A Chair of an ASX-listed company, Genevieve Gregor joins me to share insights from her Board journey. We look at Genevieve's journey to the Boardroom, starting with work-related Boards, to becoming Deputy Chancellor at the University of Western Sydney, to now the Chair of Noumi Limited. Genevieve shares how her professional skills combined with her interests and passions, along with some help from some professional friends, supported the Board career decisions she made. Genevieve shared her biggest Board challenges – including something that ALL Board Members need to be attuned to – and the strategies she uses to overcome them, including how she has developed a knack for seeing around corners. She shares her key words of advice for aspiring and emerging Board Members and her vision of the future of Boards. You can find Genevieve's full bio in the notes to this episode, along with a link to her LinkedIn profile where I invite you to connect with her there. About Genevieve Gregor Genevieve is an experienced Non-Executive Director (NED) across public and private companies. She is a NED and Chairman of Noumi Limited (ASX:NOU) a food and beverage manufacturer in dairy and plant based beverages, consumer nutritionals, and specialty ingredients. In 2024, she joined TPG Capital, Australia as a Senior Advisor, and as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit and Risk of Eternal Holdco Limited (Invocare.) Her previous NED roles include Moneytech Group Limited, a specialist Australian SME lender providing trade, debtor, and equipment finance products, and Monoova Limited a B2B real time digital payments provider. In 2017 she co-founded Colinton Capital Partners, a mid-market private equity firm investing in Australian growth companies. Prior to June 2017, she was the co-head and Managing Director of the Asia Special Situations Group in Australia for Goldman Sachs for eight years. In this role she ran a lending and investing business which provided capital to fast growing companies and turn around capital to distressed situations. Genevieve earned a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Western Sydney University. She was the Deputy Chancellor of Western Sydney University (WSU), Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee and Trustee at WSU for 12 years. Connect with Genevieve on LinkedIn Thanks to our sponsor BoardPro Visit boardpro.com/boardshorts and use the promo code boardshorts – all one word, lowercase – to get a 30-day free trial AND 20% off the price of your first year on any plan. If you have a question or a topic that you'd like covered in a future episode, please fill out our short online survey.

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