Retirement Communities World Australasia 2012 - list of speakers 

Stig joined ANZ in 2000 and currently heads up the NSW & QLD Corporate Healthcare business. In addition he has national responsibility for ANZ's Retirement Living specialisation. ANZ is a leading banker to the Retirement Living & Aged Care sectors and Stig has been involved in a number of major industry financings including in support of sector...

Mark is a Qualified Accountant CPA and joined RSL LifeCare in 2009 with 15 years senior management experience. His experience covers senior finance roles with investment and manufacturing companies as well as not-for-profit organisations. His most recent role with LFG Holdings - the Lowy Family's investment company, involved the management of...

Having spent more than 20 years as Director and Executive Director of a number of property firms, from start-up to listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Mark is a motivated businessman driven by a vision to uncover the full potential of any property investment or development. Mark has created national award winning brand strategies, is an...

Helen has more than 20 years experience in non-profit management. She has a Bachelor of Social Science (UTS), post-graduate qualifications from UWS, the Australian Institute of Management, and the Australian Graduate School of Management, and is in the home stretch of a Master of Management (Community Management). Before coming to Diverse, Helen...

Russel has a background in construction and commercial property development. He has held senior positions in large Not For Profit providers of Aged Care and Retirement Living where he was responsible for the formulation of strategic planning for existing properties and new developments In his current role as the Development Manager for the Villa ...

Matt Fisher is a founding director of the Greengate Group. Greengate develop, own and operate care based villages which integrate retirement apartments and aged care facilities. Greengate has recently completed it's St Peter's Green village in Lane Cove North which included a 93 bed aged care facility, 27 retirement apartments, council...

Marisa Galiazzo is General Manager, Client Services (QLD / NSW) with Care Connect Ltd. She is Executive Sponsor on the Service Model Project – a central strategy Care Connect will be rolling out over the next 12 months to ensure every part of the organisation is aligned to it’s customers. Marisa commenced with Care Connect in 2005 as a Client...

In 1980 Angela Gifford began a home care company, Able Community Care, at a time when there were only a few, for profit, home care agencies in the UK. In the 1980's the majority of home care came from local councils and charities. Today there are around 6000, for profit, home care providers offering services. Able Community Care provided and...

Andrew brings with him first-hand knowledge of the retirement village industry through his previous roles. Andrew began his career in a consulting firm mainly working with local government in planning community infrastructure. He also worked in local government before starting a consulting practice, which operated for over six years. In 2004 he...

Ray Glickman took up the position of CEO at Amana Living in August 2004 following a career in local government where he was most recently the CEO of the City of Fremantle. Ray led the City of Fremantle to various awards, including the Alcoa Leadership Award in 2002 as WA's leading best practice council. He has Masters degrees in Business, Applied...

Richard Gray entered the welfare field in 1981. Before that he spent 25 years in the electronic media, including managing regional commercial television station RVN 2 in Wagga, NSW and 3AW commercial radio station in Melbourne.Between 1981 and 1991 he was CEO/Company Secretary of the Spastic Society of Victoria Ltd. From 1991 to 1996 he was...

Rob was born and raised in South Africa, immigrating to Australia via the USA in 1979 and is an Australian citizen. He has been involved in acute care hospital management in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and South Africa, and in the mid 1990s spent several years managing a charitable organisation providing acute care, independent living units and...

Jim Hazel is a company director whose current appointments include Chairman of Elders Rural Bank Limited, Chairman of Valex Group Pty Ltd, Director of Terramin Australia Limited and Impedimed Limited, and board member of COTA (SA) Inc. He has a long involvement in the retirement village industry, most recently as Managing Director of Primelife...

As Executive General Manager Retirements, Justin leads all aspects of FKP's retirement division. Aveo Live Well, FKP Property Group's retirement division, is Australia's leading provider of retirement lifestyles. With more than 15 years experience in the successful ownership and management of retirement villages, Aveo's retirement portfolio...

Tony is currently the General Manager of the US Seniors business at ING Real Estate’s Community Living Fund, based in Sydney, Australia. The ING Real Estate Community Living Fund owns and operates 58 seniors housing communities across the US and Australia. Tony joined ING Real Estate after working at Stockland, one of the largest diversified...

Derek McMillan joined Australian Unity in 1999 and has held a number of executive positions including in 2005, the role of Group Executive - Grand United during its merger with Australian Unity. Since that time, Derek has been Chief Executive - Retirement Living, responsible for the development of the Group's retirement living operations, spanning ...

