Bruce Tobin - Chairman

Bruce TobinBruce is Group General Manager Corporate Affairs for Tabcorp Holdings Ltd and has 26 years of executive and general management experience in corporate communications and a strong journalism background in metropolitan daily newspapers in Australia. His areas of interest are strategic communications, issues management, media relations, public relations, corporate positioning, internal communications, and community relations.




                             Professor Peter Gibson - Director

Peter GibsonPeter Gibson is Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Head of the Eastern Health Clinical School and Director of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Eastern Health, Victoria. He has long-standing and active clinical and research interests in IBD, in addition to coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome. He has a particular interest in the use of diet to improve gut symptoms. He is past-President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and was the inaugural Chair of IBD-Australia.



                             Francesca Manglaviti - Chief Executive Officer, Director

Francesca ManglavitiFrancesca Joined the CCA Board of Directors in 2008, having spent three years as the organisations Chief Executive Officer. Francesca has held senior management positions in not for profit, commercial and government organisations. She offers significant experience in strategic planning, liaison with government, stakeholder management, education and developing organisational capacity.




                             Bernadette Or -Treasurer
Bernadette OrBernadette, a CPA, is an experienced senior finance executive with over 10 years experience in large corporates such as KFC, P&O and Standards Australia. In recent years she was the CFO/COO of the Starlight Children's Foundation, the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation and the Australian Human Resources Institute. Her experience includes IT, HR, Legal and Risk Management.
 
 
 
 
                            Anita Reilly - Director
Anita is the State Co-ordinator of CCA (Qld), a role that she took on following the 2009 merger of CCA and the Australian Crohn's & Colitis Association (Queensland) Inc., an organisation she had been involved in running for almost 20 years as President and in a combined role of manager and administration and support officer.  Those years of work and her current role are carried out in a fully voluntary basis and the experience she has gained from operating a support group has allowed Anita to develop an intimate knowledge of IBD and many of the issues and problems affecting individuals and their families.  Her interest in IBD stems from having a son diagnosed with Crohn's disease when he was a young child. Anita is also a co-owner and director of a small business linked to the building and construction industry.
 
 
                           Sophia Tzaferis - Director
Sophia Tzaferis is a senior taxation specialist with Telstra Corporation Limited.  Sophia has extensive commercial and consulting experience in the area of taxation. Other areas of interest include corporations law, general commercial law and corporate governance.  Prior to joining Telstra, Sophia was employed with Foster's Group Limited, Harwood Andrews Lawyers and Ernst & Young.  Sophia is a Chartered Accountant and a practising lawyer.