The Mount Hotham Alpine Resort Management Board consists of seven members, appointed on a skills basis. The role of the Board is to manage the operational and business aspects of Mount Hotham.
The inaugural Board officially took over control of the resort as of April 30, 1998. Prior to this all Alpine Resorts were managed collectively under the jurisdiction of The Alpine Resorts Commission.
The Board has a term of 3 years and in June, 2004, the current Board was appointed by the Minister for the Environment.
Members of the Board
Geoff Provis
(Chairman)
Currently a solicitor working in insurance law at Russell Kennedy.
Geoff is the President of the Law Institute of Victoria as well as a Sessional Commissioner of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation, and is a member of the Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council. He sits on the Victorian Council of Law Reporting & the Supreme Court of Victoria Board of Examiners.
Geoff was for many years a board member of the Lord Mayors Charitable fund and the Law Aid Committee which provides funding for worthy litigation which could not otherwise proceed.
Geoff is an avid skier who learnt to ski at Mt Hotham many years ago.
Helen Moran
Helen has been associated with Mt Hotham since 1985 and currently is the Group General Manager for Australian Alpine Enterprises Pty Ltd (AAE) Property Division.
Helen has played a key role in development projects undertaken by AAE at the resort since 1995 providing invaluable experience in the areas of planning, administration and management. She brings high level marketing, organisational and communication skills and experience in resort management and development of business initiatives to the Board.
Tim Piper
Tim is the Victorian Director of the Australian Industry Group which is one of the most influential industry associations in the country. He is a lawyer and former journalist and holds a Master of Business Administration.Tim is also Chairman of the Industry Capability Network and the VLESC Manufacturing Skills and Training Taskforce and also sits on the philanthropic Microsurgery Foundation Board.
Tim is a passionate proponent of Mt Hotham and has sat on the Mt Hotham Resort Management Board for the past six years.
Rod Sloan
Rod has extensive experience in engineering and planning for both local government and private business. He has run his own consulting engineering firm for the past 12 years. His previous work with local government provides a strong understanding of the challenges in providing services to a community on a daily basis.
He has been skiing for the past 13 years predominantly at Hotham with his keen skiing family.
Wayne Talbot
Wayne is a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting practice. He is currently the Managing Director of a management consulting practice which specialises in assisting enterprises achieve their business growth objectives. He has a long association with Mt Hotham being a founding member and currently Life member of Gravbrot Ski Club, and is currently Chairman of Lawlers Apartments Developments Pty Ltd the holding company for Lawlers Apartments
Along with his broad knowledge of Hotham and its needs, Wayne brings to the role of Board member extensive commercial and financial experience, gained across a wide variety of private and public sector enterprises.
Debbie Goodin
Debbie has an Economics Degree, is a Chartered Accountant, is a Leadership Victoria fellow and qualified Company Secretary. She has held senior finance, project delivery and general administrative positions in both the public and private sectors and is currently employed as an executive in a leading public company. Debbie is a director of Doutta Gala Aged Care Services and a member of the Finance and Investment Committee for the Breast Cancer Network of Australia. Debbie and her family are keen skiiers.
Nicole Feeney
Nicole is a construction lawyer at Lander & Rogers.
She is a Law Institute of Victoria representative on the Supreme Court Rules Committee and on the County Court Building Cases Users Group. She has been also been appointed as a member of the Architects Tribunal Panel in Victoria.
Nicole has prior board experience, having been a member of the board of UFS Dispensaries Ltd, a not for profit company which owns and operates a number of pharmacies in and around Ballarat in western Victoria for 6 years.
Nicole learnt to ski at Hotham 6 years ago and since then has been a regular visitor to Hotham and become a member of Anton Huette.
Functions of the Board
The functions of the Board, in respect of the alpine resort for which the Board is established under the Alpine Resort (Management) Act 1997 Section 38; are:
- To act as a Committee of Management of any Crown land deemed to be permanently reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 in the resort.
- Contribute, together with Tourism Victoria ... and the Council, to the overall promotion of alpine resorts.
- To develop a tourism and marketing strategy for, and to promote the resort and to collect and expend voluntary contributions from commercial undertakings in the resort for this purpose.
- To provide services.
- To provide transport services in the resort.
- To collect fees prescribed by the regulations for the resort.
- To attract investment for the improvement for the resort in respect of which the board is established.
- To carry out any other function conferred on the Board by or under this or any other Act.
Sub Committees
Audit Sub Committee
Members of the Audit Sub Committee are Debbie Goodin, Rod Sloan, Helen Moran, Nicole Feeney and Wayne Talbot.
Remuneration Sub Committee
Members of the Remuneration Sub Committee are Geoff Provis, Rod Sloan and Tim Piper.
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