Jenny Parker
Chair, Catholic Health Australia
Jenny was elected Chair of Catholic Health Australia in November 2023, having served as a Director on the Board since 2018.
She brings more than 30 years of professional services experience to the role, including in her current position as the Oceania Leader in Health, Life Sciences and Human Services for consultants EY. Jenny has worked closely with health organisations throughout her career, including Mater Misericordiae Ltd and St Vincent’s Health, and has a proven track record in major government reviews within the health sector.
She has previously been the Chair of the Centacare Council, a not-for-profit organisation supporting disability and aged care clients. Jenny is a member of the HESTA board. Jenny also holds a number of positions in the Brisbane Archdiocese, including Director of Brisbane Catholic Education and Director of Archdiocese of Brisbane Finance Council of the Archdiocesan Council.
She was also the former Deputy Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, and is a former board member of Australia’s leading cancer charity, Cancer Council Australia.
Stephen Teulan
Deputy Chair and Non-Executive Director
Stephen has been Board Chair of Catholic Healthcare Limited since July 2021 following his appointment as a Director in September 2018.
He is a Chartered Accountant whose executive experience includes 21 years in senior management roles in the aged care and health sectors, including five years leading one of Australia's largest aged care providers.
Stephen spent 19 years at Deloitte, including seven years as a partner specialising in the health sector, as well as five years as a Principal Consultant for the Nous Group, where he led its health and aged care consulting group and undertook major projects for Federal and State Government health and aged care agencies.
He has also served on Federal and State Ministerial Advisory Committees on ageing and aged care. Stephen joined the CHA Board in early 2021.
Julien O’Connell AO
Non-Executive Director
Julien has a long and distinguished career in insurance, accounting and risk management.
He was formally Acting Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor, Australian Catholic University (ACU); former Executive Chairman of Mercy Health, former Chairman of Mercy Health Foundation Board; currently Chairman of Villa Maria Catholic Homes, Chair of the PM Glynn Institute (ACU); Member, Australian Catholic University Corporation, Chairman of a CEO Institute Syndicate; Member, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne's Finance Council, Director of Catholic Health Australia, Chair of various committees associated with the above including CHA's Mission and Identity Committee and Rem and Nominations Committee.
His significant service to the community was recognised with his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2013 Australia Day honours and in 2020 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday honours.
He has been a CHA Board Director since 2015.
Virginia Bourke
Non-Executive Director
Virginia is the Chair of Mercy Health, a national health and aged care organisation, and is the Pro-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University.
She is a Director of Catholic Health Australia and Caritas Australia and has held a range of Non -Executive Director roles in the not-for-profit sector. Virginia served as a Director of St John Ambulance Victoria from 2012 - 2022 and as its Chair from 2017-2022. Virginia was also a Director of the national body, St John Ambulance Australia from 2017-2022. She is a member of the Victorian Department of Health Council of Board Chairs and the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Not-for-Profit Chairs’ Forum.
Virginia’s Non-Executive Director career has been complemented by her work as a lawyer and consultant in private practice and senior in-house counsel positions for over 30 years. Her experience ranges across the health, aged care, community services, education, training and publishing sectors with particular expertise in the governance of charitable not-for-profit organisations.
Virginia has been a CHA Board Director since 2020.
Sr Ruth Durick osu
Non-Executive Director
Ruth is a member of the international Institute of the Ursulines of the Roman Union.
She was the Leader of the Australian Province from 2012-2018, and then again from 2020-2023, and is also a member of the order’s General Finance Commission. Ruth has a background in secondary education, administration, formation and governance; she holds a BA (ANU); B. Theol (MCD); Dip Ed; M.A.(Social Ecology) UWS; M. Litt.(Peace Studies) (UNE).
Ruth has been a board director of St Ursula’s College Toowoomba and been Chair of Members of the same organisation. She is a director on the board of Emerging Futures Collaborative Ltd otherwise known as EFCL, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
She has been a CHA Board member since 2019.
Hon Kerry Sanderson AC CVO
Non-Executive Director
Kerry Sanderson has had a long and distinguished career in public life and corporate Australia.
Kerry has been the Chair of St John of God Health Care since May 2018. She is a former Chancellor of Edith Cowan University. Between 2014 and 2018 Kerry was Governor of Western Australia, the first woman to occupy that role.
In 2016, she was named Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the people of Western Australia and in January 2020 she was appointed as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in recognition of her distinguished personal service to the Royal family.
Kerry has also held a number of senior positions on large corporations and public institutions, namely Agent General for WA, CEO of Fremantle Ports, Deputy Director General of Transport for WA and Director of the Economic and Financial Policy Division of the Western Australian State Treasury. She is also a former Chair of the Gold Corporation, former independent Chair of the State Emergency Management Committee, and a former Non-Executive Director of listed companies Downer EDI and Atlas Iron.
