Lifeline WA Board

Board and Executive

The Board of Lifeline WA plays a vital role in the success of the organisation. Responsibility for day-to-day management and administration is delegated by the Board to the Chief Executive Officer, assisted by the senior management.

Lifeline WA has been deliberate in recruiting Board members who have complementary backgrounds and skills that are aligned to the organisations strategic objectives. Individually and collectively, Board Members strive to use their experience of business and community life to add value to the organisation as well as effectively monitor its operations.

Board Members

Sasha Pendal , Chair
Appointed as Lifeline WA’s Chairperson May 2019
Appointed to Lifeline WA Board August 2016
Fundraising & Sustainability Committee

With a 20 year career in senior positions with some of the most respected firms in WA, including Woodside, HBF and Synergy, Sasha is currently the CEO of Early Start Australia. In addition to her role as Chair of Lifeline WA, Sasha is also a Director of Bright Energy Investments and a member of the Curtin Graduate School of Management Advisory Board.
Chris Carey , Treasurer
Appointed to Lifeline WA Board August 2012
Deputy Chair & Treasurer

Chris is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in funds management, compliance, engineering, mining and chartered accountancy practice. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.
John Brearley , Board Member
Appointed in August 2017
Chair of Fundraising & Sustainability Committee

John is the General Manager Business Development and Research at Brightwater Group WA. John has extensive experience and qualifications in social work, education, mental health and leadership.
Rob Garreffa , Board Member
Appointed to Lifeline WA Board August 2017
Finance, Risk & Investment Committee

Rob Garreffa is an experienced Director with a long history of working in the meat and manufacturing industries. He has had a long involvement with Lifeline WA through Mondo Di Carne, his family’s gourmet butchery business which has raised millions of dollars for crisis support services.
Nadia Mitsopolous , Board Member
Appointed to Lifeline WA Board August 2017
Fundraising & Sustainability Committee

Nadia Mitsopolous has been a journalist for many years, starting at GWN in Bunbury and Albany and working at the Ten Network, in London for Associated Press and Channel Nine News. She is now a journalist and producer for the Mornings Program on ABC Radio Perth.
Howard Knight , Board Member
Appointed in May 2019
Finance, Risk & Investment Committee

Howard Knight is Managing Director of Redgate Capital, a private investment advisory business. Howard has spent the majority of his career in investment banking or funds management, trading or investing in financial markets and involved in structured product development and distribution.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics, a Graduate Diploma in Finance, is a graduate of the AICD Company Directors Course and has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is also on the Board of the CFA Society Perth and is responsible for developing the Women in Finance Network.
David Etherton , Board Member
Appointed in June 2018
Chair of Finance, Risk & Investment Committee

David Etherton has more than 25 years’ senior executive experience in the tourism, sports and events sectors, with the majority of this time working for the WA Government. As CEO for VenuesWest David currently oversees some of Western Australia’s biggest venues and events.
Lorna MacGregor , Chief Executive Officer
Appointed in January 2016

Ms Lorna MacGregor was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lifeline WA in January 2016. She is an experienced senior executive who has held senior roles in government, corporate and not-for-profit organisations including HBF, healthdirect Australia, Activ and Perth North Medicare Local.