Board of Directors

President

Stephen Duns

JOY provides a wonderful and important service to people who identify with the gay and lesbian communities. I want to make a contribution to those communities. My passion is to help individuals, organisations and communities identify their potential and support them to transform themselves to achieve their intrinsic magnificence. My career experience includes several Chief Executive Officer and general management roles in health and community services in Australia and the UK. I have also worked extensively as a consultant and am currently a partner is a consulting firm that works primarily with not-for-profit organisations and government. My other recent voluntary interests include teaching business governance in developing countries with Australian Business Volunteers and in the past I have been Chair of Austin Health’s Human Research Ethics Committee, President and Chairman of the Board of Parkinson’s Victoria and Australia and President of Cobaw Community Health Services. I am completing my Doctorate in Business Leadership, and have a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy), Bachelor of Letters (Psychology) and Master of Business Administration degrees. I am Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, well as an accredited Master Practitioner in NLP and Hypnotherapy. I live in Yarraville with my partner Zack and our two dogs, Bobo and Mickey, and cat, Chairman Meow. I am currently Vice President of the Committee of Management and previously was on CoM as an ordinary member and Vice President, including the time when we received our full-time license.

Vice President

Matt Kelly

I have been a member of JOY since 2004, and an active volunteer since January 2006. Since this time I have filled a variety of roles, both on air, and behind the scenes. These include program support, program presenter, news reading, and assisting at special events. In addition to this, I joined the Committee of Management as an ordinary member in May 2007, having been co-opted to fill a casual vacancy, and was subsequently elected Treasurer in October 2007. This has been a challenging and rewarding experience, helping to guide the organisation through a period of significant change, highlighted by the relocation of the station to the new Bourke Street premises. In my professional career, I have been involved in the finance industry for the past eight years. I have utilised this finance experience to assist management in steering the station to the solid financial results that have been achieved over the past 12 months. Having reflected on my involvement as Treasurer over the past twelve months, I believe I have more to offer the organisation, and so have decided to nominate for a position on the new Board. With the support of the members of the organisation, I look forward to continuing my involvement with the Board, and playing a key role in the future of JOY, to enable the organisation to continue to grow to reach its full potential.

Public Officer

Glen Hosking

I am passionate about JOY and its cause. I have been on JOY’s Committee of Management for the past 18 months after being appointed as a casual ordinary member during 2006, and then elected at the 2007 AGM. During this time, I have been involved in a number of projects, including sitting on the constitution working group rewriting the JOY constitution and serving as Acting Secretary. Aside from work at a Board level, I have worked in other areas of JOY such as the news team and presenting roles. Away from JOY, I work as a psychologist and hold the position of Consultant Psychologist at the Cairnmillar Institute, a psychology clinic and training institute. As part of this position, I serve on the Board of this organisation and oversee ongoing policy, governance
and procedural management. This position also involves managing the structure of the organisation, formulating and monitoring budgets and strategic plans. I also work as a sessional lecturer at Victoria University. I hold the degree Doctor of Psychology, have published numerous research papers and book chapters, and regularly present at conferences in specialised areas of psychology.I feel that I have skills that would be useful to ongoing governance of JOY and hope to serve as an enthusiastic member of the JOY Board.

Chair of Finance Committee

Alastair McKenzie

I love radio! In my student days, I was an active broadcaster on community stations PBS, MSR, SRA, 3MU and VYV, and later began working as a freelance reporter for Triple J and 774. I am now a qualified CPA, working as a corporate accountant and have recently been elected to the Victorian Divisional Councill of CPA Australia. My other governance experience includes being elected to the Monash University Council in 2004 as its graduate member; Council appointee to the Monash University Equal Opportunities Committee 2004; President and Public Officer of Melbourne Student Radio 1999; Monash University Postgraduate President 2003; 3MU Radio Program Director 1996/97 & Deputy Chairperson 98. Now I am keen to join a fun, focused and professional team of likeminded folk committed to ‘deep and intelligent radio’. I’ve proved that I am effectual in finance, governance, ABA liaison and I am clearly passionate about community radio.

