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Retiring Board members
SOPHIE KOWALD
Appointed August 2006 – Retired
November 2016 JACK MANNING BANCROFT
Appointed August 2011 – Retired
April 2016
Sophie recently took on a Policy Advisor position
with Michelle Rowland, MP, Shadow Minister for
Communications. Previously she worked at the
Australian Communications and Media Authority
(ACMA). Sophie also worked as a research fellow
on cross-border tobacco advertising control at the
Centre for Media and Communications Law, as a
judicial associate and a casual university academic
in law and media studies. Sophie holds a Master
of Laws from the University of Melbourne. Jack is the CEO and Founder of AIME. In 2005,
then a 19-year-old uni student, Jack founded
the AIME Program with 25 Indigenous kids in
Redfern. AIME incorporated in 2008 and Jack
became a CEO at the age of 22.
For many years, Sophie has been a singer in choirs
around the country, including The Australian
Voices, Canticum, The Melbourne Chorale and,
most recently, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
As the mother of two young children, she has
been closely involved with her local playgroup, toy
library and breastfeeding association.
Born in Canberra and raised in Brisbane, Sophie
is Sydney-based, but has spent significant
amounts of time in Melbourne and on the Gold
Coast in recent years.
Jack is now one of Australia’s youngest CEOs
leading a team of nearly 100 staff across the
country. Today, AIME works with over 3,500
Indigenous high school students and 1,250
university student acting as mentors across five
states in Australia. More than 10,000 high school
kids and 5,000 university students have been
through the program in the last decade.
AIME students have finished school at almost
the same rate as every Australian child. By 2018,
AIME seeks to expand across the nation to
connect with 10,000 Indigenous high school
kids annually—that’s roughly one quarter of the
Indigenous high school population—and have all
of these kids finishing school at the same rate as
every Australian child.
Jack was named 2010 NSW Young Australian of
the Year, 2010 Young People’s Australian Human
Rights Medallist and received the University of
Sydney 2010 Young Alumni of the Year Award.
Jack is also the CEO and a Founder of Phone
Free Feb and a graduate of the University of
Sydney and Stanford.
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