books read to children every year
Pyjama Angels trained in the last year
is the estimated value of volunteer hours in private tutoring
children supported every week
Bronwyn Sheehan OAM
Founder and CEO – The Pyjama Foundation
Founder and Executive Director, The Pyjama Foundation Bronwyn Sheehan founded The Pyjama Foundation in 2004 to make a positive impact on the lives of our community's most vulnerable children. Starting her career as a nurse and midwife, Bronwyn was inspired to create The Pyjama Foundation after she realised the plight of children living in out-of-home care in Australia. The Pyjama Foundation has trained thousands of volunteer mentors and has taken out several awards for its life-changing Love of Learning Program including the 2018 Telstra Business Award for Social Change.
The Pyjama Foundation is recognised as a charity which positively contributes to the Child Safety sector, actively making a difference to the life outcomes of children in care.
Bronwyn has also won several prestigious awards including receiving the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2021, Telstra Business Women's Awards in 2008, Queensland Australian of the year in 2009 and was a recipient of Westpac's Social Change Fellowship in 2017. In 2017 Bronwyn was given the once in a lifetime opportunity to attend Harvard Business School to study Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organisations.
Fiona Murdoch
Fiona brings more than two decades of experience in Board and senior executive roles to The Pyjama Foundation. She has extensive experience in the resources and infrastructure sectors in Australia and internationally with senior operational roles held with AMCI Investments, MIM Holdings and Xstrata Queensland.
Fiona is a Non-Executive Director of publicly listed companies NRW Holdings Limited, Metro Mining Limited and KGL Resources Limited. She also serves on the Joint Venture Committee for the West Pilbara Iron Ore Project, and is a Board Member of infrastructure advisory body Building Queensland. Her corporate roles have spanned the public and private sectors, across mining, water, minerals processing and infrastructure for rail and port.
Fiona holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Director program.
Brian Healey
Partner and Global Chair, K&L Gates
Brian is a partner and the Global Co-Chair of the Agribusiness, Food and Beverage Industry Group at K&L Gates, a global law firm with 40 offices located in key capital cities and world commercial and financial centres across 5 continents. He has more than 25 years' experience servicing clients in agribusiness and primary industries including in agricultural property transactions, water transactions, and leading teams in mergers and acquisitions.
Focusing primarily on agricultural property, water rights and investment in agribusiness, Brian is listed as a Preeminent and Leading Agribusiness Lawyer in Doyle's Guide (2016-2021) and is recognised as one of Australia's leading Agriculture & Rural Affairs lawyers in the 2017-2021 editions of Best Lawyers.
Other roles Brian performs include Chair of the Australia China Business Council (Qld) Food & Agribusiness Industry Group Working Committee and Chair of the Queensland Law Society Agribusiness and Water Law Committee.
Appointed June 2014
Rowan Macdonald
Partner, EY Financial Services
Rowan has more than 25+ years' experience in the financial services sector. His experience spans taxation, transaction execution, risk management and investment banking. His experience includes work with change management, addressing the impact of regulatory change and bedding down capital market transactions. Rowan has also had significant business leadership roles in the national, regional and global business of EY.
Appointed November 2017
Roxanne Dunkel
Roxanne has vast commercial experience gained both as a commercial lawyer and as the co-owner and publisher of the Australian Jewish News. Throughout her career she has provided voluntary legal advice at both the Kingsford and Redfern Legal Centres, advising on diverse issues relating to families. Roxanne became a director of The Pyjama Foundation in 2016 and has broad philanthropy sector experience.
Appointed September 2016
Peter Ostick
Peter is an Internet executive, founder and board member. Peter is the co-creator of various successful companies such as TVN a video marketplace and Soma Byron a physical and digital destination for the intersection of creativity and consciousness.
Before founding TVN, Peter was part of the Microsoft executive team that launched Microsoft Media Network in Australia and an early stage employee of Aquantive which was sold to Microsoft in 2008. Peter brings an entrepreneurial energy combined with a goal-orientated mindset to any venture he is involved with.
Shane O'Kane
Shane has over 30 years of experience in the finance sector. He has extensive experience in the not for profit sector and currently serves on the board of a private philanthropic foundation, a regional children's hospital trust and an environmental foundation.
Appointed February 2009