Welcome and Farewell: Korowa School Council

Welcome and FarewellKOROWA SCHOOL COUNCIL

By Stuart Major, Chair of the Council

Farewell

Kathy Kings

At our Annual General Meeting held in May, we formally said farewell to Judge Kathy Kings and thanked her for her long and distinguished service as a Director of the School Council, most recently serving as its Deputy Chair. Kathy has also been a member of the Leadership Committee and has been Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee. Kathy was a true independent voice on the School Council, having had no previous connection with Korowa. She provided invaluable knowledge and advice in support of the Principal and her fellow Directors, developed from her many years of service in the legal industry. Prior to her Korowa School Council appointment in 2015, she served on the boards of Wesley College and MLC, the latter of which she was a past student. Kathy has always been deeply committed to all facets of education, but specifically girls' education. In her time as a Director, she ensured that Korowa remained at the forefront in providing a holistic education for young women. She is a compassionate, witty and humble person with a brilliant mind and, as such, always provided wise counsel. In 2022, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the School, the Korovian Club had great pleasure in making Kathy an honorary Korovian, thus ensuring she will remain connected to the Korowa community that she has served so well.

Welcome

Joanne Chin

BComm (Hons) (Monash), LLB (Hons) (Monash)

Following Kathy’s resignation from the School Council we are delighted to announce that Joanne Chin, a Korovian (Class of 1993, Deputy School Captain) and Council member since 2020, has been appointed as Deputy Chair. Jo is a qualified lawyer and an experienced senior HR executive, with over 20 years’ experience in law and HR across multiple industries and geographies. She started her career as a corporate lawyer at Allens before making a career change into people and culture. She spent much of her career in London and San Francisco at Google, and later as Head of People at Waymo where she helped commercialise and scale the business of autonomous vehicles. Recently she was Chief People Officer at Kraft Heinz and co-owner/director of a large ski hostel in Niseko Japan. She is mother to eight year old twins, Maddie and Jude. Jo is passionate about female education and leadership, and diversity and inclusion. She attributes her time at the school as a core part of forming her into the leader she is today. "Korowa gave me the courage and confidence to be an independent thinker. The values of respect and integrity have guided me throughout my career. I am excited about the opportunities for Korowa to build upon its strong history, and also to lead into the future.”

Lisa Tan

BComm (U Melb), LLB (Hons) (U Melb)

Lisa is a Korovian (Class of 2002) and current Korowa parent, with Emma in ELC 4 and her son James commencing in ELC 3 in 2023. She is currently an Executive Director within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where she is the Chief Operating Officer of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Head of Education Coverage in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to her role at Goldman Sachs, Lisa worked in Nomura’s Investment Banking Division and in Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Division. “I look back at my time at Korowa fondly and have no doubt the nine years I spent at the School gave me the confidence to tackle all the opportunities I have had since leaving – the Korowa motto “no reward without effort” and the tagline “dare to try” guiding my day-to-day. It has been really exciting to reconnect with the Korowa community as a parent and now as a School Council member, and I look forward to working with Council and the brilliant staff to ensure Korowa remains a leader in girls' school education”.

Derek Youdale

B.Acc, CA

Father to Zoe in Year 6, Derek has over 25 years of digital, data and analytics experience in large global finance, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals organisations. He spent 15 years at JPMorgan in New York and London before returning to Australia to take roles at ANZ, Telstra, and work remotely for HSBC and AstraZeneca in the UK. More recently he has returned to an Australian role as the interim Chief Data Officer at NAB. Derek is experienced in delivering high quality services and compelling change agendas with skills in leading data management techniques, strategic thinking and risk management. “My family and I are new to Melbourne and the Korowa community but have been really impressed with the school in the short time we have been here. Given we are new, I bring an outsider’s view to the Council to add to its mix. Through my career, I have been lucky to see an enormous evolution in the impact data and technology has had on our everyday lives. There remain huge challenges for companies yet significant opportunities for schools like Korowa. I’m keen to add that mix into the thinking at the School Council”.