GGA Team
Rikki Foss
Chief Executive Officer
[Leadership Team]
Rikki is responsible for the execution of the GGA Board corporate strategy and fulfillment of GGA contracted obligations across all projects, state and federal government agreements. Rikki leads daily operations, including resourcing, recruiting, performance, reporting, and building the highest level strategic relationships across the industry to advance GGA and opportunities for members.
Qualifications – Bachelor in Agriculture Business & Marketing (Muresk Institute, Curtin)
Career years – 26
Kallista Bolton
Head of Stakeholder Engagement & Regenerative Agriculture Program
[Leadership Team]
Kallista’s scope spans whole of organisation stakeholder management, network membership, strategic partnerships, sponsorships, team delivery of communications, directing major events and the GGA capacity building program. Kallista is also leading the development of a new body of work in Regenerative Agriculture for GGA.
Qualifications – BBusiness, Marketing (UTS); Grad Cert Regenerative Agriculture (SCU); Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership (Impact Leadership, Impact Communications), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 36
Dr Jo Wisdom
Hub Director & Innovation Lead
[Leadership Team]
Jo leads the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (SW WA Hub), involving wide engagement with industry at a regional, state, and national level. Jo is also responsible for driving innovation-related projects and forging GGA’s involvement with the global innovation ecosystem. With a research background, Jo also engages for GGA within the WA Agricultural Research Collaboration (WAARC) and national programs such as the Zero Net Emissions Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre (ZNE-Ag CRC).
Qualifications – BSc Agriculture; BA Anthropology; PhD Plant Physiology (UWA); Diploma in Digital Technologies (Flinders)
Career years – 21
Dr Daniel Kidd
Head of Projects
[Leadership Team]
With an extensive research background, Daniel leads the project management team work in collaboration with contracted project partners from the grower group network and the broader agriculture ecosystem at large. Daniel also has a hands-on individual project portfolio, managing a selection of major regional, state and national projects for both the GGA main program and South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub.
Qualifications – BSc Biological Sc (ECU), PhD in Agricultural Science (UWA), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 21
Philip Wang
Corporate Services Manager & Chief Financial Officer
[Leadership Team]
Philip manages the GGA finances, including the whole organisation’s budgeting, payroll, receivables, and payables across all divisions and projects and oversees GGA financial compliance and governance. Philip also has a range of duties in the people and culture arena and serves the GGA Board as the appointed Chief Financial Officer.
Qualifications – Master of Professional Accounting (Sydney); Certified Public Accountant; CFA Lvl 1
Career years – 6
Languages: Mandarin
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0416 668 375
philip.wang@gga.org.au
Mark Holland
Program Broker
DPIRD Assigned Staff
Mark specialises in new program and project brokering and tendering. This scope involves wide engagement with the agriculture industry at a state and national level, and close engagement with GGA Network members for consortia building. Mark is a DPIRD assigned staff member under the DPIRD-GGA collaboration.
Qualifications – Master of Business Administration (Curtin), Dipl Project Management
Career years – 44
Doug Hamilton
Innovation Specialist & Broker
Doug works alongside Dr Jo Wisdom in the innovation space. His role is to activate and manage strategic relationships that drive innovation across WA agriculture with responsibilities for developing and facilitating multiway knowledge transfer between research teams, stakeholders, and the farming community.
Qualifications – BSc Agriculture; Soil Science (UWA), Grad Dipl GIS/Science (Curtin)
Career years – 20
Alison Lacey
Project Manager
DPIRD Assigned Staff
Alison works across R,D,E & A projects delivering contracted work, collaborating with project partners from the GGA Network and external agriculture ecosystem. Alison also has a role as regional Hub Nodes liaison for the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub. Alison is a DPIRD assigned staff member under the DPIRD-GGA collaboration.
Qualifications – BSc NRM (UoAdelaide); Grad Dipl Env Studies (UoAdelaide), Grad Cert Business,Publ Sector Mgt (QUT)
Career years – 28
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0429 084 421
alacey@gga.org.au
Maddison McNeil
Project Manager
& GGA Corporate Secretary
Maddison is responsible for delivering the National Industry-led Carbon Farming Outreach Program, coordinating project administration, delivery and reporting requirements across Australia. Maddison also serves as the Board Secretary, supporting board administration and governance.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Agribusiness (Curtin), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 10
Sarah Belli
Project Manager
[Regional Lead]
Sarah works within the National Industry-led Carbon Farming Outreach Program as a regional lead managing engagement in the project by partners in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and parts of Victoria. Sarah brings strong digital capability to GGA with emerging strengths in MEL and reporting system design. Sarah is based out of DPIRD Albany office.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Environmental Management & Sustainable Development (Murdoch), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 9
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0484 263 334
sarah.belli@gga.org.au
Douglas Rodgers
Project Communications Specialist
Douglas delivers communications for GGA’s nationwide project, the National Industry-led Carbon Farming Outreach Program. This program involves co-ordinating efforts of more than 37 contracted program partners, spanning a footprint across every state and the Northern Territory. Douglas has a suite of expert skills, honed through his background in public policy, stakeholder relations, and community engagement.
