Board

Ross Taylor is the current Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tenix. Tenix is an engineering, construction and services business working in the infrastructure, mining, and traffic services sectors across Australia, the Pacific and the USA. After gaining his engineering degree Mr Taylor has spent his career in the Real Estate, Construction and Engineering sectors both in Australia and internationally. Prior to joining Tenix Mr Taylor was both an executive and board director working with the Lend Lease Group. His roles over the 23 years he was with Lend Lease included running companies around the world that focused across Funds Management, Property Development, Construction and Project Management, and Facilities Management and Maintenance. His early Lend Lease career was spent working directly on a large variety of building and construction projects. Before this he worked as a Structural and Civil Engineering design engineer in Brisbane, QLD.

Assoc Prof Andrew Cochrane is a leading cardiac surgeon from Melbourne, with 18 years experience. Since 2003, he has volunteered his time annually in Timor-Leste providing surgical care on a pro bono basis, in addition to volunteer surgical work in Pacific nations through Operation Open Heart and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Assoc Prof Cochrane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Monash University, and is actively involved in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, serving on several committees. Assoc Prof Cochrane set up the East Timor Hospital Support Fund via the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and was the Chair of the RACS Victorian State Committee from 2006-2008. He is currently a member of the Cardiothoracic Board. In addition to his volunteer surgical services, Assoc Prof Cochrane is engaged in several other philanthropic activities through Monash University and University of Melbourne, including financing the Donald Cochrane Scholarship through the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Margaret Schofield Opera Scholarship via the Melba Opera Trust. He is currently a Director and Trustee of the Cochrane - Schofield Charitable Fund. As Chairman of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste, Assoc Prof Cochrane's special responsibilities include recruitment for the Medical Advisory Panel.

Dr Chris Fenton (M.B.,B.S., University of Sydney, 1978) is the Founder and Managing Director of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste. He founded the Hospital in 2006 after 25 years of general medical practice in Sydney's eastern suburbs. His concern about the people of Timor-Leste grew from following the mass media coverage of the troubles surrounding the 1999 self-determination election. This coincided with his decision to transition from general medical practice to use his skills in the wider community. Dr Fenton is currently the Medical Director for Papua New Guinea International SOS (Australasia) and supervises the provision of all medical services to the ExxonMobil PNG/LNG project, as well as to the Lihir Goldmine project which runs a hospital carrying out 7000 consultations a month. He has previously served as a Board Member of the Sydney Medical Services Cooperative, the largest after hours medical locum Service in Sydney from 2003-2005. Dr Fenton was also a Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent's Private Hospital from 1982 -2003. As the Managing Director of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste, he has oversight of the entire project. Dr Fenton has travelled to Timor-Leste 16 times since 2006, most recently in June 2010.

Christina Hardy is Director of Business Development and Legal Affairs at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and a Non-Executive Director of the Bionic Ear Institute and Bionic Vision Australia (which was recently awarded a Federal Government ARC grant to develop the bionic eye). In addition to technology commercialisation in medical research, Ms Hardy has advised senior executive and Board members on risk management and mitigation issues and strategy. She has 10 years in corporate and commercial law in Australia, the United Kingdom and Asia in the ICT sector negotiating and managing complex commercial transactions with a technology emphasis. Earlier in her career, Ms Hardy spent several years working for a Federal Senator and in public relations and media relations. Ms Hardy's formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Business - Communications (Journalism) from the Queensland University of Technology. As a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste, Ms Hardy's responsibilities include assistance with strategy, fundraising and operational planning.

Dr John Mulcahy BCE, PhD, FAIE has more than 27 years' management experience in financial and property investment. He was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Suncorp for six years. Prior to Suncorp, Dr Mulcahy held a number of senior executive roles over a six-year period in the Commonwealth Bank including the role of Group Executive, Investment and Insurance Services. Prior to joining the Commonwealth Bank he was Chief Executive of Lend Lease Property Investment Services and Chief Executive of Civil and Civic. Dr Mulcahy is also Guardian of the Future Fund Management Agency. The Future Fund was established by the Future Fund Act 2006 to assist future Australian governments meet the cost of public sector superannuation liabilities by delivering investment returns on contributions to the Fund. Dr Mulcahy was appointed to the Board of Coffey International in September 2009. He was appointed as a Director of Mirvac in November 2009.

Assoc Prof Clare Nourse is the Director of the Paediatric Infection Management Service at the Mater Children's and Mater Mothers' Hospitals and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Paediatrics at the University of Queensland. She qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin and trained at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin, Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. She has 25 years experience in tertiary hospital medical practice, including 13 years specifically in the field of tertiary clinical care for paediatric infection. She has developing country and crisis experience with International Committee of the Red Cross 1991. Assoc Prof Nourse has worked at Mater Children's Hospital since 1992, and her particular clinical and research interests are in HIV infection in children, staphylococcal infection and refugee health. Assoc Prof Nourse has been a Board member of the Mater Hospital Foundation, Brisbane 2008-2010. The Mater Foundation is a leading philanthropic organisation that funds life changing healthcare and medical research for the Mater Hospitals and the Mater Medical Research Institute. She is also a Council member for the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases 2010, a Health Committee member for the Terrace Timor Network, Brisbane and a Member of Innocents Relief, Queensland. Assoc Prof Nourse joined the Hospital of Hope Board in June 2010.