The Committee membership (voting) comprises two elected Councillors and three independent external members, one of whom is the Chairperson.
The members of the Committee are:
Stephen Coates (Chair)
Stephen has a background as an experienced internal audit professional. He is currently President of IIA-Australia and member of the global International Internal Audit Standards Board (IIASB). Stephen has held senior roles in advisory and consulting services, technology risk consulting, and assurance services. His focus is on authoritative, independent, and confidential advice to enterprise and technology leadership on delivering improved strategic deployment, risk culture, technology insight and systems and operations performance. He also chairs a number of Audit Risk & Improvement Committees nationally. Stephen tries to bring a culture of continuous improvement to his work, and has a passion is helping Boards and Committees make good decisions.
Mark McCoy
BCom MBA FCA FFin FCG (CS, CGP) FGIA FAICD
Mark has twenty years of experience as a non-executive director in banking, software, hospital and aged care sectors, and as chair of various board committees for over fifteen years.
His ‘day job’ is running his own professional practice advising the boards and CEOs of public and private sector clients on a wide range of governance-related and other business issues.
He has taught twenty different accounting, finance, business information systems, governance and international business subjects to post-graduate and undergraduate students at four universities during the last fifteen years.
He was the original author of all director-related governance guidance notes published by Lexis Nexis through a subscription service.
Shane Hubble
Shane has over 20 years’ experience working as a corporate governance, enterprise risk and internal audit specialist. The majority of these years have come from a combination of working with international entities, local government and professional service firms.
He is a professional member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand as a chartered accountant and enterprise risk specialist; a certified fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors as a certified internal auditor; and a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.
His passion lies in assisting executives to manage enterprise risks and in assisting organisations to drive a culture that continuously improves corporate governance, ethics, compliance and a strong internal control culture.
Cr Alan Tickle
Deputy Mayor, Cr Alan Tickle is one of the appointed Councillors to the Audit, Risk and Improvement Committee.
For further information about Cr Tickle, visit the Councillors page on our website.
Cr Jeremy Miller
Cr Jeremy Miller is one of the appointed Councillors to the Audit, Risk and Improvement Committee.
For further information about Cr Miller, visit the Councillors page on our website.
The General Manager and other staff participate in Committee meetings as required.