Xavier Board

Kathleen is a lawyer, non-executive director and board chair.  

Currently, Kathleen holds a director role with Presentation Association Limited.  She has previously held a director role with the Diocese of Ballarat Catholic Education Limited (DOBCEL) and been director and Board Chair of Star of the Sea College, Brighton and Mercy Works Limited.  Mercy Works is an international and domestic aid and development organisation of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia and Papua New Guinea.  She was the inaugural Board Chair of Wellness in Infrastructure Limited - a company established by tier one contractors to address issues of poor mental health in the Australian construction/infrastructure industry.  She remains a Member of that company.  

Kathleen has extensive experience working with various Catholic congregations and organisations in relation to mission and governance.  Her book, Deep Governance Matters - the world of community, service and mission, was published in 2023.

Kathleen has worked in private practice, lectured at the University of Melbourne Law School and is a qualified mediator.

Kathleen’s husband and their two sons are alumni of Xavier College.
 

Tim is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in professional services having commenced his career at Price Waterhouse in 1994 and in 1997 joined Ernst & Young. He was admitted as a Partner of Ernst & Young in 2005. In that time, he has worked across a number of countries and industries including North America, UK and Asia.

In addition, Tim has held several leadership roles including leading EY Oceania’s Banking Capital Markets Sector Leader and Assurance Leader. Tim works closely with the firm’s clients, account teams, industry associations and regulators in the financial services sector. Tim is the Global Client Service Partner and External Audit Signing Partner for some of EY’s largest and most complex clients.

He is highly experienced in dealing with Boards and Management of listed ASX and unlisted Australian companies and specialises in financial reporting, governance reviewing business processes and internal control frameworks, transformation programs and financial markets and treasury operations.

Tim is a former parent of the school, whose two boys attended both the Burke Hall and the Senior Campus.

An experienced non-executive director and senior executive, with a background in corporate governance, IP and commercial law, Gerry is also a director of the Hawthorn Football Club’s Foundation and a member of the Federal Government’s R&D Tax Incentive Committee. Prior to joining the Xavier Board in 2020, she had experience in the tertiary education sector, having served as a member of the Council of Swinburne University of Technology for almost 12 years.

Gerry’s current executive role is as General Counsel, Corporate, for Orica Limited. She previously held senior executive roles in an ASX-listed medicinal cannabis company and in a NASDAQ-listed biotechnology company. Before her executive roles, Gerry worked for almost two decades as a commercial & IP lawyer at several large Australian law firms.

Gerry has a Bachelor of Science, a Bachelor of Laws and a Masters of Law from Monash University, and a Masters of Corporate Governance from Swinburne University. She is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.

Gerry has a current son at the College and her oldest son graduated in 2020.

Fr Eka is currently assigned to teach Religious Education and assist in Sacramental Chaplaincy and Student Ignatian Formation at a Jesuit-companion school in New Zealand. He previously taught at Jesuit and non-Jesuit schools in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. He had also worked as an Assistant Priest at St. Ignatius' Parish in Adelaide; and as a pastoral minister and a spiritual director in Australia and the United States.

Before joining the Society of Jesus, Fr Eka spent over a decade working in the commercial sector across the Indo-Pacific region, focusing on international sales and marketing, mergers and acquisitions, and project management. He is currently completing a master’s degree in educational leadership part-time.

For the majority of his years as a Jesuit, Fr Michael's ministry has been in the Society's educational apostolate, though the last ten years have seen Michael's appointment to two of our Centres of Ignatian Spirituality.

After 12 years as a student at Xavier College, Michael entered the Jesuit novitiate. Subsequent tertiary studies saw him complete his B.A., B.Theol, and an educational administration degree after Tertianship.

He was appointed headmaster of St Ignatius College, Adelaide in 1986. He returned to his place of regency appointment, St Aloysius College, in 1994 as Rector. Appointment to a similar position at Xavier College came in 2001. In 2010, Michael was given a sabbatical spending most of it in Ignatian formation for adults. This led to ministry in our retreat houses in Sydney, Sevenhill and Melbourne.

At various times Fr Michael has been a member of four of our Jesuit schools.

Lilian oversees the work of the Legislative Council Standing Committees Office at the Parliament of Victoria. She also manages the Environment and Planning Committee’s inquiries on subjects ranging from climate resilience, to flood events, and planning matters.

She has worked on developing policy and legislation on a diverse range of issues such as infrastructure, end of life choices, child protection, homelessness, youth offending and public health and has worked extensively on rural and regional affairs. Prior to the Parliament she worked as a Senior Adviser in the Cabinet Office, Department of Premier and Cabinet Melbourne and as a researcher, lecturer and tutor at the University of Melbourne. Lilian holds a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Her absolute passion is to ensure that legislation and policy is based on evidence, reflects the lived experience of the community and promotes the cause of justice.

Lilian’s Board work has focussed on the every expanding field of risk and compliance.

Mark LoGiudice has been in the property industry since 1986 and is the owner and Managing Director of Crawfords Group, a family owned investment company established in 1966.

Crawfords Group is involved in the investment and development of residential, commercial, industrial and retail property along the eastern seaboard of Australia and USA.

Further to his property interests, Mark has been a Director of Premier Fresh Australia since 2006, a national farming, marketing and logistics company which supplies fresh fruit and vegetables worldwide. Mark is also a Director of Assembled, a group of specialist agencies that delivers marketing and communication outcomes for its clients.

In February 2010, Mark joined the Carlton Football Club Board and was later appointed President in June 2014. He retired at the conclusion of the 2021 season.

Outside of his corporate activities, Mark is a long-standing member of RCH 1000, which actively raises funds for research at the Royal Children's Hospital.

Mark lives in Melbourne with his wife Eli. 

Their three sons are Xavier alumni, 

Sebastian (OX2014), Marcus (OX2017) and Anthony (OX2020).

Penelope Lewin is a successful Tech Executive having worked across startups and established firms across USA, Australia and the greater Asia region. Pen also is an experienced non-executive director, currently serving as director on a speech therapy tech start-up and previously on charitable funds, volunteer and peak body organisations. 

Pen currently works as Senior Director of X Solutions with Microsoft; with responsibilities of bringing new businesses to established and emerging markets across the Asia Timezone. Over her 25 years at Microsoft, she has held many varied senior leadership positions across the organisation covering different technology and operations divisions including Microsoft 365, Cyber Security, Enterprise Contracts, Head of Enterprise Operations, Marketing and Digital & Organisational Transformation.

She is a member of the Institute of Engineers and outside of work is an Angel investor in Australian Female Founded Start-ups through Scale Investors. Her impact beyond work has included being a mentor and coach for start-ups, coaching her boys’ basketball teams and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity to build 100 homes for those in need in Nepal.

Pen currently has one son at the college and two older sons who graduated in 2019 and 2020.

Gerard Dalton KC is a senior barrister with over 20 years’ experience specialising in commercial law.  He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1994 with a Bachelor of Law (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce.  He completed a Masters of Law at the University of Melbourne in 2002.

He became a barrister in 1998 and was appointed senior counsel in 2015.  He specialises in complex litigation across a range of law areas, including contracts, corporations, trade practices, property, construction, insurance, and intellectual property.  He has extensive experience advising public and private corporations and their boards in diverse industries.

Gerard lives in Melbourne with his wife, Sarah, and their four children.  Their youngest boy is a student at the college and their eldest son finished in 2020.