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Melbourne Business School Impact Report 2016 A

IMPACT REPORT

INSPIRATIONAL IMPACT

2016

Melbourne Business School Impact Report 2016B Melbourne Business School Impact Report 2016 1

REIMAGINE POTENTIAL. REDESIGN THE FUTURE.REBUILD COMMUNITIES.

CONTENTSDean’s Message .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2

Growing Capability .......................................................................................................................................................................................................4

Mastering the business of art ............................................................................................................................................................................4

Helping global citizens become global and community leaders .............................................................................................................6

Supporting future leaders for over 25 years ................................................................................................................................................7

Planting seeds .........................................................................................................................................................................................................8

Increasing Capacity ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 10

BioDesign Innovation: Helping doctors see what they’ve never seen before ................................................................................ 10

A.T. Kearney partnership supports Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre .................................................................................................. 12

Supporting social entrepreneurship ............................................................................................................................................................. 14

New scholarship to have enduring impact on not-for-profits .............................................................................................................. 15

Building Communities ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17

Reimagining Greater Shepparton ................................................................................................................................................................... 17

The class gift that keeps on giving ................................................................................................................................................................ 18

Building students who build their communities ....................................................................................................................................... 20

Thank You to our Donors ................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

In conversation with Victoria’s travel champion ...................................................................................................................................... 23

Helen Macpherson Smith Trust: A powerful 25-year partnership ..................................................................................................... 24

Impactful Giving – 2016 ................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

The Dean’s Circle ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 27

2016 Donors ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29

Executive Committee ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 32

Alumni Council 2016 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 32

Board of Directors 2016 ................................................................................................................................................................................... 33

Meet the Advancement Team ......................................................................................................................................................................... 34

Pledge Card ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36

I have been a member of faculty for

the past 15 years and became

Associate Dean of Engagement in

November 2016. My appointment

forms part of the School’s commitment

to developing an engagement strategy

that will deepen the relevance and

impact of our work. The objective of

the engagement strategy is twofold; to

amplify and strengthen the School’s

impact on individuals, organisations

and communities.

We are an institution that has strength

in engagement. I am proud of the

School’s achievements in building the

capabilities of individuals and the

capacity of organisations and

communities to realise their ambitions.

Our programs change the way people

think about business and how business

acumen and capabilities can address

challenging issues in industry,

government and social contexts.

We also challenge our students and

program participants to think about

their careers in new ways and the

difference they can make in their

organisations and communities.

Melbourne Business School is an agent

of change that helps individuals,

organisations and communities to

reimagine and redefine their futures.

We are excited to share with you

stories of our impact over 2016. These

stories, including Kirsten Paisley’s

journey from regional Victoria to our

nation’s capital, the pioneering

BioDesign Innovation program, and

our support of Indigenous economic

development, are but a few exemplars

of the School’s commitment to growing

the capabilities of individuals,

increasing the capacity of

organisations and building

communities.

Philanthropy is a critical enabler of

this impact. It is with the support of

gifts, both large and small, that we are

able to be brave and bold in our

innovative approach to impact.

Thank you again for partnering with us

on this impact journey. Our objective

now is to build on our strengths in

order to deepen our impact and to

play a transformative role in the lives

of individuals, organisations and

communities. We look forward to

working together throughout the

exciting times ahead.

I would like to extend a heartfelt thank

you to our students, alumni, faculty,

staff, industry partners and the

broader community for your continued

support.

Dr Jody Evans

Associate Dean, Engagement

Associate Professor, Marketing

Melbourne Business School

DEAN’S MESSAGEMelbourne Business School is profoundly grateful to our

generous community of students, alumni, faculty, staff and

friends. Your support has played a critical role in helping the

School strengthen its impact and extend its reach to more

diverse students, organisations and communities.

Melbourne Business School is built on your generosity. Our

alumni and the business community were essential to the

establishment of our campus, raising $17 million between

1983 and 1991 to build the north wing of our building. This

year, we are reinvesting in our facilities – work is underway

on the multi-million-dollar revitalisation of our campus,

allowing us to better leverage our position as a global hub for

business education in the heart of Melbourne’s knowledge

precinct and provide new opportunities for members of our

community to learn, network and work with each other. It is a

very exciting project, and one that will define this year and

many years ahead for our School.

Our values – being connected, grounded, future focused and

determined – support all that we do. These values have

underpinned our enhanced reputation. Last December, our

School was ranked ninth in the world by the 2016 Bloomberg

BusinessWeek International MBA ranking, while in January

we climbed 11 places in the 2017 Financial Times Global MBA

ranking. I’m also delighted to say that our Marketing faculty

were named in the world’s top three by the Financial Times.

We also saw improvement of nine places in The Economist

Which MBA? to now rank 34th in the world, while improving

18 places in Poets and Quants to rank 20th.

As a community, our successes are shared. At the heart of the

MBS story is our shared hunger for progress, which unites

our students, faculty, alumni and supporters, and sustains our

mission to enable individuals and organisations to be global

leaders through the creation, application and dissemination

of business and economics knowledge.

There are many success stories at the School over the past

year. Within this Impact Report, we are delighted to share

just a few examples of inspirational impact, made possible by

our generous community of supporters.

Thank you sincerely,

Professor Zeger Degraeve

Dean, Melbourne Business School

Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics

The University of Melbourne

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MASTERING THE BUSINESS OF ARTKirsten Paisley isn’t your typical MBA

graduate – she’s in a class of her own in a

sector that has greatly benefited from

her leadership, creativity and dedication.

As the Deputy Director of the National

Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Kirsten

leads more than 100 people, from the

curatorial department through to HR, and

has been a driving force behind elevating

art in Australia and bringing world-

renowned exhibitions like Versailles to

our shores.

More than this, she has revitalised

Australia’s appetite for art, breathing new

life into Canberra and creating NGA Play

– a free children’s gallery that introduces

the young, and young at heart, to art

history, culture and themes such as

politics and power.

Kirsten has worked in the arts for almost

20 years, having studied a Bachelor of

Visual Arts and a Master of Curatorship at

the University of Melbourne.

But it took a scholarship to study a

Senior Executive MBA at Melbourne

Business School in 2014 to accelerate her

career from a regional art gallery in

Shepparton to the National Gallery of

Australia.

“For me, in the regional context at the

Shepparton Arts Museum, as the Director,

it just wouldn’t have been possible from

a time commitment and financial

perspective to participate in the program

without a scholarship,” said Kirsten.

The Senior Executive MBA added to

Kirsten’s existing skillset and built her

confidence to scale up to the national

level.

“The MBA provided me with new skills to lead organisations through major change and understand how you perform best in the workplace, as well as the ability to look at financial management strategies while entertaining creative ideas about where to take an organisation and group of people.”

Kirsten’s journey to the top began when

she met Melbourne Business School

Associate Professor Jody Evans, who was

leading a social impact study that

included the Shepparton Art Museum.

The study looked at four Victorian art

museums and chose Shepparton as a

best-practice case study.

“That was particularly valuable for me, as

the Director, because it was the

Melbourne Business School, an institution

of such rank and standing, outside the

visual arts sector, looking with a different

lens at the work we were doing. It

demonstrated to us that we had unique,

special and valuable stories to tell.”

With her gaze still fixed on bringing

communities together through art,

Kirsten uses her MBA skills whenever

challenges come her way in Canberra.

“I often find myself, in difficult moments,

referring back to the reading material

and actually going back through the

content that the faculty and staff

provided to us – and you find yourself

better able to make good decisions.”


