Executive team

Damian brings a wealth of leadership experience, having successfully led complex health and community organisations through periods of significant growth, transformation, and strategic development. He has served as a CEO within the Victorian Community Health Sector for over a decade, overseeing significant organisational merges, expansion, and public health responses.

Damian has also demonstrated his expertise in governance and social policy through senior executive roles within the Victorian and New South Wales state governments. He was the inaugural Chair of Mental Health Victoria and is the current Chair of the Victorian Council of Social Service and the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network. His deep understanding of the mental health service system, operational management, and organisational development makes him well positioned to lead the College in advancing mental health care across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Mark’s core passion is achieving service excellence and building high-performing teams. As a CFO, he leverages financial experience across corporate, not-for-profit, government and member organisations, including the RACGP. Mark develops and implement financial strategies that drive efficiency, support growth and enhance the quality of frontline service delivery. He believes strong financial leadership is linked to fostering a collaborative and successful team culture.

Dmitri is an internationally experienced Chief Information Officer with 20 years' experience leading IT functions to deliver value-add technology digital innovation, transformation, and growth within multi-nationals in Asia-Pacific, Australia-wide Hospital and Aged Care not-for-profit organisations, the Vic State Government and Financial Services industries.

During his early leadership career with Unisys, Standard Chartered Bank and the Noble Group, he built global IT departments and set up worldwide infrastructure and application ecosystems to support rapid expansion and growth.

He returned home to Australia in 2012 with his family so that his children could be educated here. In the same year Dmitri joined Mercy Health, a large not-for-profit in the health services and aged care sectors. As CIO and a member of the executive team he delivered a technology transformation programme that underpinned a more than 180% increase in annual revenue while containing IT headcount growth to 10%, and laid down the platform for the future.

Since leaving Mercy Health, Dmitri acted on behalf of Boards and CEOs in provision of the CIO-like services at Victorian Work Injury Commission and was employed as an interim Chief Information Officer at Development Victoria.

Dmitri is known for delivering outcomes that serve customers, negotiating effective deals, and building strong motivated technology teams. He has a "sleeves-up" and involving leadership style; in other words, not just a technocrat but a business leader who helps deliver the most from technology.

Callie is an experienced and respected leader with expertise in strategic decision making and corporate governance. At the College, she is responsible for managing legal compliance, managing complex risk and supporting the governance needs of the College members. She has a passion for supporting membership associations and understands the valuable contributions of our volunteer members.

Prior to executive roles, Callie gained extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, with a focus on charities and the healthcare sector, which prompted her to join the College.

Callie is a practising lawyer, a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a member of the AICD and is currently undertaking her MBA. She is also a volunteer  Company Secretary of the Australian Marketing Institute.

Monique is a New Zealander who has been living in Australia since 2019. She holds an MBA from the Australia Institute of Management, and has over 10 years’ experience in executive leadership, working in various Government agencies in New Zealand and Australia.

The first 20 years of her working life was in journalism, firstly as a reporter and then in news management across various New Zealand newspapers, radio, and TV networks. Monique is currently based remotely on the Gold Coast but can also be found in Wellington supporting the New Zealand national office, or in Melbourne at HQ.

An experienced general manager in the not-for-profit / associations sector, Jon has responsibility for a broad range of functions within the RANZCP including membership services and engagement, conferences and events, communications, scientific journals publishing, marketing and development, the Psychiatry Interest Forum (PIF) program and fundraising via the RANZCP Foundation.

Jon has an extensive background in membership development, communications, events management, team leadership, strategic and business planning, and stakeholder relations. He joined the RANZCP in 2007 and prior to this worked for nearly ten years in the international education industry. 

Jon is passionate about working in the membership and for-purpose arena, and bringing a positive and supportive management style to both his team and the wider organisation. Jon greatly enjoys working with the RANZCP’s many dedicated members, and values being able to support psychiatrists and trainees in their work to improve the mental health of Australian and New Zealand communities.

Australian born, with a career spanning Australian and international, multinational corporations, boutique firms, and pioneering ventures, Jarka is a seasoned C-suite executive and AICD qualified leader. Jarka is focused on cultivating innovative, creative, growth mindset, and values-centric cultures, across diverse industry sectors. Working across a wide range of business verticals, she is adept at creating and navigating dynamic agendas, with extensive experience blending strategic and operational leadership roles. Experienced in HR/IR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Service, Jarka is passionate about orchestrating organisational transformations and harmonizing diverse teams into cohesive, high-performing entities aligned to deliver on strategic and performance agendas. Her operational and strategic acumen, coupled with a relentless commitment to empowering teams and fostering continuous improvement, has delivered enduring results and stakeholder satisfaction throughout her career. As an enthusiastic and collaborative leader, she is dedicated to shaping workplace ecosystems where individuals thrive, and collective objectives are realised. Jarka is an effective and empathetic communicator with a strong values and behaviour framework, inspiring vision and enthusiastically leading goal-focused teams with purpose and passion.

Next to her day job, Jarka is a sailing enthusiast. Passionate about equity and seeing individuals identify, embrace, and wholeheartedly live into their full potential, she is a sailing coach, member of the Australian Sailing She Sails committee set up to encourage and support female participation, and is part of the Caritas Australia Board, and a Victorian Homeless Fund Committee Member.