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Chairman Tony Rogic
Tony has been General Manager Sales for the Plumbers Supplies Co-op since 2004. Tony has worked in the Building Products Industry for over 15 years, with the last ten years in senior executive and consulting roles. Tony believes that Co-op's have the strongest value proposition in business, primarily based around returning profits to members. "It is something that I never really understood before joining the Plumbers Co-op". Tony has used the fundamental principles of Co-ops in developing new strategies to grow the number of new members to the Plumbers Co-op, something that he hopes to play a part in at the Co-operative Federation of NSW.
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Deputy Chairman Jim Sneesby
Jim Sneesby has been a Director of the Co-operative Federation of NSW since 2003. He is a cane farmer from northern NSW, having served as a Director and Chairman of the NSW Sugar Milling Co-operative Limited for a number of years and as a Director and Secretary of a sugar cane harvesting co-operative since 1974. Jim believes that the principles of co-operation, which allow people or organisations voluntarily to meet common economic, social and cultural needs, provide an opportunity for sustainable development within communities driven by a co-operative's members. That is - the needs and expectations of a community can be met and a service is provided for those communities. "We should all be enthusiastic and passionate about where we live and those around us". |
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Geoff Goodworth
Geoff is a self-employed business consultant working in the fields of workflow analysis and process documentation. He also does some work in marketing and is an Associate of the Australian Marketing Institute. Until his recent resignation, Geoff had been a director of The Wine Society for more than eighteen years and has been active in Society business for about 20 years.
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Susan Ramke
Susan has been the Chairperson of Macleay Regional Co-operative for 5 years, and a Director for 7 years. She owns and operates a 1,500 acre beef cattle property with her husband Barry in the Macleay Valley. Off-farm. she's Network Business Manager for the Hastings/Macleay Network of the North Coast Area Health Service and has worked in various Management/Government Accounting roles for the past 20 years. She also had extensive experience in the retail industry before working for the Government.
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David Crombie
David is the CEO of Estate Agents Co-operative Ltd (EAC), Australia's largest co-operative of real estate agents. EAC is a provider of technology based marketing products and services to the real estate and related industries. David has excellent leadership skills and extensive experience in the building and management of effective teams and organisational structures. His approach to business is practical, structured and analytical and he has a strong background in commerce, information technology and this new and ever changing online world in which we find ourselves. With David's guidance and by adopting a commercial approach to the Co-operative and harnessing the support of Members, EAC has been able to successfully compete against many much larger organisations in several different markets segments. David has also performed roles on several industry committees and is currently also a director of realestateworld.com.au which is a division of EAC.
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John Coyle
John is the CEO of HunterNet Co-operative, a Hunter based network of Engineering and Manufacturing companies and is responsible for the planning and management of the operations of the Network and its subsidiary HunterNet Group Training Company. In this role, and as past Chairperson and company member of HunterNet, he is required to work closely with the network's membership as well as industry, Government and professional bodies throughout the Hunter region. John has held the following positions: Current Board member of HunterNet Group Training Company, Newcastle Innovation (formerly The University of Newcastle Research Associates) and the Treloar Group Pty Ltd; Section Councillor, NSW Branch, Australian Industry Group; Member and past Chair, Newcastle Australian Industry Group Manufacturing Committee; Hunter Export Centre, Member and a Director of the Varley Group. He is also a committee member of the Hunter Manufacturing Association, a director at the Hunter Community Foundation, has been a member on the TAFE NSW – Hunter Institute Advisory Council since 2005 and Deputy Chair. John holds a B.Com (Ecs) from the University of NSW and is also an Associate of the Institute of Company Directors. |
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John Power
John is the General Manager of Batlow Fruit Co-operative Limited. John joined Batlow in July 2011, prior to this he was CEO of Proserpine Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Limited in Queensland. He has managed large and diverse businesses including Sugar Mills with large renewable electricity generation systems, Electricity Distribution networks and speciality chemical manufacturing and sales. John is a Graduate member of AICD and holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and Human Resource Management and is a Certified Practicing Marketer. |
Secretary
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Marie Winter
Marie was originally the secretary and financial accountant for Hastings Co-operative Limited and spent a total of twenty years as their secretary. Hastings Co-operative, with Marie as their representative, was a founding member of the Federation. She was a director of the Federation for more than twelve years, much of which time she was also filling the role of secretary. Although Marie has retired from Hastings Co-operative and as a director of the Federation, she is passionately focused on what co-operatives can do, and how their loyalty programs work successfully between supplier and retail members. Marie is always looking at new ideas to keep the interest of all generations. She is a member of the NSW Co-operative Council which advises the relevant Minister on current issues, is an ex-director of a large credit union and is a member of the Wauchope Rotary Club.
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Assistant Secretary
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Helen McCall
Helen came to co-operatives via her accounting practice in Sydney where she had many community organisations as clients, several of which were co-operatives. When she sold her practice she kept her hand in by going onto the Federation board. In 2001 Don Kinnersley wanted to retire and he convinced Helen to take on the job - big shoes to fill, but we each do our job in different ways, with the different skills we bring with us. In 2011 Helen retired as Executive Officer but she continues her association with the Federation by organising and running training, providing advice where necessary and maintaining the website content and the books of account. Helen believes in the power that we obtain when we work together and tries to convince others of this self-evident truth.
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