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HELPING GLOBAL CITIZENS BECOME GLOBAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS

Developing future business leaders is

what we do best. For more than

25 years, the Rupert Murdoch

Fellowship has made that task a lot

easier by helping our MBA program

attract top talent, such as 2016 recipient

Miguel Gomez.

Receiving the fellowship, which pays for

tuition fees and a living allowance, isn’t

the only reason US-born Miguel chose

Melbourne Business School. A girl he

met in the Mexican city of Guadalajara,

while visiting his mother, can also take

some of the credit.

When they first met, Miguel was a

financial analyst at Los Angeles-based

Stamps.com, where the leadership team

all had MBAs from top US business

schools. They noticed Miguel’s

leadership potential and suggested he

consider following their example.

Miguel continued with Stamps.com for a

while – and with his very long-distance

relationship with the German-born girl

he met in Mexico. But she lived in Perth,

so he eventually took the plunge and

moved to the other side of the world to

marry her – then his career took off.

By the time he applied to do his MBA

here, Miguel was already a senior

manager at BGC, one of Australia’s

largest home builders, and a board

member of Southcare, an aged-care

provider in Perth.

“My involvement with Southcare has really changed my thinking about how people in their 20s and 30s can have an impact in the not-for-profit world,” Miguel said.

On a visit to the School, a faculty

member suggested he apply for the

fellowship, which he did via a video,

featuring the many ways he and his wife

can say ‘hello’, including ‘Hola’, ‘Guten

Tag’ and a fairly decent ‘Gidday’.

It worked. Miguel was asked to fly to

Melbourne to meet Penny Fowler, the

Herald and Weekly Times Chair and

representative of News Corp, the

fellowship’s generous sponsor.

“Penny must have seen something in

me,” Miguel recalled. “She does quite a

bit of community work herself, so

maybe what I’m doing at Southcare had

an impact on her.”

Miguel hopes to become a consultant

after graduating, and eventually run his

own company, but says he will always

continue with his community work.

“That’s really important to me. I don’t

ever see it going away because I’ve

really enjoyed working with the people

at Southcare.”

SUPPORTING FUTURE LEADERS FOR OVER 25 YEARS

The Rupert Murdoch Fellowship has supported the

careers of some remarkable leaders since 1989,

when News Corporation established the award to

commemorate the 25th anniversary of The

Australian newspaper. Past recipients include:

Sandra de Pury (MBA 1994)

who helped turn her family’s prestigious

154-year-old Yeringberg winery in

Victoria’s Yarra Valley into an

internationally renowned label.

Christopher Freeland (MBA 1996)

The former Boston Consulting Group

Consultant, post-MBA, is the long-time

Chair of the Sydney Film Festival and

recently became the Managing Director,

Asia Pacific, of Baker and McKenzie, the

world’s No. 2 law firm by revenue.

Justine Tiller (MBA 2006)

Since graduating, the former Boston

Consulting Group Consultant and

company director at Social Housing

Victoria and YWCA Victoria, has carved

out a distinguished career at ANZ Bank,

where she’s now the Head of Home Loan

Fulfilment & Releases and Retail

Customer Services.

Daniel Westerman (MBA 2008)

A Senior Engineer at Ford before his

MBA, who went on to become an

Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co

and is now the Head of Network

Management at National Grid, UK, which

owns and operates the power

transmission across England and Wales.

Rupert Murdoch Fellowship Recipient, Miguel Gomez (left) with his fellow MBA classmate

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Scholarships and awards not only

encourage excellence in our students,

they are an investment in tomorrow’s

leaders – the seeds from which big

things grow. Donations from

individuals, organisations and alumni

are bearing fruit in diverse

communities and sectors, where

grateful recipients are shaping the

future, locally and globally.


Alumni Community Scholarship

Egon Zehnder Leadership Prize Forethought-Roberts Prize

in Business Analytics

Harold Campbell-Pretty Scholarship

HJ Heinz Scholarship

Helen Macpherson Smith Fellowship

John Clemenger Memorial Prize

Grateful Graduate Bursary

AT Kearney Scholarship in Business Analytics

Rupert Murdoch Fellowship

John Clemenger Memorial Scholarship

Converge International Prize

Reid Malley Foundation Scholarship

BP Australia Scholarship in Business Analytics

Hellenic Scholarship

Telstra Scholarship for Indigenous Australians

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BIODESIGN INNOVATION: HELPING DOCTORS SEE WHAT THEY’VE NEVER SEEN BEFOREHow can MBA students help doctors see like they’ve never seen before,

improve patient care and even save lives?

The answer: BioDesign Innovation – an

elective program that brings together

MBA students from Melbourne Business

School, biomedical engineering students

from the University of Melbourne and

doctors to commercialise medical

interventions in hospital and clinical

settings.

First run in 2016, the BioDesign

Innovation program at MBS was led by

Associate Professor Kwanghui Lim to

give our Part-time MBA students an

innovation experience they would never

forget, while showing the world how

MBA thinking could deliver better health

outcomes.

One such outcome brings greater

accuracy to a delicate procedure that

doctors previously performed with

limited assistance. Now, thanks to a

device created by students in Team Navi,

doctors can identify the tip of umbilical

venous catheters – a tube for delivering

drugs or nutrients to sick babies – and

know they’re where they need to be.

The device, which is based on a traffic

light system, is a breakthrough for

newborn babies who require the

procedure. Currently, one in three

catheters are misplaced and the

procedure has not improved for more

than 60 years.

Team Navi’s device is not only having a

remarkable impact, but also making

headlines after featuring on National

Nine News. Ideas from the Swade and

Pelt teams also attracted attention by

finishing in the final five of the 2017

MedTech’s Got Talent competition, with

each team picking up $20,000 and the

opportunity for mentoring in an

incubator by leading MedTech

companies.

And Team Neuro’s computer-based

platform, to help stroke patients begin

rehabilitating themselves while in

hospital, won an Institute of Electrical

and Electronics Engineers award and

two Endeavour awards from the Faculty

of Engineering and Wade Institute,

which runs postgraduate

entrepreneurship programs at the

University.

Altogether, 22 students formed five,

cross-faculty teams to work with

physicians to turn innovative time, cost

and life-saving ideas into commercial

propositions.

Their ideas also included a device to

detect misplaced nasogastric tubes,

which provide stomach access via the

nose, a sensor to place intravenous lines

accurately in newborns and a less

intrusive LED phototherapy device for

treating jaundice in newborns.

For Founding Donor, film producer and

long-time MBS alumnus and donor, Ian

Kirk (MBA 1998), who has previously

supported our PhD students and the

MURRA Indigenous program, the impact

was everything.

“We have developed a solution that can potentially identify the tip of these catheters in real-time, during a procedure, so we can help the 450,000 babies around the world who require treatment get the clinical outcomes they need.”

SHING YUE SHEUNG, STUDENT,

BIODESIGN INNOVATION PROGRAM

“This course can only happen by working closely with colleagues in Engineering, Carlton Connect, the accelerator helping with commercialisation, and hospitals and medical professionals in Melbourne. The students are learning important lessons you could never teach from a textbook or classroom. They’re creating a live case that unfolds in front of the eyes over nine months. They’re part of a very exciting journey.

Donations have been important too, and not just the money. Donors come in and support the students, which boosts their morale and really propels the program.”

KWANGHUI LIM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND BIODESIGN INNOVATION PROGRAM

COORDINATOR, MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Kwang leads MBS students to tackle medical innovation with business acumen through the BioDesign Innovation Program.

