 Our Management Team
Duncan Power was born in Wolverhampton and educated in New Zealand, qualifying as an Accountant.
Duncan joined British registered Bank Mercury Provident (now known as Triodos Bank) in 1989 as joint CEO following a career in Accountancy in New Zealand. The bank specialised in making loans to organisations that were for community benefit as well as being financially viable. During the 5 years he was at the helm of this bank, the balance sheet grew over 600%.
After 5 years in the role and overseeing the successful merger with Triodos, he was appointed by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in London as Manager responsible for establishing a social investment loan fund for Charities. Now registered as a bank itself and known as Charity Bank, the fund grew quickly following the success of getting 99.5 loans back out of the first 100 made, despite being unsecured and considered as being un-bankable deals by the banking community.
After 3 years in the role Duncan was yearning to come back to the Southern Hemisphere and put forward a business development plan to establish CAF in Australia finding the necessary matched funding for CAF in the UK to give their backing to the venture.
8 years on, in June 2008 with Duncan as CEO, CAF in Australia has facilitated grant making to not-for-profit organisations in Australia and the Asian region of over AUD100M.
Duncan has over 20 years experience working with the community sector, directly in an executive capacity, as a volunteer and as a non-executive Director. He has been the Chair of a number of Boards and Committees in diverse range of community organisations including a UK grant making foundation, an aged care facility and a school. Duncan is also a former director of INAISE, an international networking organisation for social investment organisations based in Brussels.
Duncan's passions include "making a difference", meeting people, philosophy, travelling, sailing and soccer.
John is Deputy Director of Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and a Director of The Centre for Asian Philanthropy in Singapore. He is also a board member of World Relief and International Needs.
With an extensive background in marketing, advertising, sales and communications in the private sector, for the last 24 years John has been working in the not for profit sector.
John has broad experience in developing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and was responsible for launching a very successful charity affinity card with American Express.
In 2001 he was awarded the Prime Minister's Community & Business Partnerships national award for a project with Procter and Gamble to provide a computer centre for the Redfern Community in Sydney and support for an Aboriginal Health Service in the Centre of Australia.
During his time at CAF John has developed the very successful Timehelp Project - a training and volunteer program for Senior Citizens to work in schools, developed in partnership with the Alcoa Foundation, The Myer Foundation and three Local Councils in Australia. John also worked with BHP Billiton to develop a global Matched Giving Program together with an employee based payroll deduction program.
More recently, John works as a CAF consultant on the process of grant making, establishing and managing Foundations for high net worth clients. He is responsible for developing CAF services in the Asian region after successfully establishing an office in Singapore to service CAF's Asian based clients.
John is a regular presenter at Universities - a key presenter at the Corporate Social Responsibility Conference in Manila, hosted by the League of Corporate Foundations; and a presenter at the inaugural session of the CSR Institute. He has also conducted seminars on CSR, governance and grant making in Singapore and Hong Kong.
John is married to Christine, has three children and six grandchildren. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Don has worked with CAF Australia since 2002 as a Public Affairs consultant advising the organisation on its communications and marketing. In March 2009 he took up the created position of Director Project Development to help further direct and support CAF services.
A Journalist by profession with an extensive career in Australian and overseas newspaper and television, Don has also worked in government and with not-for-profit agencies.
Phillip, a qualified accountant, comes to CAF with a wealth of experience in the private sector in finance and management roles with such firms as CALTEX, Comalco Aluminium, Sunburst Foods and AMPEX.
He spent 25 years as Finance Director and Managing Director of the Australian subsidiary of Ampex Corporation of California USA the worlds first large scale manufacturer of Broadcasting and Television Audio / Video equipment and Audio and Video Tape.
Phillip has been involved in a voluntary capacity in many community activities including junior baseball and rugby and has been a long time member of the surf life saving association having been a surf life saver in his youth.
Commencing with CAF in 2001, Donna is the National Corporate Services Manager of Charities Aid Foundation, managing our strategic partnerships, special projects and specialising in international workplace payroll giving and matched giving programs.
Donna has worked and volunteered in the charitable sector for the past thirteen years, developing and managing partnerships in the business community to increase the flow of support to the not-for-profit sector.
Her work has taken her across Australia and overseas experiencing many levels of community development and cultures of giving. Her role at CAF has taken workplace payroll giving to a new level with more than 300 corporate programs collectively contributing over $2 million each year to the charitable sector in Australia (2005-06 financial year).
More recently, Donna has undertaken training to develop and manage CAF's website and associated activities in Australia.
Donna is married to Justin and has a gorgeous son, Cooper.
 Marlene is a specialist consultant in the not-for-profit and philanthropy business sector. She is a lawyer with real estate qualifications.
Her professional expertise encompasses corporate social responsibility advisory and program management; the formation and full trust administration of new foundations - both prescribed private funds and donor advised subfunds; project evaluation; and the management of events associated with philanthropic projects and programs.
Marlene established the not-for-profit and philanthropy business unit for a Sydney CBD based firm of solicitors. She is the former National Manager of Philanthropic Foundations with Perpetual Trustees where her primary areas of responsibility included managing the Perpetual Foundation and the co-trustee relationships for all discretionary trusts and foundations - including two of Australia's biggest foundations; the Percy Baxter Charitable Trust and the Ramaciotti Foundations for Biomedical Research.
Sue Mackinnon has worked in the not-for-profit sector in Australia, Asia, and the United Kingdom for 30 years. She has extensive knowledge and experience of project and programme design, implementation and evaluation, community development, training and support, and social policy development.
Sue worked in Vietnam for 4 years as Country Director for Voluntary Service Overseas, and later became Regional Program Manager–South East Asia, for Save the Children Australia, overseeing the management of multi-million$ projects in Cambodia and Vietnam. Her many years experience in South East Asia has given her a considerable understanding of the cross-cultural issues which impact on project development and implementation.
In Australia Sue has worked extensively with organisations seeking tax-deductibility on donations for overseas aid projects, designing project proposal and reporting formats and guidelines in accordance with AusAID requirements, and offering project advice and support. Teresita Viskovich, Client Services and Administration Manager
Prior to joining CAF Australia in 2001, Teresita worked in various commercial companies in the area of office administration. Most notably was her 20 years with Qantas Airways where she worked as a Clerk, Revenue Accounting Supervisor and Commercial Agreements Administrator.
Teresita was a member of the Reservations Emergency Air-Incident Control Team and was a recipient of a Customer Excellence Award.
Teresita completed her Bachelor of Science in Commerce in one of the oldest and established universities in the Philippines.
In pursuit of her career, she attended and completed an accreditation course in Commercial Law at Sydney University. Ray Kelly, Banking Services Manager
Ray has extensive experience in the banking and finance sector, with more than 35 years of service within Australia. His primary role with CAF is to assist with the management of CAF Australia's wholly owned subsidiary Investors in Community' (IIC).
Utilising donor funds, Investors in Community can provide 'loan funds' to Charities and other not-for-profit organisations for projects seen as being ethically and socially responsible.
Many organisations experience difficulties when the income from their traditional funding sources - annual fundraising efforts, government grants etc. - is irregular or delayed. In many circumstances IIC can provide loan funds to assist organisations to bridge their cash flow or funding gap, helping them to continue to deliver their services on a regular basis.
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