MANAGEMENT BOARD

Leona Turra

Leona has formal qualifications at Masters Level in Business Administration. Her professional memberships are as a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Institute of Management, the Institute of Public Administration and the Australian Human Resource Institute.

Leona has been recruited to her past and present positions as an organisational change agent, to design, implement and refine structure, policies and processes to enable cost efficient and effective resource management. Leona has worked at Executive Level for the past fifteen years in both local government and the health sectors. Leona’s background in the alpine industry has been as a former member of the Baw Baw Village Committee; (1995-98) and a member of the Victorian Alpine Coordinating Council (1998 to 2005).

Leona was a former member of a Ski Club at Mt Baw Baw (1985 to 2003). Leona’s alpine activities include a background in downhill and cross country skiing, instructing /guiding disabled skiers and took up snowboarding in 1994. Leona’s alpine industry network includes Canadian, North American and European resorts.

Ralph Booth

Ralph has founded several corporate advisory businesses with a primary focus on public policy and administration. He worked for 13 years in the Department of Treasury and Finance as a senior executive in a variety of roles in financial, economic and budgetary reform.

Now an occasional cyclist and lapsed cross country skier Ralph maintains a keen research interest in tourism, cultural landscapes and environmental change.

Wally Tabensky

Wally holds professional engineering qualifications and has a vast experience in engineering and local government. He has been employed with various local governments, from City of Springvale to his present position as Director, Infrastructure and Environment, at the Shire of Baw Baw. Wally has studied overseas, and has been a member of the Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort Management Board (7 years) and previous Management Committees at Mt Baw Baw since 1980.

Maria Pilipasides

Maria holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne. She has been a partner in the law firm Kenyons Lawyers located in Melbourne. Her practice in insurance primarily relates to insurance litigation and in employment disputed.

Maria has been a Member on the Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort Management Board for 5 years. She is Convenor of the Board’s Audit Committee.

Vicky Papachristos

Vicky has spent over 20 years as a management and marketing executive with major corporations in Australia and the USA. Vicky’s work has spanned Petrochemicals, Banking, Sport, IT & Retailing holding senior roles in Shell, Westpac, Visa, Myer, the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics as well as an IT start-up in the US.

Vicky’s expertise is in strategy and marketing responsible for the design, development and launch of several major customer facing business initiatives. Vicky also has extensive expertise in setting up new and enhancing existing business operations.

In 2006 Vicky formed Currant Marketing – an independent consultancy in the fields of loyalty and customer strategy specialising in retail and consumer products.

Vicky is also an Independent Director of EPAL - EFTPOS Payment Australia Limited, Australia's most widely used domestic debit card system.

Vicky is a keen skier and road cyclist and holds a Chemical Engineering degree as well as an MBA from the AGSM.

Randall Cohen