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A.T. KEARNEY PARTNERSHIP SUPPORTS PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTREMelbourne Business School’s Centre for Business Analytics collaborated with

management consulting firm A.T. Kearney to review the Peter Mac Cancer

Foundation’s (PMCF) donor acquisition strategy. The project was

commissioned by Jennifer Doubell, Executive Director of the Foundation,

and executed on a pro-bono basis by A.T. Kearney and the Centre.

The project leveraged data and

analytics to learn about the

effectiveness of different types of

donor acquisition campaigns and

provided the Foundation with advice

on optimising future campaigns.

Rebecca Wilson, Senior Analytics

Analyst at A.T. Kearney and dux of

our 2015 Master of Business

Analytics class, worked on the

project, guided by the Centre’s

Director, Professor Ujwal Kayande.

Commenting on the project’s impact,

Jennifer Doubell said, “The work of

Rebecca, Ujwal and colleagues has

been very helpful. It has provided the

Foundation with totally independent

analysis, a rational hygiene check on

our in-house analytics, and fresh

insights and advice on how we should

formulate our strategy for the future.”

A.T. Kearney Senior Manager Kate

Hart (MBA 2007), who attended the

February 2017 project presentations

to PMCF’s senior leadership,

commented, “It was great to see the

comradery and strong relationship

between A.T. Kearney, Melbourne

Business School and the Peter Mac

Cancer Foundation. A relationship

forged through a truly collaborative

and valuable piece of work.”

The project delivered impact for one

of Australia’s premier not-for-profit

organisations by combining the

School’s business analytics expertise

with A.T. Kearney’s strong capabilities

in strategy and analytics applications.

It built upon analysis done for Peter

Mac by the School’s 2015 and 2016

Master of Business Analytics students

as part of the Marketing Analytics

subject, taught by Professor Kayande.

About a year after graduating,

Rebecca Wilson expressed an interest

in taking a deeper dive into the data

to uncover insights that would assist

Peter Mac’s donor acquisition

strategy. Her interest was

immediately supported by A.T.

Kearney, who seconded her to work

on the project for several weeks.

Working on the ground with the team

at Peter Mac gave Rebecca an

appreciation of the long-term impact

of running a successful acquisition

campaign on the cancer centre’s

patients and staff.

“To then be able to co-develop a solution that uses the right application of analytics to unlock new, tangible insights on what can make or break a campaign and, ultimately, what actions the Foundation can now take to continue to effectively support the hospital has reinforced for me just how powerful analytics and data-driven decision making can be for the not-for-profit sector,” Rebecca said.

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SUPPORTING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

NEW SCHOLARSHIP TO HAVE ENDURING IMPACT ON NOT-FOR-PROFITS

Contributions to the Melbourne Business

School Annual Fund in 2016 have

enabled Full-time MBA students to

participate in the Social Entrepreneur

Consulting Practicum, delivered in

partnership with Social Traders through

their Crunch program.

Social Traders works to break the cycle

of disadvantage, build resilience in

Australian communities and contribute

to sustainable social impact and change

by supporting social enterprises who

create employment, provide access to

services and strengthen local

communities.


Associate Professor, Geoff Martin, leading a class during the Social Entrepreneur Consulting Practicum.

“The kind of achievement expected of an MBA applicant is often skewed towards people from affluent backgrounds. Those of lesser means, regardless of their academic achievement, can be deterred from applying for financial reasons or fear not being accepted by their cohort.

“This scholarship communicates that our MBA is open to all who qualify, without the need to worry about finances. It sends a clear message of equality of opportunity, or ‘égalité’, as the French say.”

KRYSTYNA CAMPBELL-PRETTY

A new, full-fee-paying MBA scholarship,

focused on the not-for-profit sector,

honours one of Melbourne Business

School’s most generous donors, Harold

Campbell-Pretty, who passed away in

2014.

Established in 2016 by Harold’s wife

Krystyna, the Harold Campbell-Pretty

Scholarship seeks to develop corporate-

standard leadership and management

practices in a sector that is critical for

our social, cultural and economic

development.

The not-for-profit sector encompasses a

diverse range of organisations including

health, social services, education, sport

and recreation, arts and culture,

environment, animal welfare, and

human rights. Such organisations play a

vital role in creating an inclusive,

healthy, vibrant society. While these

for-purpose organisations have innate

strengths in addressing the needs of

their communities, they need help in

building their capability and capacity.

Business strategy, financial literacy,

marketing and people management are

part of an essential skill set that

not-for-profit leaders need.

“The sector is of increasing importance

in today’s disparate world,” Krystyna

says, “and any organisation within it will

benefit from the skills that a high-calibre

management education can bring.”

Always great admirers of the School,

Harold and Krystyna rank among our

most generous and loyal donors as

Lifetime Patrons of the Dean’s Circle.

In the 1980s, Harold and his wife

Krystyna turned one of Australia’s first

agencies to use market data to inform

market strategy into a global player.

Their Amberley Corporation’s client list

included Ford Motor Company, Compaq

Computers, IBM and British Airways.

Making their business success even

more impressive, the Campbell-Prettys

both come from humble beginnings,

which is why Krystyna is so pleased to

be supporting a sector where people

often can’t afford to consider studying

an MBA.

The Harold Campbell-Pretty Scholarship

will enable MBS to play a vital role in

supporting individuals who often

sacrifice financial rewards to lead

organisations that will change the world.

We recognise Krystyna for her visionary

gift and the role both Krystyna and

Harold have played in creating the next

generation of change makers.

The Social Traders’ Crunch program

helps new and existing social enterprises

start, transform or scale up. In a week of

intensive work, the practicum pairs MBS

students in syndicate groups with social

enterprises who, this year, were trying

to find jobs for migrant and refugee

women, make nutritional food accessible

to low-income groups, assist people

facing workforce issues, strengthen

community governance, and tackle social

isolation and food insecurity.

The students helped the social

enterprises refine their vision, mission

and strategy. They validated business

models and prepared them to access

capital and customers and achieve

self-funding status. The syndicates

focused on operations, marketing,

finance, supply chain management and

integration of new technologies into the

business models.

The practicum’s real world challenges

prepares our student for future

leadership roles, while increasing the

capability of valuable social enterprises

– all made possible by the generosity of

our Annual Fund donors.

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REIMAGINING GREATER SHEPPARTONGreater Shepparton is a major food producing, processing and exporting centre

in the Goulburn Valley, about 180 km north of Melbourne, that has cemented

its reputation as Australia’s food bowl by generating some 25 per cent of

Victoria’s total agricultural production value.

It has a rich and diverse cultural

history, with the largest Aboriginal

community living alongside the largest

number of multicultural and newly

arrived communities in Victoria,

outside of Melbourne.

Despite its rich history, the region

faces significant challenges, many

precipitated by the impact of the

millennium drought and reflected in

such key disadvantage indicators as

education, unemployment, social

exclusion, poverty and reduced life

expectancy.

These challenges underpin an image of

the region as deprived and depressed.

As David McKenzie, inaugural Chair of

the Committee for Greater Shepparton,

comments, “The town got very down

on itself. We were our own worst

enemy, projecting a negative self-

image to the world.”

Realising the potential to reimagine

itself, Melbourne Business School

Associate Dean (Engagement) Jody

Evans and senior researcher

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Dr Tabitha White, supported by the

Margaret Lawrence Bequest and Helen

Macpherson Smith Trust, are playing a

central role in creating a new and more

positive narrative for Greater

Shepparton.

In collaboration with Deakin

University’s Associate Professor Kerrie

Bridson, the Committee for Greater

Shepparton and the Algabonyah

Community Cabinet, they are

repositioning the region for the

long-term through concrete action,

which, David Mc Kenzie says, is

transforming how the region views

itself.

