Meet our people

Angie Paskevicius

BA App Sci, MBL, FAICD, FIPAA, FAIM

Eddie Bartnik

BA. (Hons), M. Psych. (Clinical), M. Ed. Studies, GAICD, FAIM, FASID

Mr Eddie Bartnik (Eddie) was appointed as Strategic Adviser to the National Disability Insurance Agency between 2014 – 2019 and Chair of the Agency’s National Mental Health Sector Reference Group. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is regarded as the biggest social policy reform in Australia since Medicare and is projected to support, at full scheme in 2019/20, a total of 460,000 Australians with disabilities and their families and carers with an annual budget of $22b. Eddie provided national level expert advice on mental health/psychosocial disability, Local Area Coordination and community capacity building and international leadership development.

Prior to this, Eddie was Western Australia’s first Mental Health Commissioner for the period 2010-14, the first position of its kind in Australia. He led mental health reform and oversaw the commissioning of public, private and community sector mental health services to over 46,000 people with a budget in excess of $652m. He joined the mental health sector from his previous position as Acting Director General of the Department for Communities in WA, following a long career and various director positions with the WA Disability Services Commission.

Eddie has worked extensively and been published across Australia and overseas in areas of human services reform, Local Area Coordination and individualised funding and personalised support. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability and was Chair of the Sponsoring Countries Leadership Group for the International Initiative for Disability Leadership (2015-2020). In 2018 he was a Salzburg Global Fellow. He currently works as an independent consultant in disability, mental health and community services.

Eddie holds Master’s degrees in clinical psychology from the University of WA and educational studies from the University of Tasmania and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has been a governing Council member of Edith Cowan University (2012 – 2021) and Deputy Chair of the Quality, Audit and Risk Committee. Eddie chairs the Clinical Governance Committee at 360 Health + Community.

John Knowles

John has over thirty years industry and management experience which includes twenty years as CEOs of Good Samaritan Industries (GSI) and the Cerebral Palsy Association and as a CFO for the Disability Services Commission and Princess Margaret Hospital. He has high level governance experience serving on many boards including GSI, Perth Zoo, Community Employers WA and the WA Council Social Services. John has a passion for social justice, individual rights, consumer empowerment and a world with a safe, healthy and clean future.

Professor Cobie Rudd

BHSc(N), MPH, PhD, GAICD

Pina Caffarelli

Pina is a chartered accountant whose professional accounting and tax career spans over 30 years. She is an experienced director and principal of Caffarelli & Associates, a boutique accounting practice providing specialist advice to clients including small business and the not-for-profit sector.

Pina has served on several boards and committees in the area of arts, sport and health including the Cancer Council of WA for 12 years and continues to serve on its Finance, Audit and Risk committee which she previously chaired.  She currently serves on the board of Women’s Health and Family Services and is a director of the Perth Blood Institute.

Pina holds a Master of Business (Accounting/Law), is a Chartered Tax Advisor (Taxation Institute), a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD).

Carli Sheers

Carli feels privileged to be a living example of recovery, reaching self-agency, full citizenship and socioeconomic participation in the Australian community. She has worked extensively in the mental health sector since 2007 and founded her own lived experience mental health education and training consultancy business in 2019, working with over 20 clients.  She is insightful and passionate about mental health reform and is involved in governance, independent consultancy, education and training, facilitation, event management, conference/public speaking, workshop programs, and mental health research.

In 2022, Carli was appointed by Richmond Wellbeing as their Lived Experience Engagement Lead, and The University of Western Australia, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, as Teacher in 2021. She was appointed by the WA Mental Health Commissioner as National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum (NMHCCF) WA Consumer Representative in 2020.  In the same year she was elected as a WA Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) Lived Experience Board Director and holds the role of WAAMH Board Lived Experience Participation Sub-Committee Chairperson.

Carli contributes as a Consumer Representative of the 360 Health and Community Board Clinical Governance Committee and is skilled in providing her expertise to assist in continually improving the quality of services and safeguarding high standards of care.  Her memberships also include the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership; Global Mental Health Peer Network; International Association of Peer Supporters; Consumers of Mental Health WA (CoMHWA), CoMHWA Peer Workforce Community of Practice; and Western Australian Peer Supporters Network.

Carli holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Edith Cowan University (1995 Dean’s List for academic excellence), and technical qualifications in mental health, community services, training and assessment, and micro-business operations.  She is accredited in Mental Health First Aid; certified in World Health Organization Quality Rights; contributing as a Member of the Mental Health Act (2014) Statutory Review Committee; and is currently completing a technical qualification in mental health peer work.

Deborah Roberts – Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer

MAppPsych (Clinical and Organisation)

Darren Sumner – Co-CEO and Chief Financial Officer

MBA, CPA

Darren is an experienced finance professional with a varied commercial background, ranging from variety of industries including Logistics, FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services and Not-For-Profit Disability and Health Services. With a passion for improvement, he has a strong background in IT, focused on system development and implementation. He is a degree qualified accountant, with CPA status and has an MBA from Curtin University.