Career years – 18
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douglas.rodgers@gga.org.au
0411 658 056
Kellie-Jane (KJ) Pritchard
Hub Project Manager
Kellie-Jane (KJ) works within the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub as project manager tracking planning, reporting, in-kind, managing strategic partnerships, collaborative relationships and communication networks with key stakeholders. KJ manages the Hub’s bursary and study tour programs is based out of the DPIRD Bunbury office.
Qualifications – BSc Biological Sciences (UWA), Grad Dip Policy (Murdoch). Masters Sustainable Development (Murdoch), Dipl Project Management
Career years – 39
Tanya Kilminster
Hub Knowledge Broker
Tanya works within the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub 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.
Qualifications – BSc (Pharmacology & Molecular Biology); Honours in Microbiology (UWA)
Career years – 26
Dr. Mary-Anne Glanzlowe
Hub Knowledge Broker & Extension Specialist
Mary-Anne works within the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub assisting with the role of translating science to practice as a knowledge broker and working in the extension and adoption space to drive uptake of innovations at a farm and local level with a focus on improved drought resilience adoption.
Qualifications – BSc Environmental Management & Land, Soil & Water Management (UWA); PhD Agricultural Soil Science (UWA)
Career years – 9
Jessica Scholle
Hub Stakeholder & Communications Manager
Jessica delivers communication and stakeholder management for GGA’s largest project, the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub. This spans communications for Hub supported projects and external communications to consortia and public stakeholders through mediums including social media, website, newsletters, press, video and more.
Qualifications – BSc Chemistry; MSc Science Communication (UWA), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 8
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. Theo also leads indigenous engagement and liaison.
Qualifications – Grad. Cert Rural Systems Management, Evaluation & Extension, (UniQld); Grad. Cert Forest Science, (UniMelb); Grad. Dipl in Natural Sciences/Agriculture, (UniAdel); BArts (Hons.) Human Geography/Devpmt, (Monash Uni), Fellow~Australian Evaluation Society.
Career years – 43
Cassandra Howell
Hub Extension & Adoption Officer
Cassie works within the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub project driving uptake of new innovation and practices for improved drought resilience. She has also been on secondment to the GGA main team to manage Farm Elevate project.
Qualifications – BPhil Hons, Botany, (UWA)
Career years – 5
Lucy Tomassini
Project Manager
Lucy works in a blended role across the whole of GGA, and the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub. She is the project manager for the suite of six Hub-funded ‘Transformational Projects’, where she works closely with project initiators to achieve their project outcomes for the Hub investment. Lucy also assists with innovation projects, the carbon project and GGA exhibition event involvement.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Language & Culture (University College London), Dipl Project Management.
Career years – 7
Languages: French, Spanish, Italian
Sharon provides administration support for the GGA team with a majority focus on supporting the South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub and Carbon Farming Outreach Program teams. Sharon supports with detailing, scheduling, communications and overall co-ordination to assist with the smooth delivery of GGA operations. Sharon also supports entries into the GGA industry calendar.
Career years – 30
Rory Whitelaw
Executive Assistant
Rory assists with executive and governance administration including contract and grant administration, document preparation for Board reporting, staff OH&S compliance and risk management, policy documentation, activity reporting as well as some aspects of project delivery.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Economics (UWA); Graduate Diploma in Education (WA College of Advanced Education)
Career years – 37
Jacinta Bolsenbroek
Senior Communications Specialist
Jacinta’s scope spans across GGA’s external communications, across both GGA projects and corporate communications; including GGA’s fortnightly industry newsletter Newswire, media enquiries, social media, as well as stakeholder-specific communiqués. Jacinta also conducts a variety of member support and outreach activities.
Qualifications -Bachelor of Communications (ECU)
Career years – 15
Frances Marshall
Communications & Events Officer
Frances supports communications plus event co-ordination and delivery for the GGA capacity building program, as well as expanding into communications for a selection of GGA projects. Frances also assists with design and production of key corporate communications collateral.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Commerce (Curtin)
Career years – 6
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0431 947 301
frances.marshall@gga.org.au
Tamryn Davis
Project Manager
[On extended leave]
Tamryn works as a project manager in the main GGA stream of projects. This role sees her engaging with project partners and wider project stakeholders to deliver the project’s specific body of contracted work. Tamryn is currently on parental leave.
Qualifications – Bachelor of Science, Agribusiness (Curtin)
Career years – 8
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tamryn.davis@gga.org.au
0447 319 532