At Aruma (formerly House with No Steps and The Tipping Foundation) our Board are all champions for people with a disability.
B.Eng (Hons), Chemical Engineering Chair
B. Com, CPA, GAICD Deputy Chair
BSC (Hons), Grad Dip Comm Mgt, MAppSc, (Comm Mgt), Grad Cert Mgt, GAICD Director
GAICD, Dip. Business Director
BSc (Hons), MBA, GAICD Director
BA (Eng), DPhil, MBA, GAICD Director
BSc, MSc Director
BEc. MIntS. DLI FAICD Director
Profile information for key people in the Aruma organisation.
Experience
Malcolm Kinns is an experienced director and education executive. He has held senior leadership roles in the vocational and higher education sectors and had an extensive career building and improving technology driven education.
Malcolm currently provides consultancy services to the Centre for Social Impact, supporting professional development for executives and directors in the not for profit sector.
Previously Malcolm was Chief Executive Officer of Generation Australia, an independent not-for-profit focussed on transforming education to employment systems to prepare, place, and support people into life-changing careers. He has worked with a variety of educational institutions including Think Education Group, Edinburgh Business School and FBOL Solutions, where he consulted to universities and other education institutions on business growth strategies and best practice design principles for the delivery of blended and online learning.
Malcolm has also held advisory board roles on the Classic Wallabies Indigenous Exchange, supporting young Indigenous Australians to undertake volunteer assignments in South Africa as well as the NSW Rugby Learn, Earn, Legend program.
Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Chemical Engineering from The University of Edinburgh and has completed the AGSM Governance for Social Impact.
Special responsibilities
Member of the Audit & Risk Committee Member of the Quality & Support Committee Member of the People & Governance Committee
Leanne Dreves is an experienced Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and non-executive director with extensive finance, governance and risk management expertise.
She has held senior accounting and financial leadership roles in various profit for purpose organisations, including charities and credit unions, and in public practice. In public practice she provided a range of accounting and management consulting services to small business.
Leanne is a non-executive director of Roses in the Ocean, Australia’s leading lived experience of suicide organisation. She was previously a non-executive director of House with No Steps.
Leanne is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) and also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting).
Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee Member of the Growth & Investment Committee Member of the People & Governance Committee
Maura Boland is a leader, strategic thinker, and influencer with expertise across all aspects of management and corporate governance including strategic planning, policy development, social and capital program design and administration, regulation, and project governance.
Currently Maura is a director of The Insight Partnership, a management consultancy specialising in collaboration for strategic results in areas of positive social and environmental impact. Maura has held a range of executive positions in the NSW Government, most recently as Deputy Director-General, Strategy and Policy in the then Family and Community Services and has extensive experience in government and human services. She has successfully led and guided change and innovation across housing, health, disability, environment, planning and other government portfolios.
Her non-executive director positions have included the House with No Steps and ANROWS.
She is an Executive Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).
Chair of the People & Governance Committee Member of the Property Committee
Chris Edwards is a manager and director with extensive experience across the human services sector. He has specific expertise in disability inclusion and improving organisation performance in service delivery.
Chris is currently Director, Government Relations and Advocacy for Vision Australia. He has performed a range of strategic and operational management roles for Vision Australia and has previously worked for Nous Group, a leading Australian professional services firm.
Chris’s current appointments include nonexecutive director RPH Australia and a member of the People & Culture Committee for the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. His prior board appointments include a non-executive director of The Tipping Foundation Ltd, Retina Australia (Victoria) and Disability Attendant Support Service Incorporated (DASSI), including two years as Chair of DASSI.
Chris is a Seeing Eye Dog handler and works in partnership with his Seeing Eye Dog, Eva.
Chair of the Quality & Support Committee Member of the Audit & Risk Committee
Samantha is an experienced director and senior business executive. She has particular experience in community housing, having worked at a senior management and Board level across the UK and Australia.
Samantha is a director of Four Five Six Pty Ltd, leading transformation projects within the social services sector. She lives in rural Australia running a family Avocado Farm. Previously Samantha held senior executive roles with Link Housing, Mission Australia Housing and Genesis Housing Group.
Samantha is a non-executive director of Bundaleer Care Services and Bundaleer Care Operations Ltd, an aged care facility on the Mid-North Coast, NSW. She was formerly an executive director of Pathmeads Residential Ltd and Orchard & Shipman PLC (UK), and a non-executive director of House with No Steps and Berkshires Women’s Aid.
Samantha holds a Bachelor of Science (Building) and graduated with an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management in 2011.
Chair of the Property Committee Member of the Growth & Investment Committee Member of the Quality & Support Committee
Dr Joost de Kock has over 25 years senior leadership experience in both the private and public sectors with a focus on strategy, digital transformation and technology innovation.
Joost is a former Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. More recently, he has held several senior government roles including Deputy Secretary, Customer Strategy and Technology at Transport for NSW where he was responsible for the development of long-term transport strategies, policies and delivery of technology and data
enabled services, and General Manager for Enterprise Transformation at the Federal Department of Human Services.
He currently is a Non-Executive Director of the Raise Foundation (early intervention youth mentoring charity) and served on the Redkite (children’s cancer charity) Board for nine years.
Joost holds an engineering degree from Cambridge University, a DPhil (PhD) in Medical Electronics from Oxford University and a Cranfield MBA. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Chair of the Technology Advisory Committee Member of the Audit & Risk Committee Member of the Growth & Investment Committee
Phil Wade is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Independent Advisor and has a deep passion for health and wellbeing and equality of outcomes for all.
Phil is a marketing, eCommerce, and digital professional with expertise in world class global brand formation and business leadership. He is currently the Chief Commercial Officer for Camplify Holdings Limited and has held various director and leadership roles at Wesfarmers, Qantas Group, TJX and Unilever.
Phil is currently a Governor of Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Non-Executive Director of VicHealth and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne.
Phil holds a master’s degree in Politics and Economics from the London School of Economics.
Chair of the Growth & Investment Committee Member of the Technology Advisory Committee
Cain Beckett is a professional Non-Executive Director with a background in strategy and technology. He brings three decades of executive leadership across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Currently Cain is a strategy consultant for the Social Impact Hub . He was formerly a senior executive in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and led the department’s strategic policy unit, the Policy Projects and Taskforces Office. He also held leadership roles in the design and launch of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), where he implemented the supply-side functions for the Scheme, including pricing and the development of Specialist Disability Accommodation. Cain has held diverse roles across consulting and in the private sector, including at Deloitte Australia, PwC, Accenture and Perpetual.
Cain is the former Chair of the NSW Disability Council and former non-executive director of Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Life Without Barriers and Summer Foundation and co-founder of the Attitude Foundation. Currently Cain has board roles with Attain HealthTech Pty Ltd and AbilityMade Pty Ltd.
Cain holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in international studies from Sydney University. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors for more than 15 years. Cain has cerebral palsy and has been a participant in the NDIS since the Scheme commenced.
Member of the Audit & Risk Committee Member of the Customer Committee Member of the Property Committee
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