Our People

Anne’s background is in Banking, IT and Telecommunications Health across several jurisdictions including UK, Europe, USA and Australasia. Since coming to Australia in 2007, Anne’s passion for human services, focusing on innovation, people and capability is what took Anne into the Health sector.  Anne’s career spans community health aged care and disability, Private Health Insurance and tertiary health, Anne has held executive roles in Silver Chain Group, a large community health and aged care services provider, Medibank, one of Australia’s largest Private health Insurers, and Healthscope the second largest private hospital group in Australia.

Anne is passionate about innovation, growth and the power of connecting and collaboration, and how the right partnerships can transform policy and service provision to support and nourish the changing needs and expectations of the community and the health system in Australia. Her personal attention is on equality of access to effective healthcare for all and ensuring strong advocacy for society’s most vulnerable.

Anne’s focus is on connecting the components in the health system to ensure the right care for the right person happens in the right setting. This involves access for all to good quality healthcare be that in hospitals, hospices, in the home or community settings. Bringing these all together to support the patient journey is critical for the affordability and connectedness of the whole health experience for the funder and the patient and their family.

Anne is deeply committed to designing and facilitating ways to make it easier for Hannah’s House children and their families to access the care and support they need at the various points in their respective journeys; in their home, in a hospital, or hospice setting when that time comes. Recognising the child’s ‘journey’ outside of hospital and hospice is oftentimes longer and more complex, Anne is determined that Hannah’s House will be that one point of continuity, comfort, support and respite for the whole journey

Martin is a founding Board Member, having helped establish the Children’s Hospice Association (CHA) in 2000. He has held the role of Vice Chair since October 2010. He is now retired but last worked for Fugro, a company that specialises in collecting and analysing geological data, both on land and at sea. He is married to Jacky and their first child, Hannah, was born with Opitz Trigonocephaly Syndrome – a condition that resulted in severe physical and neurological disabilities. Hannah is the inspiration for Hannah’s House.

Romola has extensive experience in finance, accounting, and leadership through her work in the resources industry, small business, public service, and media. She has a Bachelor of Business (Management and Accounting) and is a Fellow of CPA Australia.

Romola enjoys working with people who have diverse skills and backgrounds and believes we can achieve more together than individually. Supporting the work of Hannah’s House dedicated staff and volunteers in providing care for children and support for their families is especially important to her.

She brings the board an ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and provides strategic business support to ensure Hannah’s House achieves its vision.

Jacky has held the position of Secretary since the Board was established. After Hannah’s birth, she gave up work in order to provide her daughter with appropriate care. It was during a visit to the UK in 1996 that Hannah spent time at Francis House, a Children’s Hospice near Manchester. This proved to be the inspiration behind Jacky and Martin’s interest in the Children’s Hospice movement.

Amanda joined the Board in 2018 and brings significant expertise and strong commitment to Hannah’s House Vision. With a degree in Financial Services, she is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a fellow of Leadership WA. She is Chief Operating Officer at Baptistcare WA which is a not-for-profit organisation providing aged care services responsible for Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Home Care Services, Amanda is also Chief Executive of Aurum Catering Services providing catering services to Residential Aged Care together with catering functions. Previously the Chief Operating Officer at Bankwest.

Amanda has a wealth of experience working with senior executive teams on a number of critical activities including developing a risk and values based culture, running the HR function and supporting the organisation on their people agenda. Amanda brings to the Board her extensive experience across a number of domains including Operational leadership, Human Resource Management, Clinical Governance and Risk Management, Finance, Marketing and Communications and Information Technology.

Addy relocated to Perth from Melbourne in 2017 and joined the Board of Hannah’s House in 2018. Addy was previously involved with Very Special Kids in Melbourne for more than a decade, which included three years working in the Fundraising team. 

As Head of Commercial at the West Australian Football Commission, Addy leads all strategic commercial activities including developing new revenue opportunities through partnerships and broadcast agreements. 

Across previous roles at Cancer Council WA and Youth Focus, Addy has successfully led high-functioning multi-disciplinary teams to drive revenue growth across a diverse portfolio of fundraising streams. 

He is also a Board Director of Gymnastics WA, a Business Development Advisory Group Member of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network and a Board Fundraising Subcommittee Member of Maurice Zeffert Home. 

Susan is a Registered Nurse of over 27 years’ experience and has significant health management experience, having held a range of clinical, managerial and senior leadership positions within public and not for profit hospitals and community care settings in WA and Queensland. Susan holds a Master of Business Administration majoring in Human Resources and a Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Catholic Culture. She is also a Fellow of Leadership WA (2008) and holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment with the University of Notre Dame, School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Susan is currently CEO, SJG Social Outreach which forms part of St John of God Health Care, one of the largest not for profit healthcare and community services operators in Australia. St John of God Social Outreach provides a range of community mental health, homelessness and support and capacity development services across Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, as well as internationally in Timor Leste. Prior to this she has held Director of Nursing roles in several hospitals and worked in a national workforce strategy role supporting a number of major projects related workforce change and redesign.

Susan has extensive experience in clinical and corporate governance both within the health and community care setting. She is passionate about ensuring patients and their families receive safe and high quality care working in strong partnership and collaboration with those who we serve.

Sandra is a HR professional with over 25 years working in Human Resources. Sandra joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1988 and worked in various HR roles over 12 years. After leaving the RAAF, Sandra joined CRS Australia, where she led the Recruitment Team until 2007 when she was appointed as the first HR Manager at InfoHRM, a HR consulting firm. In 2011, Sandra joined Pitcher Partners Brisbane to set up their HR practice and upon return home to Perth in 2014, Sandra transferred to Pitcher Partners Perth. Her strength is in establishing HR best practice processes and procedures in small to medium sized businesses.

Sandra’s passion is to make a difference in the community. Sandra was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours List for her volunteer work with Radio Lollipop. She is currently an active volunteer with Camp Quality WA, was appointed to the Board of Trustees for WA Charity Direct in July 2020 and in August 2022 joined the Board of Hannah’s House.