Chairman

Residence: Canberra, ACT.

Term of Office:    Deputy Chairman from March 2006 to December 2007. Chairman of Community CPS since December 2007. Chairman of CPS Credit Union Co-operative (ACT) Limited (‘CPS ACT’) prior to its merger with CPS Credit Union (SA) Ltd (CPS SA).

Current Directorships of other Community CPS Australia Limited related entities: Director of Eastwoods Group Pty Ltd, Eastwoods Wealth Management Pty Ltd, Eastwoods Accounting and Taxation Pty Ltd and CPS Waymouth Pty Ltd.

Current Directorships of non Community CPS Australia Limited related listed entities: Nil

Skills, experience and expertise:
Gary was elected Chairman of the CPS ACT Board in November 2001.  Upon the merger of CPS ACT with CPS SA Gary was appointed Deputy Chairman of Community CPS.  He has been a member of CPS ACT for over 22 years and joined the CPS ACT Board in 1990.

Gary is a marketing, communications and IT specialist.  His experience includes over 18 years in radio and television industries in Australia and England.  He established Green Advertising in 1980, which grew to be one of the largest advertising agencies in the ACT.  This was sold to Adcorp Australia Ltd in 2002.  He is now the executive director of the Mac1 group, which he founded in 1987; it has grown to become the third largest AppleCentre group in Australia with stores in Canberra, Brisbane, Newcastle and Wollongong.  He has entered into a sale agreement for his interests in the group to focus on the development of Community CPS Australia and his investment portfolio.

Gary is a Fellow of the Australasian Credit Union Institute, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has been a Company Director since 1984.

Community CPS Australia Limited Board Committee Membership: Member of the Board Governance Committee.

Other interests:
Gary’s latest passion is aviation and he flies regularly along the South Coast of NSW, from Moruya, in his Airborne XT 912.  He was also the founding president of SnowPlough Ski Club in Jindabyne.  Gary is married to Tanja and has three children.