Category: Council & Board

CEO Janet Cribbes brings extensive leadership and community services experience to Tradeswomen Australia as CEO, stepping down from the non-Executive role for Tradeswomen Community Foundation to take up the CEO role.  Until taking up her role at Tradeswomen Australia, Janet was the Chairperson for the Working Group developing the new Pathways Victoria Response model for Complaints and Response for the Catholic Church of Victoria. Janet is also a non-Executive director of two Boards, Wellsprings for Women as Chair and director for SEAM as sustainability social enterprise. 

Kate supports her clients to tender for and deliver major projects. Kate’s skills in this field are supported by a Bachelor of Civil and Environment Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management.

Workplace Diversity Officer (Tasmania) Dr Tanya Paterson has worked in the gender equity arena for many years across Australia, including TAFE NSW Women's unit, NSW State Rail, Victoria University and the Department of Education and Training.  She has a doctorate in Organisational Behaviour and is the author of Women in Vocational Education and Training. Tanya now resides in Northwest Tasmania and works with Tradeswomen Australia to increase diversity and inclusion in workplaces and encourage women’s participation in trades.

Apprentice Engagement Officer Fearghus has worked in both commercial and NFP organisations and is currently completing a Bachelor of Business/Commerce from Deakin University.  A key experience for Fearghus was working with Jesuit Social Services in their Corporate Diversity Partnerships Program and seeing so many talented and experienced people being passed over because of negative societal and cultural biases.

Non-executive Director Kit McMahon is a C-Suite executive with 20 years’ leadership experience and an in depth capacity for strategic planning and execution. Significant working knowledge of workforce development, workforce planning, skills (policy and practice), capacity and capability building at industry, organisation, individual, and community level.

Amy is an engineer with private and public business experience. Skilled at growing people and business, Amy is often the foundation stone in times of change when teams and organisations are looking to scale, are scaling, or need to reshape.

Communications & Marketing Officer Alison Manton is an experienced and formally qualified marketing practitioner with a background in sales, media, communications and publishing.

Non-Executive Director Luana Melis is a general counsel, company secretary and director with over 20 plus years experience in the property and construction industry.  This includes positions with Mallesons (now King Wood Mallesons), funds manager QIC and developers Grocon and Time & Place.   

Charmaine has been a Partner at PwC for 12 years and currently leads PwC’s Enterprise Digital business.  This is where industry and subject matter expertise is combined with leading coding capability, delivering custom machine learning, robotics and platform solutions to automate data normalisation, calculations, visualisations and outputs.

Richard Dent OAM FAICD has exercised leadership for a better world for more than 25 years.  As a Chair, Board Member, CEO and Executive across multiple for-purpose organisations he has focused on inclusion, equity, governance, strategy and leadership.