Governance & Board
As a not-for-profit incorporated association, KCC is required to have a ‘management committee’ or ‘board’ that is responsible for looking after the association’s affairs and has specific legal duties under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012.
The board comprises representatives of the broader local community (Kyneton and surrounding areas) from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience. While KCC is still working towards its goal of gender equality at board level, it is intended to move towards a more equal balance of female and male board members by the end of 2018.
Board/Committee of Management
As a not-for-profit incorporated association, KCC is required to have a ‘management committee’ or ‘board’ that is responsible for looking after the association’s affairs and has specific legal duties under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012.
The board comprises representatives of the broader local community (Kyneton and surrounding areas) from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience. While KCC is still working towards its goal of gender equality at board level, it is intended to move towards a more equal balance of female and male board members by the end of 2018.
Board/Committee of Management
- Ryan Smith (Chairman)
- Debra Reynolds (Secretary)
- Joe Starcevic (Treasurer)
- Catherine Christmass
- Jodie Reeves
- Paul Fox
- Hugh Vardon
Board Member Biographies (to be updated)
Ryan Smith (Chairman)
Ryan Smith is the Victorian State Director for Global Interaction, the global mission agency for the Baptist Church in Australia.
Previously a physiotherapist, Ryan also has more than 10 years of experience in pastoral ministry and has a particular interest in promoting effective contextual mission both locally and globally.
Ryan has been a local Kyneton resident since 2006. He and his wife Suzie have raised their three children in Kyneton where they have all been schooled locally. Ryan in involved in a number of local organisations and clubs including Kyneton Baptist Church, Kyneton Football and Netball Club and Kyneton Cricket Club.
He enjoys journeying with people who are wanting to explore meaning, purpose, and how they can be involved in helping others.
Ryan Smith is the Victorian State Director for Global Interaction, the global mission agency for the Baptist Church in Australia.
Previously a physiotherapist, Ryan also has more than 10 years of experience in pastoral ministry and has a particular interest in promoting effective contextual mission both locally and globally.
Ryan has been a local Kyneton resident since 2006. He and his wife Suzie have raised their three children in Kyneton where they have all been schooled locally. Ryan in involved in a number of local organisations and clubs including Kyneton Baptist Church, Kyneton Football and Netball Club and Kyneton Cricket Club.
He enjoys journeying with people who are wanting to explore meaning, purpose, and how they can be involved in helping others.
Paul Fox
Paul is currently Managing Director of Fox Strategic, an aviation-sector business advisory firm, and is a Director of Agri-nomics Australia, an innovative international airfreight business exporting high-value Australian agricultural produce to China and other key Asian markets.
Paul has been a member of the KCC board since September 2017.
He has previously held a number of senior executive roles in the aviation sector, including running the national peak industry body, and the Asia Pacific arm of an international airline safety association headquartered in Washington DC in the United States. He has also run one of Australia's top national leadership think-tanks and an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, where he was responsible for overseeing some of Australia’s most important gatherings of senior corporate, political, government, and community leaders, including a meeting of the CEOs of the world’s leading resources companies as a component of the 2006 G-20 Meeting in Melbourne.
Paul has considerable experience running not-for-profit organisations and has sat on a number of charity and association committees and boards.
Paul and his wife Bernadette Nunn, have been proud residents of Kyneton since 2007 and they have both been committee members of the Kyneton Agricultural Society since 2014.
Paul’s support of KCC is driven by his own recent mental health challenges, which resulted in him experiencing first hand the significant benefits of the generosity and support of his local community. It is his hope that through the KCC initiative, everyone in this community also have access to the care and support they need.
Paul is currently Managing Director of Fox Strategic, an aviation-sector business advisory firm, and is a Director of Agri-nomics Australia, an innovative international airfreight business exporting high-value Australian agricultural produce to China and other key Asian markets.
Paul has been a member of the KCC board since September 2017.
He has previously held a number of senior executive roles in the aviation sector, including running the national peak industry body, and the Asia Pacific arm of an international airline safety association headquartered in Washington DC in the United States. He has also run one of Australia's top national leadership think-tanks and an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, where he was responsible for overseeing some of Australia’s most important gatherings of senior corporate, political, government, and community leaders, including a meeting of the CEOs of the world’s leading resources companies as a component of the 2006 G-20 Meeting in Melbourne.
Paul has considerable experience running not-for-profit organisations and has sat on a number of charity and association committees and boards.
Paul and his wife Bernadette Nunn, have been proud residents of Kyneton since 2007 and they have both been committee members of the Kyneton Agricultural Society since 2014.
Paul’s support of KCC is driven by his own recent mental health challenges, which resulted in him experiencing first hand the significant benefits of the generosity and support of his local community. It is his hope that through the KCC initiative, everyone in this community also have access to the care and support they need.