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Sally Loane

Sally Loane is a Chair, Non-Executive Director, business leader and former journalist and broadcaster.

Sally is the Chair of Destination NSW, Chair of Ignition Advice, a Director of Chubb Insurance Australia, a Director of the Garvan Research Foundation and a Director of PanKind, the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Research Foundation. She is a member of the advisory board of consulting firm Orizontas. She is a mentor with McCarthy Mentoring.

Sally was the CEO of the peak industry organisation for financial services, the Financial Services Council from 2014-21.

Sally was the first female Director of Waratahs Rugby in its 135-year history (2010-2017) and was a Director of SCEGGS Darlinghurst for 12 years.

Sally uses her experience in financial services policy development to encourage women to become financially independent, through mentoring (Minerva Network; Super Stars of STEM) and on the corporate advisory boards of the NSW Council for Women’s Economic Opportunity and the NSW Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Corporate Leadership Group.

She has had a long history of service to the community and charity sectors, currently as a Trustee of the ANZAC Memorial Building in NSW, Governor of the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, Ambassador for Business Events Sydney, a member of Chief Executive Women, patron of Lou’s Place and member of the Nominations Committee for Sydney University Sport and Fitness Ltd. Sally chaired the Salvation Army’s Sydney East Doorknock Appeal (2008-2011) and was Deputy Chair of the Committee for Sydney (2015-2018).

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