Directors

Scott Bradford

I love JOY 94.9. It’s an organisation that captures the heart and soul of the GLBTI community. JOY not only sets out to entertain and inform but it also provides a lifetime for many people who would not otherwise have a connection. It’s a lifeline for many people, including myself. I remember living at home with my parents in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, at the age of 19 and I had not one single connection to the GLBTI community. I was unable to come out as I didn’t have any links or support network back then. JOY gave me that link. I feel that having many roles here at JOY, such as Events Coordinator as well as presenter and co-presenter, I am best poised to be on the Board of JOY as I have sound understanding of how JOY operates. I bring along about 15 years of work in the professional business industry and my dedication for JOY. I want to see JOY 94.9 grow and thrive and I want to be at the grass roots of that, hence my nomination for the JOY Board. I have been a member of JOY for nearly two continuous years and about four years in total. I am absolutely passionate about JOY and the role I play within JOY.

Addam Stobbs

As an active member since 1994, I have seen JOY go through an exponential growth since gaining our full time license, and I am privileged to have been a part of it. What we have created through our collaborative efforts is the most important Gay & Lesbian resource in Australia, on many levels. My involvement at JOY has been as presenter, member on the JOY programming committee and delivering broadcast training. For the last few years I’ve been involved a lot with the CBAA, were I am currently on the board of directors and I deliver lecture sessions every year with other JOY presenters at the Annual CBAA conference. This has been part of making JOY highly visible in the sector. As the only full time G&L broadcaster in Australia, we should be coordinating with other stations that have G&L shows, to share content, create a greater Australian G&L broadcasting framework, making a small “Sector Body” like other Australian national communities have done. I believe that JOY is (ethically) obliged to help other gay and lesbian broadcasters, many of whom are in regional, rural and remote stations; it’s not a big job, but an important one. I’m now confident that I have the required skills and experience to work with the station to increase capacity, sustain community, and help develop new pathways for community inclusiveness and involvement, with new and emerging communities across the breadth of our inclusiveness.

David McCarthy

I have been a proud member of JOY for more than ten years and have had the good fortune to be an on air presenter for all if not most of that time. The last five years have been as co-host of ‘Detours’. I have a deep and abiding passion for our community radio station and the central support and advocacy role that it plays in our community. There has never been a better opportunity to build on the strengths and profile of JOY than now. The platform that we have of a strong membership base, diverse listeners, supportive sponsors and committed volunteers is our greatest strength and maintaining and building these strengths will be a central focus of mine. I worked as a journalist for seven years before moving to my current role three years ago as Senior Manager Communications for Mercedes-Benz Australia Pacific and I believe there is an opportunity for these specific skills to be of use to JOY as it further enhances its community involvement and profile.

Trish Kerin

I have been a member for about 4 years and love listening to Joy. Filling this casual vacancy is my first volunteer role in Joy and I believe I can bring some different and useful experience to the Board. In my day job I am a Sustainability Manager for a chemical company, where, as part of the executive team, I lead a division that provides services and advice covering Safety, Health, Environment, Management Systems, Risk Management, Quality Control, Insurance and Community Engagement. In addition to this I represent Australian Industry in a several Government Committees and Reference Groups. I have presented at various International Safety and Environment Conferences and have been internationally published. I am a Professional Engineer, hold a Company Directors Diploma, a SCUBA Diving Instructor and a First Aid Instructor. My professional memberships include being a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Member of Risk Management Institution of Australasia and a Member of Engineers Australia. I enjoy theatre and the arts, and for a bit of adventure, cave diving. I am looking forward to using my experience and skill to help Joy continue to grow and provide a vital service to our community. My partner and I live in Balaclava with our Beagle Bassett cross Brando.

Breed Lewis

I first became involved at Joy 94.9 in 2005, and since then have been a member, a volunteer and an avid listener. My first experience as a volunteer was doing program support, and I then had the opportunity to be a presenter. Now, I am keen to use my business skills to help Joy in any way I can. I feel privileged to be able to participate as a Board member, and also offer guidance and support in specific areas in order to make a difference. This, for me, is a “Labour of Love”. I want to contribute to an organisation that contributes so much to the GLBTI community, and to be part of a passionate, committed and enthusiastic team. I am a skilled business professional with an innate understanding of what it takes to motivate people to succeed. I have successfully driven and delivered ‘People and Culture’ strategies that support business objectives. I have also played a key role in influencing change in organisations by providing solutions on a tactical, operational and strategic level. My areas of expertise include leadership, business strategy, sales excellence, people & culture, talent management, equal opportunity in the workplace (EOWA). My previous Board experience was with IT Service Management Forum Australia – from 2005 to 2007.