“The Board of Beyond Empathy is there to help guide and support management, to participate in setting the strategic path of the organisation and to ensure that the monies entrusted to Beyond Empathy are spent efficiently and effectively in helping disadvantaged young people find pathways into meaningful and positive social participation.”
Anna Buduls, Chairperson
Anna Buduls: Chairperson
Anna is a professional company director and has extensive experience in the corporate sector, including working in the advertising industry, journalism and investment banking. Anna is currently on the boards of Centro Properties group and SAI Global and chairs BE and Tramada. Since 1995, Anna’s career has been oriented around non-executive director roles on the boards of a variety of public, private and government companies, including Freedom Group, Mirvac Group, Macquarie Generation and SAI Global. She has also been closely involved with the not for profit sector over the last decade, both as a director and through her philanthropy. In 2008 Anna was appointed by the Federal Government to a three person Steering Group to work on the Federal White Paper on Homelessness. In 2010 Anna has been appointed by the Minister for Employment Participation, Mark Arbib, to be part of a three person panel reviewing the current job seeker compliance penalty regime. In her role as Chair of Beyond Empathy, Anna works closely with Kim McConville, and together they have been pivotal to the development and sustainability of Beyond Empathy.
David Thompson AM
David Thompson is CEO of Jobs Australia Limited, a national peak organisation for more than 250 non-profit providers of employment and related services for unemployed and is a founding Board member and current Director of the National Employment Services Association Limited.
David is also Chair of the National Roundtable of Nonprofit Organisations Limited, Deputy President and Executive member of the Australian Council of Social Service, Chair, Jobs Australia Foundation, Chair, COMMACT International and President of its Australian Chapter, Chair of Community 21 Limited, Director of Community Sector Enterprises Pty Ltd and Director, Beyond Empathy Limited. David is also a member of the Board of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy.
Vivienne Skinner
Vivienne Skinner has had a long career in arts and politics and is currently the arts adviser to the Premier of New South Wales, Nathan Rees. For a decade until 2005 she was an arts adviser to former Premier Bob Carr. From 2006 until 2008 Vivienne was the communications manager for Regional Arts Australia, the national body that promotes and supports the arts for the one-third of Australians that live beyond our metropolitan centres. She is also a narrator of audio books for Vision Australia.
During her career in the arts, Vivienne has taken a special interest in how the arts can improve the lives of marginalised young people. She believes that film, theatre, dance and other forms of artistic expression are valuable and non-threatening ways of empowering young people to tell their stories and improve the choices they make with their lives.
After a childhood growing up in the small NSW town of Cooma, Vivienne trained as a nurse before completing an arts degree at the Australian National University and beginning a career as a journalist. She worked as both a television and radio reporter with the ABC and was a newsreader with Channel 7 in Canberra. She has written for various publications including the Sydney Morning Herald.
Vivienne is the deputy chair of the Adelaide Film Festival and is a director of the physical theatre company Legs on the Wall. She is the Premier’s alternate on the board of the Sydney Festival.
John Wearne AM
John was , for 21 years , a Councillor on Bingara and Gwydir Shire Councils ; Mayor of Bingara for 5 years ; State President of the Shires Association of NSW and Senior Vice-President of the Australian Local Government Association.
His other roles have included Director of Country Energy ; Commissioner of the National Transport Commission ; Director of the Local Government Superannuation Scheme ; Director of Greening Australia NSW ; Australia Day Council of NSW and a number of positions in the Arts including Chair of Arts North West , Chair of the NSW Museums Committee, Chair of the Arts NSW Infrastructure Committee and a Director of Railway Street Theatre Company.
Currently , in addition to his role on Beyond Empathy’s Board, he chairs Engineering and Planning Company Peece Pty Ltd , is a Board member of the North-West Small Business Centre and a Trustee and judge of the Bluett Awards – the highest honour awarded annually to NSW Councils.
Tony Green
Tony Green is the Managing Director of several family companies that have developed and operated some of Sydney's leading pubs: The Royal Hotel in Paddington, Greenwood Hotel in North Sydney, Clock Hotel in Surry Hills and Pontoon & Wallaby Bars at Darling Harbour. For the last 12 years he has also been Managing Director of Andreasens Green Wholesale Nurseries, one of the largest wholesale nurseries in Australia, supplying native and exotic trees, shrubs and grasses to the building and landscaping industries generally and to projects such as The RAS Showground and Olympic Village at Newington, Fox Studios, The Conservatorium of Music and most of the major housing and commercial developments in and around Sydney.
Tony has a Commerce/Law degree (majoring in Accounting) from the University of New South Wales and practised as a solicitor for Freehills in Sydney for nearly four years. He has worked with and supported many charitable organisations in recent years, but this is his first board appointment.
Paul Heath
Paul joined the Perth Office of JBWere in 1994 as an adviser. Prior to this, he held an accounting role with CSR Ltd and a proprietary trading role with Bankers Trust Australia. In 2000, Paul took responsibility for the Sydney Private Wealth Management team and, in December 2004, he took responsibility for the Private Wealth Management team nationally. During his time as Managing Director - Private Wealth Management, Paul served on the Goldman Sachs JB Were Board, Management Committee, Risk Committee, Commitments Committee, Asset Liability Co-ordination Committee and IT Steering Committee. He also served on the Talent and Diversity Council and the Partnership Committee. In 2009, Paul became Chief Executive Officer of JBWere Pty Ltd, a strategic private wealth management alliance between Goldman Sachs JBWere and NAB.
In the community, Paul serves on the board of Beyond Empathy, and the Endowment Investment Committee of the Benevolent Socierty.
Paul has a Bachelor of Commerce and is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia. He is married and has three children.
