WITH GUEST OF HONOUR – SALLY CAPP , LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE
Sally Capp was elected as Lord Mayor of Melbourne in May 2018 , and was the first woman to be directly elected as Lord Mayor . She was re-elected to the position in November 2020 .
Sally was also the first woman to hold the post of Agent-General for Victoria in the UK , Europe and Israel . She has also served as the CEO for the Committee for Melbourne and Chief Operating Officer of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
Beginning her career as a solicitor , Sally has held senior roles at both KPMG and ANZ , and she took the small business she co-founded to the ASX . Most recently she was Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia .
She is involved in a number of charities , currently sitting on the board of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute , the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship
Foundation and the Melbourne University Faculty of Business and Economics .
A passionate Magpies supporter , in 2004 Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC .
Sally has many Scotch connections . Her husband Andrew (’ 85 ), brothers-in law Robert (’ 76 ), James (’ 79 ) and Rohan Sutherland (’ 85 ); her sons Nicholas (’ 15 ) and William Sutherland (’ 17 ); her grandfather , Ernest Capp (’ 23 ), and her father-in-law , Dr Bruce Sutherland (’ 48 ), all attended Scotch , along with many other Scotch relatives .
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