Police, reaching the rank of Deputy Commissioner. Much of the role was dedicated to the continual improvement of service delivery in the face of complex and competing crime, disorder and service demands. She was awarded the Australian Police Medal in 2009.

Passionate about community service and adding public value, Lucinda has extensive experience in working with governments, managing high-profile incidents and advocating for change.

Currently the CEO of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, Lucinda brings to the board extensive corporate governance experience through current and previous directorships at BankVic, Hawthorn Football Club, Alkira and the Penington Institute.

Dr Margaret O’Donnell has had a long and distinguished career in Catholic education, having served as a principal for more than 20 years, and brings a keen insight into the challenges school leaders and teachers face in delivering a uniquely Catholic education.

Dr O’Donnell served as a Catholic school principal firstly at St Pius X School, West Heidelberg, and subsequently at St Gregory the Great School, Doncaster. As a principal, Dr O’Donnell introduced advanced literacy programs that lifted the educational standards at her schools, improved engagement with the student body and improved conditions at the school by investing in capital works. In 2002, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Education by the Australian Catholic University.

Following her retirement as a principal, Dr O’Donnell worked as a principal consultant in the Archdiocese of Melbourne to support the principals of 16 schools from Mornington to St Kilda in the southern region.

Dr O’Donnell brings corporate governance experience through her service on the Board of St Vincent de Paul in Victoria and the Committee of Management of the Eastern Palliative Care Association.

In 2018, Dr O’Donnell was awarded with the papal Croce Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. This award from Pope Francis recognises distinguished service to the Catholic Church. She is a member of the Order of Malta .

Tim O’Leary is Executive Director Stewardship at the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, responsible for the business, financial and governance aspects of the Archdiocese. He has held senior corporate affairs, human resources and sustainability roles at Telstra, National Australia Bank and Mobil Oil Australia, with considerable experience in program delivery across these disciplines.

Tim also brings significant corporate governance experience as a director of Mercy Health and Newman College.