Chairman, Mark Bethwaite AM

• Now a professional director, Mark Bethwaite has a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA.
• He has been Managing Director of two of Australia’s largest mining companies – North Limited in Melbourne then Renison Goldfields Consolidated Limited in Sydney - for a total of ten years.  He was also Managing Director of one of Australia’s leading industry associations for five years before retiring in 2006.
• For four years until mid 2011, Mark was Chairman of Austral Gold Limited which now produces gold from the Guanaco Mine in northern Chile.
• Mark represented Australia in sailing in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and has won World Championships in a number of classes.
• Mark was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in early 2011 for services to industry and to sailing.

Deputy Chairman, Allan Ezzy

• Holroyd City Councillor and Mayor for nine terms
• APM; JP
• 19 years tenure with the Upper Parramatta River Catchment Trust
• Experience in issues of flood mitigation and riparian biodiversity in an urban context
• Retired senior prosecutor with the NSW Police Service

Clr Nick Katris

• Former Mayor of Kogarah City Council, currently serving as a councillor
• BSc(Arch), BArch(Hons), MURP, ARAIA, RIBA
• Holds a strong personal and professional interest in natural resource management and heritage and the pressures exerted by urbanisation and urban renewal
• Experience on various Local and NSW Government committees including the Department of Planning Building Regulations Advisory Committee; Sydney Water Corporate Customer Council.
• Served as Chair of Kogarah City Council's Urban Planning and Design Working Party the Estuary and Flood Plan Management Committee
• Responsible for the co-ordination and development of Kogarah's Town Centre which won more than 15 design excellence and ecologically sustainable development awards.
• Represented Kogarah City Council on the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils

Paul Zammit

• 1984-1996 NSW Member for Burwood/Strathfield
• 1996-1998 Member for Lowe, Australian Parliament
• Extensive business experience
• FAICD
• 30 years experience in private and public sectors
• Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, (1983)
• Assistant Minister to former NSW Premier, Nick Greiner
• Managing Director of Zammitt Sales, Marketing and Management since 1998

Suzanne Little

• Former Environment Director, Olympic Co-ordinating Authority
• BSc, MSc, Dip Ed
• Environmental scientist with a career spanning environmental managment, auditing and training
• Former environmental manager at Vodaphone Australia, AGL and SAI Global
• Delivers in-house environmental training to corporations
• Former environmental scientist with the Electricity Commission of NSW; Sydney Water Priority Sewerage Program and two universities
• 2005-2007 Australian vice-president of the Environmental Institute of Australian and New Zealand
• 2004-2006 honorary Chair of the Ku-ring-gai Bushcare Association

Sharyn Cullis

• Principal of the Georges River Environmental Education Centre at Chipping Norton
• Has more than 30 years experience in teaching
• Secretary of the Georges River Environmental Alliance
• 2010_ Planned and delivered the Community Symposium for teh Georges River Project on behalf of the Georges river Combined Councils Committee (GRCCC)
• Member of the regional National Parks and Advisory Committee for more than 10 years
• Established an active Streamwatch group and also coordinates six school groups participating bi-annually in the Federally-funded River Health Monitoring Program for the GRCCC
• Reference committee member of the SMCMA's Botany Bay Water Quality Improvement Progam