GGA team
Rikki Foss
Chief Executive Officer
[Leadership Team]
Rikki is responsible for execution of the GGA Board corporate strategy, fulfilment of all GGA contracted obligations, and steering daily operations. This scope includes resourcing, team recruiting and leadership, contract performance and reporting, and building the highest-level strategic relationships at a state and national level.
Mark Holland
GGA Program Broker & Hub Director
[Leadership Team]
As assigned Director for the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub, Mark leads delivery of GGA’s largest project. Mark also leads GGA project tendering and oversees fulfilment of the DPIRD-GGA collaboration agreement. These duties involve wide engagement with the agriculture industry at a state and national level.
Kallista Bolton
Stakeholder & Communications Manager
[Leadership Team]
Managing overarching communications and stakeholder engagement, Kallista facilitates membership to the GGA network, sponsorships, delivery of GGA’s extensive capacity building program, corporate events and leads team execution of divisional stakeholder management. Communications scope includes responsibility for GGA website, newsletter, social media, annual report and guiding project communications.
Julianne Hill
Hub Adoption Manager
[Leadership Team]
Julianne works within the Hub project managing the drive of the uptake of new innovations at a farm and local level for improved drought resilience via relevant knowledge transfer to improve on-farm adoption. Julianne is based out of the DPIRD Bunbury office.
Dr Jo Wisdom
Innovation Manager
[Leadership Team]
Jo works across the whole of GGA with a majority focus on the Hub project. Jo is responsible for driving innovation-related research projects within the Hub project and forging GGA’s broader involvement with innovation and extension initiatives in the WA agriculture ecosystem.
Maddison McNeil
Project Manager
& GGA Corporate Secretary
Maddison is responsible for the delivery of the National Industry-led Carbon Farming Outreach Program. Working with 40 partners across Australia to provide train-the-trainer education, delivering 160+ workshops over the project duration. Maddison also serves GGA as the Board Corporate Secretary.
Tanya Kilminster
Hub Knowledge Broker
Tanya works within the Hub project to lead and translate engagement and collaboration between industry stakeholders to develop resilience to climate change. Tanya works out of DPIRD’s Merredin Dryland Research Institute which is also the official SW WA Hub headquarters.
Daniel Kidd
Project Manager
Daniel works across both the GGA R&D and Hub projects co-ordinating delivery of contracted work, collaborating and building relationships with project partners within the GGA network and external agriculture ecosystem.
Kellie-Jane (KJ) Pritchard
Hub Project Manager
Kellie-Jane works within the Hub project and is responsible for developing and managing project collaboration and implementation for our stakeholders. Kellie-Jane is based out of the DPIRD Bunbury office.
Alison Lacey
Project Manager
DPIRD Assigned Staff
Alison works across GGA R&D and extension projects co-ordinating delivery of contracted work, collaborating and building relationships with project partners within the GGA network and external agriculture ecosystem. On placement from DPIRD, Alison is based out of the DPIRD Narrogin office.
Lucy Tomassini
Project Manager
Lucy works with Jo Wisdom in the innovation team in a project management and communication capacity.
Languages: French, Spanish, Italian
Jessica Scholle
Hub Stakeholder & Communications Manager
Jessica delivers communication and stakeholder management specific to GGA’s largest project, the Drought and Innovation Hub.
Languages: French
Theo Nabben
Hub Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager and Adoption Officer
Theo works across the whole of GGA in a dual role capacity responsible for measuring and evaluating all projects to ensure we deliver high-performance outcomes. Within the Hub, he is working in the adoption space to drive uptake of innovations at a farm and local level with a focus on improved drought resilience adoption.
Michelle Condy
Program Broker
DPIRD Assigned Staff
Michelle works across the projects and capacity building space involved in some projects plus leads delivery of a new Research/Project Officers professional development program. Michelle is on placement from DPIRD, is based out of Margaret River.
Philip Wang
Corporate Services Manager
Philip manages the GGA finances including forward budgeting, payroll, receivables and payables across all teams and projects.
Languages: Mandarin
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Sharon Keeler
Hub Team Assistant
Sharon provides administration support for the GGA team with a majority focus on supporting the Drought and Innovation Hub team members. Sharon supports with detailing, scheduling, communications and overall co-ordination to assist with the smooth delivery of GGA operations.
Amber Atkinson
Grains Research, Development & Extension Communications Manager
Amber is the team manager delivering GGA’s obligations for a contract providing DPIRD Grains Research, Development and Extension communications services.
Adrianna Jakimowicz
Grains Communications Officer
Adrianna is assisting with communications that deliver on GGA’s obligations in a project service contract for DPIRD Grains Research, Development and Extension communications working alongside Amber Atkinson.