Marelle Thornton, AM, Dip Teach, MAICD - PRESIDENT 
Mrs Thornton has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 1983.
Mrs Thornton is President of The Spastic Centre, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Fundraising Committee and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee, the Property and Equipment Committee, the Human Resources Committee and the Services Committee.
Mrs Thornton is a primary school teacher.
Mark Bryant, OAM, MA, FCA, MAICD - VICE PRESIDENT 
Mr Bryant has been a member of the Board of Directors since December 1997.
Mr Bryant is the Vice-President of The Spastic Centre, Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee and a member of the Community Relations, Fundraising and Marketing Committee, and the Nominations and Governance Committee.
He also serves as a board representative to the Enterprise Risk Management Committee.
Mr Bryant is a Director of The Cerebral Palsy Foundation Pty Ltd. Mr Bryant has over 30 years of experience in public accounting.
Cain Beckett, BEC, MINTS, GAICD
Mr Beckett has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 2003.
Mr Beckett is the Chairman of the Research Committee and the Ethics Committee.
He is also a member of the Finance and Audit Committee, the Services Committee, the Human Resources Committee, and the Nominations & Governance Committee.
Mr Beckett is currently employed by Perpetual Corporate Trust, is a member of the senior leadership team, and for over 11 years prior to this was a successful management and technology consultant.
Neroli Best
, MBBS, FANZCA, MAICD
Dr Best has been a member of the Board of Directors since June 1994.
Dr Best is a member of the Services Committee, the Research Committee and the Ethics Committee.
Dr Best is a medical practitioner specialising in anaesthesiology and holds appointments at Royal North Shore, Mater Misericordiae and North Shore Private Hospitals.
Robert (Bob) G. Miller
Mr Miller has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 1999.
Mr Miller is a member of the Community Relations, Fundraising and Marketing Committee and the Finance and Audit Committee. He also serves as a board representative to the Enterprise Risk Management Committee.
Mr Miller is presently the Principal of Australia Street Consulting Pty Ltd where he advises the automotive industry, advertising agencies, telecommunications companies and others on marketing. He was previously General Manager - Marketing, Toyota Australia for 15 years.
Mr Miller is an Adjunct Professor teaching postgraduate students in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics, and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
Andrew Buchanan, PSM, MAICD, AIMM
Mr Buchanan has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2010.
Mr Buchanan has recently retired after 8 years as Chairman of the Disability Council (NSW) the official advisory body to the NSW Government. Mr Buchanan has 40 years experience in broadcasting, communications and media, having spent his career at the ABC and now operates his own communications & media consultancy AB Communicates, and manages his winery at Queens Pinch Vineyard in Mudgee.
Robin Way, M Mgt, PHD
Dr Way has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 1995.
Dr Way is Chairman of the Services Committee and a member of the Human Resources
Committee. She is the Board’s representative on CP Australia, a peak body for organisations in Australia providing services to people with cerebral palsy.
Dr Way is CEO of Community Connections Australia – a non-government organisation providing a range of in home support services to maintain people in their homes wherever possible. She has worked extensively within the disability arena and is a member of the NSW State Committee of National Disability Services (NDS) and Chair of the Centre for Australian Management and Organisations (CACOM) at UTS.
Brian Williamson, Dip Law (SAB), M. Com (Deakin), Accredited Specialist in Employment & Industrial Law (Law Soc of NSW), MAICD
Mr Williamson joined the Board in December 2002.
Mr Williamson is the Chairman of the Human Resources Committee and is the Board representative on the Enterprise Risk Management Committee.
Mr Williamson is the founder and co-owner of the specialist law firm – Workplace Law – which deals with all
aspects of workplace law and specialises in acting for
employers.
He holds a Diploma Law (SAB, 1981) and a Masters Degree in Commerce (Deakin 1992). In 1994, Mr
Williamson was one of the first five solicitors in NSW to become an Accredited Specialist in Employment &
Industrial Law with the Law Society of NSW.
John Sintras
Mr Sintras has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2009.
Mr Sintras is a member of the Finance and Audit Committee, and the Community Relations, Fundraising and Marketing Committee.
Mr Sintras has a young daughter with cerebral palsy and he was a Governor on the Council of The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, a wholly owned entity of The Spastic Centre.
Mr Sintras is the Chief Executive Officer of the Starcom MediaVest Group, one of Australia’s leading media communications agencies.
Adam Johnston,
BA/LLB, Dip. Legal Practice
Mr Johnston has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2009.
Mr Johnston is a member of the Services Committee and the Research Committee.
Mr Johnston studied politics and law at Macquarie University, is an active advocate for disability service development, and has served on numerous council and local community committees.
His most recent professional appointment was as an Investigations Officer for the NSW Ombudsman.