Voni Leighton, RN, MACN, is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Vitalis Health, Australia’s largest independent Hospital in the Home (HITH) provider. Voni serves on the Board of the HITH Society, Australasia, and is an advisor to the New South Wales Government Healthy Taskforce on Ageing. Voni received her clinical training in Scotland before moving to London in the late 1980s and specialising in ICU nursing. She relocated to Australia 33 years ago and has gone on to hold a number of clinical leadership roles. Voni co-founded Vitalis Health in 2015. To date, Vitalis has helped over 50,000 patients

With more than 15 years’ service at Mater, Fiona is currently engaged as Executive Director of Health Integration and Community Care within the Health Ministry. As Executive Director, Fiona is responsible for the strategic leadership of Mater’s Refugee and Integrated Health services, Mater at Home services, including hospital in the home, Allied Health services, and Nutrition, Diet and Food Services. Fiona provides mission centred leadership, operational oversight, service design and development planning for Mater’s services that offer contemporary and sustainable solutions outside of hospital walls and that empower community members to live better lives through improved health and wellbeing. The focus of her role is on ensuring frameworks are in place which promote appropriate consistency in service and local discernment, creating national and sustainable market presence, integrating services and driving the development of new business and market opportunities which achieve strategic advantages consistent with the Mater Strategy. Fiona is also a member of the Mater Executive Leadership team and collaborates closely with other Mater executives, corporate portfolios and Ministries to strengthen Mater as a whole.

Gill has dedicated her career to improving public policy and service delivery, particularly for vulnerable people in the community, and was recognised with a Public Service Medal in 2019. Most recently an Associate Dean and Vice President at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in 2019-20, Gill served as Secretary of two Victorian Government Departments over almost 10 years from 2009 to the end of 2018 – The Department of Human Services and The Department of Education and Training. This followed a range of senior roles in the Victorian Public Service and a ten-year stint in the community sector working with children, young people and families. In 2022 Gill was appointed a member of the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Board, the new Centre being a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health system. Gill holds an Adjunct Professor role at Monash University and her leadership in public policy was recognised in 2013 when she received a Sir James Wolfensohn Public Service Scholarship to attend Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In October 2014, Gill was awarded the IPAA National Fellowship award and a Monash University Fellowship, and in 2017 Gill was named one of the top 50 women in the Victorian public service.