Board of directors

Jenna Bateman has worked in the mental health sector for 25 years and is a passionate advocate for mental health reform. Jenna has co-authored documents on social inclusion, trauma informed care and recovery-oriented practice and has driven accredited training qualifications and supported the Mental Health Peer Work qualification development. She was appointed to the NSW Mental Health Commission task force and helped develop the NSW Strategic Plan.

Jenna was a founding member of Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA). She is the former CEO of the Mental Health Coordinating Council (MHCC), where she held this position from 2000-2017.

Jenna is a qualified Mental Health Nurse and has a Bachelor of Arts Master’s Degree in Community Management.

Riley O’Hanlon is the Culturability Accreditation Program Manager at Multicultural Australia and leads the operations of their accreditation product, which aims to create welcoming spaces for culturally diverse individuals.

Prior to this role, Riley was the National Manager for QIP Consulting, a health and community services consulting firm specialising in quality and compliance. Riley maintains a strong contractor relationship with QIP Consulting and now runs her own consulting firm, Soteria, which specialises in similar areas of interest in the health and community space.

Cathy is a proud Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman. Cathy’s education stems from lived experience and through the Western education system. Cathy has a Bachelor of Social Science, a Bachelor of Social Work, and a Master of Arts by thesis. Her research involved a comparative study between the Yolgnu people in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land and the Bundjalung people within the Bundjalung Nation in NSW. Cathy currently works as a Justice advocate, working with people with cognitive impairments who are involved with the police and criminal justice system. Cathy has worked as a therapeutic specialist with children in out-of-home care and their biological or foster families.

Nick has had a distinguished C-suite career in the private sector where he has held positions as CEO of NSW Lotteries Corporation and General Manager – Commercial Operations at Foxtel. Most recently, Nick was a commercial diplomat based in San Francisco, where he was Australia’s Consul General and Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner. He hopes to use his governance, commercial and marketing experience to assist The Buttery to achieve its goals and continue the great work it has done over the last 50 years.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Business from QUT, a Graduate Diploma of Marketing from UTS, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has lectured at UTS’ Graduate School of Business in its MBA program. He also mentors young LGBTQIA+ professionals through the Out for Australia program.

Jane Enter is a senior psychologist and psychotherapist at First Light Healthcare in Byron Bay. From 2001-2004, Jane was the Team Leader at The Buttery’s Residential Therapeutic Community.

Jane has her own private practice, teaches at the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists, is a consultant to several organisations and supervises clinicians in individual and group contexts. She is also the resident psychologist on Bay FM radio’s Above the Fray show with Fern Freitas.

Rosemary Norgate is a lawyer and director with over 25 years of legal professional experience. Rosemary is an accredited family law specialist with a background in commercial transactions and litigation and co-owns a boutique family law firm in Sydney.

As part of her legal practice, Rosemary has gained significant insight and experience in relation to mental health issues facing families and individuals, particularly addictive disorders. Rosemary has experience with corporate governance for small private companies and professional and community-based committees. Rosemary is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has undertaken the AICD Company Directors Course.

Rosemary has a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws and has been admitted as a solicitor in NSW. An accredited specialist, Rosemary is also a Director of Pigdon Norgate Family Lawyers.

Wayne has over 40 years’ experience in the NSW Public Health system. Wayne has obtained a range of clinical nursing qualifications and has also obtained a degree in Health Management as he transitioned from clinical to general management roles.

Wayne has held a variety of clinical and general management roles in Sydney and the Northern Rivers including NSW Health Deputy Secretary Patient Experience and System Performance to support the NSW response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and as Chief Executive of NNSWLHD from 2016 – 2023. On 20 February 2023, Wayne was appointed into the role of State Health Service Functional Area Co-ordinator on a fulltime basis and between February 2024 – July 2024, he has also held the role of A/Commissioner NSW Mental Health Commission.

Larry started his professional career in drug and alcohol in 1985 as a Counsellor at the Brisbane (state government health department) Methadone Clinic. Has worked in this capacity for three years before moving to assist with the establishment of the Logan House residential rehabilitation service in Logan, Qld.

Larry worked for Logan House, Alcohol and Drug Foundation of Queensland for just under three years. He then moved to work for Queensland Health’s HIV/AIDS program as a Principal Program Advisor for a few years, before taking a secondment with the Commonwealth Health Departments HIV/AIDS and Communicable Diseases program as an Assistant Director.

In 1997, Larry moved to Sydney to take up a position at the Manly Drug Education and Counselling Centre as the Director of that program. in 1999, Larry took up the position as CEO of the Network of Alcohol and Drug Agencies where he worked for the next 21 years.

Larry served on numerous committees during this period including the NSW Health NGO Advisory Committee, various topic based expert advisory committees as well as membership of NSW Health’s Drug and Alcohol Program Council. Larry was also on the Board of the Alcohol and Drug Council of Australia for six years in the early 2000’s. Larry is currently on the Broad at the NSW Users and AIDS Association.

Salome Mulumbe has ten years of finance experience in the not-for-profit sector and is currently a Senior Finance Business Partner & Business Analyst at SSI, a provider of humanitarian and social services in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

She is passionate about using her finance skills to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals and communities. Salome holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Adelaide, and is a Certified Practicing Accountant through CPA Australia.

Ron grew up in Sydney during the great 50’s and swinging 60’s. In 1968, he joined Coopers & Lybrand (now Pricewaterhouse Coopers) and after opting to work full time and study during the evenings, he qualified for membership of what was then titled the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 1976.

Ron and his wife, Suzanne, then moved to London and spent 1977 involved in all aspects of multi-currency, multi-country transactions, a whole new world of business experiences and learning.

After returning to Australia, he worked extensively throughout Asia, before deciding to move the family to the Tweed Valley and practice as a public accountant specialising in Australian tax law, auditing and corporations law. In 1992, an opportunity arose where he sold the accounting practice and, with a consortium of locals, bought one of the practice’s clients, Madura Tea Estates, which started a 25-year love affair with the humble cup of tea.

Despite all advice to the contrary, the business grew, to the point where it employed up to 65 local people and supplied one in twenty cups of tea sold through retail Australia-wide, which equated to approximately one million cups of tea a day.  He retired from that partnership in 2018, and has since been managing private investments, and enjoying life in the Northern Rivers.