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Children's Tumour Foundation of Australia

Leadership & Governance

Leadership & Governance

At the Children’s Tumour Foundation (CTF), we are committed to open and transparent governance to ensure we are meeting our mission in line with our community and partners’ expectations.

The CTF is governed by a Board of Directors, and supported by two expert sub-committees. We are grateful to all each committee member, who give their time freely and passionately to help us conquer NF.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Peter Dowding

Chair of the Board

Peter is co-founder and Chairman of Propel Investments, established in 2007 when he co-led the management buy-out of the private equity division of Deutsche Bank in Australia. Propel Investments established Propel Funeral Partners (PFP) in 2011 and PFP is now an ASX listed company, having listed in 2017.

He has over 30 years’ experience in the private equity sector, including as Chair of the industry association, the Australian Investment Council and a director and Chair on several investments.

Peter is currently a director of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (a not for profit) and is also Chair of its Audit, Risk and Finance Committee.

Peter has considerable governance, strategic and financial knowledge and therefore brings considerable experience to the CTF board. He was appointed Chair of the CTF in November 2020.

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Hugo Dudley-Smith

Deputy Chair | Director | Member of the Audit & Risk Committee

Hugo is a Managing Director of the independent investment firm Gresham Advisory Partners. He has extensive experience in providing advice in relation to corporate strategy, M&A transactions and capital raising and previously worked with Goldman Sachs in London and Sydney.

Hugo’s strong financial background and network is of great benefit to the CTF and his membership of the Audit and Risk Committee.

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Peter Krideras

Director | Chair of Marketing & Fundraising Committee

Peter has more than 20 years’ retail experience and is the former co-founder and director of Global Market Place, which owned Australia’s leading online events platform Click Frenzy and number one online publication Power Retail.

Peter’s strong background in digital marketing is of huge benefit to the CTF’s Marketing & Fundraising Committee.

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Veronica McCabe PhD

Director | Member of the Marketing & Fundraising Committee

Veronica has over 20 years’ experience in the health and medical research sector and is the founder and principal of Research Collective - a specialist consultancy offering support for researchers and research organisations in the areas of strategy development, high level project management, impact reporting and grant writing and reviewing.

Veronica has over 20 years’ experience in the health and medical research sector and is the founder and principal of Research Collective - a specialist consultancy offering support for researchers and research organisations in the areas of strategy development, high level project management, impact reporting and grant writing and reviewing. Veronica has held senior executive management positions in Government and the not-for-profit sector and has implemented several health and medical research programs across a range of organisations in the UK and Australia. 

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Brooke Smith

Director | Member of the Audit & Risk Committee

Brooke is the General Manager and co-owner of Insitu Group, a medium sized commercial construction company based in Melbourne. With almost 20 years’ experience in the industry, both client and builder side, Brooke leads the Operations and Commercial business functions.

She also manages the implementation of new innovations, together with Insitu Group’s industry position via the Marketing and BD functions. Prior to this role Brooke held senior roles with Stockland and Haser Group.

Brooke and her husband Oliver have personally been heavily involved in fundraising activities like Cupids and been one of the top fundraisers each year it is held. More recently, they have become a corporate sponsor for CTF through Insitu and helped fund the Plasma trial and Adult clinic work at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and have continued to support CTF more broadly.

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Wes Lambert

Director | Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee

Wes Lambert is the CEO of Restaurant & Catering Australia (R&CA), the national industry association representing the interests of more than 47,000 restaurants, cafés and catering businesses across Australia.

Wes previously served as Executive Director, Secretary and Financial Controller for Pacific Restaurant Group Ltd (Kingsleys, ChopHouse, & Jamie’s Italian), Australia’s first public unlisted Full-Service Restaurant Group, from where he was responsible for the restructure and IPO of the Group as well as securing the Master Franchise Agreement for Jamie’s Italian in Australia/NZ.

Prior to that Wes was an Investment Banker in Restaurant Capital before owning and managing multiple hospitality venues in Asia and the United States.

Wes brings over 20 years’ experience in change management, lobbying, negotiation, governance, finance & accounting experience.    

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Laurence Dell

Director | Member of the Audit & Risk Committee

Laurence is a Partner at PwC in Melbourne, leading the enterprise performance improvement practice. He specialises in delivering productivity programs that result in significantly improved and sustainable business performance.

With over 15 years consulting experience, Laurence has led complex performance improvement projects across a range of industries. He is an expert in the telecommunications industry and chairs our Victorian State Committee.

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