“The ripple impact of this work

reformed and solidified existing

relationships with members, with

industry, the community, government

and bureaucracy. By going out and

asking questions, exploring the issues,

they fed that information back into us.

It was a great feedback loop that

strengthened our relationships and

communications with important people

and opened up new opportunities.”

“Having gone through that exercise, a new range of people came to us to talk about opportunities, solutions and responses to known problems. It just regalvanised us and opened up an entirely new wave of opportunity through strengthened relationships and new possibilities.”

A community’s people are a critical

component of its image. Greater

Shepparton’s Aboriginal people are at

the heart of its current image and

potential repositioning. Jody’s team is

helping the Algabonyah Community

Cabinet – one of many Empowered

Communities started in Victoria in

2013 to drive Indigenous-led reform

of Indigenous affairs and policy –

realise its ambition of a thriving and

valued local Aboriginal community.

Their work focuses on helping the

community shift from an image shaped

by deficit language to one of strength

and aspiration.

“Number one is equity, I want to be seen and my children should be seen as being equals with their peers, businesspeople and other agencies. I think we’re still viewed as a deficit and a problem in our community. Our strengths are not highlighted, they’re not talked about. It’s always about the deficit and the stereotypes. I think we need to be celebrated in our community more and acknowledged.”

MBS working with the Indigenous community in greater Shepparton through an engaged research program, supported by the Margaret Lawrence Bequest and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust.


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THE CLASS GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING


Melbourne Business School attracts

people who are ambitious, but not just

for themselves. The Senior Executive

MBA Class of 2003 is a stand out

example. The endowment fund

established by this group over a

decade ago continues to have impact,

most recently through funding

internships for our MBA students at

businesses started by alumni of our

MURRA Indigenous Business program.

HELPING YOUNG GUNS AIM HIGHERFounded by two Queensland brothers

in 2004 to give their football-club

mates skills and work, Indigenous

business Young Guns now generates

$25 million in revenue a year handling

containers for some of Australia’s

biggest companies. It also employs

over 400 people across four states

and recently expanded into Canada

and New Zealand.

It’s a success story that the Melbourne

Business School can be proud of

supporting in 2016, when Scott Young

joined our award-winning MURRA

Indigenous Business program, brother

Trent our Executive MBA program and

MBA student Rob Soros Young Guns

itself as an intern, sponsored by the

SEMBA Class of 2003 gift.

Young Guns’ focus on providing skills

and opportunities for young people,

especially Indigenous youth, led to it

developing a strong ‘tribal culture’,

which Scott and Trent credit for their

early success. But with a vision to

continue growing, they also realised

their culture was at risk of being

diluted. Having recognised its

importance, the brothers made it a

key foundation of their 2020 business

plan and asked Rob to explore how to

foster, manage and develop it across

their business.

Working closely with Young Guns, Rob

came up with a series of actionable

recommendations and a strategic

framework for implementing a

roadmap to achieve the company’s

people-centred goals.

“The funding from the SEMBA Class of 2003 enabled me to expand on what I was learning in my MBA and deliver a high-impact project to a growing business. That experience was also the catalyst for me establishing and growing my own management advice business.”

ROB SOROS, CURRENT MBA

CANDIDATE

TETER MEK: A STORY WORTH SHARINGThe Teter Mek Foundation’s mission is

to share and preserve Indigenous

stories and culture. It was founded by

MURRA alumnae Jasmin Herro, who

earlier started Outback Global, which,

after just four years, now supplies

workwear to Qantas, Boeing, News

Corp, Westpac and other big

companies, sources products from all

over Australia and Asia Pacific, and

has offices in China and the US.

Teter Mek’s ambitions are more local

but just as challenging. It has

developed a range of educational

resources that include a novella, craft

products, a digital games and apps

platform, and cultural curators and

mentors, who work with schools and

teachers to collect local Indigenous

stories. Recently, major office products

supplier OfficeMax began selling its

Tjindgarmi stationary.

Annabelle Roxon’s internship at Teter

Mek had a big impact, including on

her. Using her MBA skills, she helped

Jasmin finalise the foundation’s

business plan and strengthen its

government-funding proposal.

“I was able to act as a sounding board and devil’s advocate for Jasmin – testing and challenging her big ideas, and, once refined, help translate them into logical, structured planning. I have a much better appreciation and understanding of Indigenous issues in Australia.”

ANNABELLE ROXON, MBA GRADUATE,

2016

MURRA HITS MAJOR MILESTONESJust four years ago, with the support

of Kinaway (the Victorian Aboriginal

Chamber of Commerce) and the

SEMBA Class of 2003, Melbourne

Business School launched the MURRA

Indigenous Business program. In

2016–17, the program reached some

notable milestones, namely:

> Over 100 Indigenous entrepreneurs

will have completed the program by

July 2017

> The first candidate from Tasmania

joined, making it a truly nationwide

program, covering all states and

territories

> The largest sponsor numbers ever,

with generous gifts from BP and

Global Forwarding, founded by

diversity advocate Enrica

Centorame, a close friend of MURRA

alumnae Jasmin Herro, adding to

support from First Australians

Capital, Indigenous Business

Australia and Supply Nation.

“The MURRA program is quite unique. It focuses on Indigenous business people and community leaders who want to take their careers and businesses to the next level and build a network with people from all over the country and the world.”

ENRICA CENTORAME, FOUNDER AND

CEO, GLOBAL FORWARDING

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“Without the scholarship, I doubt I would be able to do my MBA. MBS was the perfect choice because it offers such a global experience. Amazingly, the 50 people in my cohort come from almost 30 countries. You couldn’t ask for a better network.”

SIDDHANT SHRESTHA,

2017 MBA CANDIDATE

BUILDING STUDENTS WHO BUILD THEIR COMMUNITIESSupport from the Annual Fund has

allowed scholarship recipient

Siddhant Shrestha to pursue a

full-time MBA at Melbourne Business

School, building his capabilities and

increasing his opportunities to

improve the lives of socially

disadvantaged people in his

homeland of Nepal.

Siddhant is co-founder and Executive

Director of the Rose Foundation

Nepal, a not-for-profit that is raising

cancer awareness among Nepalese.

Originally focused on improving

breast cancer education and early

detection among women, the

Foundation, named in honour of his

mother, Rose, who died of breast

cancer, now also supports treatment

of underprivileged children with

cancer at Kanti Children’s Hospital in

Kathmandu.

Siddhant is passionate about how

business skills can create positive

social impact and how his MBA

experience at MBS will allow him to

have even greater impact in his

community.

Siddhant together with some of his 2017 MBA classmates in Nepal this March.

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IN CONVERSATION WITH VICTORIA’S TRAVEL CHAMPIONWhen I joined the School in June 2016,

John Kennedy, the former Chairman of

Tourism Victoria, was one of the first

donors I had the pleasure of meeting.

In 2003, John set up a fund to provide

$10,000 in prize money for the annual

Visit Victoria–MBS Case Competition,

which our MBA students have been

battling over every year since as they

research clever ways to boost visits to

Victoria.

When I first met John, I knew he would

be driven – having helped implement

Victoria’s successful ‘big events’ strategy,

which uses attractions like the Grand

Prix and Australian Open to lure visitors

– but I didn’t expect to find such a strong

sense of purpose.

“It’s important to have a purpose,

especially as a donor,” John told me.

“There are many causes worth

supporting, but, for me, maximising jobs

in the economy is the best thing you can

do. Every tourism business needs a pot

washer, chef, sales person, internet

developer and so on. That multiplier

effect is key, and if more people valued

job creation, we would all be better off.”

