Meet Our Team
Get to know the people behind our work, the team supporting people with disability to take part in sport their way every day.
Our team brings experience across participation and education, sport delivery, lived experience, research and policy, partnerships and advocacy, and governance and strategy.
Ayden Shaw
Ayden leads our national work to increase participation in grassroots sport for people with disability. He works across government, sport and community to secure investment, build partnerships and deliver initiatives that increase access, participation and visibility. With more than 10 years across sport systems and program delivery, Ayden is a Vicsport Sports Administrator of the Year, former Vicsport Director and Pay What It Takes Australia ambassador.
Kristy Rohrer
Kristy leads our national participation and education work, supporting the delivery and growth of programs across Australia. She works with government, sporting organisations and community partners to create local opportunities and strengthen capability across sport, and has played a central role in expanding the national initiatives that connect people with disability to sport.
Madeline Wood
Madi supports the operations and integrity functions that underpin our national programs, working across delivery, community partnerships and participant-led activity design. She holds a Bachelor of Health Science in Health Promotion and Recreational Therapy, and after seven years in the disability sector she keeps the systems running that make participation possible across our programs.
Frances Quan Farrant
Frances leads our strategic impact work, drawing on two decades across the community and disability sectors. A disability and human rights advocate, she was a senior policy officer at People with Disability Australia and has given evidence on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and to the Disability Royal Commission. Frances holds a Master of Social Work and was a Research Associate at the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre.
Kim Schaefer
Kim delivers our training and education work, supporting clubs, coaches and organisations to build the capability of sport and create local opportunities. Over more than 40 years in sport and disability she has worked as a player, coach, administrator, mentor and educator with community and national teams, and works to grow opportunities for people with and without disability to play sport together.
Jessica Avdelas
Jess coordinates Abilities Unleashed, our national program connecting people with disability to local sport opportunities. She works with sporting organisations, schools and community partners to expand participation and reach communities across Australia. Jess holds a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Management and has worked as a support worker in the disability sector.
Rae Anderson
Rae delivers Abilities Unleashed days and workshops across Australia, supporting greater participation for people with disability. A Dual Summer and Winter Paralympian and a member of the Para Matildas 2024 World Champions team, she has worked with us since 2021 and speaks to communities, schools and organisations across the country, drawing on her own lived experience.
Greg Pinson
Greg delivers Abilities Unleashed days and workshops across Australia, supporting grassroots participation for people with disability. He draws on lived experience and more than 15 years of work alongside people with disability, and has competed individually and in teams at local and national levels.
Meet Our Board
Get to know the people guiding our work. Our Board of Directors, supported by Board Observers and the Company Secretary, sets the strategy and governance behind our work to support people with disability to take part in sport.
Dr Renae Domaschenz PLY
Renae is a former Paralympian and world champion coach with deep experience across high performance sport, community participation and governance. Having led complex change initiatives across multiple sectors, she specialises in business transformation and organisational improvement. Renae serves on the World Anti-Doping Agency Compliance Review Committee and has chaired our Board for the past two years.
Brett Bennett
Brett is a senior executive who has led strategy, transformation and turnaround across the disability, financial and government sectors. He held interim executive roles at the National Disability Insurance Agency and has driven business improvement at Plan Partners and Bankwest. Brett has delivered more than $400 million in annual P&L impact over the past decade and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
David Thompson
David has built a career across sport strategy, governance and organisational development. He served as CEO of Hockey NSW from 2016 to 2021, was named Administrator of the Year in 2017, and led the development of Hockey Australia's first national strategic vision to 2032. With 10 years in hockey and more than 15 across sport, his strengths are strategy, stakeholder engagement and leadership.
Simone Pearce
Simone is Chair of Sunshine Coast Sports and a Director of Sunshine Coast 2032, with a career spanning law, advocacy and sport. She spent more than 20 years as a lawyer focused on family, crime, succession and sports law, and her PhD explored how sport can better include children with disability. Simone has served on state and national sporting boards and works with government and national bodies on equity, integrity and inclusion in sport.
Mark Streeting
Mark is a Senior Partner at L.E.K. Consulting, where he leads the Travel and Transport practice across Asia-Pacific and the Gulf region and serves on the firm's Global Board. His work spans strategy, public policy and major infrastructure projects. Mark is Vice-Chair of the Public Transport Association of Australia New Zealand and a past Chair of Special Olympics Australia.
Julie Turpie
Julie was General Manager of Events at Destination NSW, with more than 30 years across major events, tourism, marketing, sponsorship and fundraising in the government and not-for-profit sectors. She has held leadership roles with Museums of History NSW and Brisbane Economic Development Agency, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Tracey Corbin-Matchett OAM
Tracey is CEO of Bus Stop Films and a leading advocate for inclusion in the screen industry, recognised with an OAM in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours. A proud hard of hearing woman, she has led major inclusion strategies across the sector, advised government and industry bodies, and served on a range of boards including Deaf Sports Australia. She speaks nationally and internationally on disability and employment.
Kim Bryan
Kim is Executive General Manager, People and Engagement at Logan City Council, with more than 30 years of leadership across the government, not-for-profit and corporate sectors. Her governance experience includes seven years as a Board Director of Special Olympics Australia and a role on the Board of Management of Muscular Dystrophy Queensland. Kim is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Aldo Bouroncle
Aldo has more than 10 years across governance, operations, project delivery, transformation and marketing, and leads the commercial marketing strategy for Westpac's largest transformation program, UNITE. He joins our Board as an Observer through a program supported by Westpac, which gives emerging leaders insight into governance in the nonprofit sector.
Eleanor Anstey
Eleanor is our Company Secretary, supporting governance and compliance across the organisation. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Queensland University of Technology and has worked as a paralegal within the Australian Government since 2024. Her experience spans legal, governance and compliance, and she is committed to improving access so more people can take part in sport.
Our Disability Advisory Committee
People with disability help shape our work through our Disability Advisory Committee, bringing lived experience into our decisions, programs and direction.
The Committee provides advice and insight to ensure our work reflects the experiences of people with disability and supports more opportunities to take part in sport.
