Chair, SVI Foundation Board
Ms Inge is an accredited practising dietitian with over 30 years’ experience, specialising in the areas of sports dietetics and nutrition communication. Ms Inge is the founding member and Past President of Sports Dietitians Australia and founding Head of Nutrition at the Victorian Institute of Sport. She has been a Director of the Institute of Health and Fitness, Melbourne since 1989. She is a respected nutrition commentator for media and is heavily involved in community service and philanthropy.
Rhonda Barro is an Executive Director of Barro Group. She has over 43 years of construction materials industry and executive management experience in line and functional areas, and is highly regarded for her skills in maximising the effectiveness of the strategies and structures across the Group. Her breadth of experience also extends to a true insight and appreciation of the issues that face business leaders today. She continues to take a supportive and active role in community involvement. A Fellow of the Williamson Community Leadership Program, Rhonda is also currently a Director, Independent Cement and Lime Pty Ltd, Trustee of the May & Romeo Schiavon Endowment, Director, Co.As.It. Italian Assistance Association, and Chair, Italian Historical Society Strategy Committee.
For over fifteen years, Kallie has applied her experience, education and enthusiasm to the social sector through her work with international philanthropic and not-for-profit organisations. Her previous work included roles at: Skoll Foundation (United States), Very Special Kids (Australia), The United Nations Development Programme/ UNAIDS (India) and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Australia). In 2015, Kallie commenced as the Director of MGA (Monash Gallery of Art) which is the Australian home of photography. In 2017, she became a Trustee of MGA. Kallie is also Vice President of the National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association.
Prior to starting her own Corporate Affairs consultancy in 2003, Ms Coutts held senior positions in Corporate Affairs with some of Australia’s leading corporations including Transurban, Siemens, Hoechst and CitiPower. Her experience is wide ranging and has covered all facets of corporate affairs from issues, crisis and media management through to Government, Stakeholder, Community and Investor Relations. She holds degrees in Public Relations/Politics and Law.
Since studying art, Caroline has worked in catering, event planning and as a personal assistant. She is the current past President of the National Gallery Victoria Women’s Association and the current Honorary Treasurer of The Alexandra Club.
Ms Dennis is the Director of BD Concepts Pty Ltd, a consultancy company, focusing on providing customer service skills, sales training and marketing concepts for the hospitality, tourism and travel industries. Prior to its establishment in March 2007, Ms Dennis was Vice President, Asia Pacific for Marriott International‘s Global Sales Organisation based at the Marriott Asia Pacific Regional Office in Hong Kong. Ms Dennis worked for Marriott International for 22 years and spent 10 years working in hospitality in the US. In addition to the SVI Foundation Board, Bernadette currently sits on the Marriott Vacation Club Asia Pacific Advisory Board and St Joseph’s Outreach Services. She is also involved with other not-for-profits, and participates in TIME, a mentoring programme for the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industries here in Australia.
Margaret’s professional background is as a lawyer, initially as a teacher at Monash University and the University of Melbourne and then, from 1997 to 2009, as a barrister practising mainly in white collar crime at the Victorian Bar. Since then she has been extensively involved in the not-for-profit sector as a director of St Mary’s House of Welcome for 10 years, a member of the Board of the Centre Against Sexual Assault (Footscray) for 3 years and a member of the Advisory Education Board for the Loretto and FCJ Schools and its successor, the FCJ School Board, for 2 more years. She has been a member of the University of Melbourne Behavioural and Social Science Ethics Committee since 2008 and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Ethics Committee since 2012.
Simon Marton is Chief Executive Officer of Starward Distillery, Australia’s largest premium whisky producer located in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Prior to Starward Simon spent over 20 years with Treasury Wine Estates and the Fosters Group, most recently as Global Chief Marketing Officer for Treasury Wine Estates, the largest publicly listed wine company in the world. Simon has over 25 years’ experience in strategy, marketing, communications, PR, export and the beverage industry and was rated in Australia’s Top 50 CMO’s in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by CMO Magazine. Simon has an MBA from Monash University and joined the SVI Board in November 2019.