Susan (Sue) Marie Alberti is co-founder and Managing Director of the DANSU Group and Chairman of the Susan Alberti Medical Research Foundation.

She is past National President of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and for 29 years the Susan Alberti Gala Ball has raised valuable funds (in excess of $6m) toward medical research including finding a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Sue is Patron and Vice-President of the Western Bulldogs Football Club.

Paul Constantinou is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Quest Serviced Apartments. He is a respected industry leader with more than 30 years’ experience in accommodation and hospitality.

In July 2012, Quest Serviced Apartments won the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Hotel Investment Conferences (ANZPHIC) Innovators Award.

Paul was presented the HM Magazine Australasian Hotelier of the Year Award in September 2012, and was inducted into the HM Magazine Hall of Fame in 2014.

Paul is a VU alumnus.

Peter Bartels is a former Executive Director of KPMG’s mergers and acquisitions advisory in the industrial markets practice area.

He is co-founder of Portunus, an independent corporate advisory firm in Australia.

As a corporate advisory specialist Peter has worked on global mining and resources and industrial transactions providing operational expertise on major growth projects.

Professor Dawkins became the third Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University in 2011.

He was Curtin University’s first Professor of Economics from 1990 to 1995 and the Ronald Henderson Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne from 1996 to 2005.

From 2005 to 2010 he held senior positions in the Victorian Public Service, including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Treasury and Finance and Secretary of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Helen Kroger has an extensive background in the philanthropic, small business, education and corporate sectors.

She currently provides corporate advisory services to Australian business and is a Senior Counsel with Civic Creative. From 2008 to 2014 she was a Coalition Senator for Victoria.

During her time in the Senate, she served as the Chief Government and Opposition Whip in the Senate, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, and as a member of numerous Senate and Joint Parliamentary Committees.

George Pappas AO is the Chancellor of Victoria University, a position he has held for the last 5 years.

George has over 30 year’s commercial experience in consulting in the United States, Japan, Asia and Australia. He co-founded the business strategy consultancy, Pappas Carter Evans and Koop (PCEK) in 1979 and later became Managing Partner of Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG’s) Australasian offices following BCG’s acquisition of PCEK in 1990.

He was the Chairman of Committee for Melbourne from 2005 until 2013. George served as Under Secretary in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

He has occupied the role of Chair on government and higher education boards and has served on private sector and not for profit boards, including the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Energy Matters, Pty Ltd.

Campbell (Cam) Rose is Chief Executive officer of VicTrack a position he has occupied since February 2013. VicTrack, a $22 billion entity, is a Victorian Government agency with custodial responsibility for public transport infrastructure and land.

Cam is a seasoned senior executive, with experience across major events, infrastructure development and business transformation.

His previous experience includes Chief Executive of the Melbourne Major Events Company, the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Bid, the 2001 Brisbane Goodwill Games, the Western Bulldogs and Stralliance Developments. Cam is a VU alumnus.

Ralph Willis served as the Federal Member for Gellibrand from 1972 until 1998.

During that period he served on a number of occasions as the Minister of Finance and as Federal Treasurer and he also held other senior positions as a Cabinet Minister.

He is a former Chair of CBus, the Mietta Foundation, Western Health Foundation and LeadWest and has been a director of a number of boards and foundations.