Since 1998 NAB has operated a forum with community organisations as a means to keep in touch with community issues facing the bank in Australia. The original stakeholder forum now operates as a formal eight-member Community Advisory Council.
The role of the council is as follows.
To provide input into the community activities and approach of NAB in Australia
To receive reports from NAB on its community activities
To bring to the attention of NAB important community issues facing the bank
To provide feedback on how NAB is addressing community issues facing the bank
The council meets quarterly and first met in August 2006. It includes three representatives from NAB and has the ability to commission independent research of matters important to the council. An honorarium is paid to members of the council, excluding the NAB representatives.
Tim Costello
Tim Costello (Chair) is Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, Australia's largest overseas aid organisation. Tim has long been recognised for articulating the social conscience for Australians having led many debates on international and domestic issues, including gambling, urban poverty, homelessness, reconciliation and human rights. Tim served as a Baptist Minister from 1987 to 2004. In 2004, he was named Victorian of the Year and in 2005 was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He was Victorian Australian of the Year in 2006.
Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert is a non-executive NAB director and co-founder of the Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin. Daniel has extensive involvement, through not-for-profit organisations, in social justice issues and the arts.
Betty Hounslow
Betty Hounslow has worked in a wide range of community organisations for over 30 years. Her current position is Deputy Chief Executive of The Fred Hollows Foundation. She is involved across all areas of the organisation - from the development of international blindness prevention and domestic Indigenous health programs, to fundraising, education and advocacy initiatives and finance and administration. From 1994 to 2001, Betty was the Director of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) - the peak body for the community welfare sector in Australia. Photo by Peter Carrette.
Marilyn Webster
Marilyn Webster is the Manager of the Policy and Research Unit at Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service, a community agency with a long history of action and advocacy for people on the margins. She has worked for over 20 years with government and church organisations in direct service and in program and policy areas. Marilyn serves on boards including the International Council of International Social Service, MacKillop Family Services, Victorian Council of Social Service and ACOSS.
Mark Yettica-Paulson
Mark Yettica-Paulson is Assistant Director for Training at the Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations. Formerly the Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Mark has a number of years experience in community leadership and youth leadership development. He has worked in church and educational organisations and is a founding Trustee of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia. Mark is also on the Edmund Rice Business Ethics Committee.
Steve Bracks
The Hon Steve Bracks is one of Victoria’s longest serving Premiers, entering Parliament as the Member for Williamstown in 1994. As Victoria’s 44th Premier, Mr Bracks became one of the State’s most successful Premiers winning three consecutive elections. After almost eight years as Premier, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Mr Bracks retired in 2007. In addition to his work on NAB’s Community Advisory Council, Mr Bracks advises NAB on a range of corporate social responsibility issues in his role as Executive Adviser to the Group CEO.
Mr Bracks holds three major honorary positions, as an Adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao, as an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and as an Ambassador for the Victorian Opera company. He is also a Director of Jardine Lloyd Thomson Australia Board, a Senior Adviser to KPMG and Vice-Chairman of the AIMS Financial Group Advisory Board.
Andrew Demetriou
Andrew Demetriou is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Football League which administers the 16-team national football competition and guides the game of Australian Football. Since taking on the CEO role in 2003, Andrew has overseen the growth of the game which currently has more than 638,000 participants around Australia, including 161,000 children taking part in NAB AFL Auskick. Under his leadership the AFL developed the Next Generation strategy designed to secure the future of Australian Football from the elite AFL competition right through to community football. The AFL has also developed programs that provide greater access to the game to indigenous and multicultural communities. Andrew is also Public Appeal Chairman for the Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre and is the father of three young girls.
Lisa Gray
Lisa Gray is the Executive General Manager for Retail Banking Australia. Lisa leads over 13,000 staff at more than 750 locations across Australia, delivering banking services and products to retail customers. The key distribution channels include branches, mobile bankers, financial planners and financial services centres.
Lisa's previous roles with NAB have been Chief Operating Officer - Retail Banking, Regional General Manager, Retail Financial Services and General Manager, Deposits & Retail Transactions.
Prior to joining NAB, Lisa was CEO of MLC Wealth Protection, CEO & Managing Director of Plum Financial Services and General Manager, Marketing at AXA.
Lisa currently holds board directorships with St. Vincent's and Mercy Private Hospital and the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) at Swinburne University. Lisa is the 1999 winner of the Telstra Businesswoman's award for medium-sized enterprises and in 1991-92 was awarded the prestigious Rupert Murdoch Scholarship for leadership and management.
Lisa is married to Keith and has two children, Madeleine & Benjamin.
Cameron Clyne
Cameron Clyne became Group Chief Executive Officer of National Australia Bank and a Director of the National Australia Bank Board in January 2009.
Cameron was previously Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BNZ from January 2007, with responsibility for its strategic positioning and performance, and over 5000 employees. During this time he also served as Chairman of the Bank of New Zealand Save the Kiwi Trust and the New Zealand Bankers Association.
Cameron joined the Group in 2004 as a member of the Group Executive Committee, working on a range of strategic issues as Executive General Manager, Group Development, and Executive General Manager, Customer Solutions.
Prior to joining NAB, Cameron’s extensive experience in the financial services industry included more than 12 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, culminating in leading the Financial Services Industry practice in Asia Pacific, prior to the acquisition by IBM Consulting. During his consulting career he worked with many of the world’s leading banks in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia.
In 2008 Cameron was one of 245 individuals selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique community of up to 300 people worldwide, who dedicate part of their time to jointly address global challenges including health, education, the environment, global governance and security, and development and poverty.
Michael Ullmer
Michael Ullmer was appointed Deputy CEO in March 2009, from his previous position as Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer. Michael held this role from October 2007, having joined the National Australia Bank Group as Finance Director in August 2004.
Michael is a director of National Australia Bank and Bank of New Zealand and Chairman of the Group’s US subsidiary Great Western Bank. He is also a Non Executive Director of Fosters Group Limited.
He was previously with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for seven years where he was the Group Executive responsible for Institutional and Business Banking. Before that he was Group Chief Financial Officer.
After an early career with KPMG in London, the US and then Australia, Michael joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1992 as a partner and Chairman of their Asia Pacific financial services group.
Michael currently sits on the Board of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Previous community roles have included member of the Sydney Symphony Board, Deputy Chairman of Kambala Girls’ School, and Treasurer of Lauriston Girls’ School. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.
Michael has a degree in Mathematics, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.
Joseph Healy
Joseph Healy was appointed Group Executive Business Banking in March 2009, from his previous position as Executive General Manager of National Australia Bank’s business and private banking.
Joseph is responsible for the bank’s relationships with SME, Corporate and Institutional clients in Australia, as well as Leveraged and Acquisition Finance, Integrated Capital Solutions, Financing Products and Working Capital Services.
Prior to joining NAB in early 2007, Joseph was Managing Director, Global Client Relationship Banking at ANZ Bank. Joseph worked in London for Lloyds Bank, CIBC World Markets and Citicorp. A career banker, his experience covers debt and equity capital markets, corporate and structured finance, private equity, risk management and relationship management.
A graduate of the University of London - London Business School, he holds a MSc and MBA and is the author of a corporate finance textbook.