John’s other motive for partnering with

Melbourne Business School was to

improve quality.

“Tourism was an important pillar of the

economy here, but the quality of

management was below what you see in

pharmaceuticals and banking, for

instance. And there remains a significant

need to develop high-calibre people to

drive the industry forward.”

John helps judge the case competition

and has been impressed by our MBA

students, including a few who recently

looked at increasing air traffic between

Melbourne and South America.

“We now have three flights a week to

Santiago starting in October 2017,” he

said. “They showed it was viable.”

When John was younger, he turned a

consultancy project, required to finish

his MBA at the London Business School,

into a multi-million-dollar business,

which he ran from 1977 to 1997 and

then sold to major UK travel company

Thomson TUI.

At its peak, John’s Austravel company

flew six, 767-300 charter flights a week

to Australia and New Zealand from the

UK and Netherlands. While visiting his

Melbourne hometown after the sale,

Tourism Victoria (now Visit Victoria)

asked him to lead it, and his sense of

purpose shone through as usual.

“The big challenge in selling Victoria is

the lack of an iconic identifier. The 12

Apostles doesn’t quite stack up against

the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera

House. By being the best at major

events, we know the people who come

will spread the word about all the great

experiences they have.”

After 14 years of John’s support, the

case competition continues to have an

impact on tourism in Victoria and give

our MBAs experience in addressing real

business challenges. It was an honour to

catch up with the man who made it

possible before he flew back to the UK

and his home in Bristol.

ELIZABETH EE

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVANCEMENT

“Tourism was an important pillar of the economy here, but the quality of management was below what you see in pharmaceuticals and banking, for instance. And there remains a significant need to develop high-calibre people to drive the industry forward.”

JOHN KENNEDY

DONOR

FORMER CHAIRMAN OF TOURISM VICTORIA

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HELEN MACPHERSON SMITH TRUST: A POWERFUL 25-YEAR PARTNERSHIP Melbourne Business School celebrated over 25 years of developing

women leaders through the Helen Macpherson Smith Fellowship at a

special anniversary event in 2016.

First awarded in 1990, recipients now

occupy senior positions in diverse

industries around the world. A strong

contingent joined trust chairman Dr

Philip Moors AO, trustees, current

MBA students, MBS faculty, alumni

and staff to honour the trust, which

has distributed more than $100

million to the Victorian community

since 1951.

In addition to the fellowship,

HMSTrust has supported the School’s

social impact agenda. HMSTrust was

instrumental in the establishment of

the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre

in 2008 and the Helen Macpherson

Smith Chair of Leadership for Social

Impact. More recently, HMSTrust has

supported faculty research with the

Indigenous community in the

Goulburn Valley.

Speaking at the celebration event,

2015 fellowship recipient Vanessa

Whatmough (MBA 2016) said her

award meant more than just financial

support.

“It offers membership to a community of intelligent, driven women who are on track to make a real difference in the world.”

A worldwide network of women leaders

Over the years, Helen Macpherson Smith Fellowship recipients show they share some common traits: ambition, a future

focus and determination to make a difference.

1993: Claire Rogers (MBA 1995)

Claire’s vision to make a difference

after receiving her fellowship has

certainly come true. In November

2016, the former Head of Digital

Banking at ANZ Bank became the

first woman to lead World Vision

Australia, one of the largest charities

in the country.


First edition of Helen Macpherson Smith; her life and lasting legacy; a biography commissioned by the Trustees of the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust.

1997: Kim Sajet (MBA 1996)

Kim’s love of art took her to top-level

curator and director roles at the

Mornington Peninsula Regional

Gallery and Monash Gallery of Art

before she embarked on her MBA

with fellowship support. Post MBS,

her career has reached new heights.

Kim is now the Director of the

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

in Washington DC, the first non-

American to hold the position.

2016: Simone Law (MBA 2017)

Simone might bring a perfect smile to

many faces, having co-founded a

highly successful Melbourne dental

practice less than two years ago. But

she has serious plans to use her MBA

skills to disrupt her chosen profession

with a one-stop shop, where usually

separated dentists and dental

specialists can offer treatment under

the same roof.

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Where did our Annual Fund donors come from?

OVERSEAS22%

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

QUEENSLAND

NEW SOUTH WALES

VICTORIA

2%3%

6%

66%

IMPACTFUL GIVING – 2016Thank you!

For making 2015-2016 an incredible success.Here are some highlights of what you have helped achieve over the 2015-2016 year.

$100,000+ Lifetime Patron

Ross Barker (MBA 1980)

Krystyna Campbell-Pretty

Peter Clemenger AO

Philip Cormie (EMBA 2002)

Robert Craig (MBA 1995)

John Dahlsen (MBA 1969)

Sally Holloway

John Kennedy

Ian Kirk (MBA 1998)

Frank Zipfinger (SEMBA 2003)

Lifetime Ambassador (facilitating donations $100,000+)

Vicki Allen (SEMBA 2003)

Jan Begg (SEMBA 2003)

Paul McDonald (EMBA 2003)


Ambassador (facilitating Dean's Circle donations in a calendar year)

Paul Bennett (MBA 2005)

Stewart Gault (MBA 2005)

Brooke Miller (MBA 2000)

Philip Turss (SEMBA 1994)

Your membership in The Dean’s Circle demonstrates a commitment by our alumni, friends and staff to the world-class management

education that is delivered by Melbourne Business School. Donors of The Dean’s Circle make significant gifts which have played an

important role in creating a unique organisation that helps members of our community to reimagine and redefine their futures.

The Dean’s Circle recognises donors who make gifts and pledges of $1,200 or more to the School in a single year.

$1,157,322 RAISED

82DEAN’S CIRCLE

DONORS

291DONORS

84%ALUMNI 11%

STAFF, STUDENTS, FRIENDS

4%TRUSTS &

FOUNDATION, ORGANISATIONS

Your support has allowed MBS to make significant investments in:

1 inaugural BioDesign

Innovation Program

launched

1

25

Major contributions have made a huge impact.

SCHOLARSHIPS

49%

18%RESEARCH

PROGRAMS

22%

8%

MBS HIGHEST PRIORITIES

CLASS GIFTS

1%INTERNSHIPS &

EXCHANGE

PRIZES

1%

ANNUAL FUND PROGRAM RAISED IN 2016

$203,322

$729AVERAGE GIFT

MADE

4%ALUMNI

CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANNUAL FUND

25 years of partnership

celebrated with Helen

Macpherson Smith Trust

Over 100 indigenous

entrepreneurs through the

MURRA program

“I’m very keen that good ideas get turned into reality for the benefit of as many people as possible. And that’s the purpose of this course. I was very interested to be involved and see how taking something that may offer a benefit can be converted, through the work that these people are doing, into a positive reality for society in general.”

