Our Board

Our Board members are passionately committed to improving the lives of carers, and bring a wide range of skills and experience to help us achieve our aims. Many of them also have personal experience of caring.

Callum Ingram – Board Chair

BSci (Hon), LLB, LLM, EMPM, GAICD

Board Director since 2016

Callum is now retired, and living the carer experience. He has over 25 years’ experience leading multidisciplinary teams across a variety of leadership roles in the public, NFP and private sectors.

Callum’s strengths lie in organisational transformation, continuous improvement and strategic planning, and he has extensive experience in corporate services, governance, strategy, and policy development. He also sits on the board of the Aurora Foundation Ltd.

Nick Field – Deputy Chair

Board Director since 2022

Nick currently holds a director role in the Victorian public sector, with responsibility for the corporate services functions of finance, people, IT and governance. Nick previously had over 15 years of public sector consulting experience with clients in the UK and throughout Victoria, across state departments, local government, emergency services and public entities.

A qualified facilitator and trainer, he is passionate about using his skills to support and improve public value organisations. With personal and family experience of caring, Nick is also active as a volunteer in local school and sporting organisations.

Karina Posanzini – Treasurer

Board Director since November 2023

Karina is a qualified Fellow Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) with over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership and governance positions in the Not-for-Profit and Commercial Sectors.

She is a results-oriented executive with demonstrated leadership qualities in creating visions for the future and delivering, with others, operational plans aligned to strategic visions.

Karina has a strong commitment to community service.

Carol Webb

Board Director since 2021

Carol has over 17 years’ experience in the Human Resources arena. She has developed and implemented a broad range of leadership, strategic human resource management and organisational capability programs. As an experienced HR consultant, she has proven ability to coach managers, facilitate a range of corporate programs and work at Board level. She has extensive experience in change management, strategic planning, and has a passion for education and training.

Carol has a young son who has the Treacher Collins syndrome and is deaf. She is committed to enhancing the level of support and opportunities for Carers and their families. She is excited to be able to contribute to Carers Victoria and ensure its long-term success. Her formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and Masters of Management. She has also completed the AICD Womens’ Board leadership program.

Tina DiNello

Board Director / AR&C Committee Member since 2021

An experienced Chartered Accountant with Big 4 training further developed in industry through extensive assurance and governance focus including enterprise risk management, compliance and regulatory, internal audit, operational improvement and excellence, business resilience and policy frameworks.

Tina’s philosophy is to apply sound commercial acumen to the delivery of business outcomes.

She has broad experience in industries including Telco, Education (HE & VE), Retail, Consumer and Healthcare.

She has demonstrated skills with the ability to drive change management in dynamic and complex organisations, aligning strategic imperatives with business operations to support growth, vision and improving corporate governance.

Tina has worked closely with Boards, ARCs, Subcommittees and Executive Leadership Teams (SteerCo’s) and believes that her ability to drive uplift and maturity lies directly with her team and has a high focus on people management skills including leadership and mentoring to achieve a strong team culture.

Tim Moore

BA, MChild&AdolWelf, MYouthStudies, PhD

Board Director since March 2023 / Governance Committee Member since 2022

Tim is a child welfare academic who has worked as a youth worker, advocate and researcher, engaging directly with children, young people and their families to improve the services and systems around them. For more than 25 years, Tim has been an advocate for caring families: establishing young carer programs across Australia, conducting research to better understand their experiences, and assuming governance and representative roles to promote the needs and contributions of carers on the local, national and international stages. Tim has been a director on the boards of Carers ACT and Carers Australia and was President of CA from 2010-2014. He has sat on Ministerial Councils, Advisory Boards, and Committees and has worked with state and territory governments to implement a variety of carer strategies.

Tim is a keen advocate for consumer-led policy and service delivery and believes that unless they actively engage people with disability, mental health issues and with other care needs, their carers and families, systems and services will fail to adequately respond to their needs.

Berin Lautenbach

Board Director since November 2023

Berin has 30+ years of experience in the fields of information security and information risk management. Currently the Chief Information Security Officer of a large corporate, he has extensive technical background in many aspects of information and IT security and programming, gained through a combination of technical, hands on and executive security leadership in large enterprises.

Berin combines this technical expertise with strong strategic acumen, a focus on practical solutions and experience in working with Boards and Committees to effect real change. Berin is also a member of the Carers Victoria Compliance, Audit and Finance Committee.

Jill Gleeson

Board Member since November 2024

Jill is a qualified health professional with extensive experience in service delivery and governance. Currently employed in the Victorian public service, Jill brings extensive knowledge of clinical governance, quality and safety matters and a strong commitment to enhancing services and supports for carers.

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Executive Team

Our Executive Team are guiding the charge for change and action for Victoria's caring families.

Judith Abbott - CEO

Judith is a highly qualified and well-rounded senior executive with extensive experience in government, not-for-profit and private organisations. She has particular strengths in organisational strategy, policy and advocacy, planning, and managing through change with a sophisticated understanding of how government works. Judith is an engaging and enthusiastic leader who is also a natural connector with a rich network. She delivers creative and sustainable solutions to complex problems, effectively working in complex and often contested governance and operating environments. She has extensive experience working with boards, committees, ministers and sector leaders. Passionate about improving systems, Judith is skilled at helping organisations develop effective strategy, policy and advocacy approaches that have a positive social impact.

Andrew Lyall
General Manager – Impact and Engagement

Andrew is an experienced not-for-profit sector executive with a successful track record of leading organisational change within complex funding environments. He previously worked within the disability sector, focussing on strategy, performance and the transformation of organisational systems, service models and culture (particularly in response to the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme).

Andrew has held a number of executive positions including COO, Deputy / Interim CEO, Director and Executive Manager.

Andrew commenced in the role of GM, Policy and Engagement, in February 2023. He believes understanding the needs of multiple stakeholders is key to enabling effective social policy.

Janine Sherrard
General Manager - Communications, Policy and Partnership

Megan McAlpine
General Manager - Carer Advisory Response and Innovation and Deputy CEO

Megan has extensive experience in both service management and corporate strategy. This has included setting up and overseeing a not-for-profit phone-based assistance service during the pandemic and working within the banking sector to establish a whole of organisational approach to identifying and supporting vulnerable customers. Recently, she has worked with Carers Victoria in a consultancy capacity on mapping carer experience journeys through the organisation and developing a framework for cross organisational planning.  

Megan has strong experience in developing and overseeing services and frameworks for vulnerable and/or complex clients and leading change, and a real enthusiasm for contributing to Carers Victoria’s mission.