The NSWICC Board of Directors

As a business owner, he has built relationships with government and corporate clients, driving partnerships that facilitate opportunity for Indigenous people and a deep belief that government and private sector partnerships will play a bigger role in delivering social and financial outcomes to the community as a whole. It is a perfect environment for strong leaders and change adapters to deliver sustainable outcomes that benefit Indigenous people – Indigenous health in Indigenous hands.

Integrity Health & Safety is an Indigenous owned company that works closely with clients to offer the best of Health and Safety innovation. Through partnership with market leaders, IH&S supports Indigenous education, employment and career progression in health.

Integrity Health & Safety works with a number of Federal, State and Local Governments, Other Government Agencies, Non-Government Agencies, Not-for-profits and ASX listed Companies. Integrity is a member of Supply Nation, the New South Wales Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce.

As founder and CEO, he has led the company from a community-based start-up to a long-term success story and best practice example. Liam has also provided significant input into future Indigenous health policies and Indigenous procurement policies at a federal, state and local level.

John was a joint member of the first Indigenous employment panel tender provided by the Commonwealth to select and assess organisations for selection on the “preferred list” of providers to deliver Indigenous employment and training programs.

He has an extensive network amongst the Indigenous organisations and communities. This network also includes significant networks across both the Commonwealth and State Governments.

After a couple of years of talking about it, finally went out on his own and founded Noble Brands Worldwide in early 2012. Monty has appeared as an industry expert on many TV shows including The Gruen Transfer, Lateline Business, Australia’s Next Top Model and Sky News. He has also served on the board of the creative industry’s peak body AWARD (Australasian Writers & Art Directors) and, as a proud Wiradjuri man, spent several years working towards a better Australia as a board member of All Together Now – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to erasing racism in Australia. Campaigns included, “Give Racism the Finger”, the Football Federation Australia’s “Erase Racism Round” for the A-League and the “One Parramatta Project” which won the NSW State Government’s Grand prize for Diversity projects.

In the 5 years that he has been in business, he has achieved great success and his Aboriginal business has gained National recognition as a corporate supplier of gourmet bush food flavoured products which embody Aboriginal Australia’s rich cultural traditions.

In March 2016, He created history with QANTAS, one of the largest Corporate companies in Australia and an icon in the World Aviation Industry, when he became the first 100% owned Aboriginal business to become a ‘Supplier’ in their Food Category. Herb has an Aboriginal flavoured food product on both Domestic and Regional Link flights right across Australia and in QANTAS Lounges in several Capital Cities. In 2018, he also became the first Aboriginal owned company to supply NSW Rail Link with a food product. He currently supplies them with 8 of his products on trains across New South Wales.

He has since built business relationships with Federal and NSW State Government Departments, and high profile companies such as, Gate Gourmet, BP Australia, ACCOR Hotels, WESTPAC GROUP, Compass Group of Australia, THIESS Pty Ltd Mining Services, Australia Post, National Broadband Network, WINC, MIRVAC, Aurecon Group, and Barangaroo Authority amongst many others.

Locally Herb is seen as synonymous with business, community and leadership in Wellington and indeed across the Orana Region. He relishes taking an active role in fostering partnerships between regional businesses and community organisations as a way to identify opportunities, open avenues of communication and facilitate regional growth. His passion for the economic development of the Orana region has been further exercised with his appointment as a Board Member at Regional Development of Australia – Orana. He is also a member of the Wellington Business Chamber, a Director of the Soldier’s memorial Club and a member of the Local Aboriginal Land Council, previously holding the position of Chairperson.

He is a strong advocate for Aboriginal Education, Training, Business and Employment and is passionate about creating ‘real’ job opportunities and developing effective pathways into ongoing sustainable employment. Herb’s vision is to use the success of DREAMTIME TUKA as a ‘platform’ to assist with this passion and has developed a program called, ‘The Dreamtime Tuka Pathway to Employment’ which he has implemented through his company DREAMTIME TUKA.

Over the past six years, Scott’s primary focus had been delivering business strategies for digital transformation. Managing the different business stakeholders within the enterprise delivering insight and innovative approaches to transformational change that are flexible enough to accommodate the ever-shifting customer and competitive landscape.

Scott has a thorough understanding of business operations, go-to-market strategies and business processes for complex environments. Scott has a proven record of mobilising resources to deliver world-class business solutions and attaining leading market positions through large-scale transformational change and strong revenue growth.  

Scott is committed to advancing Nallawilli as a market leader in its chosen fields and to advance First Nations peoples through its committed to best practice, continuous improvement, sustainable and social growth.

He is also currently a director of a promotional and marketing business established 2018, Whatsinaname Indigenous. Pathways business model includes a functioning native nursery, numerous social and employment programs attached to its operation plus reputable youth programs running within the education system. ICaN was an inaugural recipient of IAS funding for its youth program and is now servicing over 500 Aboriginal clients yearly. Following is a summary of his experience sitting on and chairing community boards and organisations.

2015 to Current – AECG Local Board Member & Regional Representative for AECG Regional Board
2014 to 2016 – Disability Information Group (Dubbo Region) – Inaugural Chairperson
2015 – Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre – Board Member
2014 to 2016 – Ngurambang Out of Home Care – Chairperson for an Aboriginal Out of Home Care Service

Robert Riley is an ideal candidate to sit on the board of the NSWICC given his passion and dedication to his people and to Aboriginal entrepreneurship. He has a distinctive approach to advancing indigenous business and to engaging mainstream stakeholders. His experience in both the commercial business world and the service sector leads to outcomes evolving from always understanding both worlds and the need for sustainable outcomes.

Luke is the founder of Health Trade Services which is 100% indigenous owned and operated. Specialising in providing trade services and facilities asset management to the healthcare sector. This is a deep passion of his, providing professional services and support to our healthcare systems in turn helping our communities. As the vision states “Building High standards Together for the Best Patient Outcomes”

With a high attention to detail, Luke has been involved in a large number of projects inclusive of GC21 Contracts and coordinated health facility shutdowns in major infrastructure upgrades. During the course of his career, he has gained extensive experience in a vast range of trade and construction classifications. This experience has built the foundation for Luke to efficiently manage and execute projects. Luke is a natural leader providing innovative and structured approaches, leading teams in various dynamic environments with strong communication abilities. Luke believes the team surrounding you is the path to successful completion.

With a passion for technology, Luke thrives on implementing technology for automating processes. In particular, automating business and field processes. With strong problem solving abilities Luke takes logical approaches to complex tasks in order to achieve the desired outcomes.