Helen Lyons
Helen Lyons is a senior executive with over 25 years’ experience in Strategic and Operational Leadership including Human Resources Management. Helen started her career in the Superannuation and Investment Banking Sector where she specialised in managing superannuation portfolios, including those of Lend Lease and AMP, with a value of up to $500M Funds under Management and serving over 500,000 customers. Between 2004 and 2010 Helen held the role of Director Human Resources at the University of Western Sydney. Her commitment to diversity ensured that UWS became a leader in Indigenous Employment and Engagement.
Helen thrives in dynamic and creative environments where her leadership skills are fully engaged in effecting positive and critical change. Helen has forged strong relationships with many networks and industries and is widely known as a “people connector”, assisting her peers and other people within organisations to make valuable business and community links. Helen is relentless about social inclusion and providing opportunities for people from all walks of life to be the best that they can be.
Menaka Cook
Menaka Cooke has been on the Junction Works Board for 4 years and brings a wealth of experience in strategic management, governance, reward and people performance gained in the corporate world – as HR Director of publicly listed and multi-national companies and also in not-for-profit and local govt. organisations. She understands the connections which exist between governance, strategic and operational issues and how all stakeholders in an organisation affect the strategic goals and achievements of the organisation.
She has won awards in the past from the AFR and BCA for ‘Best initiatives as an SME’ and ‘Corporate Work and Family Initiatives’ and continues her passion for equal opportunity, diversity and creating sustainable change in her role as Chair of the UN Committee (UN Women Projects) for Zonta International District 24 as well as being the Zonta representative on the Govt-funded Economic Security for Women committee. She has a Management Consultancy business and also teaches in Leadership & Management & Business Studies at tertiary (under-graduate) level.
Susan Williams
Susan is a qualified accountant (CPA) and corporate governance professional (ACIS) with over 30 years experience holding executive and senior management roles with ASX listed, private and not-for-profit organisations. She holds a degree in accounting, an MBA (international business) and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). Susan runs her own business providing corporate governance advice and services. She is a director of The Junction Works, Link Housing Ltd and Australian Small Scale Offerings Board Limited.
Tim Hudson
Tim is a self-employed investment manager with a legal and conflict management background. He holds a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Law and in the past has practised as both a solicitor and a barrister.
Tim is passionately interested in social justice and the work of charitable organisations. He is also a Director of Garrigal Housing Association Ltd.
Keri Pratt
Kerri Pratt’s business career includes experience in superannuation and investment consulting, and institutional marketing, sales and management.
She holds an MBA (Exec.) from AGSM and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees.
Keri is also a non-executive director of Women in Super, a not-for-profit association which provides networking opportunities for women in the industry and is the largest donor/fund raiser for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Keri joined The Junction Works Board in late 2010.
Tina Tang
Tina has over 24 years international experience in the property industry, having worked in London, Hong Kong and Australia managing many successful mixed-use developments across all property sectors, and commercial office assets in particular.
Tina commenced her career in Australia before moving to London in 1987 to work on several boutique commercial developments and then moved to Hong Kong to work on several large infrastructure projects. Tina returned to Australia in 1997, as Project Director for Lend Lease before joining Brookfield Multiplex where she eventually took on the role of Director of Capital Transactions.
In August 2008, Tina joined Investa Property Group where as the Group General Manager of Commercial Developments, she had overall responsibility for the growth and strategic direction of the Developments business through the challenging global economic conditions at the time. Tina is currently a director of jattca, a property consulting business. Tina has been affiliated with Property Council of Australia as the Chair of NSW Capital Markets and Investment Committee and a Member of Divisional Council. Tina Commenced on the Board of The Junction Works early 2011.