Sophie is Irabina’s Chief Executive Officer. Sophie is an experienced finance and enterprise leader who has over 25 years’ experience working within both public and private organisations across the healthcare, transport and manufacturing industries. Sophie’s last role was at Austin Health as Interim CFO where she led the organisation through the recent global COVID19 pandemic. Prior to Austin Health Sophie spent 14 years at Metro Trains within the Public Transport sector and prior to that she worked at Ernst & Young, Orica and Amcor Fibre Packaging.

Sophie is an experienced Executive Leader and brings to Irabina strong financial & commercial skills. Sophie believes that creating high performing teams, strong change management, governance and accountability along with embracing technological developments are core responsibilities of a strong leader. Sophie has a proven track record in building strong relationships both within and external to an organisation.

Sophie has a Commerce degree from Monash University with a major in Accounting, is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australian & New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Australian Institute Company Directors (AICD).

Sophie is passionate about working within Healthcare, in part due to personal circumstances, and for working within an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people and families within the community.

Dr Jose Molina is a registered clinical psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, a master’s degree in clinical psychology, bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology, and is completing a second master’s degree in education and behaviour analysis. His professional interests are neurodevelopmental disorders, severe behaviours, intensive interventions, and early development. As a registered psychology supervisor, and honorary fellow of the University of Melbourne, Jose is passionate about teaching future generations of clinicians on the best practice models of care for individuals with autism.

Jane has over 30 years experience working in community health, disability, child, youth and family services. Jane’s experience spans everything from small, to large organisations including the Victorian Government.

Jane is highly experienced in leading the conception and implementation of governance, quality and risk frameworks. Jane’s work has ensured the effective delivery of organisational policy objectives with maximal efficiency, whilst ensuring all statutory and other legal requirements and obligations are met.

Jane has also developed risk frameworks to meet legislative and NDIS Commission Quality and Safeguarding requirement. Jane’s main focus is participant safety, especially vulnerable children and adults with a disability, including people from Aboriginal and culturally diverse backgrounds.

Janes collaborative and inclusive approach to working with executives, managers and staff ensures that all information and strategies meet the guidelines essential for delivering the best services to participants and their families.

Jane loves to collaborate with participants and their families when developing services. This ensures that all participants and families have their voices heard and their needs met by those services.

During COVID-19, Jane was deployed as the Senior Authorised Officer – Quality, Risk and OHS – COVID: 19 taskforce at the Victorian Department of Health which gave her the opportunity to manage the strict legislative guidelines and systems in support of Commanders, Managers, and Authorised Officers across Victoria.

Bessie Loo is an honours graduate in the field of Occupational Therapist who over the last 20+ years, has held various clinical and leadership roles in hospitals, the public and private sector. Her career path has moved her from adult neurorehabilitation work to disability – with her passion being in paediatrics and working with children on the spectrum.

Bessie brings with her the experience of working in the health care and disability sector across 3 countries: Asia, USA and Australia. Her passion is in learning and finding ways to help individuals develop an understanding of their own strengths and uniqueness.

In the earlier days of other career, this passion drove her to get further training and experience in various clinical approaches e.g. Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Sensory Integration, the Early Start Denver model, that helped her bring the best out of the clients she worked with.

Over the last 10 years, she has had the opportunity to take on various leadership roles that has shifted her focus on mentoring and leading younger clinicians and teams to excel in the achievement of their personal goals, and in so doing build successful teamwork within organizations, especially in times of change.