Southern Alpine Resort

Allan Bawden PSM is a CEO and non executive director with extensive experience in the local government and not for profit sectors. His local government career spanned four decades involving senior executive appointments in some of Victoria's most dynamic regions including inner metropolitan Melbourne, the Latrobe Valley, the Bass Coast and western... Victoria. He was the inaugural CEO of Bass Coast Shire Council following the statewide restructuring of local government in 1995 and held this position until 2014. He now divides his time between serving as a non executive director, consulting to governing bodies on strategy and governance, pursuing his interest in primary production and mentoring young professionals. Allan is a member of the Port Phillip & Western Port Catchment Management Authority and the Alpine Resorts Coordinating Council. He holds an MBA (Melb Uni) and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a life member of the Bass Coast Landcare Network and was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2014 for outstanding public service to the Bass Coast and the Gippsland regions. He has been an active bushwalker, skier and snowboarder in the Victorian alps for many years. Kerry is a local government, community development and health promotion professional. She has led large scale, longer term, multi-dimensional and agency planning and policy across portfolios including: recreation, gender equity, environmental sustainability, engagement, health and wellbeing and active transport. For more than 20 years Kerry has been involved in creating environments that foster access, inclusion and participation and loves all things about community and our great outdoors. She is an averred traveller which has helped shape her appreciation of the impact the physical environment and public places have on our wellbeing which is central to her approach. Kerrys policy and planning work and ability to successfully transfer this into on the ground services and infrastructure has an ongoing positive ...Read More