Board of Directors

Board members

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  Richard Loveridge

  BComm, LLB, Grad Dip Applied Finance, FINSIA

  Richard is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, who provided specialist advice on capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions while a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills for more than 21 years.  Richard is now a consultant with the firm and holds several non-executive directorships.

  Special responsibilities: Chair of Audit and Risk Committee; and Chair of Commercial Committee.

  Elected 2019 and elected President 2022.

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  Kathryn Arndt

  BBus (HRM), Graduate Diploma (Bus),
  Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

  Kathryn has CEO and non-executive Board Director experience across health services, community-based organisations, financial services and industry associations. Kathryn is currently the CEO of the Victorian Local Governance Association; a Member of the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women’s Equality; Deputy Chair: Access Health & Community; and Company Secretary: Royal Melbourne Tennis Club.

  Special responsibilities: Audit and Risk Committee; Commercial Committee;  and Executive Committee.

  Elected 2007.

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  Professor Peter Colman AM

  MBBS, FRACP, MD

  Peter has been a practising Endocrinologist/Diabetologist for over 30 years and Head of the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology: Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1992 to 2018. Peter was formerly President of the Australian Diabetes Society and a Member of the Diabetes Australia Limited Board.

  Special responsibilities: Chair of Clinical Advisory Committee.

  Elected 2014.

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  Erin Ferraris

  BComm, MPA

  Erin is a Program Manager at Ramsay Health Care. Previously at McKinsey & Company, where she served healthcare clients across Australia, the US, and the UK. Most of her work has been with hospitals and other healthcare sector clients in the US, UK and Australia, helping them to achieve their strategic and operational goals.

  Erin has a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in Montreal, as well as a Master in Public Administration from the London School of Economics.

  Special responsibilities: Audit and Risk Committee; and Commercial Committee.

  Board Observer in 2019 and appointed to the Board in 2020 and elected 2021.

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  Anthony Howard AM KC

  B.Juris/LLB, DipCrim

  Distinguished career in law as a barrister and KC, then as a judge of the County Court (2006-2016), practising principally in the criminal law jurisdiction. 

  In 2019, Mr Howard was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law, to the judiciary, to professional standards, and to the community of Victoria.

  Involvement over many years in various community and not-for-profit organisations, including as a Trustee of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation for 10 years (and later as Patron), a member of the Victorian Bar’s Indigenous Lawyers’ Mentoring Program and a Board member of the youth mentoring organisation Big Brothers, Big Sisters. 

  In October 2024, Mr Howard was appointed as a Director of the Essendon Football Club (having been founding chair of the Lawdons coterie).

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  Dan Jefferson

  BA (Hons) European Studies
  Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

  Dan is a partner at KPMG and a leader of the firm’s health and human services consulting practice in Victoria. Prior to joining KPMG, Dan was a senior executive at the Victorian Department of Health, including Director of Commissioning for public hospitals and ambulance services and Director, Health Workforce.

  Dan’s eldest daughter was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2021.

  Special responsibilities: Programs & Services Committee

  Appointed in 2022.

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  Victoria Stevenson

  RN Grad Dip Education (Health Education) CDE FACN

  Victoria is a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Consultant at Western Health whose previous experience includes managing diabetes education services at hospitals including The Alfred and Austin Health and working in private practice. Various committee experiences with the ADEA, Conference convenor, Deakin University and Mayfield Education’s Diabetes Certification programs. Awards include the ADEA Jan Baldwin Award for holistic and client – focused diabetes education and care and the Diabetes Victoria Outstanding Contribution Award.

  Special responsibilities: Programs and Services Committee and Clinical Advisory Committee.

  Elected 2011.

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  Ed Stockdale

  BBus, Fellow CPA, Fellow AICD, Fellow GIA, Fellow CI

  Ed is Chairman of CXi Software, a Director of Trinity Bond Pty Ltd and Computershare Registry Services – Australia, UK & South Africa. Ed has held various senior management and Board positions in Australia, the USA, the UK and South Africa.

  Special responsibilities: Audit and Risk Committee; and Commercial Committee.

  Elected 2012.

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  Dr. Sarah Price

  MBBS(H1) FRACP PhD DipRANZCOG DCH CertObMed

  Dr Sarah Price is an endocrinologist and academic with a distinguished career in diabetes and women’s health. She is Director of Obstetric Medicine at the Royal Women’s Hospital and an Endocrinologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She also leads the Obstetric Medicine Research Group at the University of Melbourne, where she holds an NHMRC Emerging Investigator Fellowship.

  Dr Price has served as President of the Australian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (2018–2020) and continues to contribute to national and international research in diabetes and pregnancy. Her current work includes leading projects focused on Type 1 diabetes in pregnancy, metabolic health outcomes, and closed-loop insulin delivery technologies.

  Special responsibilities: Clinical Advisory Committee.

  Elected 2025.