Governance & Committee Experience

As an experienced executive, advisor, and freelance consultant, I bring a strategic, governance-first perspective that ensures robust fiduciary oversight, performance outcomes, and risk management, aligned with the organisation’s long-term goals.

My experiences enable me to contribute directly to digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies.

Board & Committee Competencies

The boardroom and executive committee expertise span corporate, government, and community volunteer organisations.

Setting the mission, strategic goals, and strategic plans, ensuring the organisation, team, and projects are aligned with the roadmap.

Leading the annual planning and budgeting process, including divisional engagement and executive alignment.

Translating strategic initiatives into operational and financial outcomes, KPIs and measurable performance targets.

Ensuring legal, ethical, statutory, and regulatory compliance, including maintaining high standards of reporting, risk mitigation, and confidentiality.

Strengthen financial controls and governance frameworks, maintaining financial & fiduciary oversight,  acting in good faith with a duty of care.

Deliver board-ready reporting aligned to the organisation’s governance standards.

Leading organisation design of the IT Department operations and improving customer satisfaction and service delivery.

Commercial management, monitoring contract, financial and operational performance, and ensuring quality and fiscal responsibility.

Implementing digital transformation initiatives and complex cloud-based system deployments, ensuring project governance and outcomes align with strategy.

Board & Committee Chronology & Achievements

Professional Career as a Freelance Consultant, Executive Manager and Accountant

Corporate Governance and Leadership
  • As an Executive and Senior Manager Responsible for the monthly board papers, board governance, and reporting, supporting the company secretarial functions. Presenting the strategy, business case, and 3-5-year plans at the executive and board level, and managing project status reporting, risk and issue monitoring, and mitigation management, ensuring outcomes align with the strategy and business case objectives.
  • Preparing the annual department business plans and budget, and the monthly financial accounts with profit & loss responsibility. And prepared marketing plans to grow business revenues, build customer base and manage accounts, developing opportunities.
  • Member of board committees, managing the organisation's risk and statutory regulations registers, ensuring compliance, mitigating risks and issues, managing the commercial contracts register, and supplier performance management with four digital platforms and software development startups.
  • Governance-focused leading procurement boards through procurement risk management, Federal and State Government procurement compliance as a senior manager with a Victorian government IT Department. And procuremnet with corporate companies, including Sycom (Division of Remington), with four digital platforms and software development startups, and Telstra Business Systems.
  • Managing business functions including accounting, IT, supply chain, H.R., marketing, PMO and office administration, with Sycom (Division of Remmington), with four digital platforms and software development startups. - Prepared category management strategy for the ICT category, managing the end-to-end procurement activities, with ITG/Ingram Micro, corProcure (Aust Post).
  • Advising and consulting on digital transformation, ICT procurement, and implementing digital platforms and managed services.
  • Establishing transformation and project management office governance, managing project delivery, and organising teams to achieve project strategy and plans.
  • C-level and Board advisor in digital transformation strategy and transitioning to cloud-based systems and cybersecurity.
  • Presenting the strategy, business case, and 3-5-year plans at the executive and board level, and managing project status reporting, risk and issue monitoring, and mitigation management, ensuring outcomes align with the strategy and business case objectives.
  • Implementing project management and ITIL/ITSM service methodology, policies, processes, procedures, and governance. Reporting to the board and C-Level project sponsors on project status, commercial negotiations, and risk management.
  • Setting up ICT procurement governance (strategic sourcing, commercial contract management & supplier performance management), managing the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, compliance, and reporting.
  • Leading IT Department operations, service delivery, and project implementation, reporting on status and service management to the board and C-level stakeholders.
  • Establishing project management office governance, implementing policy, process and procedures. Governing project delivery, quality & risk management, and status reporting, improving service delivery and project control.
  • Preparing project plans and business cases, and leading project teams to achieve project strategy and plans, in the delivery of complex IT systems, business processes, and organisational change.
  • Implemented an ITIL/ITSM framework to manage IT service management and service delivery.
  • Established IT procurement governance procedures and a suppliers' governance board.
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee, Change Control Board (Technical Council), Users Group Forums, as an IT Department senior manager, improving service delivery and governance. Reporting to governance committees, business stakeholders and committees on service delivery and management.
  • Advising project sponsor and C-level stakeholders on alignment with business strategy, project status, issue resolution and risk mitigation, funding and direction to achieve the project roadmap.
  • Notably as a COO/GM with four digital platform startup companies and senior IT department manager with Tesltra Business Systems and ARCBS.
  • School Alumni Association | Melbourne, AUS 2010 – Present
  • President, Officer Bearer & Founder, Williamstown High School Association (WHSA) | Melbourne, AUS 2025 to Present
  • I formed the Williamstown High Association (WSHA), led member recruitment, incorporated the association, and prepared its articles of association and strategic plan. The alumni serve as a point of connection between past and present students, staff, parents, and the community, with a charter to be the school's alumni, to connect members with the school's history, and to organise fundraising events to support the school and students.
  • Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Committee Member, Williamstown High School Staff and Student Association (WHESSA) | Melbourne, AUS 2010 – 2020
  • Managed committee meetings, agendas, minutes, and annual returns. Organised the election of officer-bearers at the AGM. Established the social media presence. Fundraising and organising the school's 100th anniversary celebration.
  • Community Advocacy and Election Management | Melbourne, AUS 1990 – 2026
  • Branch President, Electorate Conference Chairman, Secretary and Election Campaign Manager. In the roles I oversaw, I led local policy development and community liaison, governance and operations, including annual planning and budgeting, managing financial accounts, and ensuring compliance with the party constitution and policy, as well as the electoral commission regulations.
  • As the Chairman and Branch President, I led a team of volunteers to recruit members, raise funds, develop policies, chair meetings and the AGM, manage elections for office-bearers and candidate pre-selection conventions, conduct electorate activities and events, and engage in community and government liaison.
  • As the Electorate Conference and Branch Secretary, I managed meetings, agendas, minutes, correspondence, the AGM, compliance reporting, and the annual return. As the election campaign manager, I prepared the strategic campaign plan and budget, provided candidate advice, led the campaign team, organised a diverse team of volunteers, managed community engagement and media, managed fundraising and budgets, handled compliance reporting, and chaired campaign meetings.
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Home Town – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

davidwood@davidwood.au

+61 0411 103 110

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