Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council

Members of the ARCC

The Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council consists of a chairperson and four others appointed on the recommendation of the Minister and the chairperson of each Alpine Resort Management Board. The Council currently consists of nine members:

----Andrew Fairley - Chairperson
----Mark Anderson
----Ralph Booth
----John Dyson
----Lincoln Kern
----Diana Patterson
----Geoff Provis
----Chris Rose
----John Stanley
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Members' Area

 

 

Andrew Fairley
Chairperson

Andrew has been the Chairperson of the Council since 2004 and was a member of Falls Creek Alpine Resort Management Board for 6 years before appointment. Andrew is a practicing equity and superannuation lawyer with DLA Phillips Fox, and is also Chairman of Zoos Victoria. He is a frequent speaker on sustainable tourism issues and is a current Board Member of The International Eco Tourism Society and is also Chairman of Equipsuper, a major Australian superannuation fund. Andrew is a keen skier.

 

 

Mark Anderson
Mark is CEO at Doutta Galla Aged Services, an aged care provider. He chairs the Victorian Auditor-General's Office Audit Committee and is a member of the Melbourne Comedy Festival Board and the Audit Committee of Building Commission Victoria. Mark was previously the Director of Finance at Melbourne City Council and worked at the Department of Treasury and Finance. He has extensive experience working on large projects including the Queen Victoria Hospital site redevelopment, Federation Square, Council House 2, the Docklands and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow Certified Practising Accountant.

 

 

Ralph Booth
Ralph is the Chairperson of the Lake Mountain Board and the Mount Baw Baw Board. He is one of the founding directors of QMT, a public sector research and advisory organisation which also manages Australian Carbon Managers and the GreenVisitor Program. In addition, Ralph owned and operated the corporate advisory firm, Quark Management Technologies, for 6 years which provided business management & corporate advisory services to both public and private sector clients. Prior to starting this corporate advisory company, Ralph worked for 13 years as a senior executive with the Department of Treasury and Finance in a variety of roles in debt management, liability management, asset and investment management, risk management and financial and budget reform. Ralph is a keen cyclist and a 'lapsed' cross country skier.

 

 

 

John Dyson
John is the Chairperson of the Mount Buller and Mount Stirling Alpine Resort Management Board. He is an investment principal of Starfish Ventures, a venture capital fund management company based in Melbourne. John is a former General Manager of the Australian arm of a multinational investment firm. He is a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. John is an active skier and has a long family association with Mount Buller.

 

 

Diana Patterson
Diana is a former Chairperson of the Mount Buller Alpine Resort Management Board. Diana is a former member of the Victorian Catchment Management Council. She has experience in both State and local government as a director in the Department of Sustainability and Environment and as a past Chief Executive Officer of Surf Coast Shire. Diana is a management consultant who was the first woman to manage an Antarctic research station at Mawson and maintains an involvement in Antarctic tourism. Diana is an active alpine and cross country skier, bushwalker and mountain biker.

 

 

 

Geoff Provis
Geoff is Chairperson of the Mount Hotham Alpine Resort Management Board. He is a solicitor and has worked in worker's compensation and insurance litigation. Geoff is the 2007 President of the Law Institute of Victoria, having previously served as President in 1998. He is also a sessional Commissioner of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation and Member of the Victorian Supreme Court Board of Examiners. Formerly a Director of the Lord Mayors Charitable Fund and the Law Aid Trust, Geoff has taken a keen interest in legal organisations over many years. He has been associated with Mount Hotham for 15 years

 

 

Lincoln Kern
Lincoln is a trained ecologist with a keen interest in natural history, nature conservation, ecological restoration and land use planning. Lincoln has worked for Greening Australia, the National Trust's Save the Bush Program and the Shire of Wellington. He started his own company, Practical Ecology P/L, in 1993, and is currently its manager and principal consultant. Lincoln grew up in the American Midwest and acquired an affinity for mountains through travels in the Western USA and the Himalayas. After almost 18 years as a Victorian, he now spends a lot of time in the Victorian Alps in all seasons.

 

 

 

Chris Rose
Chris is currently Regional Manager Eastern Victoria for Parks Victoria. Chris has a long association with Victoria's Alpine Resorts including implementing many partnership projects while managing the Alpine National Park for the past 8 years. Prior to joining Parks Victoria, Chris was Regional Manager in Tasmania and worked closely with the Tasmanian ski industry including several years on the Ben Lomond Advisory Board. Chris is a keen skier and active participant in the tourism industry in Victoria.
 

Professor John Stanley
John Stanley is a Melbourne-based Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney.  He spent nine years as Executive Director of Bus Association Victoria, after eight years as Deputy Chair of the National Road Transport Commission.  John is also a Board member of VicUrban, the Victorian Government's development agency, and chairs the Monash University Institute of Transport Studies Advisory Board.  He has been an active member of the Committee for Melbourne's Transport and Climate Change Task Forces and was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to public transport and conservation.  His skiing is getting slower each year!


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