NFSA Board

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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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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Ms Fiona Scott

(BBus) (Western Sydney University)

Master of Administration and Management (Australian Graduate School of Management)

Ms Scott provides strategic marketing and communications advice to the infrastructure, fast-moving consumer goods and agricultural sectors and is a political commentator on Sky News. She holds several government, private sector and charity board positions.

Ms Scott was the Federal Member for Lindsay between 2013 and 2016. Prior to politics, she was a strategic marketing and communications specialist working with ASX-listed companies, including Westfield, GPT, Auto One and Wattyl Paints. She was also the NSW representative on Auto One’s National Members Advisory Council.  

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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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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.