Director

Audrey is a Director of Mates Fund and leads Mates Australia.

She is currently completing a Master of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne, with a specific interest in disability support and social policy. She also completed 2 years of Peace Corps volunteering in remote Fiji. Audrey is excellent at writing policies and grounding our understanding of the work we are doing. Once we understand a problem from the community, Audrey helps connect that with the available academia, policy context and evidence.

She is passionate about growing Mates into something as meaningful as humanly possible.

Founder and Director

Charlie is the founder of Mates Fund and oversees Mates Fiji. She also supports and mentors volunteers, leads much of the administrative thinking behind the organisation, and helps turn big ideas into systems that can actually hold the work.

Charlie has a degree in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and brings that lens into the way Mates understands community, power, problems and solutions.

Charlie is a twice-exceptional autistic woman who cannot help but look at everything. Most people look at the forest for the trees, and autistic people look at the trees for the forest. Charlie is looking at the way the ocean affects the forest in the first place — and how gravity affects all of it. She brings the macro view.

Director

Jonty is a Director of Mates Fund and works closely on Mates Pakistan.

He has a degree in Science and a Master’s in Climate Science, and brings a wealth of knowledge from the nonprofit space. He is often the person who can point the board in the right direction by reflecting on his own experience and understanding of how nonprofit work operates.

Jonty’s energy is full of purpose, and he is usually the first to make the whole board die laughing.

Director

Lachlan Fitzgerald is a Director of Mates Fund and a local business owner.

He brings extensive knowledge of business processes and has supported the establishment of Mates from the ground up with as much professionalism as we can muster.

Lachlan provides practical business insight, operational thinking and grounded advice about how to build systems that work in the real world.

Director and Treasurer

Billy is a Director and Treasurer of Mates Fund. He supports strategic planning, financial oversight, governance and the development of Mates Pakistan.

Billy has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney, majoring in Management. He brings business knowledge, financial thinking and practical structure to the organisation.

He is also the most personal person you will ever meet. There is no one on planet Earth — and he has been all over it — who does not smile when they think of Billy.