AnglicareSA Ltd. and Believe Housing Australia (AnglicareSA Housing Limited) are each governed by their own volunteer boards. We thank the members of the Board for donating their time and expertise.
The affairs of AnglicareSA are managed by the Board of Directors. Directors are appointed by the Bishop, the members of AnglicareSA, the Provincial Council and the AnglicareSA Board of Directors.
The Archbishop of Adelaide, the Most Reverend Geoff Smith holds the position of Visitor.
The members of AnglicareSA are the members of the Synod of the Diocese of Adelaide.
To learn more about the Board composition, please refer to the AnglicareSA Constitution: AnglicareSA Ltd Constitution and AnglicareSA Housing Limited Constitution.
AnglicareSA Visitor
The Most Reverend Geoff Smith
BA DipTeach ThDip MPhil MTh GradCertMin GradCertExecLead
Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
The Primate is the President of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia. In between Synods, he is also President of the Standing Committee of the General Synod which is elected by the General Synod to take responsibility for the affairs of the General Synod in between General Synod sessions.
The current Primate is the Archbishop of Adelaide, The Most Reverend Geoffrey Smith who is the 10th Bishop and 5th Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia. His initial six-year term as Primate commenced on 7 April 2020.
Geoff has served as a parish priest on the Gold Coast, Ballina, Sawtell, Lismore, Port Macquarie and Papua New Guinea and was national director of the Anglican Board of Mission Australia for five years. After becoming a bishop in 2007, Geoff was Bishop of the Southern Region in the Diocese of Brisbane until 2013.
He has a significant interest in missiology and governance and has served as a member of four Anglican school councils.
AnglicareSA Board
Mr Tim Sarah
BEc MBA ACA FAICD
Tim is an experienced business executive and joint owner of Sarah Group, operating businesses in the construction industry. He is a Chartered Accountant with an Economics Degree and an MBA and has been involved in business for 30 years. He lives and breathes the values of strong relationships, high quality solutions and long-term sustainability. Tim is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, and is an experienced company director, with experience in for-profit public company boards and for-purpose community service organisations.
Mr Michael Lane
Michael is a Chartered Accountant and has been a Principal at Pitcher Partners for over 30 years. He works predominantly with family-owned businesses. He is a Director of a number of companies located in South Australia and Victoria and has also served as a Director or Committee member for a number of not-for-profit organisations. Michael has been a member of AnglicareSA’s Finance Committee for approximately six years and is the Chair of this committee.
Ms Emma Riggs
LLB (Hons) BCom
Emma Riggs is a solicitor at Camatta Lempens Lawyers specialising in corporate governance, general litigation and commercial disputes, with a particular interest in industrial law, Aboriginal rights and property law. She is a current member of the Episcopal Standards Commission, the SA representative on the Church Law Commission, and an executive member of the SA Council for Civil Liberties.
Dr Angela Evans AM
PhD, FFPM RCPS(Glasg)
Angela has been a board director at St Mark’s College, executive of Sports Medicine Australia (SA), chair of The Magdalene Centre committee, people’s warden and deputy chair of Adelaide’s St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral Council. Current non-executive director roles are with AnglicareSA and Australian Podiatry Association. Angela’s volunteer history includes Walk for Life Clubfoot in Bangladesh; National Medical Education Scientific Council and Medical Education Scientific Advisory Council of Diabetes Australia; Scientific Committees of Australian Podiatry conferences; medical programs at Olympic Games, 2000; Special Olympics, 2005; Commonwealth Games, 2006; and clinical director of National Special Olympics Games, 2010.
Mr Michael Forwood
Michael has extensive experience in the Australian health and disability services fields as a board director, senior manager and consultant in both the government and non government sectors. He is a graduate of the universities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Leeds, with qualifications in Arts, Law and Health Policy and Planning. Michael’s key strengths lie in strategic policy and planning, commercial negotiation and government relations. He has held senior executive positions in the SA Department of Health; Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; and as CEO of the Cora Barclay Centre. Current board directorships include First Voice, the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network and an Adelaide City Drop-in Centre. Michael has a passion for social justice and has been actively involved in advocacy for disadvantaged and homeless people for many years.
