Endeavour Foundation

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Australia's largest non-government disability services provider

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Grant Murdoch, Chairman

Grant joined the Endeavour Foundation Board in 2007. He has more than 37 years’ chartered accountancy experience with experience in mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, corporate restructures and share issues.

Grant resigned as a partner with Ernst & Young and the Leader of their Transaction Advisory Services in Queensland in September 2011. He is a director of the listed company Campbell Brothers and UQ Holdings Ltd, a member of the Senate of the University of Queensland and an Adjunct Professor at The University of Queensland Business School. He was a member of the Board of Management of the Queensland Deaf Society for ten years.

Shane Charles, Deputy Chairman

Shane joined the Endeavour Foundation Board in 2004 in appreciation of its positive impact on his family and his local community. He has previously served as Chairman, and is a member of the South West Queensland Area Committee.

A solicitor and Consultant at Condon Charles Lawyers, Shane practises in commercial law, particularly succession planning, mergers and acquisitions and business structuring.

Shane sits on a number of boards including Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce in his role as Immediate Past President, the Toowoomba Regional Council Economic Development Board, and Toowoomba Region's NEXTEP Project (as Chairman).

Gerard Crotty

Gerard is one of the longest serving Board members, having been actively involved with Endeavour Foundation for more than 25 years. He is a member of Endeavour’s Wide Bay Area Committee.

He has knowledge of the not-for-profit sector and is a staunch supporter of grass roots community participation.

In addition to his long-term support for the Endeavour Foundation, Gerard is also involved in Apex and Rotary and is the CEO of a large not-for-profit community business in the employment, training and construction industry.

David de Villiers

David has been involved with Endeavour Foundation since 1996, bringing substantial experience in special education and child psychology and a desire to make a difference.

He has a passion for helping children with disabilities and has been awarded the Public Service Medal (PSM) for services to Special Education. He was Principal of Rosella Park School for students with a disability for six years and is a part-time lecturer in psychology with Central Queensland University.

David is a member of Endeavour's Central Queensland Area Committee.

David Rawnsley

David joined the Endeavour Foundation Board in 2006, following two years of involvement with the North Queensland Area Committee.

After more than a decade of teaching in the vocational education and training sector, David became the director of his family motor vehicle company. He has a keen interest in the not-for-profit sector and is also a member of the Apex Club of Townsville as well as several sporting and community groups.

He is a trade-qualified cabinetmaker and has a Bachelor of Education.

Sally Herman

Sally is a non executive Director and consultant. Up until late 2010, she was a senior executive at Westpac, where her most recent role was General Manager, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability.

She brings a wide breadth of experience in communications strategy, end-to-end profit and loss responsibility, business transformation, product management and business strategy design and implementation. Senior roles at Westpac, Macquarie and BT Financial have given her a high profile in the sector as well as among not-for-profits.

Sally is also Chairman of Urbis Pty Ltd, a leading urban planning and property firm, a director of FSA Group Ltd, a public listed financial services company and a Board member of the State Library of NSW Foundation. Sally chairs Endeavour's Risk Committee as well as being on the Board.

Kate Swindon

Kate was appointed to the Board of Directors in July 2010.

Kate is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and has over 20 years experience providing corporate tax consulting and business services, primarily in the financial services and resource sectors.

Kate's broad corporate experience also covers her role as Head of Client Solutions at QIC, a leading Australian funds manager, with responsibility for QIC's multi- sector client relations team.

Prior to that Kate was a Tax Counsel within QIC’s internal tax team involved in providing tax consulting and structuring advice to QIC investment and corporate teams.

Kate was previously Asia Pacific Head of Tax for Duke Energy International and prior to that held senior roles with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Ernst & Young.

Kate is a Member of the Queensland State Council of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a member of the Anglican Financial Services (ANFIN) Board of Management.

Ed Mason

Ed Mason brings to Endeavour both professional expertise and personal experience of disability – his sister Annette has worked at Clean Pac at Seven Hills for more than 30 years, making her one of the business’s longest-serving employees.

Following Endeavour’s integration of the three Sydney business services, Ed witnessed first hand what had been achieved in Queensland and became determined that the same range of quality services be offered in Sydney.

He helped form the family support group that developed into the Sydney Area Committee and was elected its inaugural Chair. He is a passionate believer that Endeavour will become a strong and effective voice for people with a disability, and is excited to bring his experience to bear to achieve this goal.

Tony Bellas

Tony Bellas is a company director on a number of listed and unlisted companies in Queensland and is a consultant with Queensland Infrastructure Partners.  

From November 2007 to June 2010, Mr Bellas was Chief Executive of Seymour Group, Queensland’s largest private development and investment group.   Mr Bellas had previously been Chief Executive of Ergon Energy, a position he held from January 2004.

Prior to joining Ergon Energy, Mr Bellas was Chief Executive of CS Energy, Queensland's largest power generator, which he joined in December 2001 after a long career with Queensland Treasury.  He reached the position of Deputy Under Treasurer, where he had oversight of a number of related Treasury operations including Fiscal Strategy, Office of Government Owned Corporations and Office of State Revenue.

He was at one time responsible for the Industry and Energy Division and was heavily involved in the formulation of the State Government's Energy Strategy released in May 2000.

Mr Bellas was a member of the three person Treasury team that formulated and executed the Suncorp-Metway-QIDC merger in 1996. Mr Bellas was subsequently responsible for the three public floats, totalling $2.2 billion, of the Queensland Government’s interest in Suncorp Metway.

Mr Bellas also headed the team that privatised the Queensland TAB by way of a $300 million public float in 1999. In that same year, the team led by Mr Bellas floated the Queensland Government’s 44% interest in the Bank of Queensland. In 2001, Mr Bellas oversaw the long term lease of the Dalrymple Bay coal terminal to Prime Infrastructure Trust.

Mr Bellas has an MBA from QUT, and a Bachelor of Economics and Diploma in Education from the University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and CPA Australia.