BOARD – 2022
Our Team
QRRRWN’s volunteer board brings together an exceptional group of talented women who are inspired to offer their time, experience, and effort for RRR women of Queensland. They believe in the future of Queensland and in the capacities of women in those communities to make a difference for themselves and others.
The board meets monthly and focuses on strategic portfolios to drive member experience, member personal & professional development, advocacy and rural, regional, remote networks.
QRRRWN’s Board is composed of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Board Members. These positions are completely voluntary and are elected annually by QRRRWN members at the AGM held at the QRRRWN Conference.

Julie Mayne
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Juliette Wright
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An inspired and passionate social justice campaigner, Juliette Wright is on a mission to alleviate the effects of poverty across Australia. Establishing an online platform in 2009 to connect those who have with those who need and championing it to become one of Australia’s leading charities, Juliette is changing how society helps its most vulnerable and marginalised people, in and out of natural disasters and emergencies. Juliette is also a grazier.
Founder and CEO of GIVIT, Juliette created the portal to ensure quality goods get to where they are needed most by safely connecting and inspiring an online network of givers. Juliette’s vision, hard work and determination have resulted in more than 2.5million items donated through GIVIT’s website to directly assist Australians in need. Juliette’s passion is supporting each community by ensuring local donors give to local residents in need. The GIVIT model ensures the right people get the right things, in the right way – always buying locally.
As a prominent social justice campaigner, Juliette has been awarded 2015 Australia’s Local Hero by the National Australia Day Council, National Resilient Australia Award by Australia’s Attorney-General, The Australian National Innovation Challenge Award, Ernst & Young Queensland Entrepreneur of the Year, Toastmasters Communicator of the Year, Moreton Bay Citizen of the Year 2016 and inducted into the Australian Businesswomen’s Network Hall of Fame.

Priscilla Stevens-Guiney
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Priscilla is the Director of the Vice Presidents Office, Global Development. In addition, Priscilla is a Director/Board member for Ecological Society of Australia and previously performed roles as Committee Chair, Committee Member and Treasurer. Her experience/expertise is in environment, conservation, tourism and the higher education sector. As a Director, Priscilla provides senior executive and advisory support to the Vice-President Global Development and represents the office across a range of strategic and operational matters. Priscilla is a commercially focused and collaborative business partner with a proven record in leading highly complex projects in areas such as systems innovation and integration; whole-of-organisation change leadership, business continuity and critical incident preparedness and response.
Prior to joining CQUniversity, Priscilla worked in the field of conservation and protected area management at Parks Victoria and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
Priscilla is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Harvard Business School and earned her MBA from Australian Institute of Business, a Bachelor in Applied Science (Parks, Recreation and Heritage) from Charles Sturt University and is currently completing her Professional Doctorate with CQUniversity. Priscilla is based in Rockhampton.

Margot Richardson
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Margot Richardson joined the QRRRWN Board as Treasurer in February 2021.
Margot Richardson, FCPA, GAICD, FGIA, is a highly qualified and extremely motivated businessperson whose dedication to quality outcomes and learning is only matched by her professional expertise. With more than 40 years business and industry experience, she is a proven manager, strategist, and director. She is a graduate of the Company Directors Course, facilitator of AICD courses and has completed the Mastering the Boardroom program. Margot is also a Fellow of CPA Australia and has extensive experience in the NFP Sector.
A key attribute of Margot’s skillset is her ability to support governance development, and she is passionate about the proper application of good governance. She is also very skilled at managing and supporting strong financial management.
Living and working in Far North Queensland Margot has extensive experience with a broad range of people in the region. She lives on the Atherton Tablelands but has extensive networks throughout Queensland.

Jo Best
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Jo has been serving on the QRRRWN Board since May 2020.
Jo is a Bundaberg girl – born & raised with her 3 sisters in the cane growing district. Her husband hails from Rockhampton & they lived & worked in Mount Isa for three years, before returning to Brisbane to continue their corporate careers and raise their family.
Jo is an executive manager at Hastings Deering (Caterpillar) and has more than 25 years’ experience in several companies including Aurizon, Glencore and Amcor Ltd. Her expertise includes transformational change, business strategy, turnaround commercial performance, visible leadership and employee experience.
Jo is passionate about helping women create their own paths and reach their potential. She has raised 3 boys, assisted others through mentoring and coaching and created workplace programs to drive flexibility, diversity and inclusion. Her efforts were recognized when she won the 2020 Exceptional Woman in Queensland Resources award.
Jo holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Central Queensland and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Queensland University of Technology. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a certified member of the Australian Human Resources Institute

Erika Entz
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Erika has been serving on the QRRRWN Board since May 2020.
Erika Entz has always been very passionate about people, customers and businesses. Learning & Development and improving Business Processes is the core values of how she lives. Not only she enjoys gaining knowledge, but she always quotes… Gain to Share.. You have to gain knowledge to be able to share knowledge. Certainly something Erika has been doing for decades.
Currently employed as Head of Implementation & Professional Services at simPRO Software as a global role covering AU, NZ, UK and US implementations operations. simPRO is a global operations management software for trade services industries. Working in the ever changing and hyper growth SaaS industry Erika accustomed to change, and delivering exceptional service to internal and external customers. Other strengths include business operations and systems efficiency and deployment, learning & development, leadership lunch & learn and development program and high performance teams program.
Her core role is to create strategy, tools, resources and deploy them globally allowing to hire, onboard, educate the Implementation Consultants and also played an inherent role in the development of the customer education program.
Erika has previously served on the Committee of Management as well as President of QLD for AIOP (Australian Institute of Office Professionals).
The passion to learn and passion to share the knowledge and support organisation lead Erika to wanting to contribute to organisations such as AIOP as Committee Member and President QLD Division in the past and now to QRRRWN. She hopes to bring value and benefits to the members and partners by understanding the needs, collaborating with fellow Board Members and Members and Partners. Erika’s focus is IT/Data and Systems.

Mary Lockton
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Mary Lockton is passionate about building community and is a strong advocate for opportunities for those living in rural, regional and remote areas.
Mary has over a decade of senior roles not-for-profit membership associations particularly focused on the issues facing those living outside of metropolitan areas. Mary’s rural engagement, marketing and communications background come together for the benefit of building strong networks and opportunities for women, the lifeblood of rural communities.
Past Presidents
The QRRRWN has been ably led by a variety of committed, enthusiastic women since it was founded in 1993.
YEAR | NAME |
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2019-2021 | Tracey Martin |
2017-2019 | Melissa Barnett |
2014-2017 | Alison Mobbs |
2010-2014 | Georgie Somerset |
2009-2010 | Georgie Somerset and Wendy Agar (joint presidents) |
2007-2009 | Linda Silburn |
2006-2007 | Andrea Middleton |
2004-2006 | Di Gresham |
2001-2004 | Moya Sandow |
2000-2001 | Lillian Lever |
1999-2000 | Rosemary Burnett |
1997-1999 | Barbara Anderson |
1996-1997 | Myra Dingle |
1993-1996 | Jan Darlington |