School Council

Chairman of the Nominations Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Member of the Education Committee

Dr Nugent is currently Chancellor of Bond University. Previously she has been Professor in Management and Director of the MBA Program at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, member of the four-person Bradley Review into Higher Education and a member of Council of Monash University. She also has a keen interest in the arts and is currently Chairperson of the National Portrait Gallery and a member of the National Cultural Policy Reference Group.

Dr Nugent was appointed to the School Council in 1993. Her son is an Old Cranbrookian.

Chairman of the Building and Development Committee
Member of the Nominations Committee

Mr Massy-Greene is Chairman of Eureka Capital Partners, a company focused on financing and development in the minerals and energy sectors. Previously, he worked for Bank of America in project and corporate finance. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal Committee in Sydney and Chairman of the Eureka Benevolent Foundation, a family foundation focused on social justice issues.

Mr Massy-Greene was appointed to the School Council in 2004. His son is an Old Cranbrookian.

Chairman of the Finance Committee
Member of the Building and Development Committee

Mr Kimpton's commercial career was with Westpac where he held several executive positions. He spent a number of years on the Board of Baycorp Advantage and was Chairman of its Audit and Risk Committee.

Mr Kimpton acted as Convenor of Cranbrook Carnivale in 2003 and was appointed the School’s Treasurer in 2008. His two sons are Old Cranbrookians.

Director of the Board of Cranbrook Foundation

Mr Carroll is the CEO and Founder of the Rezolve Group, Inc., a company which provides enrolment management technology and services to the higher education industry in the United States. Prior to this Mr Carroll co-founded Youth Media & Marketing Networks, and eGrad Loans, and acted as Executive Chairman and President of both until 2004. Previously he worked for the strategy consulting firm Bain & Co. in Australia, the United States and South East Asia.

Mr Carroll completed his school education at Cranbrook (OC 1987) and has previously served as Secretary and Vice-President of the Old Cranbrookians’ Association. He was selected as Old Cranbrookian of the Year in 2007. He currently has two sons studying at Cranbrook in the Junior School.

President of the Cranbrook School Parents Association

Ms Cary is the Cranbrook School Parents' Association (CSPA) representative on the School Council. Prior to raising her three children, she worked as a commercial lawyer in London and in Perth. She subsequently joined the Western Australian Parliament’s Senior Standing Committee, and the Public Accounts and Expenditure Review Committee, as a researcher. Ms Cary is currently a Director of a private company.

Ms Cary was appointed to the School Council in 2011. She has two boys, one is currently studying at Cranbrook in the Senior School, and one is an Old Cranbrookian.

Council Representative on the Cranbrook School Parents Association
Director of the Board of Cranbrook Foundation

Mrs England works as a consultant in not-for-profit fundraising. After serving a cadetship with News Ltd she worked overseas before moving into copywriting and fundraising. She is also involved in a family business and is a member of Sydney Synod.

Mrs England was appointed to the School Council in 2001. She has a son who is an Old Cranbrookian.

Member of the Finance Committee

Dr Forth is a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group. He currently runs the group’s technology, media and telecoms business across Asia Pacific. His interest in education stems from being a lecturer and Research Fellow in engineering at Oxford. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Oxford Business Alumni and the Australian School of Business at UNSW. Dr Forth completed his schooling in Zimbabwe, before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford. He lived in Europe and Asia prior to moving to Sydney.

Dr Forth's son is an Old Cranbrookian.

Member of the Education Committee
Member of the IT Committee
Member of the Nominations Committee

Mr Keene was formerly a partner in Ernst & Young Management Consulting and is now a partner in The LiTMUS Group, a management consultancy firm specialising in performance management and technology.

Mr Keene was appointed to the School Council in 1999 and was on the IT Committee that helped establish the IT direction of the School. He has two sons who are Old Cranbrookians.

Director of the Board of Cranbrook Foundation
President of the Old Cranbrookians’ Association

Mr Lees is a chartered accountant and operated his own practice until 2002. He is currently a company Director of a family property business. In 2005 he completed a Masters in Ancient World Studies and continues to follow this area of interest.

Mr Lees completed all his school education at Cranbrook (OC 1972) and held the position of Treasurer of the Old Cranbrookians’ Association from 2004 until 2010. He was appointed to the School Council in 2010.

Member of the Building and Development Committee

Mr North is a Managing Director of Gresham Advisory Partners Limited which specialises in corporate advisory services. Prior to joining Gresham, Mr North was a senior partner of Allens Arthur Robinson where he acted on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has a keen interest in the arts and education and is a Director of the Sydney Youth Orchestras.

Mr North is an old Cranbrookian and has two sons currently studying at Cranbrook.

Member of the Finance Committee

Mr Rothery is Chairman and Chief Executive of John Swire & Sons in Australia. He has been with the Swire Group for 30 years and has been based in Asia, the Middle East and for 20 years in Australia. He is Chairman of Steamships Trading Company in Papua New Guinea and is on the Board of several subsidiary companies.

Mr Rothery has two sons who are both Old Cranbrookians.

Chairman of the Foundation
Member of the Finance Committee

Mr Porter currently serves as Chairman and Non-executive Director for both Enero, a marketing and communications group, and oOh!media, Australia's largest away-from-home media company. Prior to this, he was Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Austar United Communications Limited. He led the establishment of Austar in 1995 and, by doing so, played an integral role in the development of Australia's subscription television industry. Mr Porter is also a Councillor for the Australian Business Arts Foundation.

Mr Porter has one son attending Cranbrook and two other sons who are Old Cranbrookians.

Chairman of the Education Committee

Dr Spence is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Sydney University. He was Head of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford where he oversaw significant growth of research activity and funding in the Social Sciences. He is internationally regarded as a leader in the field of intellectual property theory. He was consultant to the London law firm, Olswang and served as a WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre panellist. He is also an ordained Anglican priest.

Dr Spence was appointed to the School Council in 2009. He has one son studying at Cranbrook and one who is an Old Cranbrookian.

Member of the Nominations Committee
Member of the Education Committee

Mr Stern is a Director of Port Jackson Partners Limited, a management consulting firm specialising in strategic and organisational advice. His is also involved in the Harvard Club of Australia, of which he is a past President.

Mr Stern was appointed to the School Council in 1998 and served as Treasurer from 2000 until the end of 2008. His son is an Old Cranbrookian.

Member of the Building and Development Committee

Reverend Watkins is the Anglican Minister at St George’s Church, Paddington. Prior to this, he was the Senior Assistant Minister in the Hunters Hill parish. Reverend Watkins trained for the ministry in Melbourne after working at the Newcastle steelworks in engineering and computing. Following his ordination he served in parishes in Newcastle, the Central Coast and the Upper Hunter, where he also served for a time as chaplain to Scone Grammar School.