Peter Hammond

Chair of the Board

Peter has been the Chair of the Board since August 2024 and Treasurer since 2018. Peter has also served as Chair of the Finance of Risk Committee from 2018 until 2024.

Peter has over 20 years of leadership and working experience in finance and risk management throughout Australasia and in all the major international markets. This has invariably included change management to develop and expand business opportunities within specified risk and return parameters.

For most of his career, Peter has worked for a number of the major international banks. More recently he has worked for start-ups and government organisations.

Peter’s strengths include problem-solving and issues management; experience in multiple legislative and regulatory environments; financial and risk management; and ability to build businesses, mentor and guide a team.

Kathryn Crofts

Chair, Governance and Remuneration Committee; Member, Business Development And Partnerships Committee

Kathryn is a founding Board member of RSA and served as the organisation’s Secretary from 2015 until 2019. She is currently the Chair of the Governance and Remuneration Committee,  also on the RSA Business Development and Partnerships Committee.

A specialist in media and communications, Kathryn has worked in various industries including supply chain, freight and logistics, health, tertiary education, gaming, retail, business and government in New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

Currently, Kathryn manages the external and internal communications function for CHEP, a global leader in supply chain solutions and part of the Brambles group of companies; listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and a member of the S&P/ASX20 Index. As part of the Strategy and Marketing team, she is responsible for PR and customer communication, media, advertising, sponsorship, events, graphic design and all internal communication for the Asia Pacific business. In addition, she is a Justice of the Peace and First Aid Officer in the workplace.

Kathryn runs a private consultancy that provides communications and design expertise to small and large businesses in the areas of copywriting, graphic design, social media strategy and execution, crisis communications, media relations and public relations.

Recently, Kathryn completed the Advanced Leadership Program with Women Leadership Australia’s Australian School of Applied Management, as well as the University of Queensland’s Leadership Challenge. Kathryn has a Bachelor of Media and Communications with a major in Graphic Design and Public Relations from Charles Sturt University, with a scholarship placement at Broby Grafiska School of Graphic Design in Sweden.

Personally, Kathryn is the Media Liaison and Volunteer Coordinator for the NSW State Emergency Service Ryde Unit. She has also held other community positions, including President of the Northern Territory United Nations Youth Association of Australia, President of Ryde Youth Council and volunteers at a number of organisations includingFoodbank, Landcare, Good360, The Smith Family and a participant in the 2019 OzHarvestCEO CookOff.

Vicki Johnston

Chair, Business Development And Partnerships Committee

Vicki has over 40 years of experience working within health. Her career included strategic leadership positions working within NSW Health hospitals and across community agencies, in particular addressing issues faced by Indigenous and migrant people.

She led strategic planning projects, such as financial modelling and risk assessment, for business and corporate development at NSW Health Pathology. This included building and maintaining relationships with health services, community and commercial entities. Vicki has a strong understanding of issues within the health and community sectors, involving health policies, property lease management and the negotiation and coordination of service level agreements.

Vicki’s qualifications include Masters in Health Management, and general, midwifery and child and family health nursing.

She has previously served as a board director for Garrigal Housing Association Ltd and Karitane.

Peter Reed

Chair: Finance and Risk Committee

Peter is an IT professional with extensive experience in software development, IT management and business analytics.  His long-term consultancy encompasses a wide range of industries including Finance, Manufacturing, Distribution, Food and Beverage, Health, Education, Retail, Services and Real Estate with experience at both Government and Corporate levels.

As a previous Non-Executive Director of Eastwood Rugby Club and the Royal Automobile Club of Australia Peter brings a wealth of strategic knowledge and critical thinking skills to the Boardroom. His involvement as a volunteer, over many years, in a wide range of organisations means he has a thorough understanding of the not-for-profit sector and continues this service as the current Treasurer of the Classic Rally Club.

Throughout his life Peter has developed a passion for motoring and road safety and can now combine these – in his new endeavours – for Road Sense Australia.

Megan Lavender

Board Member

Megan J. Lavender is a transformational leader of organisations – with a focus on stakeholder engagement – and has served as a Director of Road Sense since 2018, and Chair of the Board from  2018 until 2024.

An experienced public company director and government board member, she is also peer recognised as one of the Asia Pacific’s best third sector CEOs – having held senior executive roles in the corporate, government and third sectors.

Megan presently serves as a federal government-appointed board member of the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service and a state government-appointed board member of the NSW Ministry of Health Centre for Health Record Linkage and has been commissioned by the NSW Minister for Lands as deputy chairman of the 107-year-old Gosford Showground Crown Lands Trust.

In addition to these three government board appointments, she also currently serves on a further thirteen boards, including as independent chairman of the University of Sydney Union Finance Committee, as the first female treasurer of the 116-year-old Royal Automobile Club of Australia, as company secretary of naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia, and a director of Special Olympics Australia, Gridiron Australia, Children’s Book Council of Australia, Mainly Music International, Australian Ice Racing, Anywhere Theatre Festival, Swimming NSW Aquatic Management, Friends of First Government House Site and the Bankstown Harness Racing Club.

Megan has served as an independent board member of the NSW Government appointed racing industry controlling body, as chairman of the Victorian-based sporting social enterprises, Boots For All and Sport For All, and as a director of multiple public and private companies, associations and charities, including Comtax Credit Union, Co-Op Bookshop, Australian and New Zealand ThirdSector Research, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Pathology Awareness Australia, Sport NSW, Women Sport Australia, Independent Living Centre NSW, Five Dock Leisure Centre, Macquarie University Union, Cancer Council Relay for Life, Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW and the Australia Indonesia Association.

She currently operates her own management and strategic consultancy business and has previously served in several senior executive roles. Megan has also served as an elected city councillor on the City of Canada Bay Council and as a ministerial advisor to the Australian Minister for Sport, Minister for Tourism and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Games.

Megan is peer recognised as one of the Asia Pacific’s best third-sector chief executives and among a select few people conferred with a full fellowship by the Australian Society of Association Executives – the professional industry association where she previously served as state chairman.

She is an arts, education, speech and drama graduate of Macquarie University and Trinity College, London.