Our Staff

Waverley Stanley
CEO/Founding Director
wstanley@yalari.org

Llew Mullins
Executive Director
llew@yalari.org

Board Of Directors

The Yalari Limited Board Members are committed to the empowerment, motivation and support of Indigenous children from Indigenous communities throughout Australia.

This commitment brings together experienced, diverse and dynamic corporate leaders from the Venture Capital arena, Corporate Australia, Business Enterprises and Indigenous affairs.

Mr Philip Latham – Founding Chairperson

Philip Latham is a private equity investor. He has founded and built 2 investment businesses in the last 15 years, RMB Captial Partners and Lend Lease Development Capital and has managed buyouts and investments in over 30 companies with combined enterprise values of over $2 billion.

Philip recently left RMB and is in the process of developing a new private equity business.

In addition, Philip is a director of AVCAL (Australian Venture Capital Association Limited), is a director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Mr Waverley Stanley – Founding Director

Mr Waverley Stanley has worked extensively throughout Queensland as an Indigenous Support officer for Education Queensland. More recently he has presented and facilitated workshops and conferences for Indigenous people throughout Australia, in leadership and education. He has a passion for education and the empowerment of Indigenous children. This vision has culminated into a reality with the support of the Yalari Board of Directors in “forging new long term partnerships” with Corporate companies and Indigenous communities throughout Australia.

Mr Ed Day – Director (Secretary)

Ed is a businessman, chartered accountant and lawyer with business start-up experience in both Australia and the USA. He has been involved in not-for-profit boards for over 20 years and is currently employed at Brookvine, a specialist consultancy that assists alternative asset managers to raise funding from institutional investors. Previously, Ed was Policy Director at the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL), a foundation supporter of the Rosemary Bishop Scholarship.

Mr Keith Murray - Director

Mr Keith Murray has extensive business experience working with Indigenous business people and entrepreneurs throughout Australia encouraging business establishment and economic empowerment that will produce academic, political and business leaders now and in to the future. He currently owns The Glass House Mountains Eco-Lodge, in Queensland, and presents business workshops for Indigenous people throughout Australia. www.glasshouseecolodge.com.au

Miss Llew Mullins – Director

Miss Llew Mullins has worked extensively throughout Australia with Indigenous people, coordinating business workshops and managing a Mentoring Program between corporate business people and Indigenous small business owners. She is currently the Administrative Officer for Yalari. Her experience in business, financial management and organisation skills has provided the necessary skills and administration in catapulting Yalari from an idea into a reality.

Allan Miller – Director

Allan Miller was born and raised in Alice Springs and is an Arrente person from Central Australia. He attended Scotch College, Adelaide, S.A. as a Boarder.

Allan has studied at Adelaide University and worked in Indigenous Affairs in State and Commonwealth Governments, and is currently employed as a Senior Project Officer with the in the Aboriginal Community Housing Program in South Australia.

David Wilkie - Director

David Wilkie is a partner of Clayton Utz and is regarded in the marketplace as a leading lawyer with outstanding corporate, property and fund raising skills. David has extensive experience acting for land councils in Western Australia on a pro bono basis. David has over twenty years of commercial advisory experience and has built a strong reputation with many New South Wales Government and large private sector clients. He holds qualifications in Bachelor of Laws and Economics (Honours) from Macquarie University and is also a member of the Investment and Financial Services Association.

Amanda Laing - Director

Amanda is the General Counsel of PBL Media, which owns the Nine Network, ACP Magazines, Ticketek and Acer Arena as well as shareholdings in a variety of other businesses. Amanda joined ACP Magazines as Corporate Counsel in 1999 and was promoted to the role of General Counsel of ACP Magazines in 2003, with responsibility for legal matters relating to ACP Magazines group businesses in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and the UK. In October 2006, Amanda was appointed as General Counsel of PBL Media.

Advisory Board

John Taberner – Head of Pro-bono at Freehills
Jeff McMullen – Director of Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth
Adam Spencer – Radio Announcer