Bachelor of Law (University of Melbourne), Master of Taxation Law (University of Melbourne)

Member of Board of Examiners for Specialist Accreditation Taxation Law: Law Institute of Victoria. Chartered Tax Advisor (Taxation Institute of Australia).

David Coombes is one of Australia's leading taxation lawyers. He is Partner at Gadens Lawyers Melbourne and was national head of Norton Rose Taxation Practice, bringing over 30 years of taxation law experience to his roles. David has particular expertise in income tax law, capital gains tax, goods and services tax, stamp duty and other indirect taxes and revenue imposts.

Appointed Director October 2008    

Bryan Lipmann, AM

Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Social Work.  Order of Australia 1999 for his work with the elderly homeless. 

Bryan Lipmann is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Wintringham. Under Bryan’s leadership, Wintringham has obtained significant funding and support to enable the establishment of a range of housing and services to many aged people who were living in poor and insecure conditions. His ability to develop and implement high quality services that are financially viable has influenced Government policy and welfare agencies towards a more co-ordinated response to a group of people who are some of the most disadvantaged within Australian society.

Bryan is a regular contributor to a range of local and international aged care and housing forums, and is the author of a book "The Elderly Homeless", which looks at the international provision of services to frail homeless men and women. He was made a Distinguished Alumni of La Trobe University in 2009. 

Appointed Director November 2002
Member: Executive Committee, Finance & Risk Management Committee

B.A., B. Comm., University of Melbourne; Master in Public Policy (Frank Knox Fellow) Harvard University

Ian Davidoff’s  work for  government in Australia has included strategic policy positions with Federal Treasury, two Prime Ministers as well as with the Infrastructure Division of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. For two years to 2014, he was the Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, based in Washington. Ian Davidoff’s  experience and expertise in  economic, financial and international arenas is exceptional. He is a director of property development and investment company, Citiplan Pty Ltd and the CEO of Journal Student Living. 

Appointed Director November 2015

B.A., Dip. Ed., Grad. Dip. Health Services Management, Master of Business - Health Administration

Colleen Pearce is the Victorian Public Advocate, a position she has held since 2007. The Public Advocate’s role is to protect and promote the rights of people with disabilities and address issues of exploitation, abuse and neglect. As Public Advocate, Colleen Pearce has initiated policy and legislative reform and vigorously advanced the interests of some of society’s most disadvantaged members. Her former roles include leading the Community Operations and Victims Support Agency at the Department of Justice and Director of UnitingCare Victoria and Tasmania.

In 2018 Colleen was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from RMIT in recognition of her life time of work in community services field promoting the human rights of people, particularly those with  disability.

Appointed Director November 2015
Chair: Finance & Risk Management Committee

Dr Ian Winter

PhD. Geography, University of Melbourne, M.A. Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex, B.A. (1st class Hons.) Urban Studies, University of Sussex

Ian is the former Executive Director of AHURI where he is focused on evidence-informed policy development. Ian regularly advises Ministers and senior public servants on the policy implications arising from AHURI research.

He has been a member of both the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Homelessness and Victorian Ministerial Advisory Council on Homelessness and participated as a Special Advisor to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Social Housing and Housing Assistance.

He was an invited observer to the Ministerial Select Council on Housing and Homelessness and to the Housing Ministers’ Advisory Committee. He was invited speaker at the Commonwealth Tax Forum and most recently invited facilitator of the Commonwealth’s Affordable Housing Working Group roundtables.

Appointed Director May 2016

 

Netty Horton

Bachelor of Arts (hons) (Exeter University UK), Master of Public Policy (University of Melbourne) 

Netty Horton has a long history of working in the area of homelessness. Netty was the CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons for more than 12 years during which time she established and ran the first and second national conferences on homelessness in Australia and chaired the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the development of the Victorian Homelessness Strategy.

Netty is a founding member of the Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations and Foodbank Australia. She has been the General Manager of Community Services with St Vincent de Paul Aged Care and Community Services. She is currently the Territorial Social Programme Director for the Salvation Army and the CEO of Catholic Care.

In 2001 she successfully completed a Churchill Fellowship examining foodbanking and homelessness in the US Canada, Europe and the UK.

Appointed Director May 1998

 

Sabine Phillips

A Partner at the law firm Gadens, Sabine’s practice specialises in aged care services, disability services, retirement living and health care. Sabine is a registered nurse (non practising) and has been an approved provider of residential aged care services.

Sabine specialises in risk management, inquiries and investigations, policy review and development, regulatory compliance, clinical and corporate governance, dispute resolution and challenging administrative decisions. 

Sabine is also a director of Uniting AgeWell Limited, Ti Tree Operations Pty Ltd and Village Glen Flexicare Pty Ltd and a member of the quality committee at Royal Freemasons Homes Victoria. She is a past board member of Alzheimer’s Australia (Vic) Inc., Northern Health and Australian Children’s Education & Care Authority (ACECQA).

Sabine holds a Masters’ degree in law, a Masters’ degree of Business in Organisational Behaviour, a Bachelor of applied Science in Advanced Nursing. She has been nominated by her peers as a best lawyer in the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Awards in the category of Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law.

Sabine has spent the last thirty years either providing care and services for aged care clients or providing legal advice to providers and training sessions for the sector.

Appointed Director June 2019