NFSA Board

The NFSA Board is responsible for the overall performance of the organisation, including setting the strategic direction and establishing goals for management.

Members of the NFSA Board are:

Ms Gabrielle Trainor AO (Chair)

Mr Wayne Denning (Deputy Chair)

Pictured above (left to right): Mr Kim Ledger; Mr Wayne Denning; Ms Fiona Scott; Ms Gabrielle Trainor; Ms Jude Donnelly; Mr Peter Rose; Ms Toni Cody; and Ms Caroline Elliott. Absent: Mr Ewen Jones.

Ms Gabrielle Trainor AO

LLB (University of Melbourne)

Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Ms Trainor is a non-executive director and advisor with more than 25 years’ experience on boards ranging from infrastructure, transport and urban renewal to sports, arts and culture and Indigenous education and welfare.

Among her current appointments, Ms Trainor is a director of Infrastructure Australia, the ACT City Renewal Authority and the Major Transport Infrastructure Board. She is a commissioner of the Australian Football League and of the Australian Sports Commission. Ms Trainor is chair of Barnardos Australia. She is a member of the boards of ANZ’s OnePath Life Insurance and OnePath General Insurance and WAM Global Ltd.

She is a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2017, Ms Trainor was named an officer in the Order of Australia.

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Mr Wayne Denning

BA (Sociology, Psychology, Political Geography) (Central Queensland University)

Master of Business Administration (Corporate Governance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship) (Queensland University of Technology)

Mr Denning, a proud Birri Gubba man, is the Managing Director of Carbon Creative, an award-winning creative services agency and television production company based in Brisbane, Australia.

Mr Denning is determined to give a positive voice to Indigenous Australians, through innovative and engaging design, content and strategy for children’s television and within the corporate arena.

He has also recently been a member of the Queensland Theatre Board, a Digital Ambassador for the Queensland Government and a member of the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business and Innovation Reference Group.

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Ms Toni Cody

BEc (Monash University)

Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Ms Cody is a marketing and business consultant with more than 20 years of industry expertise. She has advised a range of established and emerging companies as well as not-for-profit organisations, predominantly on strategic business planning, branding, funding initiatives and cultural change.

Ms Cody is currently a Director of the Sydney Theatre Company and a member of its Finance Committee and STC 50 Committee. She was a Director of the Australian Ballet from 1999 until 2010, Chair of the Australian Ballet's Audit Committee and Chair of its Future Education Fund Committee.

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Mr Peter Rose

BEc (Hons) (University of Adelaide)

Mr Rose is a Consultant to Foxtel, Foxtel Movies, Presto and other digital platforms. He initiated the introduction of a number of successful and award-winning Australian television drama series to the Australian pay TV industry, including Love My Way, Tangle, Satisfaction and Cloudstreet.

Mr Rose has held a number of high-level industry positions, including Marketing Director of the South Australian Film Corporation, Head of Marketing and Distribution for Hoyts Theatres, Managing Director of Roadshow, Coote and Carroll and Executive Vice President of International Marketing for United International Pictures.

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Mr Kim Ledger

Mr Kim Ledger is a Western Australian businessman and entrepreneur who founded and successfully operated a number of businesses in Perth, Adelaide and, more recently, New York. He has an ongoing relationship with the film industry through his work as Patron of Australians in Film (Heath Ledger Scholarship) in Los Angeles.

Mr Ledger co-founded Scriptwise, a non-profit foundation set up to educate people about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs, and he is a Member of the Management Committee of Cyrenian House (WA Council on Addictions). He has been Patron of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, including Pro-State Ride WA, since 2010.

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Ms Caroline Elliott

BEc (University of Monash)

Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

Ms Elliott is a Chartered Accountant and has extensive experience in corporate consultancy, including strategic, governance and financial advisory roles. Ms Elliott is currently also a non-executive director of St John’s Ambulance (Victoria), DorsaVi Limited and Wiltrust Nominees Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Edward Wilson Estate.

She held previous non-executive director roles at Cell Therapies, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Public Transport Ombudsman Limited. Ms Elliott was also a finalist in the 2000 Telstra Business Women’s Awards.

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Ms Jude Donnelly

Ms Jude Donnelly is a senior public affairs and communications specialist with over 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors.

Ms Donnelly is a former Policy and Media Adviser to the Australian Federal Government and was the General Manager, Media and Communications for the Richmond Football Club from 2007-2010. In 2013, she took up her current position as the Head of Government and Stakeholder Relations for the Australian Football League.

Ms Donnelly also serves on the boards of AFL Sports Ready and the Melbourne Press Club.

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Mr Ewen Jones

Mr Ewen Jones has extensive business and government relations experience. He has a background in finance and real estate sales and is an auctioneer by trade.

He is a keen supporter of regional communities and has a strong interest in the arts, fostered by an appreciation of the difficulties that regional areas face in interacting with arts communities across the country.

Mr Jones was the Member for Herbert from 2010 to 2016 and served on several House of Representatives Standing Committees and the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.

Since Parliament, he has started his own consultancy firm aimed at organisations preparing to submit plans to government, to give them the best chance of success.

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