Ms Janet Finlay
Board Member since October 2021; Chair since December 2023
Ms Janet Finlay is an experienced independent company director with a strong commercial and finance background across a range of industries. A chartered accountant and former partner of Big 4 accounting firm EY, she has extensive experience in leadership, governance, business development, financial management and reporting, risk management and stakeholder engagement. Janet’s other board roles include SA Water Corporation, SA Football Commission, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority Limited and the Libraries Board SA. |
Mr Chris Stewart, CEO
CEO and Board Member since Jan 2019. Pursuant to the Helping Hand Aged Care Inc Constitution, the CEO is also a Member of the Board of Directors.
Mr Chris Stewart has extensive executive level leadership experience across diverse sectors including professional services, financial services and healthcare. He has also consulted extensively to clients on business growth, strategy and corporate governance. Chris was a Board Director of Helping Hand for nine years and chaired the Finance and Property Committee from 2012 to 2015. He served on a range of other boards and committees, predominantly in the not-for-profit sector and is currently a Board member of Windmill Theatre Company.
His qualifications include BSc (Hons); MBA; GAICD; Dip Fin. Services; Level 1 Accredited Executive Coach. Chris is passionate about leadership and bringing his commercial and consulting expertise to ensure the growth and on-going success of Helping Hand. |
Associate Professor Dr Craig Whitehead
Board Member since January 2008
Associate Professor Dr Craig Whitehead is the Regional Clinical Director for Rehabilitation, Aged and Palliative Care for Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN). He is also a member of the executive of SALHN.
Dr Whitehead is a staff specialist in geriatric medicine and Chair of the Client Care sub-committee. He is also a member of the Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, an active clinician in public and private practice and a Member of the Aged Care Advisory Committee that advises the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee about aged care policy related to COVID-19. |
Mr Jason Cattonar
Board Member since August 2015
Mr Jason Cattonar is a finance professional focussed on delivering strategic outcomes and strong corporate governance, is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years of financial experience within international accounting firms, and large private and public companies. He is the CFO of Cobham Aviation Services, also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant, Taxation Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of company Directors.
Mr Cattonar is Chair of the Finance and Property sub-committee. |
Professor Angela Scarino
Board Member since October 2018
Professor Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia. Her research and development work focuses on the role of language and culture in communication in diverse domains, including aged care, and particularly in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity. Her projects span state and national contexts in Australia as well as sustained work in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, France, Italy and New Zealand.
She is currently the Chair of the Multicultural Education and Languages Committee, an advisory committee on languages and multicultural education to the Minister for Education and Child Development in South Australia. |
Dr John Harvey
Board Member since February 2020
Dr John Harvey is currently of Chair of Rural Business Support, Studio Nine Architects and the Australian Wine Research Institute’s nominations committee. He is a Non-Executive Director of headspace (the National Youth Mental Health Network), Can:Do Group and Revenir Winemaking as well as a Trustee for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (SA) and the South Australian Grain Industry Trust. |
Mr Jarrad Haynes
Board Member since August 2023
Mr Jarrad Haynes is an experienced property developer and construction professional. He is currently a Director of Capital Prudential Funds Management, Capital Prudential Diversified Development Fund and is Chair of Amulet Property. He was previously a Director at Accord Property, and the National Operations Manager at Programmed Facility Management. Mr Haynes is a Graduate of AICD’s Company Directors Course. |
Mr Stephen Walker
Board Member since February 2024
Mr Stephen Walker is an experienced health management executive that has held a number of senior roles in both the public and private hospital sector in Australia and New Zealand. He is the Chief Executive of St Andrew’s Hospital, a large 250 bed private hospital in Adelaide. Stephen’s other Board roles include The Australian Council of Health Care Standards (ACHS) where he also Chairs their Middle East Board and their Finance and Audit Committee as well as a board member of ACHS International. Stephen is a Board member of the Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA). Stephen has qualifications in Business (health management), Engineering and Accountancy and is a member of the AICD and a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM). |
Ms Reena Costello
Board Member since April 2024
Ms Reena Costello is a legal practitioner with a Masters of Law from Columbia University in New York. Reena has practiced in commercial litigation in South Australia, and as an Attorney in New York with a focus on construction litigation. Reena has extensive experience in the Residential Aged Care Sector having been Legal Counsel and later Head of Operations & Regulatory Compliance for Premier Health Care where she oversaw the Group’s risk, compliance and workplace relations functions. Reena is a graduate of the AICD Company Directors Course and is a Board Member of Patch Theatre and the Aged Care Industry Association. |
