Michael Douglas Tilley

Chair

BA (Accountancy), Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Fellow of the Australian Society of CPAs, registered Tax Agent, registered Company Auditor.

Mr Tilley has been advising businesses on strategies, capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions for nearly 20 years. Mike brings practical and strategic knowledge about successful business management in both public and private sectors. He runs vineyards and a wheat farm at Cummins.

Susan Chase

Director; Chair Risk and Audit Committee

Business Certificate in Accounting, registered Tax Agent, Fellow of the National Institute of Accountants, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Ms Chase grew a struggling, energy-based, public company to a large operation with an expanding turnover. A Churchill Fellowship recipient, Sue brings sound governance, high level business experience, and analytical mind and experience in business start-ups, to the FREE Eyre Board.

Robert Paterson

Director

BEc(hons), Grad Cert Mgmt

Mr Paterson brings extensive Australian and international business experience (in particular in the Asia Pacific region) to the Board of FREE Eyre. He has fulfilled roles as General Manager, Company Secretary and Managing Director of companies and been a management consultant for start-up companies. 

Robert brings significant experience and skills in supply chains, logistics and distribution and corporate governance, and these attributes, as well as his high level of strategic planning and financial acumen; make Robert a welcomed addition to the FREE Eyre Board.

Jarrod Phelps

Director

BAppSc (Agriculture)

Mr Phelps has been a director of Cummins and District Financial Services (Franchise Cummins Community Bank) for the past four years. He was a founding member of FREE Eyre and brings government skills, farming knowledge and farming experience to FREE Eyre.

Benjamin Ranford

Director

BAppSc (Agriculture), Member of the Eyre Peninsula Agricultural Research Foundation, SA No Till Farmers Association.

Mr Ranford is an Eyre Peninsula farmer who understands the challenges faced by farmers in the region and is prepared to address them. To FREE Eyre he brings a deep knowledge of local issues and a commitment to entrepreneurial – but sound - business practices. Ben Ranford is best known as a successful advocate for no-till farming. Ben is currently exploring business solutions and gaining a global perspective as part of a Nuffield Scholarship.

Susanne (Susi) Tegen

Managing Director

MBA (Melb.), BA (Adel.), FAICD, Fellow ARLF, Deputy Chair – FarmBis SA, Director - Western General Practice Network
Ms Tegen’s experience gives her an excellent grasp of what makes a successful Board. An award-winning CEO, Susi has extensive community links, a reputation and skills in working across both private and public sectors. She has held roles in, and advocated for the agricultural and rural medical sectors on a state and national level. She is ardent about sustainable rural communities and life with her partner and 2 children on a grazing and cropping property in the Limestone Coast (SE of SA).

Michael Wake

Director

Dip Ag (Roseworthy), former member of the Association of Financial Advisers, former Fellow of the Life Underwriters Association, former Certified Financial Planner.
Mr Wake is the quintessential entrepreneur, and was one of the original drivers of the FREE Eyreconcept. A farmer and company director, Mike has lived the rollercoaster of successful business life and is now prepared to apply his knowledge and experience to make F.R.E.E EYRE work. Mike continues to undertake projects – here and overseas – that benefit people. Mike’s energy and capacity are renowned.

Alison Pitman

Manager Administration

MBA (Adel), BAgSc(hons)(Adel)

Ms Pitman has extensive experience in Australian broadacre agriculture and intensive horticulture. She has worked in research, marketing and communication roles within the private sector as well as university and government sectors, including family businesses and regional development.

Kerry Hanel

Contracter

Member of the National Institute of Accountants, award-winning financial planner

One of the founders of Associated Planners (now Genesis Wealth Advisers), Kerry loves numbers. He understands how - and why - entrepreneurs succeed. After being part of one of the most successful financial planning businesses in Australia, he took on the massive expansion of a well-known franchise chain. Kerry came out of retirement to help start FREE Eyre.

FREE Eyre Representatives on EP Grain Limited Board

David Jericho

Director

David is well known in the Eyre Peninsula for his various community and state level involvement. His understanding of Agriculture from grass roots to policy and on a strategic level is well considered by the FREE Eyre Board. We believe that he will bring sound business principles and skills, questioning and reasoning to the EP Grain Board.
David's drive and determination in the FREE Eyre steering group, his experience for several years as FarmBis chair, on the Eyre Regional Development Board and work to see broader telecommunications coverage in the Eyre Peninsula, make him ideal as one of FREE Eyre's representatives on the EP Grain Board.

Michael Wake

Director

Dip Ag (Roseworthy), former member of the Association of Financial Advisers, former Fellow of the Life Underwriters Association, former Certified Financial Planner.
Mr Wake is the quintessential entrepreneur, and was one of the original drivers of the FREE Eyreconcept. A farmer and company director, Mike has lived the rollercoaster of successful business life and is now prepared to apply his knowledge and experience to make F.R.E.E EYRE work. Mike continues to undertake projects – here and overseas – that benefit people. Mike’s energy and capacity are renowned.