Ms Susy Daw
Susy is an experienced company director, risk management consultant and business mentor with her own business, MQM Business Consultants. She has 27 years’ experience in risk and strategic consulting for the public and private sector. Her governance expertise includes 19 years as a facilitator for the Australian Institute of Company Directors in the Foundations of Directorship, Company Directors Course, Applied Risk Governance and Governance to Protect Vulnerable People. Susy’s current appointments include Deputy Chair, Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Director, Police Credit Union, University of Adelaide Council Risk Committee, Director, St Andrew’s Hospital, Director, St Andrew’s Hospital Foundation and ECH SA Inc. Client Experience and Service Quality Committee.
Mr John Wenzel
John Wenzel was Finance Director and General Manager for a major architectural practice for 27 years, during which time it grew from 30 people to more than 400 with offices throughout Australia and Asia Pacific.
He later worked with several companies in services and not-for-profit sectors as a non-executive director assisting in areas such as strategic planning and merger and acquisition. He also worked with the Federal Government as Chairman of the SA Services Export Development Committee.
John holds a Bachelor of Business from the University of South Australia
He joined the Board of AnglicareSA in 2022.
Board of AnglicareSA Housing
Mr Tim Sarah
BEc MBA ACA FAICD
Tim is an experienced business executive and joint owner of Sarah Group, operating businesses in the construction industry. He is a Chartered Accountant with an Economics Degree and an MBA and has been involved in business for 30 years. He lives and breathes the values of strong relationships, high quality solutions and long-term sustainability. Tim is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, and is an experienced company director, with experience in for-profit public company boards and for-purpose community service organisations.
Mr Michael Lane
Michael is a Chartered Accountant and has been a Principal at Pitcher Partners for over 30 years. He works predominantly with family-owned businesses. He is a Director of a number of companies located in South Australia and Victoria and has also served as a Director or Committee member for a number of not-for-profit organisations. Michael has been a member of AnglicareSA’s Finance Committee for approximately six years and is the Chair of this committee.
Mr Grant Chapman
BA (Hons) GAICD
Grant Chapman has had a distinguished business and parliamentary career. He served as the Federal Member for Kingston from 1975 to 1983 and as a senator for SA from 1987 until his retirement in 2008. Throughout his time in Federal Parliament, Grant was involved in numerous committees and served as chair of the Joint Statutory Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, overseeing ASIC and helping to reform Australia’s corporations’ law and financial services’ regulation. Grant is a business consultant, company director, part-time senior member of the Commonwealth Government Administrative Appeals Tribunal and is involved in farming. Grant was appointed by the United Nations to its Panel of Eminent Persons to Combat Desertification and was awarded the Grand Cross, Order of Bernardo O’Higgins by the President of Chile for his contribution to international relations.
Mr Frank Agostino
Frank Agostino is a prominent businessperson who has led a number of national business and community organisations. He is a Life Member of the Northern Community Health Foundation. In addition to being the managing director of the Agostino Group, Frank is also the current president of the Motor Trade Association of South Australia and Northern Territory and chair of the MTA Group Training and Registered Training Organisations. He is the MTA’s longest serving president. In 2014 he was made a “Cavaliere” by the “Il Presidente Della Republica Italiana”, and he is a Chevalier of The Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem – Knights of Malta.
Ms Rachel Elliott
B Bus Property (VAL & PRM), FAPI, GAICD
Rachel is an experienced property valour, Fellow of the Australian Property Institute and director at national property advisory firm, m3property, where she leads the advisory team within the Adelaide office. Her career experience covers both corporate and micro business, with her unique perspectives shaped by over 25 years living in a regional community, where she started and grew several small businesses and chaired committees within both local government and community organisations. Rachel is the current chair of the UDIA Developer Tax, Finance and Regulation Committee and immediate past chair of Investigator College at Victor Harbor.
Ms Michelle Kennedy
BE(hons) MBA FIEAust CPEng EngExec GAICD
Michelle Kennedy is an accredited engineering executive with an honours degree in Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration. Michelle is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, with over 20 years’ experience in leadership and delivery of public works. Michelle currently serves as a Non-Executive Director on a number of other boards including Dial Before You Dig SA/NT, St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School and CSC Pty Ltd, and was formerly a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Engineers Australia.
Ms Carol Sim
B Eng MPM PMP CPPM
Carol is a project management professional and engineer by trade. She has worked extensively in the water industry speckled with stints in mining arena and defence professional services. Currently, she also serves on the Council of Governors at St. Peter’s College as well as on the Audit and Risk Committee of the Nova Employee Company.
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AnglicareSA Ltd. and AnglicareSA Housing Limited are each governed by their own volunteer boards. We thank the members of the Board for donating their time and expertise.