Meet our team

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Queensland, 1990
• Member, Certified Practicing Accountants Australia, 1994
• Fellow Member, Certified Practicing Accountants Australia, 2014
• Graduate Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors, 2021

Experience

Reg has over 30 years’ experience includes senior corporate accounting roles and executive leadership positions within the education sector. Reg is also a Former State Member of the Queensland Parliament.

Reg spent eight years in an executive role for Lutheran Education Queensland, notably as the CFO of Queensland Lutheran Early Learning Services, an Approved Provider of over sixty services, including school-based OSHC services.

Reg is currently consulting for the Uniting Church in Queensland for Approved Provider matters involving their 25 services.

Reg’s governance experience includes serving on the combined board of Moreton Bay College and Moreton Bay Boys College, where he is the Finance Chairperson and Company Secretary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce: Marketing, and Public Policy, Griffith University 1989
• General Nursing Certificate, Royal Brisbane Hospital 1983.

Experience

Elspeth was a founding member of the Helping Hands Network Foundation Board and has fulfilled the role of Chair since 2018.

Elspeth has over 11 years’ experience in the Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) sector. In 2010, she joined Helping Hands Network as State Sales Manager and was appointed General Manager, Business Development of Junior Adventures Group in 2016, before resigning in 2018. In both roles, she was responsible for growing the Foundation.

Outside of her board work with the Foundation, Elspeth in an active volunteer in the community, with a focus on improving services on K’Gari (Fraser Island) where her family owns a property that she manages.

• Elspeth sits on the Executive of the Happy Valley Community Association (HVCA) Inc formed to provide a forum and voice for those people who have an interest in the Happy Valley, K’Gari community. The association recently won a Queensland Resilience Award for the “Happy Valley Community Bush Fire Risk Management Project”. The association is also responsible for leading a community development program to get the Village and associated town plan recognised and supported across all levels of government.
• She represents the Happy Valley Community on the Fraser Coast Regional Council K’gari (Fraser Island) Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy Consultation Group.

Elspeth is also an active member for the Happy Valley Rural Fire Brigade.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts Honours (First Class) in Geography; University of Queensland

Masters of Urban and Regional Planning; University of Queensland

Graduate Diploma in Education; University of New England

Experience 

Maree has worked as a Town Planner for Sinclair Knight Merz in Brisbane and was instrumental in setting up the Planning Course at the Sunshine Coast University, where she lectured and tutored for a number of years.

Maree is mum to five extraordinary young adults. She has owned and managed a family beef cattle property in the South Burnett for thirty years, and she, with her husband, started and managed a plastering business in Hervey Bay and subsequently in the Lockyer Valley for more than a decade. She founded Inntents, a camping business, and is a co-founder of RRAD Communities, which seeks to improve equity of access for students in Queensland, offering support to staff and families in the process.

Maree has taught in the public system in Queensland in various roles and locations since graduating in 1999. Starting as a secondary teacher in Marine Studies, English, and Social Science at Mirani, and advancing to a primary school principal role, firstly in Western Queensland, and most recently in the Lockyer Valley. She resigned in 2018, with a desire to build community as a means of supporting vulnerable students and their families.

An unwavering optimist, Maree can see a bright future and recognises the important role each of us has in creating it. The founder of Rosier Futures, she has a passion for sustainability, design, innovation, and game-changing ideas. She strives to create sustainable communities that inspire belonging. She is an active community member.