Events

Chairman: George DeSouza

Peter Frueh held a wide range of executive roles with Telstra and Hewlett Packard before leaving in 2006, when he joined the  Rotary Club of Balwyn and was President in 2011-12. He established an Executive Coaching business Achieve Change.

Peter has three adult children and two grandsons. His wife Anne is also a Rotarian and currently an Assistant Governor in District00.

After serving in several District positions Peter was District Governor of District 9800 in 2017-18. he was a Zone 8 Assistant Rotary Coordinator for 2019-22. Peter's passion in Rotary is enhancing and being part of high performance teams.  This reflects his vocational experience and its application to enhancing Rotary.

Since the Rotary International Board apptroved a petition to form a Regional Organistion in January 2019, Peter has been CoChair of the project with PDG  Ingrid Waugh from District 9920 in Auckland New Zealand. 

Peter will outline what Rotary International is planning to enhance club support and reduce volunteer effort and cost. As CoChair of the Regionalisation project for Zone 8 he will explain how Rotary and Rotaract can be enhanced in Australia, New Zealand and the 14 Pacific Islands that make up Zone 8.

Chairman: George De Souza 

Casey was inducted into the Rotary Club of Carlton in 1985 and was it's President in 1994-1995.

He has served in various Club and District roles; lately as the Assistant Governor of the Eastside Cluster 2020-2022.

His wife Carolyn is happily retired. Their son is a partner of a global chartered accountancy firm.

Professionally, Casey was a Non-Executive Director of Arthur Anderson and held directorship, or senior management roles with Wesley Mission, BudgetRental, Elders Finance and the Victorian Government.

Chairman: Patrick Docherty

Martin Coleman is Fouder and CEO of  Your Age Advantage.

He is an experienced business leader with an impressive track record at achieving steady organic growth and expanding company/organisation oppurtunities. He does this by using strategic insight, creativity and entrepreneurial thinling to develop innovative and original ideas that grow brands and businesses.

On  discovering the waning of intergenerational teams in Australian companies/organisations, he is alarmed at the soaring levels of Ageism in this Countty which he believes is holding back Australia's advancement.

With his deep sense of Community, martin has developed the Your Age Advantage initiative.

Chairperson: Michelle Critchley TBC

This organisation coordinates a number of projects that aims to assist vulnerable communities and families in Sri Lanka to develop livelihoods, recover from conflict and trauma and enhance their capacity to develop and sustain self-managed micro-enterprises.

Chairman: David Baker

Dr Kasey Symons is an academic and writer and works as a Research Fellow in Swinburne University's Sport Innovation Research Group. Her research includes work on community development through sport, sport marketing and fan engagement, fan culture, creative writing and sport media and women in sport. Kasey reports on women's sport as a freelance writer and is a co-founder of the women's sports media platform, Siren Sport. Kasey is also passionate about community sport and is a Director of the Fitzroy Football Club who compete in the VAFA.

Professor Woodward AM, MB, BS, MD, FRACP, FANZSM, FAAG, FAWMA(FWA). Director - Aged Care Research, Director Memory Clinic, Director - Wound Clinic is  based at the Austin Hospital.

Chairman: Dr Ian Davidson

Please note this is a potential cluster meeting being organised by the Rotary Club of Balwyn. President David Hobson has advised all Cluster Presidents that the meeting will be held at Green Acres