IAN KIRK (MBA 1998)

CEO, WHITE HOT PRODUCTIONS

FOUNDING DONOR, BIODESIGN INNOVATION PROGRAM

$25,000+ Leader




Charles Goode AC

Sally Holloway

Allan Hume Reid (MBA 1970)

Ian Kirk (MBA 1998)

Ken Roberts (MBA 1991)

Anonymous

$10,000-$24,999 Benefactor

Peter Barnes (MBA 1968)

Maurice Crotti (MBA 1974)

John Dahlsen (MBA 1969)

Peter Day

Annette Kimmitt

Scott Tanner (SEMBA 1990)

Christopher Thomas AM (MBA 1976)

$5,000-$9,999 Steward

Geoffrey Allen AM (MBA 1969)


Anthony Burgess

Enrica Centorame

Glyn Davis

Zeger Degraeve

Daniel Evans (SEMBA 1994)

Ross Ferris (MBA 2002)

Louise Gourlay OAM

Dean Ireland (MMktg 1997)

Geoffrey Kimpton (MBA 1976)

Paul LeMaire (SEMBA 2003)

Graeme Liebelt

Enrico Rizzon (MBA 1999)

Dominic Tisdell (MBA 2005)

Michael Tratt (MBA 1980)

Over 460 students benefitted

from donations

1%


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Bradley Adams (MBA 2006)


Geoffrey Allen AM (MBA 1969)

Hema Allu (MBA 2009)

Edzel Alovera (PDM 1994)

Campbell Andrews (MBA 2007)

Damien Angus (MBA 2005)

Federico Arellano (MBA 2007)

AT Kearney

AutumnCare

ShreeKumar Balachandran (MBA 2007)

Vishal Bali (MMktg 2010)


Peter Barnes (MBA 1968) and Elizabeth Barnes

Graham Beanland (MBA 1975)


Laura Bell


Susan Best (SEMBA 2005)

BHP Billiton

Maheshwaran Bhuvaneswaran (MBA 2009)

Philip Binns (MBA 1993)

Davor Bisko (MBA 2012)

Stuart Blake (MBA 1994)

Fabrice Boucherat (MBA 2010)

Trent Boyce (MBA 2013)

Peter Boyd (MBA 1993)

BP Australia

Maxwell Bradford

Vladimir Brajkovic (MBA 2003)

Michael Brice (MBA 2014)

Marianne Broadbent (PhD 1991)

Anthony Burgess

Nicholas Burke (MBA 2012)

Thomas Burrowes (MBA 1985)


Janice Carey (MBA 2009)

Timothy Catterall (SEMBA 2004)

Enrica Centorame

Kawita Chaikerdathikarn (MBA 2003)

John Chambers (MBA 1969)

Charles and Cornelia Goode Foundation

Meng Chong (MBA 1992)

Yew Chuan Bay (MBA 1969)

Graeme Clark (MBA 1997)

Richard Close (MBA 1992)

Janice Cochrane-Harry (SEMBA 1991)

Cheryl Cohan (EMBA 2010)

Richard Columbine (MBA 2010)

Peter Cook (MBA 2012)


Jocelyn Cory (MBA 2005)

Paul Coughlin (MBA 1985)

Kenneth Coulter (MBA 2012)

Maurice Crotti (MBA 1974)

Christopher Crozier (MBA 1999)

Candice Culnane (MBA 2000)

Vangel Cvetkovski (MBA 1989)

Jeffrey Darlington (MBA 2011)

Glyn Davis

Peter Day

Sandra de Pury (MBA 1993)

Zeger Degraeve

Deepak Dhingra (MBA 2003)

Carl Dilena (SEMBA 2003)

Dirk Dobbs (MBA 2012) and Chelsea Dobbs

Mithran Doraisamy (MBA 1994)

Douglas Dow (PhD 1997)

George Dragovic (MBA 2001)

Nicola Duggan (MBA 1996)

Rachel Edwards (MBA 2012)

Elizabeth Ee

John Egan (MBA 1975)

Matthew Egan (MBA 2002)

Brendan Egan (MBA 2011)

Egon Zehnder

Mark Engeman (MBA 1996)

Equifax

Jody Evans

Daniel Evans (SEMBA 1994)

Jacinth Fairley (MBA 1992)

Paul Fearon (SEMBA 1989)

Ross Ferris (MBA 2002)

Erick Fibich (MBA 1995)

Patrick Fitzgerald

Brian Fletcher (MBA 2015)

Marc Flipo

Ashley Forbes (MBA 1990)

Forethought

Jim Frederickson

Chris Freeland (MBA 1996)

Brian Frissyn (MBA 2001)

Miroslaw Frydel (MBA 2004)

Warren Galbraith (MBA 1997)

Vivek Ganesh (MBA 2002)

Pablo Gastar (PDM 1995)

Christopher Gazzola (MBA 1998)

Brett Gebert (PDM 2005)

Jenny George

Pratap Ghose (MBA 2005)

Ian Gibson (MBA 1989)

Global Forwarding

Rebecca Glover (EMBA 2014)

David Goedecke (MBA 2013)

Charles Goode AC and Cornelia Goode

Louise Gourlay OAM

Nick Griffin (MBA 2000)

Lyndal Groom (SEMBA 2010)

Michael Habboush (MBA 2010)

Michael Hall (EMBA 1991)

Greg Halls (MBA 2013)

Chin Hao Bay

Alison Hardacre (MBA 2002)

Sam Hardikar (MBA 2011)

Ken Harrison (MBA 1984)

T T Hayagreevan (MBA 2007)

Todd Henderson (MBA 2007)

Henry Herring (MBA 2010)

Steve Hibbard (MBA 1993)

Paul Higgins (MBA 1999)

Thank you for supporting our School and our students.$2,500-$4,999 Partner

Marianne Broadbent (PhD 1991)

Marcus Coleman (MBA 2010)

Vangel Cvetkovski (MBA 1989)

Peter Manasantivongs (MBA/MMktg 2009 )

Cheryl McKinna (MBA 1988)

David Parsons (SEMBA 1995)

Jacqui Spence (MBA 2001)

Michael Stillwell (SEMBA 2010/MMktg 2011 )

Owen Tracey (MBA 2006)

Adam Trippe-Smith (SEMBA 2010)

Paul van Veenendaal (MBA 1985)

$1,200-$2,499 Member


Robert Allison (MBA 1999)

Yew Chuan Bay (MBA 1969)


Laura Bell

Trent Boyce (MBA 2013)

Peter Boyd (MBA 1993)

John Chambers (MBA 1969)

Paul Coughlin (MBA 1985)

Christopher Crozier (MBA 1999)

Kristine Dery (SEMBA 1991)

Carl Dilena (SEMBA 2003)

Mithran Doraisamy (MBA 1994)

Douglas Dow (PhD 1997)

Nicola Duggan (MBA 1996)

Elizabeth Ee

Jody Evans

Jacinth Fairley (MBA 1992)

Marc Flipo

Jim Frederickson

Chris Freeland (MBA 1996)

Warren Galbraith (MBA 1997)

Stewart Gault (MBA 2005)

Jenny George

Pratap Ghose (MBA 2005)

Ian Gibson (MBA 1989)

Eugene Goh (MBA 2003)

Nick Griffin (MBA 2000)

Ken Harrison (MBA 1984)

Henry Herring (MBA 2010)

Steve Hibbard (MBA 1993)

Giles Hunt (MBA 2004)

Christine Kilpatrick (SEMBA 2007)

Phillip Kingston

Sibylle Krieger (SEMBA 2010)

Jane Lay (MBA 2007)

Tony Lee (MBA 2011)

Cameron Leitch (MBA 2008)

Gregory Lewin AM (MBA 1984)

Kee-Wan Lim (MBA 1982)

Xiaoling Liu

Simon Loh (MBA 1985)

Pui San Loh (MBA 1999)

Grant Mansell (MBA 2006)

Jan McMenamin

Ari Mervis

Jacqueline Murray (MBA 2012)

Su-Peing Ng (MBA 2000)

Robert Nicholson (MBA 1989)

Yoshita Oza

Sam Riggall (MBA 2001)

John Sabljak (MBA 1994)

Sotirios Saltis (MBA 2000)

Guy Saunders

Rakesh Singh (MBA 2011)

Peter Smedley (MBA 1969)

Penelope Smith (MMktg 1998)

Glenn Southward

Kevin Stevenson AM (MBA 1976)

Myles Stewart-Hesketh (MBA 1993)

Richard Stradwick (MBA 1969)

Ian Trahar (MBA 1981)

Malcolm Tyler (MBA 2000)

Ashish Verma (MBA 2010)

Jasmina Vernon (MBA 2007)

Carson Walburn

Catherine Walter AM (MBA 1988)


Anonymous

Loyal donors have given for the last five or more years

2016 DONORS

“My MBA changed my life and has taken the lives of my family to a different level. I had the fortunate opportunity to go to MBS and it transformed the way that I look at everything. I now own a successful business with my husband and it has put me in a financial position to help others through the School’s Annual Fund.”

