WELL-respected company director Helen Kurincic has joined the Board of Directors of the Carlton Football Club.
In doing so, Kurincic brings with her 20 years of valuable experience in strategy, risk and governance leadership across ASX listed, private, non-for-profit and member-based organisations. This includes significant governance and operational experience within health, imaging, and diagnostic services.
Kurincic is currently the Chair of McMillan Shakespeare, a salary packaging, novated leasing, asset management and disability plan management business, and is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Risk Committee at health insurer HBF Health.
Following assessment and a recommendation from the Independent Nominations Committee, the Board has endorsed Kurincic’s nomination for election as a Director, filling the position that was vacated by long-serving Director Craig Mathieson.
Until recently she was also the Chair of diagnostic imaging company Integral Diagnostics for nine years and a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Risk Committee of residential aged care services company Estia Health for six years.
Kurincic previously held various executive and non-executive roles in the health care sector.
She started her career as a nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital specialising in intensive care, completed an MBA and has attended various courses at Harvard Business School (Best Practice Leadership Program and Business Innovations in Global Healthcare). Helen is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a Member of Chief Executive Women.
From a migrant family, Kurincic is a first-generation Carlton member, the Club she chose on her first day of school. Helen’s favourite recent memory is the first quarter of last season’s preliminary final, at the Gabba with her daughter, surrounded by so many passionate Blues supporters that also travelled up for the game.
With Kurincic’s wealth of governance experience, as well as her extensive network and knowledge in diverse areas of business, Carlton President Luke Sayers said the Club was pleased to add her unique strengths to the skills-based board of the Carlton Football Club.
“As a club we want to continually explore the expansion and development of the non-traditional revenue arms of our operations – we are delighted Helen has agreed to join the Carlton Board and be a key person in helping us take that area of our football club to the next level,” Sayers said.
