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Currently the Chief Financial Officer for Endeavour Foundation, Mark Fenton has over 15 years of experience as a company director and has served on the Boards of Queensland Ballet Company and John Paul College Limited.
He chaired the Arts Investment Advisory Board that provided strategic and funding advice to the Queensland government, and is a director for the University of Queensland International House Foundation Limited and Common Ground Queensland Ltd.
Mark is a finance executive with over 23 years of experience, is a fellow with CPA Australia and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has also worked for businesses in the professional services, manufacturing, retirement living, retail, and membership services sectors.
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Alison brings extensive experience working in community mental health and primary health care, with expertise in rural and remote mental health, and suicide prevention. Currently a Senior Program Officer with the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network, Alison is based in Townsville and passionately represents the interests of north Queensland.
As a skills-based director, Alison brings to the QAMH Board expertise in community capacity-building, stakeholder engagement and sustainability planning. She has been instrumental in developing networks and partnerships across regional Queensland; and she is a dedicated advocate for the voice of lived experience – using consumer and community engagement as the primary source to drive and implement mental health reform.
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Over the past two decades, Craig Stanley-Jones has worked in various government and community roles within the mental health sector, including management and allied health roles within public and private clinical settings. The past eight of these years has been spent working in senior management roles in the community mental health sector.
Craig has led and assisted in the development and implementation of a range of community mental health programs across Queensland, including projects focusing on consumer participation and leadership. He brings a strong history of establishing strong effective partnerships and collaborations on a range of community and clinically-based programs and projects.
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Leah Soutar joined QAMH in 2015 and has extensive experience in leadership roles across consumer goods and professional services sectors, with a particular focus on strategic planning and operational business improvement. She is currently responsible for franchise recruitment within the pharmaceutical industry and has previously held senior roles with ASX listed Greencross Limited and Cerebos (Australia) Limited.
In 2016, Leah was recognised for academic achievement and contribution to community, and awarded a scholarship with Torrens University Australia to attend the 15th World Congress on Public Health. Leah has previously served on the Board of Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland (MIFQ) and is an Associate Fellow with the Institute of Managers and Leaders.
Leah holds a postgraduate qualification in business and is currently undertaking postgraduate study in Public Health (Masters) providing an enriched understanding of the social determinants of health and the broader context in which policy and programs are developed, delivered and evaluated.
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Sharon Sarah has worked in the health and community sector for 25 years, primarily in the mental health sector and is currently the CEO for Bridges Health and Community Care in the Wide Bay and Central Queensland regions.
She manages a diverse multidisciplinary workforce including people with a lived experience of mental illness and addictions. Sharon is passionate about system reform and collaborative practice to enhance consumer and carer outcomes, building a professional, sustainable mental health and alcohol and other drug workforce and strong clinical governance, particularly program fidelity and evidence based practice.
She is committed to lifelong learning, sourced through both the health and business sector. She is a registered Psychologist with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Psychology and Masters in Mental Health Practice. Sharon was the Branch Chair of the Australian Psychological Society for many years, now a committee member and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
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Currently an Associate Director in the People and Change team at KPMG, Jessica is a highly experienced management and organisational change professional, who has built a career helping organisations navigate through strategic, operational, technological, and cultural change.
She brings a wealth of experience in solving complex business problems across a number of sectors, including government, finance, banking, infrastructure, and information technology. However, at the core of her work is a desire to help businesses adapt in order to best deliver on their core values. Jessica has a passion for supporting the not-for-profit sector and a personal commitment to driving improved outcomes for mental health in Australia.
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Neil Barringham is the Service Manager at ‘A Place to Belong’, Anglicare Southern Queensland, an organisation that works to develop the capacity of the community to build inclusion for people who experience mental health challenges. He is also a founding member and Board member of the Community Praxis Cooperative – a cooperative of Community Workers in Queensland contributing to training, organisational development, evaluations and Community Development projects.
With undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in social work, Neil has extensive experience working with community groups and organisations. He deeply enjoys interacting with passionate people in the mental health and disability field about ways to build community-based supports and opportunities for participation.
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Viv Kissane is Founder and CEO of Brisbane-based charity, Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness (Peach Tree). This a not-for-profit community organisation, founded in 2011, that promotes perinatal mental wellness for mothers, partners, and families.
Viv’s role as a mental health peer worker is dedicated to delivering peer support through community groups aimed at fostering inclusion and facilitating streamlined pathways to existing perinatal services. As CEO of Peach Tree, Viv has developed and implemented prevention/early intervention educational programs and workshops dedicated to improving parental and infant mental health outcomes.
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Kris was Appointed CEO of QAMH in July 2015, bringing her extensive experience in finance, management and corporate governance to her role, with qualifications in finance accounting, human resource management, governance and company directorship.
She has held many senior leadership positions, including interim CEO, Autism Co-operative Research Centre; General Manager, QUT Enterprise Holdings and Managing Director, Business Governance Solutions.
Previously she has worked with a diverse range of not-for-profit organisations in the areas of health, community housing, autism, education, research and Indigenous health, including in senior executive roles for several research centres in the areas of vaccine technology, biosecurity, biomarkers and environmental biotechnology.
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Julia Riordan brings extensive international and Australian experience in executive assistant roles in corporate, government and non-government organisations to her role as QAMH’s Executive Officer, where she works closely with the CEO, supporting her across the everyday running of the business.
She has completed her Certificate in Governance Practice and undertakes the role of Company Secretary for QAMH. Julia is also the secretariat for the Queensland Transition to NDIS for Mental Health Strategic Forum.
Julia worked for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in Policy and Governance Divisions for 12 years before joining QAMH, initially as Executive Assistant to the CEO, in 2012. She has contributed to all aspects of the business, including office management, communications, finance, membership management, event organisation and Secretary of QAMH State Council. She is passionate and committed to her role in community mental health and the broad contribution it makes to the community.
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Kris was Appointed CEO of QAMH in July 2015, bringing her extensive experience in finance, management and corporate governance to her role, with qualifications in finance accounting, human resource management, governance and company directorship.
She has held many senior leadership positions, including interim CEO, Autism Co-operative Research Centre; General Manager, QUT Enterprise Holdings and Managing Director, Business Governance Solutions.
Previously she has worked with a diverse range of not-for-profit organisations in the areas of health, community housing, autism, education, research and Indigenous health, including in senior executive roles for several research centres in the areas of vaccine technology, biosecurity, biomarkers and environmental biotechnology.
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Julia Riordan brings extensive international and Australian experience in executive assistant roles in corporate, government and non-government organisations to her role as QAMH’s Executive Officer, where she works closely with the CEO, supporting her across the everyday running of the business.
She has completed her Certificate in Governance Practice and undertakes the role of Company Secretary for QAMH. Julia is also the secretariat for the Queensland Transition to NDIS for Mental Health Strategic Forum.
Julia worked for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in Policy and Governance Divisions for 12 years before joining QAMH, initially as Executive Assistant to the CEO, in 2012. She has contributed to all aspects of the business, including office management, communications, finance, membership management, event organisation and Secretary of QAMH State Council. She is passionate and committed to her role in community mental health and the broad contribution it makes to the community.
