Board members

Reg Richardson AM

Chairman

Reg Richardson has managed diverse businesses including information storage and management, wholesale pharmaceutical distribution, property development and investment. Reg has over nine years experience as Chairman for one of Australia's largest financial planning companies and has been a director of a number of public companies.

Reg is involved with a number of philanthropic organisations including Melanoma Institute Australia, Friends of the Mater Foundation, Art Gallery of NSW Foundation and the Poche Centre of Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney. Previously, Reg has served on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mercy Foundation and the Ted Noffs Foundation. He has shown himself to be a valuable asset for these groups, raising over $60 million. In 2007 Reg was made a Member of the Order of Australia.

Professor John Thompson

Executive Director

Professor Thompson is both the Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology of the University of Sydney. He is author of over 400 peer-reviewed articles and holds positions on the editorial boards of several international journals. Professor Thompson is the immediate past President of the International Sentinel Node Society, Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group, and Chairman of the NSW Melanoma Network. He is also a member of the Melanoma Staging Committee of the American Joint Committee on Cancer.

Associate Professor Jonathan Stretch

Deputy Director

Associate Professor Stretch has been the Deputy Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia since its inception in 2007. As an Associate Professor of Melanoma and Skin Oncology at the University of Sydney, he undertook his surgical training in Sydney becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery) in 1987. Thereafter he was Overseas Fellow at the Radcliffe Infirmary and Research Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford. His doctoral research investigated the local dissemination of melanoma. He was appointed to Royal North Shore Hospital in 1991 and the Sydney Melanoma Unit in 2002.

Helen Wiseman

Helen Wiseman is a Chartered Accountant and has spent 21 years both in the UK and Australia advising large multinational corporations, and has been a Director on the board of Melanoma Institute Australia since 2009. Helen spent 14 years at KPMG, including at partner level, specialising in corporate tax in the energy and resources sectors.

Deeply committed to serving the Australian community, Helen is the Chair of SHINE for Kids, a community-based organisation that supports children of prisoners and Director of the Sydney Community Foundation where she chairs the audit committee. Helen is a former volunteer telephone counsellor and is currently completing a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, complementing her financial skills and business experience.

Garry Sladden

Garry Sladden was appointed to the Melanoma Institute Australia board in April 2011. Garry is a business and strategic adviser who has a diversified business background in the areas of real estate, private equity, business operations, banking and finance, having held the position of General Manager Operations at Consolidated Press Holdings for six years and more recently (2007) the role of Group Operations Executive for a real estate investment, development and funds management group. Garry is Chairman of Trafalgar Corporate Group and Ashton Manufacturing Pty Limited, and a non-executive director of Endeavour Healthcare Limited.