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Board member profiles

GIULIANA BAGGOLEY
Appointed August 2011

JACK MANNING BANCROFT
Appointed August 2011

SUE BOYCE
Appointed September 2014

Giuliana Baggoley is an optometrist and State
Eyecare Manager with Luxottica.

At 29 years of age Jack Manning Bancroft is the
CEO and Founder of AIME. In 2005, then a
19-year-old uni student, Jack founded the AIME
Program with 25 Indigenous kids in Redfern.
AIME incorporated in 2008 and Jack became a
CEO at the age of 22.

Sue served as a Queensland Senator for seven
years, retiring on 30 June 2014. She was first
elected by the Queensland Parliament on 19 April
2007 to fill a casual Senate vacancy, and then
elected in her own right at the Federal election on
24 November 2007.

Jack is now one of Australia’s youngest CEOs
leading a team of nearly 100 staff across the
country. Today, AIME works with over 3,500
Indigenous high school students and 1,250
university student acting as mentors across five
states in Australia.

She is a company director, former journalist and
public relations practitioner with experience in
Queensland, Victoria, PNG and the UK. She
was based in Melbourne for more than 20 years
before returning to Queensland, in 1994, to work
with her family’s manufacturing company which
was established in 1926 and employs about 200
people. Sue has a strong understanding of issues
faced by Australian business.

A former Policy Adviser with Optometry
Australia (OA), Giuliana has previously served on
OA state councils and is a member of the ACT
Clinical Senate.
The majority of Giuliana’s professional life has
been spent in rural and regional Australia and she
now lives in Canberra where she is married with
two young children.
Giuliana’s interests include health, media and the
arts. Giuliana thrives on community involvement.
“I love people’s stories and I value how different
experiences and lifestyles enrich a community.”

Over the last four years, AIME students have
finished school at almost the same rate as every
Australian child. By 2018, AIME seeks to
expand across the nation to connect with 10,000
Indigenous high school kids annually—that’s
roughly one quarter of the Indigenous high school
population—and have all of these kids finishing
school at the same rate as every Australian child.
Jack was named 2010 NSW Young Australian of
the Year, 2010 Young People’s Australian Human
Rights Medallist and received the University of
Sydney 2010 Young Alumni of the Year Award.
Jack is also the CEO and a Founder of Phone
Free Feb and a graduate of the University of
Sydney and Stanford.

While in the Senate, Sue’s roles included Chair of
the Senate Standing Committee on Community
Affairs, and Deputy Chair of the Joint Committee
for Corporations and Financial Services.
Sue remains committed to improving the
politi cal participation rates of women. She
works as a disability advocate and is a past
president of the Down Syndrome Association of
Queensland (DSAQ).
She is also a past president of the Liberal
Women’s Council (Qld). She holds a Bachelor
of Arts (Hons), a Masters of Business and is a
Fellow and Graduate of the Australian Institute of
Company Directors.
Most importantly, she is the mother of three adult
children and grandmother of four.

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