The Cranbrook Foundation was established to facilitate the interaction between Cranbrook School and external support helping to promote the future of our School.
The Cranbrook Foundation was created in 1974 to ensure the advancement of Cranbrook. It is a company limited by guarantee, and administered by its Board of Directors. The Cranbrook Foundation’s day-to-day activities are supported by the Director of Development, a member of the Cranbrook School staff and Executive Team.
We rely on the generosity of our community to go beyond and to ensure a reciprocal benefit that sees our School, its quality of education and its legacy remain robust and secure.
Since its inception, the Cranbrook Foundation has been directly involved in the development of new and bold directions to improve Cranbrook School. We are committed to optimising all aspects of our School to ensure that each of our students can discover their potential.
B Com/LLB (UNSW), FAICD
Katrina Rathie is a non-executive director of SBS, Bubs Australia, Starlight Children’s Foundation Australia and NSW Rugby Union/Waratah’s Rugby. She was formerly Partner in Charge, Sydney of law firm King + Wood Mallesons.
Katrina was named as the overall winner in the Board and Management Category of the 2019 AFR’s 100 Women of Influence Awards acknowledging her significant contributions to the law, business, gender and cultural diversity. She is a member of Chief Executive Women and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Katrina is an Alumni Leader of UNSW Sydney Business School, the NSW Patron of the Asian-Australian Lawyers Association and an Advisory Board member of Media Diversity Australia. She has previously been a member of the Advisory Board of UNSW Sydney Law School, the Culture Advisory Committee at the University of Sydney, and the Law Society of NSW’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Katrina attended St Michael’s Pre-School, before attending Ascham School. She has three sons and has been a parent at Cranbrook for 23 years – two sons attended from St Mark’s Pre-School to Year 12 and her third son is currently in Year 12. Her brother is an Old Cranbrookian.
Katrina was appointed as Chair of the Cranbrook Foundation in 2019 having been a director of the Foundation since 2017. She was appointed to the School Council as a director in 2019, and was Vice President of School Council from 2020 to 2022.
BA.LLB (Syd)
Anthony is a lawyer who worked for Clifford Chance based in Paris for over 24 years, including 20 years as a partner in the Clifford Chance global partnership. He managed the Clifford Chance Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for two years prior to returning to Australia to manage KPMG Legal Sydney’s Construction and Infrastructure Group. He founded Anthony Abrahams Lawyers in 2003.
Anthony was Vice-President of the Association France-Australie, in Paris, throughout most of his years in France, and a member of the Board of Australia France Industrial Round Table. He was a member of the NSW Board of the French Australian Chamber of Commerce from 1998 until 2015.
Anthony was awarded an AM on Australia Day 2020 for services to Australia-France relations and to the legal profession, as well as for his leadership of a stand made during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s by seven Australian International Rugby players against the continuation of sporting ties between Australia and apartheid South Africa.
Anthony joined Cranbrook School in Pre-school and graduated in 1962. His father and brothers also attended Cranbrook as did a number of his nephews. Anthony was the Old Cranbrookian of the Year in 2015
Anthony was appointed as a director of the Cranbrook Foundation in 2015.
Seumas Dawes is a professional investor and director and shareholder of Pepper Group, a financial services company which has a global portfolio of banking and finance businesses. Prior to managing his own investment vehicles, Seumas was a Senior Portfolio Manager and member of the Investment Committee of Ashmore Group plc, based in London.
Earlier in his career, Seumas was a credit and derivatives trader with various international investment banks. He also spent three years as an adviser to the then Treasurer of Australia (later Prime Minister) the Hon PJ Keating.
Seumas and his family have various interests in Falls Creek in the Victorian Alps and he is also a backer of Ireland’s professional football club Shamrock Rovers.
Seumas’ son attended Cranbrook School.
Seumas was appointed as a director of the Cranbrook Foundation in 2017 was on the School Council as a director from 2020 to 2022.
BEc LLB (Sydney) MBA (Kellogg) FAICD
Bruce Liu manages the family office, LFO. Bruce worked as an M&A lawyer for Allen Allen & Hemsley (Allens Linklaters), moved into investment banking with Merrill Lynch & Co (BofA Securities) in New York and Singapore, before taking a leadership role in investment banking client Barito-Pacific Holdings, which owns and controls a number of MSCI indexed industrial holdings.
Bruce is a non-executive director of Sydney Stock Exchange and director of Garvan Research Foundation. Previously, Bruce held board and committee appointments on entities listed on the NYSE, SGX and IDX and unlisted appointments included councillor of the Power Institute Foundation at the University of Sydney. Bruce is a member of the Alumni Admission Council of Northwestern University and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Bruce has three sons who are all recent Old Cranbrookians, who commenced Cranbrook at St Mark’s Pre-school and Dickins House. Bruce was appointed as a director of the Cranbrook Foundation in 2017.
Dip.Business (Val) Dip. Business (Franchising), FCPA, FAPI, FRICS, CPP, MAICD
Angus Raine is the Executive Chairman of Raine & Horne Group and is the fourth generation to lead the firm. Prior to joining Raine & Horne Angus worked for three international commercial Real Estate companies for fifteen years.
Angus holds qualifications in strategy, leadership, property valuation, real estate, finance and franchising and completed the Owner President Management Programme at Harvard Business School in2009.
Angus is also a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Industry Liaison Group and was previously a NSW Committee Member for Family Business Australia, as well as a Residential Committee Member for the Property Council of Australia.
Angus completed his education at Cranbrook in 1984 and he has two sons, both recent Old Cranbrookians.
Angus was appointed as a director of the Cranbrook Foundation in 2013.