Our board
Meet the Youth Live4Life Board
Youth Live4Life Board members: Dave Vaughan, Robyn Hunter, Sarah Mahon, Andrew Williams-Annan. Photo: Kim Selby
Our team is supported with expert guidance from diverse, dedicated, and passionate board members.
Our board members bring invaluable expertise in areas of healthcare and youth mental health support, governance, community engagement, economics and finance, auditing and risk management, strategy and planning, operational and project management, public health, communications, and advocacy.
Robyn Hunter
Chairperson
Robyn started her career gaining clinical experience as a physiotherapist in Australia and Canada before completing an MBA and transitioning into several strategic positions in commercial healthcare and private health insurance. For over a decade Robyn has held Executive and Chief Executive Officer roles, in large not for profit organisations in disability, community managed mental health and health organisations, and she is committed to values based leadership and delivery of meaningful social and community outcomes. Robyn has extensive governance experience as non executive director and committee member for AQA Victoria and Mental Health Australia. She is passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of young people by scaling the award winning and evaluated Live4Life model in rural communities. Robyn joined the Board in February 2021
Brendan Case
Company Secretary
Brendan Case has more than 20 years company secretarial, corporate governance and finance experience. Brendan is a former Associate Company Secretary of National Australia Bank Limited (NAB), former secretary of NAB’s Audit and Risk Committees and has held senior management roles in risk management and regulatory affairs.
Brendan worked for the NAB for almost 15 years; prior to joining NAB, he worked at UniSuper Limited for 8 years. He is a Chartered Secretary with a Masters of Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne and has degrees in both economics and finance.
Sarah Mahon
Deputy Chair
Sarah Mahon is a former Woodend resident with a nursing background who now runs a small beef and sheep farm. Sarah served on the Kyneton & District Health Service Board for six years and is involved with a range of community and sporting groups. Sarah brings significant governance and board experience in addition to her community connections. Sarah joined the Board in February 2021
Dave Vaughan
Director
Dave studied Agricultural science and business at university before pursuing a more financial based career path. He’s spent three years in Brisbane working in tax accounting, and more recently in private investment based solely around agricultural assets, working out of Melbourne.
Dave and his partner run their own beef property on the Bass Coast and are lucky to still be well engrained in the rural community down there.
Growing up in a regional area and seeing the impacts of mental health first hand on young adults and children from these areas was a driver for Dave to get involved with Youth Live4Life.
"Access to support and community engagement was something that was definitely lacking in my schooling years, and having seen the benefit Live4Life provides to rural communities, I want to be apart of driving this program for the benefit of my nieces, nephews, my recent god daughter, and all rural kids in general”
Dave joined the Board in July 2022
Pauline Neil
Director
Pauline Neil has over 30 years experience working in the youth sector and Local Government in Melbourne and rural Victoria. Pauline’s work has centered around direct support for young refugees, crisis youth support, advocacy, program design and strategic planning. Pauline is a Master Instructor of Mental Health first aid and continues to run courses in teen, Youth and Standard Mental Health First Aid. Currently Pauline is working from Darwin as the Northern Territory Regional Manager for the Alcohol and Drug Foundation. Pauline is also the co-founder of Live4Life. Paul joined the Board in December 2019.
Patrick Calvert-Jones
Director
Patrick is a young man with deep rural roots. Patrick (Paddy) grew up in Victoria’s high country on a cattle station and with a degree in Agribusiness works across country Victoria and Australia as a commodity trader. Working directly with rural communities, Paddy brings great insight into the needs of rural communities as well as valuable strategic and communication experience.
Paddy joined the Board in February 2020
Andrew Williams-Annan
Director
Andrew is currently the Principal at M2C1, a strategy and risk management consulting business based in Melbourne. Prior to this, he was the Chief Risk Officer for Rural Finance and held a number of executive positions at ANZ Banking Group.
Andrew holds an Honours degree in Actuarial Mathematics from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and is a Graduate Williamson Community Leadership Program, Graduate AICD and a Member of Cranlana Program Alumni.
A CFA volunteer firefighter for over 20 years, Andrew has co-developed and facilitated a training program to raise awareness and build resilience in community for the incidence of family and domestic violence during and immediately after natural disasters.
Jonathon joined the Board in June 2021
Jonathon Gurry
Director
Jonathon Gurry has dedicated his career to representing the most vulnerable in our community, both in Australia and internationally.
Jonathon’s early years at social justice law firm Holding Redlich laid the foundation for a professional journey that has spanned the West Bank, Africa, Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Much of this time was spent working for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, based in Geneva.
As Director of Policy and Advocacy at Water Aid Australia, Jonathon developed strong relationships with members of Federal Parliament, going on to work as an Advisor to Andrew Giles MP, the now Federal Minister for Immigration. During this time Jonathon worked closely with Andrew on the scourge of loneliness, helping raise visibility in Federal Parliament and contributing to the seminal White Paper. Jonathon is currently immersed in Climate Policy and the Energy Transition at IFM Investors.
Jonathon joined the Board in March 2023
Graeme Kelly
Director
Graeme's extensive professional career as an experienced, successful CEO, executive, board director and consultant has focused on organisations that make an important social impact in Victoria and beyond. These leadership roles have been with acute health and emergency services organisations, as well as social enterprises, disability, mental health, and social procurement service organisations, including substantive tenures as CEO of The Tipping Foundation and CEO/Company Secretary of the Victorian Deaf Society (Vicdeaf).
A Graduate Member of the Institute of Company Directors, Graeme has previously been a director with the Andrew Dean Fildes Foundation, Outdoors Inc and the Harvard Club of Victoria. He is currently a Non Executive Director with Lancefield and Romsey Community Financial Services Limited, a franchise aligned with the Bendigo Bank that operates community banks in both Lancefield and Romsey, providing local employment, dividends to shareholders and significant investment in local community programs and organisations. In recent years, Graeme's focus has been on 'for purpose' organisations, with a significant emphasis on interim CEO roles to provide 'shorter term for more impact' leadership and a 'safe pair of hands' when it matters most.
A resident in regional Victoria, Graeme's interests include his family with wife Helen, two adult children, four grandchildren and an adult foster son, as well as playing drums and recording original music, collecting recorded music and musical instruments, cultural travelling, and supporting the Hawthorn Football Club.
