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After more than ten years in private legal practice, Jennifer made the strategic career move to become a corporate governance consultant at Board Matters. Throughout her private practice career, Jennifer had been sitting on boards of many organisations, so she undertook business studies at QUT during which time Jennifer decided to make the leap into the world of corporate governance consulting.
Today, Jennifer is still a practicing lawyer, governance consultant and company director. Over the last 15 years, she has sat on or chaired a number of boards. Her board appointments include statutory bodies, public authorities, an APRA regulated superannuation fund, an ASIC regulated financial planning entity and many not-for-profit organisations.
Jennifer is the first independent member of the Queensland Fire Emergency Services’ Board of Management. She is also currently an Advisory Board Member of the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence’s Advisory Board and she also chairs the Audit and Compliance Committee for Queensland Independent Schools Block Grant Authority.
Please refer to Jennifer’s CV for more information.
In 2002, after almost 15 years as a corporate/commercial lawyer, including as a partner of national law firm Deacons (now Norton Rose Fulbright) and over 10 years as a practising director, Elizabeth founded Board Matters and its associated governance legal practice, Board Matters Legal. Today, over 18 years later, she is the Founder Consultant, working with a team of specialist governance, legal and strategy consultants.
Drawing together the strands of her career, Elizabeth has provided corporate legal and governance assistance and advice, with a real-life ‘practising director’ perspective, to a large range of companies, organisations, and industries for well over 25 years. This has included listed, private, public sector and not-for-profit boards.
She also maintains an active portfolio of directorships, presently with RACQ (Deputy Chair), Queensland Theatre (Chair), Endeavour Foundation and John Villiers Trust. Her past directorships have also included the boards of over 20 organisations, for-profit and not-for-profit in a diverse array of industries and sectors.
Please refer to Elizabeth’s CV for more information.
Rebecca is a successful corporate leader and lawyer with over 18 years’ experience providing strategic, legal and regulatory advice across a wide range of Board, CEO Leadership Team and Executive level issues. Focusing her current and extensive skills on managing and resolving high risk legal and commercial issues, Rebecca has acted for and against industry and federal regulatory bodies and is well versed in all aspects of corporate governance and legal risk management including Board, Audit & Risk Committee and CEO level advice and reporting.
With a reputation for her exceptional ability to develop excellent rapport and respect quickly, Rebecca has worked across and within a large and diverse range of organisations, including the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission Telstra Corporation Ltd and, most recently, with multinationals in the financial services sector. Experienced as a lawyer, a commercial manager and regulatory advisor both domestically and internationally, Rebecca brings a strong and savvy approach to issues management and is able to appreciate (and work effectively with) the array of different perspectives that stakeholders inevitably bring.
A proactive, inspiring and approachable advisor, Rebecca’s long-standing expertise traverses all aspects of corporate governance and legal compliance including education/training across organisational levels, incident management and regulatory enforcement actions/litigation. A seasoned corporate operator, Rebecca has recent, direct and long-standing involvement in negotiating and implementing some of Australia’s most complex commercial infrastructure and regulatory arrangements as well as resolving high stakes and multifaceted regulatory enforcement matters.
Please refer to Rebecca’s CV for more information.
Madeline brings a depth of practical legal and governance experience to Board Matters, with more than 13 years’ legal experience, including in senior in-house roles and in the corporate advisory groups of national law firms. She also brings unique insights from her practical experience in both governance advisory and company secretarial positions.
Prior to joining Board Matters, Madeline held the role of principal governance advisor for The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland Limited and its APRA-regulated subsidiaries (RACQ), having formerly been senior in-house counsel as part of the legal team facilitating the merger between RACQ and another financial services institution (QTMB).
In her governance advisory capacity, Madeline was responsible for supporting the RACQ boards and providing end-to-end governance and company secretarial services for various committees and the board of the charitable RACQ Foundation. Her specialised role also allowed her to act as advisor to the board and committee chairs, directors, CEOs and executives in relation to a broad range of matters including governance policy development, board composition, constitutional drafting and positioning, and regulatory and legal compliance.
Please refer to Madeline’s CV for more information.
Camren brings a breadth of developed and demonstrated governance knowledge and skill to Board Matters after joining the team in 2021. He is capable of bringing his learned abilities to any area that calls on his expertise in order to offer practical and informed advice to a wide breadth of clientele across organisational sectors.
With a continuing keen interest in company and organisational structuring for future-fit needs, Camren often takes a generationally divergent lens when offering solutions to clients.
Camren holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Media and Communications and currently holds a Queensland Legal Practising Certificate in order to offer support clients through discrete corporations and organisational legal issues.
With a diverse and varied suite of experience from his studies and post-admission roles, including both legal and professional communications skills, Camren is passionate for effective and accessible counsel. As such, he is able to deliver informed strategies in a tailored manner and capably supports the Board Matters team in delivering excellence client experiences.
Camren is an Associate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Please refer to Camren’s CV for more information.
Linda Bracken is a dynamic non-executive director and senior executive with a reputation for professional integrity, creating high performance teams and large-scale transformational leadership. She combines her inquiring mind and interpersonal skills with extensive digital and customer/audience knowledge to achieve results in a positive and inclusive way — bringing people with her — at board level or with corporate clients. As a result, Linda has led some of the most significant developments across the media, music and digital landscape in Australia.
Linda was at the forefront of change across the ABC leveraging disruptive trends and technologies. Introducing design thinking into content creation and digital product development, as Head of Digital Experience, she was responsible for digital products such as iView, ABC Local online, ABC News, ABC Listen, ABC Kids Listen and triple j.
Linda is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Please refer to Linda’s CV for more information.
Sarah is a professional Non-Executive Director with extensive executive, operational, governance and advisory experience across large ASX listed, government and private corporations, having led a range of Boards, Committees and Executives through strategic and operational challenges.
Sarah is recognised for her commercial acumen and has an extensive executive career leading governance, risk, compliance, legal, insurance and internal audit teams. She has a history delivering revenue growth in large corporations through developing and executing corporate strategy, negotiating commercial agreements, capital raising, M&A and project management across complex multimillion-dollar transactions.
Please refer to Sarah’s CV for more information.
Christina joined Board Matters after 25 years as a human capital executive specialising in organisational and leadership development, executive review and coaching, and workplace conflict. She has had a successful corporate career leading the human resource management functions of a number of global and national companies, as well as consulting to a range of private and public sector organisations.
Christina has qualifications in human resources management, law, and business coaching, and has also worked as an academic in a number of Queensland universities. She has also held a number of roles on the boards of public, private and not-for-profit organisations.
Christina is a Past President and Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute, a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and an Approved Queensland Supreme Court Mediator.
Please refer to Christina’s CV for more information.