JASMINA VERNON (MBA 2007)

DIRECTOR, VERNON PARTNERS

DEAN’S CIRCLE DONOR


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Christopher Thomas AM (MBA 1976)

Craig Thompson (MBA 2001)

Dominic Tisdell (MBA 2005)

Jane Tongs (SEMBA 1994)

Owen Tracey (MBA 2006)

Ian Trahar (MBA 1981)

Transformation Management Services

Marie and Michael Tratt (MBA 1980)

Trawalla Foundation

Adam Trippe-Smith (SEMBA 2010)

Daniel Trujillo (MBA 2009)

Rita Tsourvakas (MBA 2009)

Philip Turss (SEMBA 1994)

Malcolm Tyler (MBA 2000)

Theo Tzanatos (MBA 2006)

Eleanor Underwood (MBA 1975)

Paul van Veenendaal (MBA 1985)

James Varghese (SEMBA 1988)

Ashish Verma (MBA 2010)

Jasmina Vernon (MBA 2007)

Vernon Partners

Carson Walburn

Benjamin Wall (MBA 2002)

Catherine Walter AM (MBA 1988)

Yoke Wan Cheong (SEMBA 1988)

Darryl Ward (MBA 1994)

Dean West (MBA 2011)

Michael White (MBA 2001)

Olivia Willee (MBA 2006)

Chamera Withanage (MBA 2015)

Stuart Womersley (MBA 2001)

Thuji Yonten (MBA 2009)

Stephen Young (MBA 1990)

John Young (MBA 2001)

Ahmad Zafar (MBA 2009)

Alice Zhang (MBA 2015)

Li Zhang (MBA 2015)


12 Anonymous

Alison Hilton (MMktg 1998)

Geoffrey Hindle (MBA 1969)

Norman Ho (MBA 2003)

Denise Ho (MBA 2004) and Justin Tse

Sally Holloway

Prudence Holstein (MBA 1982)

Malcolm Hutson (MBA 1976)

Intel Microelectronics

Dean Ireland (MMktg 1997)

Xuejie Jiang (MBA 2004)

Suresh Jit (MBA 2006)

Kheng Kah Koh (MBA 2005)

Mark Kelly (MMgmt 1999)

Ameel Khan (MBA 2008)

Terry Kildea (MBA 2011)

Christine Kilpatrick (SEMBA 2007)

Song-hui Kim (MBA 2012)

Annette Kimmitt

Geoffrey Kimpton (MBA 1976)

Phyllis King

Michael King (MBA 2005)

Phillip Kingston

Ian Kirk (MBA 1998)

Richard Kloeden (MBA 2011)

David Knights (PDM 2002)

Paul Kofman

Sibylle Krieger (SEMBA 2010)

Narayanan Krishnan (MBA 2014)

Georgina Last (MBA 2006)

Ken Latchford (MBA 1983)

James Lawrenson (MBA 1985)

Jane Lay (MBA 2007)

Ben Lee


Paul LeMaire (SEMBA 2003)

Paul Lemanis (MBA 1995)

Christopher Leptos AM (SEMBA 1990)

Gregory Lewin AM (MBA 1984)

Bin Lin (MBA 2008)

Aaron Little (MBA 2007)

Xiaoling Liu

Ying Liu (MBA 2001)

Simon Loh (MBA 1985)

Terrence Loh (SEMBA 2007)

John Luckock (MBA 1974) and

Loyal donors have given for the last five or more years

Lauraine Luckock

James Mackie (MBA 2008)

Roderick Mainland (MBA 2005)

Bonny Malik (MBA 1997)

Timothy Malone (SEMBA 2004)

Rohan Mammen (MBA 2006)

Pete Manasantivongs (MBA/MMktg 2009)

Takavengwa Marindo (EMBA 2015)

David McDowell (MBA 1984)

Robert McGauran (PDM 1994)

Peter McGrath (MBA 2003)

Cheryl McKinna (MBA 1988)

Jan McMenamin

Thomas McNair (MBA 1982)

Vivek Mittal (MBA 2007)

Jennifer Moltisanti (MBA 1997)

William Morgan

Andrew Morgan (MBA 1987)

Richard Morgan AM

David Moss (MBA 1997)

Rinto Muhammadsyah (MBA 2006)

Karen Murphy (MBA 2009)

Bruce Murray (MBA 1968)

Jacqueline Murray (MBA 2012)

Anoop Nambiar (MBA 2006)

Rosaline Natale (MBA 2002)

Keith Nathan (MBA 1970)

Justin Naylor (MBA 2003)

Adam Needleman (MBA 1993)

News Corp

Wilson Nheu (MBA 2003)

Cathryn Nolan (SEMBA 2013)

Robert Officer AM (MBA 1997)

Luke Osborne (MBA 2003)

Craig Padoa (MBA 2007)

Branko Panich (MBA 2000)

Jordan Parker (SEMBA 2006)

Andrew Parker (SEMBA 2007)

David Parsons (SEMBA 1995)

Nitin Pasricha (MBA 2004)

Neil Pathak

Christopher Perera (SEMBA 1992)

Dean Perry (MBA 2008)

Ray Phillips (MBA 1972)

Adrian Phillips (MBA 2001)

Florian Poppe (MBA 2008)

David Potter (SEMBA 2010)

David Prior (MBA 1999)

Simon Pritchard (MBA 2002)

Robert Proe (MBA 1992)

Mohan Puttaswamy (MBA 2012)

Adam Qaiser (MBA 2005)

Anthony Rafaniello (MBA 1988)

Amitabha Ray (MBA 1997)

Damien Regan (MBA 2009)

Allan Hume Reid (MBA 1970)

Reid Malley Foundation

Jane Richards (SEMBA 2014)

Sam Riggall (MBA 2001)

Enrico Rizzon (MBA 1999)

Ken Roberts (MBA 1991)

Emile Rochman (MBA 1970)

Yuliana Rusli (MBA 1993)

Rhys Salang (MBA 2006)

Sotirios Saltis (MBA 2000)

Pui San Loh (MBA 1999)

San Remo Macaroni

Jon Satterley (MBA 2006)

Guy Saunders

Irina Savinykh (MBA 2009)

Jonathan Scott (MBA 1990)

Mehmud Sharif (MBA 2003)

David Shaw (SEMBA 2013)

Asar Siddiqui (MBA 2004)

Graeme Sinclair

Amit Singh (MBA 2002)

Rakesh Singh (MBA 2011)

Vineet Singh (MBA 2011)

Peter Smedley (MBA 1969)

James Smith (MBA 2005)

Penelope Smith (MMktg 1998)

Paul Smith (SEMBA 1990)

Ric Sotelo (MBA 1986)

Glenn Southward

Kevin Stevenson AM (MBA 1976)

Myles Stewart-Hesketh (MBA 1993)

Michael Stillwell (SEMBA 2010/MMktg 2011)

Alastair Stott (MBA 1993)

