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Our Board

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BILL COSTIN

Director and Chair (2023)
Member of Clinical Governance Committee
Member of Governance Committee
Member of Finance, Risk & Audit Committee
Member of Strategic Development Committee

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Graduate Australian Army Officer Cadet School (Portsea)

Graduate Australian Army Command and Staff College (Queenscliff)

Graduate Diploma Management Studies

Graduate Diploma Computing & Information Systems

Diploma Transport Management

Certificate OH&S Management

Certificate Advanced Driving Skills

Vice President Swansea RSL (current)

Previous Executive Roles:

Business Manager School of Medicine University of Tasmania

General Manager Sorell Council

General Manager Hobart Private Hospital and Gribbles Pathology Tasmania

National Business Implementation Manager (Project Orion) Mayne Health

National Integration Manager Hospital Supply Faulding Healthcare

State Manager Operations & Hospital Services Tasmania, Faulding Healthcare

Major Royal Australian Army, Royal Australian Corps of Transport

Director and Vice Chair (2016)
Member of Clinical Governance Committee
Member of Finance, Risk & Audit Committee
Member of Strategic Development Committee

DI ALDOUS 

Masters Degree in Business Administration (Deakin University)

Bachelor of Pharmacy (Sydney University)

Diploma in Education (University of Tasmania)

Associate Fellow of Australian College of Health Services Management

Member of the Royal Society of Australia

Senior clinical and executive positions in hospitals and health departments across Australia. 

Lecturer for University of Tasmania in Health Care Management Program (current).

Lecturer at Flinders University teaching offshore China and Singapore (2013-2019).

Lecturer at Flinders University Adelaide for Master of Health Administration.

Director, Health Services Consulting Australasia (HCSA) (current).

Board Member, Kalista (now Life Without Barriers) Disability Service provider.

Lives in Hobart (2/3) and Little Swanport (1/3).

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GERALD WHITE

Director and Treasurer (2022)
Chair of Finance, Risk & Audit Committee
Member of Governance Committee

Bachelor of Business (Utas)

MBA (Melbourne Business School)

Member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants

Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

CFO - Bank of Us (2013 - current).

Company Secretary - Bank of Us (current).

Previous Executive Roles including finance, transformation, strategy and shared services:

Boral

Spotless

Origin Energy

Power and Water Corporation

Management Consultant in energy, technology and government with KPMG and PWC.

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LIZ SWAIN AM

Director and Secretary (2021)
Chair of Governance Committee
Member of Strategic Development Committee

Masters Degree in Business Administration (University of Tasmania)

Graduate Diploma in Management (University of Tasmania)

Advanced Management Diploma (Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University).

Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD).

Diplomas in Business (Australian Institute of Management), Primary Metallurgy and Applied Science (Chemistry).

Former director of organisations including disability (NDIS) and Life Member, water and sewage corporations, mutual banking sector, and family engineering and East Coast holiday home rental businesses. 

Rio Tinto's Bell Bay Aluminium Smelter – over 40 years including roles in R&D, engineering, leadership and management

Awarded Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year and Medal of Australia (AM) in recognition as a female trail blazer in engineering/leadership in industry and for community contributions

Director, Chair, Judge, CEO and Life Member - Diving Tasmania

Chair of Freycinet Association Inc. (Community, business and tourism group)

Director of Freycinet Coast Financial Services (Bendigo Bank in Swansea and Bicheno) and chair of Marketing Committee

Chair of Beau Vista Villas - Strata Management

Director Break O Day Employment Connect (BODEC)

Resident of Coles Bay and active in the local community for over 25 years.

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DR TIM FLANAGAN

Director (2019)
Chair of Clinical Governance Committee

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Medical Science

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (GP)

Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of General Practice (Honorary)

Forty years as a rural GP in Northern Tasmania (including UK practice swap 1990-91).

Worked extensively in aged care facilities under a variety of iterations and government policies.

Life Member of North West's Emerson Park Aged Care Facility.

Involved in GP teaching and assessments for 30 years.

Censor in Chief of the Royal Australian College of GP (1996-2000).

Examiner for post-graduate specialist medical fellowships for every Australian state, plus New Zealand, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Practice surveyor with Australian GP Accreditation Limited (2000-01).

Examiner for the Australian Medical Council (2002-07).

Awarded a Paul Harris fellowship by Rotary Club of Longford for services to the community, in 2012.

Worked with aboriginal communities in Tasmania and Northern Territory; and acknowledge and respect the Tasmanian aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of the land, and their elders - past and present, are integral to the management of any contemporary organisation.

Property in Swansea for over 20 years and enjoys being involved in the local community. 

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JILL JETSON-SHUMBUSHO

Director (2022)
Chair of Strategic Development Committee

 

Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

Diploma in Financial Services (Central Institute of Technology WA)

Executive Diploma in Enterprise Management (IMC Pacific Region)

 

Jill has over six years Board experience, 25 years in senior executive roles; together with four years in Media, and over 40 years in the Finance sector. 

 

As an executive professional, Jill has extensive leadership and business management experience in sales and services industries including: banking and finance (currently Chief Customer and People Officer with Bank of us), multimedia, business management consultancy and training and channel management. 

 

Her experience has resulted in key strengths including;

  • Leadership

  • Presentation / media capability

  • Business performance management

  • Strategy and business planning

  • Business and operational planning and management

  • Business development

  • Change management

  • Program management skills

 

Jill has previously worked in executive banking roles including QT Mutual Bank, P&N Bank, Westpac, BankWest, Commonwealth Bank, and Trust Bank Tasmania as well as other roles with News Limited and Business Enterprise Centres.

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LEIGH SEALY

Director (2023)
Member of Governance Committee

Bachelor of Laws, University of Tasmania, 1979

Retired Barrister

Leigh practised as a solicitor and barrister from 1979 until retiring in 2022, practising as a solicitor advocate for over 40 years.

He has had extensive experience with commercial and construction disputes including arbitration, planning appeals, trade practices and corporate law and defamation actions.

 

From 2001 to 2022, working as a barrister, Leigh was also a committee member of the Tasmanian Bar Association, Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board, and the Judicial Committee for Tasmanian Rugby Union.

 

He was appointed Senior Counsel and Solicitor General of Tasmania in 2008 and served in that role until 2014. 

 

Leigh has lectured on advocacy for the University of Tasmania and Centre for Legal Studies for over twenty years and has also lectured extensively on British and Australian constitutional law, including preparing a paper for the Law Reform Institute of Tasmania considering reforms to the Tasmanian constitution.

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