Board of Directors

Bill is a well-known Melbourne businessman and active supporter of charitable causes in the community. The APC was Bill’s brainchild and it was through his fundraising efforts that the idea for a prostate cancer clinic for all men could be realised. Bill is Chairman/Director of Guest Group and has held many senior corporate roles and also served as Director of the Melbourne Football Club. He also services as the Chairman of the Board of FightMND. Bill is also Patron of the Australian Prostate Centre.

Tony is one of the leading robotic prostate surgeons internationally and the former Professorial Fellow & Head Department of Urology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Tony pioneered robotic surgery in Australia. In 2003 he performed the first open radical prostatectomy using robotic surgery in Australia at the Epworth Hospital. He is now into his fifteenth year of experience performing radical prostatectomies at Epworth Richmond. Together with Bill Guest Tony was instrumental in setting in the Australian Prostate Centre.

Leon joined the Board in 2011 and is an experienced Chairman, Company Director and Chief Executive with substantial experience in the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. Most recently he was a Director of both Woolworths Limited and ALH, Australia’s largest liquor and entertainment group, now known as Endeavour Group Limited.

Of specific relevance to the APCR Board, Leon’s previous appointments in the health sector include roles as Chairman of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council, Director of the NH&MRC, Director of St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Director of the Bernard O’Brien Microsurgery Foundation and founding Chairman of the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane.

As Executive Chairman of Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission Leon developed and introduced the ground-breaking TAC road safety campaigns which played a major role in reducing Victoria’s road toll by almost 50% in 3 years, saving thousands of lives.

Kevin is a Melbourne marketing and business veteran, former Executive Chairman of management consultants, Growth Solutions Group and former Board member of APN News & Media. His career background has covered senior corporate management and Board roles in Australia, USA, and South East Asia and Europe.

Sally Marasco is the Director of Marasco Projects. She is a passionate leader, driven to deliver significant outcomes in the areas of major events, business development, partnership management and strategic and operational planning.

With a proven track record of delivering outstanding results for every organisation she has worked with, Sally has empowered executive teams, produced collaborative win-win partnerships and created roadmaps that take the strategy & planning through to execution.

Executive General Manager, Real Estate & Community Media at NewsCorp Australia. Fiona is a dynamic and strategic leader who has built a reputation for consistently and successfully transforming some of Australia’s largest and most valuable media businesses, brands, products and categories. She has won numerous global awards for product launches notably International News Media Association’s (INMA) awards for Digital Audience Growth, Engagement and New Audience Segment; as well as awards for community engagement initiatives; and innovative and critical thinking.

David is a partner at Campbell & Shaw Solicitors, and has been engaged with Australian Prostate Cancer Research since it formed its Board in 2011. David is a former AFL Commissioner and was Essendon Football Club president from 1993 to 1996, having also played in four grand finals for Essendon.

Travis is currently the State General Manager for Victoria for global engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald and has over 25 years of general, client relationship, transformation/change and operations management across a range of technical industries in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Africa, Middle East & Asia. Travis is also the co-founder & a current board member of White Owl for Men’s Health Awareness, a not-for profit organisation which aims to help more men be aware & proactive in maintaining their physical & mental health.

John has worked in the commercial legal sector for more than three decades. He was a Partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques from 1987 until his retirement from the partnership in late 2009. He worked in the Dispute Resolution Group where he specialised in all aspects of corporate litigation, including contractual, product liability and trade practices claims, media and defamation.

Drew Robinson founded Drew Robinson Pty Limited over 25 years ago. Drew continues to run the company based on responsive individual service underpinned by genuine family values. The down-to-earth generosity of Drew is very much the hallmark of the practice. For Drew, family values run deep, both inside and outside of the practice. He has been an honorary member of a number of organisations. Including Challenge, a charity supporting kids with cancer where he has been a board member for over 20 years. Drew joined the APC Board in 2020.