Meet the team

Chief Executive Officer

Barbara Crook
Barbara has broad experience gained in various senior executive roles, including CEO, Hunt & Hunt; Executive General Manager Operations, Allens Arthur Robinson; and General Manager, Operations, Smorgon Arc. She has also worked for Australian Defence Industries, Country Road, Morgan & Banks and Uncle Ben’s of Australia.In 1996 she completed an executive MBA from AGSM, University of NSW and prior to that obtained a Diploma and a Bachelor of Education as well as post-graduate studies in Computer Science.

Barbara is a member of three boards; Advisory Board of Monash Institute of Medical Research, Foundation Board and Dean’s Advisory Board of Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

Technical Team

Heather Schache

Heather is the General Manager of Taxation and Superannuation.

Heather has in excess of 10 years’ tax experience in chartered accounting, including more than six years in corporate tax at Ernst and Young. More recently Heather was the Group Tax Manager of a large multinational company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Heather has a Bachelor of Business, a Masters of Taxation and is a Chartered Accountant.

Roger Timms

Roger is the National Technical Manager.

Prior to joining Taxpayers Australia, Roger was the National Manager of the Webb Martin tax training business, responsible for the writing of all tax technical papers and delivering training sessions.

He has also written regular articles for Inside Tax and held the role of editor of the Lawyers Tax Manual.

Roger was a tax consulting partner at a Big 4 accounting practice servicing multi-national companies and also had responsibility for staff training.

Roger left public practice to carry out a series of tax assignments for a large commercial organisation, subsequently returning to practice as the partner in charge of tax for a Victorian second tier accounting practice.

Audrey Teoh

Audrey is a tax specialist with expertise in individuals' income and deductions, rental properties, personal service income, special professional income, individual tax offsets, CGT small business concessions, GST and tax administration. 

Weiran Wang

Weiran has degrees in Accounting, as well as Media and Communications and has previously worked for a Chartered Accounting firm.

Weiran is a tax specialist with a background in Chartered Accounting.

Weiran has a Bachelor of Commerce and and Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communication) and is currently completing his CPA.

Michael Perry

Michael's interests include superannuation and retirement planning.

For much of the previous decade he has run a consultancy assisting clients with strategic wealth management and investment planning matters.

He has provided services for superannuation and retirement income modelling and brings a range of business skills gained through a number of years of experience in various corporate roles.

Graeme Evans

Graeme is both a qualified accountant and financial planner and brings to the Association a detailed knowledge in superannuation and related matters.

Publishing, Marketing and Sales Team

Berith Ostrom

Berith is our Marketing Manager and responsible for all marketing, sales and publishing activities of the Association.

Berith has held various managerial positions in large corporations such as Thomson, Rural Press and Anstat, and has also worked for publishing companies such as Wilkinson Publishing, Edsoft and Coretext.

Steve Brendish

Steve is the Publishing and Web Manager and manages the production of our in-house publications as well as our website. He is also responsible for our e-services such as Tax e-news and Super e-news.

Steve has worked in various large publishing companies in the UK such as The Daily Mail Group, Future Publications and Music Maker Publications and was also instrumental in starting up several publishing companies in Eastern Europe.

Leonnie Gleeson 

Leonnie is responsible for the desktopping and production of the Association's publications.

Daniel Cuturilo 

Over the past twenty years Daniel has consulted in the field of business development within the commercial finance and international trade sectors.

He has an expert knowledge of relationship building, negotiation, sales and marketing within the SME sector.

Membership Services Team

Sandra O'Hara

Sandra assists in the smooth running of the organisation, her main task being the coordination of our seminar programme. She also plays a vital role in dealing with administration and membership queries.

Ann Palmer

Ann is involved in the general office and is one of a team who answers members' telephone calls, deals with account
queries and processes membership payments. She deals with our external products, including Trust Deeds.

Margaret Bethel

Margaret is involved in the general office. She answers members' phone calls and enquiries, processes membership payments and keeps members details up to date. All orders for and renewals of our various products for both Taxpayers Australia and DIY Superannuation are overseen by Margaret.

Jane Abbey

Jane answers members' phone calls and enquiries, processes membership payments and keeps member details up to date. She also deals with our external products, including Trust Deeds.

Administration Team

Andrew Kendt CPA

Andrew is Finance Executive & Systems support for the Association. He produces all the Association's financial reports and maintains our membership database.

Carolyn Holmes

Carolyn handles all our invoicing and bill payments as well as a myriad of other tasks that keep the office running smoothly.

Jan Richards

Jan Richards is Assistant to the National Board of Taxpayers Australia and its subcommittees. She also coordinates the Association's Annual Conference and the tertiary institution academic prize program.