Our Board

Phillip Toyne LLB, Dip Ed - President

Phillip is currently a director of EcoFutures, an Australian-based international policy firm working on building sustainable strategies with business, government and civic leaders. He serves on numerous national and regional councils and committees and has been instrumental in many ground-breaking initiatives in Australia. These include the development, with Rick Farley, of the national Landcare program. Amongst his other roles Phillip was formerly deputy secretary in the Commonwealth Department of Environment, and executive director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Phillip joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2000. 

Dr Steve Morton  B Sc (Hons) PhD - Vice President

Steve is Group Chair of Environment and Natural Resources at CSIRO and one of Australia's most respected ecologists. He has twenty years experience with CSIRO as a research scientist in tropical northern Australia, arid central Australia and the southern temperate zone as well as intergrating biodiversity conservation into land use for grazing and agriculture. Steve joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2003.

David Rickards   BSc, BEng, MBA - Treasurer

Executive Director and Head of Research, Macquarie Bank.
David heads up the equities research group at Macquarie Bank, coordinating a team based throughout Australia, Asia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Before joining Macquarie he was responsible for establishing in Australia the risk management company BARRA International. He also worked as a consulting structural engineer with Maunsell and Partners Pty Ltd. David is an authority on the equities market with particular expertise in strategic analysis. David joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.

Dr Guy Fitzhardinge  B Ag Economics,  M Ap Sci

Guy is currently a member of the Commonwealth Threatened Species Scientific Committee and chairman of the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies. He has previously been a director of Meat & Livestock Australia and The Meat Research Corporation, vice president of the Australian Rangelands Society, and advisor to CSIRO Wool and Textiles Division, the wool industry, WWF and a ministerial appointee to the NSW Biodiversity Advisory Committee. He has a long involvement with Landcare in NSW, and currently manages three properties and a large cattle herd in central western NSW. Guy joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2003. 

Dr Sue McIntyre BSc (Hons) PhD

Sue is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems. She currently leads a research group working on sustainability in agricultural landscapes. Sue’s 27 years of research experience has resulted in numerous publications on weed ecology, landscape ecology, conservation biology and integrative conceptual models. Throughout her career Sue has sought to render complex ecological concepts into simple principles that enable land managers to apply science into practice.  Sue joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2007

Andrew Myer Grad Dip Bus Mgt, MBA

Andrew has a long involvement with investment, film and philanthropy. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Sestriere Investments Pty Ltd, a private investment vehicle established in 1985, with interests in equities, property development and management and is a director of numerous private companies.  He has produced and executive produced Australian feature films and is a board member of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Andrew is a Trustee of The Sidney Myer Fund and for five years held the position of Director and Co-Vice President of The Myer Foundation.  Andrew joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2007.

Hutch Ranck  BScEcon

Managing Director, DuPont Australia/New Zealand
In addition to being Managing Director of DuPont Australia/New Zealand Hutch is also Group Managing Director for DuPont operations in ASEAN. He is a director of both the Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority and the National Association for Crop Production and Animal Health (AVCARE). Hutch is the Business Council of Australia representative on the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and is a member of the Business Roundtable on Sustainable Development. He has also worked in a variety of roles with DuPont in the United States of America and in Hong Kong. Hutch joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.

Keith Tuffley BEc, LLB, LLM

Keith has been an investment banker for the past 17 years, the last six of which have been as a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs. In 2003 he was appointed Head of the Investment Banking Division and a member of the Board of Goldman Sachs in Australia, and in 2007 Keith relocated to London to lead the Industrials business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In recent years, he has completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, and the Goldman Sachs Non-Profit Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.  Keith recently retired from the investment banking industry to pursue his interests in environmental issues. He is also a Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and a Governor of WWF-Australia. Keith joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.