Scott Tanner (SEMBA 1990)

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

ALUMNI COUNCIL 2016


Dean, Melbourne Business School

Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne

Laura Bell

Associate Dean, Academic Programs

Marc Flipo

Chief Operating Officer

Dean Ireland (MMktg 1997) President

Helen Kemp (MBA 1994) Vice President

Amber Anderson (SEMBA 2014)

Christopher Brown (SEMBA 2009)

Lenny Chudri (MBA 2014)

Dirk Dobbs (MBA 2012)

Rodolfo D'Onofrio (EMBA 2015)

Laura Grundy (MBA 2014)

Cameron Hibbert (MBA 2005)

Stewart Johnson (MBA 2013)


Phillip Neckers (MBA 2017)

Professor Jim Frederickson

Deputy Dean, Melbourne Business School

Associate Professor Andrew John

Associate Dean (Faculty), Melbourne Business School

Guy Saunders

Associate Dean, Executive Education

Aglaia Nikas (MMktg 2013)

Joanna Pizzey (MBA 2010)

Mohammad Rahman (MBA 2012)

Ralph Rambausek (MBA 2010)

Mirza Shamid (MBA 2015)

James Smith (MBA 2005)

Wenjie Tang (MBA 2012)

Mayank Verma (MBA 2013)

Benjamin Wall (MBA 2002)

Olivia Willee (MBA 2006)

Rebecca Wilson (MBusA 2015)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016Mr Ross Barker (MBA 1980)

Chairman, Melbourne Business School Ltd.

Managing Director, Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd., Djerriwarrh Investments Ltd., Mirrabooka Investments Ltd., Amcil Ltd.

Appointed: 2011

Mr Anthony Burgess

Chief Executive Officer, Flagstaff Partners Pty Ltd.

Director, Diversified United Investment Ltd., Melbourne Theatre Company

Chairman, Foundation for Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne

Governor, Ian Potter Foundation

Appointed: 2013

Professor Glyn Davis

Vice-Chancellor & Principal, The University of Melbourne

Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

Appointed: 2013


Dean, Melbourne Business School Ltd.

Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne

Director, Melbourne Business School Foundation Ltd, Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Ltd., MBS Management Development (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

Appointed: 2011

Professor Douglas Dow (PhD 1997)

Professor in Business Strategy, Melbourne Business School Ltd.

Appointed: 2011

Dr Jacinth Fairley (MBA 1992)

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Starpharma Holdings Ltd.

Director, Starpharma Pty Ltd., DNT Inc.

Member, Investment Committee, Carnegie Venture Capital, Commonwealth Science Council

Fellow, Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Appointed: 2010

Ms Jacqueline Hey

Director, Qantas Airways Ltd., Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd., Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd., Cricket Australia, AGL Energy Ltd.

Appointed: 2013

Mr Dean Ireland (MMktg 1997)

Partner, Egon Zehnder

Appointed: 2014

Ms Antoinette Kimmitt

Asia Pacific Accounts Leader, Ernst & Young

Director, Ernst & Young Asia-Pacific Limited, Scale Investors

Appointed: 2011

Professor Paul Kofman

Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne

Appointed: 2013

Dr Xiaoling Liu

Director, Iluka Resources Ltd., Newcrest Mining Ltd.

Appointed: March 2016

Mr Geoffrey Lord (MBA 1972)

Director, UXC Ltd., IDT Ltd., Maxitrans Ltd.

Member, Belgravia Group

Appointed: 2015

Mr Ari Mervis

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co Ltd.

Appointed: 2012

Ms Naomi Milgrom AO

Chair and Group CEO, Sportsgirl / Sussan Group of Companies

Director, Magellan Financial Group

Board Advisory Committee, Centre for Ethical Leadership

Appointed: 2014

Retired: April 2016

Mr David Peever

Chair, Cricket Australia

Director, Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd., The Stars Foundation, Foreign Investment Review Board

Appointed: 2012

Retired: 31 January 2017

Mr Scott Tanner (SEMBA 1990)

Chief Operating Officer, Westpac Consumer Bank

Chief Executive, Bank of Melbourne

Director, Committee for Melbourne

Fellow, AICD

Appointed: 2011

Mr Frank Zipfinger (SEMBA 2003)

Director, Galileo Japan Trust, Australian Youth Orchestra, MH Premium Farms Group, Macquarie University Council, The Northcare Foundation

Executive Committee, St. Joseph’s College Indigenous Fund

Member, St Joseph’s College Foundation

Ambassador, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation

Appointed: 2009


I am inspired every day that I work at the

Melbourne Business School by the

achievements of my faculty peers and staff, our

students, alumni, supporters and partner

organisations. I see my role as an opportunity

to enable our community to achieve even more

by co-creating initiatives that have a social,

cultural or economic impact.

DR JODY EVANS

ASSOCIATE DEAN, ENGAGEMENT

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MARKETING

“The value of an education is not the learning of

many facts but the training of the mind to think

something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”

– Albert Einstein, 1921. I believe this quote reflects

what the school is achieving, and why I share its

values and want to be part of its community.

Having spent much of my working life in the

corporate arena, I have seen the difference that

innovation and collaboration can make. The school

promotes these approaches, which are instrumental

in generating a sustainable future for generations

to come.

REBECCA BOOTH

RESEARCH MANAGER, ADVANCEMENT

I believe the world has enough successful people.

What we do need more of are ethical leaders

who are passionate about making a difference,

not only in their lives but the lives of the

communities they work and live in. Providing

accessible education and opportunities through

generous supporters of Melbourne Business

School allows us to support future leaders who

go on to make a broader impact on others and

the world. I am proud to be part of that impact.

DIANNA MOODLEY

DONOR RELATIONS MANAGER, ADVANCEMENT

When people come together to learn, explore and

discuss topics and themes that they are

passionate about, new ideas and opportunities

are discovered. At Melbourne Business School

events, I am regularly delighted by seeing how

thought-provoking conversation in an inspiring

environment can lead to great things. For me, the

real gratification in running events for the MBS

Community is when I hear that these seeds have

grown into impactful programs and initiatives.

JO STAVERS

EVENTS MANAGER, ENGAGEMENT

Meeting my husband made me realise that there

are many talented and deserving people who

could not have accessed further education

without the help of a scholarship. Receiving a

scholarship benefitted him tremendously,

allowing him to study in a top university,

providing him career growth after his Masters and

instilling in him the confidence and impetus to go

after his dream. Since then, I have been motivated

and committed to making a difference to the lives

of others by connecting impact-driven needs to

the generosity of donors and the community, and

creating more opportunities for learning and

development, innovation and progress.

ELIZABETH EE

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVANCEMENT

I am passionate about access to education for everyone.

It should not be based on personal circumstances but on a

willingness to learn and experience. You can create limitless

opportunities with education, from changing your life and the

lives of your family to changing the world – for the better.

This is why I work to facilitate opportunities for people with

passion and ability to experience Melbourne Business School

and benefit from the amazing learning opportunities and

powerful networks the School provides.

BEN LEE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ANNUAL AND LEADERSHIP GIVING,

ADVANCEMENT

MEET THE ADVANCEMENT TEAM


Having just finished my studies, I have recently

benefited from opportunities that supporters of

educational institutions provide. I have always been

passionate about events but without the opportunity to

explore what I am capable of in a real work environment,

it would have been much more challenging to

demonstrate my skillset to a future employer. Now that I

am a member of the MBS team, I am excited to be using

my skills within a community that collaborates to

support and enhance others’ learning experiences.

SARAH JOWETT

EVENT COORDINATOR, ENGAGEMENT



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Scholarships

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