Emanuel Valageorgiou joined the Board in 2007 and is currently the Chair, having also served for several years as Secretary. He is an experienced not-for-profit (NFP) board director and was formerly a senior executive with TransGrid. Until recently he provided human resources and change management consulting services to not-for-profits and small businesses.

He has extensive experience in voluntary organisations dealing with multicultural issues, aged and disability care, youth, and sport. Emanuel has been a Director of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW since 2005, serving as Secretary and Chair and is currently its Treasurer. He was appointed Treasurer of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia in 2022. Emanuel is President of the Samian Brotherhood of Sydney & NSW and a Founding Director of Hurstville Glory Football Club.

Diana Chang joined the Board in 2019. Diana has over 35 years’ experience as a commercial litigation lawyer and has been consistently recognised as a leading and recommended practitioner in litigation and alternative dispute resolution in Australia. She has been a partner in commercial law firms including a founding partner of a leading corporate boutique law firm and Office Managing Partner and Practice Leader in the Sydney office of Clifford Chance a global law firm.

Throughout her career Diana steered and actively contributed to community engagement and social justice initiatives of the firms she worked at. Between 2016-2017 she was a Member of the NSW Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Committee whose role is to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion in the legal profession. She was also a part-time member of the Australian Takeovers Panel for six years. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Diana is also the Vice President and Secretary of South West Sydney Legal Centre.

George Margelis is a medical practitioner who has been deeply involved in technology for the last 30 years. Originally trained as an optometrist, he started tinkering with computers in 1981 when he bought his first PC, a Sinclair ZX80, before going back to medical school to complete his training at the University of Sydney. He was Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a private hospital group, as well as managing an innovative software development team that produced a personal health record for Australians ten years before My Health Record was launched.

He joined Intel in 2005 and then Intel-GE Innovations. In 2013 George was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney with the TeleHealth Research & Innovation Laboratory (THRIL). In 2014 he was appointed to the IT in Aged Care Hall of Fame for his work in the use of technology in aged care. In 2019 he took on the role of Independent Chair of the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council.