Kerry has over 20 years' senior management/executive experience with strong clinical and quality backgrounds, working in regulation, acute care (both public and private), rehabilitation and aged care. She is a highly skilled leader in leading and managing organisational change at both strategic and operational levels.  She has served on the Boards of Breastscreen Victoria, Baptcare, Victorian Cytology Service and Mercy Hospitals Inc and as a member of the Finance and Audit subcommittee of VicHealth and held Ministerial appointments as a member of the Victorian Clinical Council and previous Victorian Quality Council.

Kerry has over 20 years' senior management/executive experience with strong clinical, risk and quality background, working in regulation, acute care (both public and private), rehabilitation and aged care.

Camilla is currently the Manager of Improvement and Innovation at Safer Care Victoria. She holds a Master of Research (OT) and a Bachelor of Applied Science. She is a senior health sector leader, with extensive strategic and operational experience across the care continuum in both private and public settings. Her service improvement and innovation work has focussed on working in partnership to support unmet community need, better integrate existing services, implement new models of care and reduce low value practices.

Camilla is skilled in planning, project and change management, with a strong track record of implementing sustainable practices and solutions. Camilla's multidisciplinary leadership, research and improvement work has centred on building capability, both contributing to the research evidence and its translation into practice. She is committed to extending capabilities of individuals and teams.

Camilla was born in South Africa and has lived and worked in Canada, USA, the UK and Australia. She has two daughters and lives with her family in the Dandenong Ranges. She is passionate about tackling race, class and gender inequality.

Afriyie Richardson has over 25 years' experience in across healthcare, manufacturing and oil and gas industries specialising in accounting and risk management. 

With a continuous improvement approach Afriyie brings to WHISE significant experience in governance and risk mitigation, and is known for her collaborative, tailored approach to work that fosters long term partnerships and results. Afriyie currently works for Monash Health where she is currently on secondment as Business Manager in the Allied Health division providing financial reporting analysis and budgeting advice and assistance. Previous to this, Afriyie has been Director of Audit and Assurance and Finance Manager where she has undertaken audits for the health organisation during pandemic conditions and transition to the Victorian Standing Directions.  

Previous to her work with Monash Health Afriyie worked for Ixom a water treatment and chemical distributor across Australia and New Zealand with growth in Latin America and Asia, as a Senior Finance Analyst, for Bayer Material Science as a Commercial Analysis where she implemented consistent profit and loss reporting workflows including SAP tools and inventory management tools. 

Afryie has a keen interest in equity issues and has also held Director role on the Board of Incubate Foundation – a social enterprise that connects young people to opportunities through personal and professional development. She is also a former member of the Monash Health CALD Equity Committee. 

Afriyie is a chartered accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Major) from the University of NSW.  

For over 30 years, Robinette has advocated for women and girls and served her community, locally and nationally in a range of roles from grass roots community organisations, to national charities. Her work has included Chair and Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides Australia (a role that saw her overseeing the national Girl Guide movement, and support the international movement of girl guides and girl scouts), National Vice President of UN Women (then UNIFEM) supporting the roll out of International Women's Day events nationally, and State Commissioner for Girl Guides Victoria. Currently, Robinette leads the National Girl Guides Awards and Recognition Committee - a committee whose role focuses on the national recognition of volunteer contribution across Australia.

Robinette has extensive and hands on experience of working with local community and women's groups including fundraising, volunteer support and management and governance.

In addition to this, Robinette has extensive and in-depth experience of HR and Operations Management having led Operations teams in the medical and health sector for over two decades.

A community minded, service orientated senior leader, Robinette is committed to developing community, empowering women and supporting the growth of young women and girls.

Katherine Dennis is currently a Special Counsel in the Workplace Relations team at Sladen Legal. She holds a Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Arts. Katherine has provided workplace relations advice to clients ranging from SMEs to family businesses to some of the largest companies operating in Australia and has experience across all areas of employment law, industrial relations and discrimination. Katherine is passionate about giving back to the community and is especially interested in supporting and improving women's rights.

Katherine enjoys spending time with her family and friends and her new son James.

Susie has over a decade's worth of experience in leading digital process and transformation change projects.  Susie is passionate about creating a dynamic environment for technical, creative and business people to excel and has a proven track record at scaling digital operations across complex programs, while building high functional teams. With significant capacity in sourcing, capability building and strategic program delivery, Susie's experience includes work in the Banking and Finance Sector, Government, Health and Consultancy sector across national, state and local contexts. In addition to this, she has in-depth experience with complex project management including solution design, risk management, communications and stakeholder management.

Susie has a Bachelor in Applied Science, a Master's Degree in Marketing and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. She is also a Certified Scrum Master and is a Registered Practitioner in Prince2 Project methodology. Susie brings to the WHISE Board a significant commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of women and, broad demonstrated commitment to community leadership and volunteering. In addition to supporting her colleagues through volunteer participation on committees to improve workplace wellbeing, she was also heavily involved in the Port Melbourne Life Saving Club and managed the Nippers Program for many years. Currently, she is a coach in the Australian African Inclusion Program for NAB and through this work, seeks to develop, support and guide young workers in their career paths.

Kate Whyman is currently the Director Operations Performance as part of the Victorian Government's Department of Health, COVID Response Case Contact and Outbreak Management team.  

Previous to this, Kate was General Manager, Monash Medical Centre where she leads a large acute and subacute service across operational, human resources and financial management of systems of the major tertiary metropolitan health service. 

With skills in facilitating transformational change across complex services, Kate has also worked for Eastern Health as Program Director, Specialty medicine, Director of Allied Health and Chief of Clinical and Site Operations (Maroondah Hospital). In these roles she was responsible for enhancement of outpatient services, improvement of length of stay rates, achieving human resource and utilisation targets, and co-authored the health organisations cancer action plan. 

Kate has lived and worked in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne for over 25 years and has deep care and connections to the community and its health infrastructure. 

Kate has Global Executive MBA (Monash), a Master of Public Health (Latrobe University), Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Coventry University) and Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Latrobe University).

Claire is currently an Associate Director in the Public Policy, Economics and Public Impact team at KPMG, having recently returned from several years working in the UK. She has a wealth of experience advising Government clients in both Australia and the UK on a range of public policy and regulation issues, including in relation to family violence, health workforce development and other matters to support community safety and wellbeing. Prior to joining KPMG, Claire worked for several years as a lawyer at international law firm Allens, and supported the development of young women law students through the Victorian Women Lawyer’s mentorship program.

Claire has a Bachelor of Laws (Hons), a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Master of Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne. Having grown up in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne, she is passionate about supporting the growth, education and wellbeing of women and girls in this area.

Read our article welcoming Claire here.