Geraldine is currently Executive Director of the Waratah Education Foundation, whose mission is to support programs that pursue, promote, and improve education outcomes for all children in Australia, with a strong focus on closing the education gap.  

She has over 12 years of experience in education, including 8 years managing the finances of a Private K-12 School.

Geraldine is a fully qualified Chartered Certified accountant since 2009 and trained in a medium sized organisation in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  

In 2010 she decided to travel with her husband, and they settled in Sydney at the end of 2010.

Geraldine has a BA Hons First Class in Accounting from the University of Ulster, is a Fellowship member of ACCA and is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia. Other Board roles include Treasurer of Bondi Beach Cottage and a proud member of her local school P&C Committee, where her daughter attends.

Gerri Clay has worked in multiple leadership roles, developing and implementing strategy in the education, health and community care sectors, for over 30 years in Australia and the UK. This included overseeing strategy, governance, people and culture and financial performance.

As a CEO for two not for profits, she facilitated significant growth to support organisational sustainability working across Aged and Dementia Care, Disability, Volunteering and more recently Children and Youth. She highly values collaboration and working together for a greater cause and is a strong advocate and supporter of volunteering for the common good. During her time with Edconnect Australia she participated in the formation of what is now T4Y.

Gerri has a broad working knowledge of the Education and Mental Health sectors and is passionate about supporting youth to grow, thrive and succeed in life.

Ken Wallace is an executive and director with extensive experience in start-ups and launching and growing customer-focussed products across a range of sectors. Ken has a strong passion for and focus on education and the not-for-profit (NPF) sector. He is currently the inaugural CEO of The OurFutures Institute, a NFP delivering health education for high school students. 

He was co-founder, CEO and Chair of the board of edtech company Educator Impact, which pioneered student check-in mental health applications. 

Ken has held senior executive roles including COO at start-up marketplace kidsbook.io and CTO at Emagine International, a leader in digital marketing for telecommunications. He was a director and treasurer of NFP advocacy group Jubilee Australia Research Centre and member of the advisory board of Medtech start-up Cordifio.

Josh is the Chief Operating Officer for OzHelp leading the corporate team and providing support to the whole OzHelp team. Prior to his appointment with OzHelp Josh was Head of Data and Insights at batyr leading the team in the digital transformation of batyr alongside the development of the ‘OurHerd’ platform - A first of its kind digital storytelling platform.

He has a background in Psychology and the performing arts. Josh has led teams working on; The National Mental Health Framework for Universities (Orygen), The National Evaluation of Headspace (KPMG) and Amplified Voices (Department of Health). 

Josh is a Non-Executive Director of The Y NSW and sits on the Generation Australia Advisory Board as well as on the Black Dog Institute’s Industry Advisory Panel for ‘Sidewalk Circus Labs’ project. His background in the arts allow him to focus on how technology can be human centric in its solutions and amplify impact.  

As Founder and CEO of Raise Foundation, Vicki is committed to impacting adolescent wellbeing and engagement in Australia.  She has a wide range of education, skills and experience working with young people, having built

Raise as a leading national charity from the ground up. 

Vicki has developed a highly skilled team of counsellors, over 8,500 generous volunteer mentors, a high calibre Board, and an Advisory Council of highly regarded businesspeople within the Raise village.  Together they have provided trained and trusted mentors for 13,500 young Australians.

Previously, Vicki had a corporate career in human resource management, taught in Outreach at TAFE, and set up a small retail business.  Vicki is a member of the AICD, and her work has been recognised with the Pro Bono Impact 25 Award, Marie Claire Glass Ceiling Award, Telstra Business Award Finalist, and she was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019.

As CEO of EdConnect Australia, Michael is passionate about connecting people and communities to help young people to succeed. Each year EdConnect Australia prepares and places over 1,000 volunteers in more 250 schools and impacts in excess of 19,000 disadvantaged or at-risk young people in three states.

Previous to this role he has served as CEO of three other national NFP organisations – in affordable housing with Habitat For Humanity Australia, helping children and young people with Variety the Children’s Charity and in mental health and wellbeing in sporting communities with Sports Chaplaincy Australia. 

Michael has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from Curtin University, a Master of Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company directors. 

Michael has served in multiple board and community service roles including for the past 5 years as the P&C President and board member of Rossmoyne Senior High School.

Andrew has a proud history of working in public education having spent 30 years working for the students of NSW. He led two comprehensive high schools improving attendance, enrolment and academic results. Whilst in schools he represented secondary school principals with the NSW Secondary Principals Council holding the position of Deputy President for 6-years and assisted in advocating for improvements in policy delivery ensuring that it remained student centred.  

He has presented internationally at education forums and has also co-authored a book on integration of the disabled into sporting contexts. 

His commitment to ensuring equitable outcomes led him into the position of CEO for Together4Youth where he has successfully combined his knowledge of schools with the NFP sector delivering on improved wellbeing and transition to work outcomes for students with particular focus on rural, remote and low SES areas.