Our Team

Community Matrix Inc. was formed as a not for profit organisation to improve community outcomes. The following advisory board are instrumental for steering the direction of the organisation.

Felicity Hatzis BPharm MPS MBA - Executive Chair

Felicity has worked in community pharmacy for over 20 years. Healthy, strong and inclusive communities, and collective action for impact have been the motivating forces which have guided her actions both professionally and in a volunteer capacity.

To scale the impact of her work led her to pursue two unique streams. She enrolled in Murdoch University's Master of Business Administration program, completing it in 2017. Her thesis researched the opportunities for a Collective Impact approach to addressing obesity in Australia.

Concurrently, she engaged in local community level activities which included membership in the City of Belmont's Disability Access and Inclusion Focus Group, Aboriginal Engagement forum participation, Cultural Safety training for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and Health Literacy training. Felicity has initiated a number of community projects in Belmont. Her commitment to community development resulted in the City of Belmont reaching out to her to create the Rivervale Community Network, to engage local businesses, community organisations and residents in the council's Place Activation of the Wilson Park precinct in Rivervale.

In January 2018, she was employed on an 18-month contract at WA Primary Health Alliance, as the Australian National Chapter for the EAAD, to establish the local Alliance Against Depression (AAD) Coordination Centre for the purpose of supporting interested Western Australian communities in implementing their own local Alliances.

Bruce Houston - Secretary

Bruce Houston ACIS AGIA is a retired Business Consultant. His principal foci were business formation; management and financial systems; and corporate and small business restructuring.

Among other significant corporate roles he was the Diocesan Secretary to the Anglican Diocese of Perth and Perth Diocesan Trustees. He was a Councillor, then Mayor of the Town of Claremont, a board member of the Metropolitan Water Board and the Town Planning Board, and Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

mark oliver- treasurer

Mark Oliver has spent the last 15 years in various accounting and finance roles across mining, agriculture, manufacturing, distribution and services industries. 

Originally from the South-West of WA, he dabbled in the study of Psychology at UWA before settling down at Curtin University to compete a bachelor’s degree in Commerce. He is also an associate member of CPA Australia.

Early exposure to mental health issues within his family helped develop an understanding of the challenges these problems create and resulted in a desire to help wherever possible. 

A family man, he divides his time between a lovely wife and two growing boys, a lifelong obsession with aging vehicles, and the occasional motorcycle. 

Georgie Gallagher

Georgie Gallagher is a brand and marketing consultant with over 30 years' experience in branding and the application of marketing principles in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, FMCG, B2B services, industrial products, oil and gas, and new business start-ups.

Georgie assists clients with strategic marketing planning, brand development, product development and delivery, online marketing, marketing communications and promotions, and the effective and timely implementation of marketing plans. She has won an Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) Award for Branding and is a Certified Practising marketer with the AMI.

Georgie volunteers her time as a committee member of Cottesloe Rugby Union Football Club and assisting a number of not for profits by providing support in marketing and communications, fundraising and major event planning.

Steve Wade

Steve Wade recently retired from a 45-year career with wide-ranging experience as a Chartered Engineer in construction, project and general management in both Australia and overseas in the resources, manufacturing and port sectors.He gained tertiary qualifications in civil engineering at the University of Western Australia and as well as Australia has worked in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Steve retired from the position of General Manager Asset and Infrastructure Management with Fremantle Ports in 2017 and has been active with volunteer roles including leading a small project with WA Parks Foundation and membership of both the Maintenance and the Finance Committees of a local sailing club.

Rosie McKew BPharm AACPA MPS

Rosie has worked in private and public hospital pharmacy, including 10 years at the Austin hospital, a major teaching hospital in Melbourne. She has also worked at the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia as Managing Editor of the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research.

In 2018-2019 Rosie worked for a year with the Pharmacist in General Practice Program, funded by North Western Melbourne PHN, initially in a GP clinic, and then assisting with data collation and report writing. She currently works in community pharmacy, and with two community health medical clinics undertaking Home Medicine Reviews.

Kylie Forrest

Kylie is an Occupational Therapist with over 30 years' experience working with people with a wide variety of physical and psychological conditions.

Kylie worked in acute psychiatry for 3 years. Since then, she has worked in vocational rehabilitation and injury management, founding and managing her own consultancy business from 1996 to 2012.

Currently, Kylie is an Injury Management Advisor. Kylie is passionate about prevention and interventions in the area of mental wellness. She is the current lead for the Alcohol and Mental Health Wellness committee at her workplace. In this role she has introduced and championed activities which have resulted in an increased awareness of the importance of mental wellbeing for all staff.

Kylie is a graduate of the Landmark Forum and was a Seminar Leader with Landmark, leading seminars on many life impacting topics, to hundreds of participants. Kylie is committed to contributing in the area of depression and suicide prevention and reduction.