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Board

Our key purpose is to protect and enhance the integrity of our catchments for the benefit of our rivers and the communities that depend on them. Our Board leverages their diverse business industry skills to determine our strategic direction and to monitor the successful realisation of these benefits.

Their responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Set the strategic direction of the organisation
Establish our vision and direction for integrated natural resource management
Set down our priorities and evaluate our results
Monitor the external and internal environment
Approve and monitor the financial performance of the organisation

Read more about about Julie Miller Markoff

Julie Miller Markoff (Chair)

CASTLEMAINE

Julie is a non-executive Director, transformational change and systems architect and implementer, and advocate for regional prosperity.

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Charlie Gillingham

LAKE CHARM

Graham Atkinson

Mary Bignell

Richard Carter

NEWLYN

Sally Mitchell

Jan Boynton

Clinton Tilley

CARLSRUHE

Executive

Brad Drust

Chief Executive Officer

Brad Drust provides executive leadership for the organisation and is accountable for delivering the Board's direction. He leads the organisation to create natural resource management partnerships and programs that deliver lasting change.

Rohan Hogan

Executive Manager Strategy and Partnerships

Tim Shanahan

Executive Manager Major Projects

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Adam Woods

Executive Manager Corporate Services

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Rachel Murphy

Executive Manager Program Delivery

Community Leaders' Group

The Community Leaders' Group provides advice to the North Central CMA on whole-of-region strategic matters as required, from a community perspective.

Each CLG member also plays a role in the CMA's various project committees.

Sally Mitchell

Board member and Chair of the Community Leaders' Group. Sally has lived and worked on her families irrigated farms for most of her life located in the Northern end of the catchment Recent changes in direction have seen her family undergo a “hill” change and they have relocated to Samaria in Victoria’s North East. Sally remains committed to the protection and enhancement of the North Central CMA and its communities.