Board of Directors
Warwick Cavanagh – Chair
Warwick Cavanagh has a long career in developing and managing services for people with disabilities. He is currently employed by the Brotherhood of St Laurence as Area Manager North (Local Area Coordination), working in tandem with the NDIA to roll out the NDIS across the Northern region of Melbourne.
Past roles have included Chief Executive Officer of MOIRA, a CSO which provides a wide range of support services for people with disabilities and their families as well as youth in crisis. He has extensive experience in rehabilitation and management with the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, managing “Coonac” Rehabilitation Centre and later, Glen Waverley Rehabilitation Centre in Melbourne.
Warwick’s sector leadership is evidenced through his directorships; Chair of Active, elected director of National Disability Services (NDS) and Board member of Haven Home Safe a major Victorian community housing company.
John Wheller – Treasurer

John has extensive experience in business management and development, and provides ongoing consultancy advice and support to businesses.
John is Treasurer of Active. He Chairs the Finance and Audit Board Committee and is a member of the Active Development and Fundraising Board Committee.
Chris Glennen – Company Secretary and CEO

Chris has worked in the community housing sector since 2004 including receiving an Ethel Temby Scholarship to travel to England to visit a number of large and small housing associations delivering housing and associated services to people with disabilities. His previous roles have included Operations Manager and Deputy CEO, Housing Choices Australia and interim Executive Officer to establish the Disability Housing Trust.
Chris has served on the Board of the Community Housing Federation of Victoria since 2009.
Active is a state wide housing company committed to housing people with disabilities and others who require support to live in the community. Chris is a strong advocate for the role that well managed community housing companies can play combining company, community, finance and government resources to grow the supply of quality housing opportunities for Active’s client group
Ken Belfrage – Director

Prior to retiring, Ken had 34 years’ experience as a partner and practicing accountant in Bendigo and Melbourne. He has extensive skills in corporate governance, business management and finance developed in a range of consulting roles across many industry sectors.
Ken currently holds appointments as a Director with Haven, (Home Safe Loddon Mallee Housing Services Limited), Active Community Housing Limited, as Company Secretary with Bendigo Telco Limited and as Audit Committee Chair for Local Government Councils.
Tony Bridge – Director

Leo Fincher-Johnson – Director

Leo is currently Construction Manager, Major Projects at The University of Melbourne. He has previously held senior facilities management positions at the University of Western Sydney, the Queensland Department of Education and the Queensland Department of Justice. Earlier in his career Leo was a senior officer in the RAAF, during which time he managed the facilities for a number of RAAF establishments as well as spending time in Antarctica as the lead advisor on the development and assessment of a snow-ice runway.
Leo’s current responsibilities at The University of Melbourne extend across a large capital works program that includes the delivery of the +25,000m2 Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
Graham Forsyth – Director

He was a Founding Director and Secretary of the International Society of Applied Intelligence (ISAI). Graham has extensive experience in management and scientific research in the areas of machinery diagnosis and materials acquisition for the defence forces, contract supply and departmental organisation and development. He was the founder and the chair of the DSTO Health and Usage Monitoring Conference series from 1997 to 2007 and co-chair of that Conference for 2009, 2011 and 2013. He is the author of over 80 papers in DSTO and international publication series, including AIAA, AHS, ISAI and DECUS and two published books.
He is semi-retired, working as a part-time scientific consultant.
Estelle Fyffe – Director

Estelle holds board memberships with Active Property Services Management and the annecto Foundation. She is Vice Chair of the Victorian State Committee for National Disability Services and Chair of their OH&S sub-committee.
Estelle is a member of the Active Housing Services Board Committee.
Ian McLean – Director

Ian is involved with Person Referenced Practice, Quality Assurance, Person Centred Active Support, assessment of support requirements through the Support Intensity Scale. He is a participant on the IASSID International Special Interest Group on Quality of Life.
Ian is a member of the Housing Services Committee of the Active Board and is a member of National Disability Services – Victoria Division and its National Accommodation Sub-committee.
Melanie Rogers – Director
