Our People
Meet our Appeal Committee
Our heartfelt thanks to a group of individuals who are working tirelessly to help raise the funds for the St. Vincent’s Cancer Centre. Each brings with them different talents, but the common thread is their belief that this Centre will truly change the way someone feels about cancer. Their commitment to attend meetings, assist with planning, host functions and provide connections we would otherwise be unable to access is greatly appreciated.
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Mr Greg Hargrave (Chair)
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, SKILLED Group
Greg Hargrave was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of SKILLED Group in August 2003. Under his leadership SKILLED Group’s revenue and earnings have nearly tripled. Mr Hargrave joined SKILLED Group in 1998 and has held various roles within the Company in IT project management, marketing and corporate and business development. He has broad business experience and was previously involved in property investment and management and private equity investment.
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Mr Frank Costa OAM (Deputy Chair & Patron)
Executive Chairman, Costa Group
A lifelong Geelong man, Frank Costa OAM took on the exciting challenge as Geelong Football Club's president in December 1998 and has overseen the trek from struggling club to AFL premiers.
Frank was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1997 for his services to youth and the community, and in 2001 he earned the Australian Sports Medal in recognition of his services to Australian Rules football. Costa's was awarded the Australian Family Business 'Third generation -business of the year' in 2002. In 1959 the Costa brothers took over the family fruit & vegetable operations and commenced wholesaling with Frank at the helm, a position he still holds today.
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Ms Heloise Waislitz (Chairperson Pratt Foundation)
Heloise Waislitz is the chairperson of The Pratt Foundation, the philanthropic trust of the Pratt family and the Visy group of companies. Heloise is also active as a community fund-raiser for a wide variety of causes, and serves as a director of a Melbourne property group.
Under Heloise’s leadership, beginning in 1995, The Pratt Foundation has developed into one of Australia’s leading private trusts. The Foundation, which is based in Melbourne, supports philanthropic activities throughout Australia, including family welfare, mental health, the environment, education, the arts and culture, Aboriginal health, refugee relief, and youth employment.
The Foundation is also active in Israel where it supports programs in refugee rehabilitation, education and child welfare.
Heloise sees the Foundation’s mission as “enriching the lives of the community” and its objectives as funding “real programs for the real needs of real people”.
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Prof Rod Sinclair MMBS, MD, FACD
Rodney Sinclair is currently the Professor of Dermatology at the University of Melbourne, Director of Dermatology Services at St Vincent’s Hospital and Director of Research and Training at the Skin and Cancer Foundation. He is Immediate Past President of the Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria, Past President of the Australasian Hair and Wool Research Society and President Elect of the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research.
Professor Sinclair is the co-author of the section on dermatology in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and the chapter on Hair Disorders in Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology. He has written 7 textbooks of dermatology, published over 150 research articles in scientific journals and contributed more than 50 chapters to multi-author medical textbooks.
His main research interests are the biology of the hair follicles and its related structures, skin stem cell research, gene discovery and cell based therapy
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Paula Fox
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Peter de Rauch
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