Management Board

Stuart Ord

Stuart was appointed Acting CEO for Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort in January 2012. Prior to his appointment at Mt Baw Baw Stuart was Director of Healthy Parks Healthy People Strategy for Parks Victoria.  Previously he has been Regional Manager for Parks Victoria in various parts of Victoria, initially managing the parks system in the east of the State, and more recently the urban terrestrial and marine parks in the Melbourne metropolitan area.  This has exposed him to the many issues and complexities associated with balancing the needs of tourism related activities in both regional and urban environments.

A forester by training, Stuart spent five years in commercial forestry in the Otway Ranges prior to joining Melbourne Water in the management of water supply catchments and metropolitan recreational parks. He was with Parks Victoria since its inception in 1996. He was awarded a Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 1998 giving him the opportunity to study National and Regional Park management and tourism services in Canada and in the USA.

Stuart is a previous judge and mentor with the Victorian Tourism Awards and has been a National Tourism Awards judge for the past three years. 

Ralph Booth

Ralph is the Chairperson of Lake Mountain Alpine Resort and a member of the Alpine Resorts Coordinating Council. He is also a member of the Alpine Resorts 2020 Strategy Reference Panel and the Phillip Island Nature Park Board where he also serves as Chair of their Audit and Risk Committee.

Ralph has founded several corporate advisory businesses with a primary focus on public policy and administration. He worked for 13 years in the Department of Treasury and Finance as a senior executive in a variety of roles in financial, economic, and budgetary reform as well as Whole of Government financial reporting and asset management.

Now an occasional cyclist and lapsed cross country skier Ralph maintains a keen research interest in tourism, cultural landscapes, environmental change and public policy.

Wally Tabensky

Wally holds professional engineering qualifications and has vast experience in engineering and local government. He has been employed with various local governments, commencing with the City of Springvale in 1968 and concluding his working career upon retiring from his position as Director, Infrastructure and Environment, at the Baw Baw Shire in 2008. Wally has studied overseas, and has been a member of the Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort Management Board (10 years) and previous Management Committee at Mt Baw Baw since 1989.

Vicky Papachristos

Vicky has spent over 20 years as a management and marketing executive with major corporations in Australia and the USA. Vicky's work has spanned Petrochemicals, Banking, Sport, IT & Retailing holding senior roles in Shell, Westpac, Visa, Myer, the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics as well as an IT start-up in the US.

Vicky's expertise is in strategy and marketing responsible for the design, development and launch of several major customer facing business initiatives. Vicky also has extensive expertise in setting up new and enhancing existing business operations.

In 2006 Vicky formed Currant Marketing – an independent consultancy in the fields of loyalty and customer strategy specialising in retail and consumer products.

Vicky is also an Independent Director of EPAL - EFTPOS Payment Australia Limited, Australia's most widely used domestic debit card system.

Vicky is a keen skier and road cyclist and holds a Chemical Engineering degree as well as an MBA from the AGSM.

Randall Cohen

Randall has 20 years professional experience in commercial and legal projects in both public and private sectors. He is a current non-executive Director of CenITex, the State's recently established centralised information and communications provider. In 1999, Randall formed a niche consulting business primarily focused on providing services to a broad array of Victorian Government Departments assisting in delivery of major projects with emphasis on infrastructure, resources, energy, litigation and risk management and dispute resolution. While the State has been the principal client base for his consulting work over the past 10 years, Randall has also led a number of projects during this period for private companies in Victoria's energy industry. Prior to forming his consulting business, Randall worked as General Counsel and Regulatory Manager for GPU GASNet Pty Ltd, as Corporate Solicitor for Alcoa of Australia Ltd, and as a solicitor with major law firm, Mallesons Stephen Jacques.

Jacqueline McLeod

Jacqui is an environmental scientist and manager with over 25 years experience in environmental policy and strategy development, environmental impact assessment and regulatory and advisory services in state and local government and the private sector in Victoria and New South Wales.

Jacqui's experience includes extensive stakeholder engagement and facilitation and a track record of influencing at a range of levels, through both formal statutory processes of community consultation and informal engagement at high levels of government and industry.

As a manager, Jacqui has held a number of senior level positions over the last 15 years, involving leadership of staff and multi-disciplinary teams, business management, business improvement, organisational change and business development. Jacqui also has broad experience as a project manager, developing project plans and costings, assigning team roles, reviewing outputs and overseeing delivery to time and budget.

Jacqui is a long time downhill skier and has skied most of the resorts in Victoria and NSW since being a teenager, including having spent a season working as a ticket seller at Perisher-Smiggins.