Chief Executive Officer of the first ASX Listed Seniors Housing Property Trust from Jun 2005 to Jan 2010 growing the assets under mangement from circa $100m to $1bn. Consultant to the Seniors Housing Indusrty since Jan 2010, providing advisory, research and transcation services. Executive Director of ASX Listed operator of Seniors Housing...

Nieves is Chief Executive of IRT Group. IRT Group is Australia's largest community based, not for profit organisation providing care and housing for 7000 seniors throughout Sydney, the Australian Capital Territory and South Coast of NSW. IRT Group also funds research into issues of ageing and conducts social enterprise activities that support the...

Simon was appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ING Real Estate Community Living Group (ILF) on 2 November 2009. He is also Director of a number of companies and is President of the Retirement Villages Association. Simon was previously CEO of Aevum (AVE), a publicly listed Retirement Living company with 21 villages across NSW and Western ...

Cynthia Payne is Chief Executive Officer of SummitCare- a leading residential aged care provider with nine service sites across greater Sydney and in the Hunter. For almost 50 years SummitCare has been delivering exceptional care and service across the range of residential services and defines itself as a leading quality provider. In 2009...

Todd's broad experience across various property sectors includes valuation, sales and leasing, development management and finance. He specialises in the areas of real estate finance, feasibility analysis and transaction management. Prior to co-founding Harvest with Chris Slack, Todd was employed by Babcock & Brown in their Real Estate...

David has been with Stockland since March 2007, having joined as EGM of Group Strategy & Corporate Development. He is now CEO of Stockland’s Retirement Living Business. He has extensive experience in strategy development across a wide range of industries, having spent 12 years with The Boston Consulting Group, where he was Vice President and...

Robert has been with the Australian Unity Group since 1995 and General Manager - Commercial of Retirement Living since 2006. Robert has led the acquisition of established villages and played a pivotal role in funding the portfolio’s growth. Prior to this Robert held several senior finance roles, most recently as Manager of Financial Development in ...

Steve brings to any organisation a comprehensive knowledge of the retirement and aged care sectors based on both working experience and long standing family ties within the industry. This is further complemented by Steve’s extensive technical understanding, and up to date market knowledge. Steve’s unique skill set, coupled with his proven sales ...

Mark Sewell is the CEO of Warrigal Care, a not-for-profit community based aged care provider based in the Illawarra. Founded in 1967 it now has over 650 staff, 450 volunteers, a $40mil turnover and is growing, spending over $100m in expanding its services. Currently it operates 7 residential care homes, 7 retirement villages, 3 community home care ...

Phil Simich has experience working in the public, private and not for profit sectors. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer - Retirement Living at the Bethanie Group in Western Australia and is responsible for the operations of 12 retirement villages and community housing complexes totalling over 900 units.

Since commencing as CEO at Masonic Homes Limited in mid-2003, Doug has overseen the investment of nearly $250 million in expanding the organisations’s seniors living offering. As a result MHL now has in operating in SA and the NT nearly 1,000 retirement living units that range from single bedroom granny flats through to three bedroon villas and...

Ron Thompson is Chief Executive Officer of RSL LifeCare – a leader in senior living, providing residential care, community care and retirement living services in 17 villages to over 5,000 Australians. Mr Thompson has over 20 years general management experience in Health and Aged Care. He initially trained as a Chartered Accountant and also has ...

Ian's academic qualifications include a degree in economics, an honours arts degree and graduate diploma in property development. He has developed or redeveloped a number of commercial properties, shopping centers and small land subdivisions. In the early 90's with Graham Hobbs, Ian plunged into the hospitality sector as owner, operator and...

Paul Walsh has been with the Lend Lease Group for nearly 20 years and has held a number of senior executive positions within the Group in Australia, the UK and the United States in the development, project financing and construction business units. Lend Lease Retirement Living and Aged Care is Australia’s largest “pure play” owner, operator and...

Ian Yates is Chief Executive of COTA Australia, the national peak body for COTAs (Councils on the Ageing) in each State and Territory of Australia.. Ian was Chief Executive of COTA Seniors Voice (Council on the Ageing) in South Australia (SA) from June 1989. COTAs are the peak aged consumer organisation in each state and territory, with over a...

As Chief Strategy Officer at IRT, Greg has organisational responsibility for the strategic direction and growth of the business. Qualified with a Bachelor Civil Engineering (Hons) and a Master of Business Administration, Greg most recently held the position of General Manager of Property at a national aged care provider and has previously held...