Cranbrook School is founded on the principles of the Anglican Church. The Archbishop of Sydney is Visitor of the School and nominates two members of the Council. The Council must have no fewer than eleven and no more than fifteen members. The Headmaster attends all Council meetings.
Dr Nugent has a strong background in education. She 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, a member of the four-person Bradley Review into Higher Education and a member of Council of Monash University. She has a keen interest in the arts. Currently she is Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery and a member of the National Cultural Policy Reference Group. Previously she was Chairman of the Nugent Inquiry into the Performing Arts, Chairman of the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council, Deputy Chairman of the Australia Council, Deputy Chairman of Opera Australia and a Director of the Playbox Theatre. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Macquarie Group, Origin Energy and Freehills as well as being Chairman of Funds SA. She has been a member of the School Council since 1993. Her son undertook all his education at Cranbrook, completing his HSC in 2009.
Mr Massy-Greene is Chairman of Eureka Capital Partners, a company focused on financing and development in the minerals and energy sectors. He co-founded the ASX listed company Excel Coal Limited in 2002 and was its Chairman until its acquisition by Peabody Energy in 2006. He founded and served as the Managing Director of Excel's predecessor, Resource Finance Corporation Ltd, from 1984 to 2002. Previously, he worked for Bank of America in project and corporate finance, and as an underground mining engineer for Rio Tinto Limited. He is a Director of OneVentures Pty Ltd, a technology venture capital company. Mr Massy-Greene 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. He is the Chair of the South Australian Centre for Geothermal Energy Research at the University of Adelaide and is a Director of The Hunger Project Australia. He was appointed to the School Council in 2004. His son, John, attended Cranbrook from 1993 to 2005.
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. He acted as Convenor of Cranbrook Carnivale in 2003. He was appointed the School’s Treasurer in November 2008. His two sons completed their schooling at Cranbrook.
Mr Burroughs is a qualified chartered accountant and has worked in the investment banking industry as a corporate financial advisor for over 30 years. He is Co-Chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs Australia. He has two sons who are both Old Cranbrookians.
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 two higher education-related businesses, 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 and as a member of Cranbrook Council (1995–97) before leaving for the United States. He was selected as Old Cranbrookian of the Year in 2007. He currently has two sons studying at Cranbrook in the Junior School.
Ms Cary is the CSPA representative on the 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. She has two boys currently studying at Cranbrook in the Senior School. She joined the Council in November 2011.
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. She was appointed to the Council in 2001. She has a son who is an Old Cranbrookian.
Dr Forth is a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group, where he led the Australian business for five years. 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, where he served on the Governing Body at Lady Margaret Hall. 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 has lived in several places in Europe and Asia prior to moving to Sydney in 2003. His son is currently studying at Cranbrook in the Senior School.
Mr Keene joined the Council in 1999. He 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. He was on the IT Committee that helped establish the IT direction of the School. He has two sons who are Old Cranbrookians.
Mr Lees is a chartered accountant and he operated his own practice until 2002. His business catered for small to medium-sized enterprises, including non-business entities, providing audit, financial planning and taxation services. He has performed honorary audit services for charitable organisations such as the Lions Club of Woollahra. He is currently a company Director of a family property business. Mr Lees completed all his school education at Cranbrook (OC 1972). In 2005 he completed a Masters in Ancient World Studies and continues to follow this area of interest. Mr Lees held the position of Treasurer of the Old Cranbrookians’ Association from 2004 until 2010. He joined Council in June 2010.
Mr North is a Man aging Director of Gresham Advisory Partners Limited which specialises in corporate advisory services. Prior to joining Gresham in 2006, 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. He is an old Cranbrookian and has two sons currently studying at Cranbrook.
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. He has two sons who are both Old Cranbrookians.
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 Center panelist. He has lectured in intellectual property related topics around the world and has held a number of visiting appointments in Boston, Munich and Siena. He has twice been a Parsons Fellow at the Law School of the University of Sydney and he has also worked for the Australian Copyright Council. In addition, he is an ordained Anglican priest. He was appointed as a member of the School Council in February 2009. He currently has two sons studying at Cranbrook in the Senior School.
Mr Stern is a Director of Port Jackson Partners Limited, a management consulting firm specialising in strategic and organisational advice. Mr Stern joined the Council in 1998 and served as Treasurer from 2000 until the end of 2008. His other community involvements include the Harvard Club of Australia, of which he is a past President. His son is an Old Cranbrookian, having attended Cranbrook from pre-School through Year 12.
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 steelworks in Newcastle 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.
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