Marelle Thornton, AM, Dip Teach, MAICD - PRESIDENT 
Mrs Thornton has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 1983.
Mrs Thornton is President of The Spastic Centre, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Fundraising Committee and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee, the Property and Equipment Committee, the Human Resources Committee and the Services Committee.
Mrs Thornton is a primary school teacher.
Mark Bryant, OAM, MA, FCA, MAICD - VICE PRESIDENT 
Mr Bryant has been a member of the Board of Directors since December 1997.
Mr Bryant is Vice-President of The Spastic Centre, Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee and a member of the Fundraising Committee and the Property and Equipment Committee.
Mr Bryant has 30 years experience in public accounting.
Cain Beckett, BEC, MINTS, GAICD
Mr Beckett has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 2003.
Mr Beckett is the Chairman of the Research Committee and the Ethics Committee. He is also a member of the Finance and Audit Committee, the Property and Equipment Committee, the Fundraising Committee and the Services Committee.
Mr Beckett is currently employed as the Senior Manager responsible for Strategy & Project Delivery with Perpetual Corporate Trust and for over ten years prior to this was a successful management and technology consultant.
Mr Beckett represents Australia in Archery and is the No. 1 Australian on the current Men’s Paralympic Archery World Ranking.
Neroli Best, MBBS, FANZCA, MAICD
Dr Best has been a member of the Board of Directors since June 1994.
Dr Best is a member of the Services Committee, the Research Committee and the Ethics Committee.
Dr Best is a medical practitioner specialising in anaesthesiology and holds appointments at Royal North Shore, Mater Misericordiae and North Shore Private Hospitals.
Robert (Bob) G. Miller
Mr Miller has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 1999.
Mr Miller is a member of the Fundraising Committee, the Finance and Audit Committee and the Property and Equipment Committee.
Mr Miller is presently the Principal of Australia Street Consulting Pty Ltd where he advises
the automotive industry, advertising agencies, telecommunications companies and others on Marketing. He was previously General Manager – Marketing, Toyota Australia for fifteen
years.
Mr Miller teaches postgraduate students in Macquarie University’s Economics and Finance Division.
Victor Nossar, MB, BS (UNSW), FRACP, FAFPHM
Associate Professor Nossar has been a member of the Board of Directors since June 2006.
Associate Professor Nossar is the Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at
The University of Notre Dame Australia. As a community paediatrician, he has more than 20 years experience in implementing communitybased services to enhance the health and development of children and young people, in Australia and overseas.
Associate Professor Nossar was previously a member of the Board from December 1995 until his relocation to South Australia in December 2002.
Robin Way, M Mgt, PHD
Dr Way has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 1995.
Dr Way is Chairman of the Services Committee and a member of the Human Resources
Committee. She is the Board’s representative on CP Australia, a peak body for organisations in Australia providing services to people with cerebral palsy.
Dr Way is CEO of Community Connections Australia – a non-government organisation providing a range of in home support services to maintain people in their homes wherever possible. She has worked extensively within the disability arena and is a member of the NSW State Committee of National Disability Services (NDS) and Chair of the Centre for Australian Management and Organisations (CACOM) at UTS.
Brian Williamson, Dip Law (SAB), M. Com (Deakin), Accredited Specialist in Employment & Industrial Law (Law Soc of NSW), MAICD
Mr Williamson joined the Board in December 2002.
Mr Williamson is the Chairman of the Human Resources Committee and is the Board representative on the Enterprise Risk Management Committee.
Mr Williamson is the founder and co-owner of the specialist law firm – Workplace Law – which deals with all
aspects of workplace law and specialises in acting for
employers.
He holds a Diploma Law (SAB, 1981) and a Masters Degree in Commerce (Deakin 1992). In 1994, Mr
Williamson was one of the first five solicitors in NSW to become an Accredited Specialist in Employment &
Industrial Law with the Law Society of NSW.
John Sintras
Mr Sintras has been a member of the Board since August 2009. He has a young
daughter with cerebral palsy and he is currently a Governor on the Council of The Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
Mr Sintras is the Chief Executive Officer of the Starcom MediaVest Group, one of Australia’s leading Media Communications agencies.
Mr Sintras has joined the Finance and Audit Committee, and the Community Relations, Fundraising and Marketing Committee of the Board where his vast professional skills and knowledge will bring real dimension to the governance of The Spastic Centre.
Adam Johnston,
BA/LLB, Dip. Legal Practice
Mr Johnston has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2009. Mr Johnston is a member of the Services Committee, Human Resources Committee and the Research Committee.
Mr Johnston studied politics and law at Macquarie University, is an active advocate for disability service development and has served on numerous council and local community committees.
His most recent professional appointment was as a Complaints Officer for the NSW Ombudsman.