Our Business Advisory Council

Roger Perry is one of the region’s foremost productivity improvement and organisational design experts. He has been an Assignment Director and Steering Committee member on over 40 transformation programs. Roger also leads many of the Bevington Group’s transformation strategy assignments.

Roger is an experienced Company Director having sat on the Boards of a range of companies including E*TRADE Australia, ANZ International Ltd (Singapore), Greenfleet, and Bevington Consulting Pty Ltd. Roger also serves on advisory bodies such as the Victorian Government’s transformation program for public hospital processes. Roger is also very active contributor to Australia’s charitable sector as the Chair of the World Vision Business Advisory Councils.

Chris Balfour has a senior leadership role as the General Manager Corporate Support for Consumer Affairs Victoria, which includes responsibility for finance and trust funds management, people capability and organisational development, web services and business support systems, corporate planning, reporting and governance functions.

Chris has extensive experience in government policy and strategy development, review and program implementation. He has performed a wide array of senior roles leading complex projects from business case development, procurement, process improvement, business transformation and evaluation. Chris’ background includes consulting and advisory services to State and Australian Government agencies in, justice and regulatory services, environmental sustainability and community safety sectors.

Joan 20 years’ experience as a non-executive director across a range of industry sectors. Her objective is to be a positive influence for improvement and growth in each organisation and her primary areas of focus are strategy, risk, governance and capability.

Joan has more than 40 years commercial business experience and is a Fellow of the AICD. She is an experienced change management leader and has consistently delivered successful business results including strong people engagement. A qualified barrister, she has spent most of her working life managing commercial and manufacturing businesses and people. She joined the insurance industry in 1992 in London; and completed 16 years as CEO and Director of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance in December 2013. Joan is a Fellow of ANZIIF, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is currently a non-executive director for several organisations.

Philip Gentry has more than 25 years’ experience in leadership positions within financial services, property, agribusiness, international trade, commodities and logistics. Philip is currently CFO and COO at Equity Trustees after joining them in January 2016. Previously, Philip held positions including, Managing Director of Agrium Asia Pacific, CFO of AWB and a number of leadership positions at ANZ Bank in corporate banking, international trade finance and investor relations.

Philip Gentry has a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales, an MBA from the International Management Development Institute (IMD) in Switzerland and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

Satya is a strategy and transformation executive with over 19 years of experience in developing business strategies and leading large-scale complex transformations in Banking, Insurance and FMCG industries.

Satya has strong expertise in leading end-to-end transformation agendas – from formulating strategy through to successful design, delivery and embedment of change; built over the years through leadership roles held in large scale private and public-sector organisations.

As a passionate advocate for person-centric approach to strategic transformation; Satya strongly believes that the key to sustainable change is the dynamic leadership that brings people with it. As an experienced corporate strategy and transformation executive Satya have a track record of bringing success to strategic organizational priorities

Tony is an experienced director, advisor, and senior executive leader, with over 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles in Australia and overseas. Tony’s learnings are drawn from deep experience across listed multinationals, medium to large private organisations, NFP’s, government enterprises, and professional services. A former senior executive in financial services, in investment banking and an experienced strategy and operational improvement consultant. He is currently a leader with Rivor Advisory, focusing on assisting organisations to design and execute major change and improvement initiatives.

Tony holds a Company Directors Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an MBA from Melbourne Business School and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Thinus has more than 15 years experience in senior management roles, including Chief Sustainability, Property and Export Officer at Coles Ltd. and CEO and MD at BWX Ltd.

He has a Master of Environment form the University of Melbourne, Master of Science from the University of Lausanne and a Master of Commerce from the University of Stellenbosch. Thinus is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.