Louise joined the Afford Board of Directors in March 2024, bringing with her over thirty years of global leadership experience in sales and marketing. With a decade of service in board director and advisor roles across numerous sectors including resources, manufacturing, financial services, sport, retail, and start-up accelerators, Louise offers a broad perspective on strategic decision-making. Louise also holds positions as Non-Executive Director at VicSport and Hastings Co-Operative. Additionally, she serves as an advisor in the agtech and superannuation sector, further demonstrating her commitment to driving positive change and growth across diverse industries.

Patrick joined the Afford Board of Directors in March 2024. With business strength in strategy, leadership, and governance, particularly within the healthcare sector, Patrick’s career highlights include being appointed CEO of IRT Group in 2018, one of Australia’s largest secular Not-for-profit aged care providers. In this role, he oversees almost 2800 employees and volunteers dedicated to the safety and care of older Australians. Patrick also serves as a Board Director with Coordinare PHN Southern NSW. His extensive professional background includes chairing the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and owning a community pharmacy. 

Jodie joined the Afford Board of Directors in 2024. A progressive People & Culture executive, she is recognised for her innovative contributions to diverse organisations. She has delivered significant transformations for local, ASX100, and global companies and is an expert in developing leadership capability and creating highly engaged executive teams who are deeply connected to the business purpose. Among her achievements, she lists devising and implementing a comprehensive gender equity strategy which addressed career development, flexible/part-time working, and superannuation. Jodie is also a board director for the Sexual Assault Family Violence Centre and is on the Melbourne Business School’s Future of Learning Advisory Board.

Mark joined the Afford Board of Directors in 2024. Working now both as a company director and consultant advising companies on organisational change and financial restructuring.

He has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services and has worked around the world, as a Global CFO and in senior finance positions primarily in London as well as New York and Hong Kong. As a Deloitte partner in Australia and South Africa, Mark specialised in organisational, accounting compliance and strategic business transformation, utilising Cloud technology. He has a combination of strong technical skills in risk management and regulatory change, a deep understanding of financial reporting, forecasting and management, and extensive experience advising company boards and serving on them. Mark is also a board director for Blue Knot and Freshmark.

Jo Toohey was previously the Chief Executive Officer at The Benevolent Society and was also the Head of Operations for UnitingCare Ageing NSW and ACT. Jo has dedicated her career to working in for purpose organisations that are focussed on the individuals and communities they support; who believe that strong employee engagement creates great places to work; and who work to achieve broader social outcomes that foster greater equity and opportunities for everyone.

For over a decade, Katelyn has been a senior lead across purpose-led organisations centred on human services as well as commercial experience in hospitality and lifestyle products.

Katelyn leads all aspects of the employee lifecycle, including human resources, talent acquisition, organisational development, employee engagement and health and wellbeing at Afford, and is passionate about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.