She participates in a number of charitable and community activities including Chair of the WA Parks Foundation, Patron of the Western Australian Aboriginal Leadership Institute, the Bibbulmun Track Foundation and the Rottnest Voluntary Guides Association as well as President of Scouts WA.
Kerry has been a CHA Board Director since 2018.
Sister Clare Nolan rsc
Non-Executive Director
Sister Clare Nolan rsc joined the CHA Board in November 2021.
Up until March 2021, she had held the position of Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Charity for six years. In that role she was also the member of Mary Aikenhead Ministries, who are the stewards of St Vincent’s Health Australia – Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider and the 13th largest privately held company in Australia.
Sr Clare completed her nurse training at the Mater Hospital Brisbane. Following this she entered the Novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of Australia in Sydney. Following her Formation as a Sister of Charity she was missioned to the healing ministry of Christ at St Vincent’s Darlinghurst in Sydney and has remained in the healing ministry all of her religious life in a variety of places.
Nursing and health administration played a large part of her ministry and led to eighteen years in Congregational Leadership concluding in March 2022.
Francis Price
Non-Executive Director
Francis was appointed to the CHA Board in February 2024 as the representative of Southern Cross Care Australia.
He is currently Chair of Southern Cross Care Australia and Southern Cross Care QLD. In his time as a Director of Southern Cross Care QLD he has seen a multitude of changes to aged care regulation and delivery and has a special interest in the provision of services to regional communities.
During his career Francis has held positions with Shell, Sodexo, Brisbane City Council and BHP Mitsubishi Alliance in Queensland and Western Australia. This has led him to gain significant experience in asset management in the built environment, including managing the development of and accommodation for over 8,000 people in the resource industry.
In addition to board roles, Francis has run his own private consultancy for the past decade .
Sylvia Falzon
Non-Executive Director
Syliva was appointed to the Board of Directors in March 2024.
She brings to CHA an executive career that spans over 30 years in financial services where she held senior executive positions responsible for institutional and retail funds management businesses, both in Australia and offshore. Sylvia has experience across a range of sectors and customer-driven businesses in financial services, health, aged care, e-commerce and retail.
During this time, she has been involved in several business transformations, IPOs, merger and acquisitions and divestment activities. Sylvia is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Suncorp Group Limited and Premier Investments Limited. In the not-for-profit sector, she is the Chairman of Cabrini Australia Limited, and is also a member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel.
Sylvia holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Business from the University of Western Sydney. She is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Patrick Brady
Non-Executive Director
Patrick has more than 38 years of experience in the civil engineering industry and has applied his expertise in delivering major projects to a number of board-level roles.
Since 2012, Patrick has served as a board chair and director for several public and private organisations, including Port of Townsville. He is currently Chair of Queensland’s Mater Misericordiae Ltd – a network of 11 hospitals and health services, a nationally accredited education provider and a world-class medical research institute. Patrick brings a wealth of experience and knowledge about board governance structures.
He has played a key role in several successful mergers and acquisitions, including the merger of Mater’s three ministries into a single, state-wide entity. Patrick is the founder and Chair of Premise Holdings Pty Ltd, one of Queensland’s leading engineering firms.
Pat has been a CHA Board member since 2024.
Bishop Columba Macbeth‑Green OSPPE
Non‑Executive Director
Bishop Columba Macbeth‑Green joined the Catholic Health Australia Board in 2025 as the representative of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, and its bishop-delegate for health.
In 1996 he joined the Order of St Paul the First Hermit (Pauline Fathers) and was ordained a priest a year later. As a Pauline Father, he served in several NSW parishes, and worked as a police chaplain in NSW from 2000-2006. After that, he served as chaplain at Police Headquarters in Brisbane and south east Queensland from 2011-2014.
He is known for his strong connection to regional Australia. In 2014, Pope Francis appointed Columba the Bishop of Wilcannia‑Forbes, one of Australia’s largest dioceses in geographical terms.
At the time of his appointment as Bishop, he was Provincial Vicar of the Pauline Fathers in Australia and Rector of the Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians in Queensland.
Greg Cooper
Non-Executive Director
Greg currently serves as Chairman of Little Company of Mary Health Care Limited and Perpetual Limited, Independent Chairman of Avanteos Investments Limited (Trustee of the Colonial First State Superannuation Funds), and he is a Non-executive Director of Australian Payments Plus Limited and some of its subsidiaries/ related entities, EdStart Pty Ltd, Tracks Media Pty Ltd and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. Greg is also an independent member of the Queensland Investment Corporation Private Equity Investment Committee.
Greg has more than 30 years of financial services experience and his current non-executive career spans Government, superannuation, banking and technology sectors. Greg has a Bachelor of Economics (Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.