Meet the Holdsworth team

Appointed to the Board in June 2024. George is Executive Manager of Government and Industry Affairs at IAG. In IAG he has worked in various senior corporate positions including public policy, international strategy, risk management, and corporate strategy.

Prior to joining IAG he worked in Telstra in senior finance roles, and prior to that in the federal departments of Finance, Transport/Aviation, Communication, and Defence, in senior policy positions.

George is also on the Board of the Sydney Institute, and Secretary of the Australian Professional Government Relations Association.

Appointed in 2025, Fiona is a highly accomplished senior finance executive and business leader with over 25 years of strategic expertise across aged care, Global network solutions, IT, professional accounting and not-for-profit sectors. Her career began in her family’s group of residential aged care homes, where she developed a passion for the delivery of quality aged care services. More recently, Fiona was engaged as a strategic consultant for an innovative aged care start-up. Fiona is also an active volunteer in conservation.

Rashi Bansal at Avant Mutual leads the team of medico-legal experts, claims professionals and member services agents, with a focus on delivering the best possible value with affordable premiums and quality services. She aims to give members confidence in the support they receive from Avant through her commitment to providing member-centric services and products, not only for medical indemnity, but also across Avant’s life, business and travel insurances.

Alison was appointed to Holdsworth in Sept 2025, Alison has 35 years of experience in HR and change leadership in financial services, primarily in the UK. Her career culminated in leading the cultural integration of London Stock Exchange Group and Refinitiv. She has a passion for people, their development and learning and the culture in which they work. She moved into a non-executive career in the UK in education (both University and school) and mental health, prior to a family move to Australia in 2023. She is on the board of Roses in the Ocean, Australia’s lived experience of suicide organisation and volunteers for Lifeline in Bondi. She has an elderly mother in the UK and so has a personal interest in how aged care can help older people live their lives to the full.
Alison has an MSc in strategy and leadership from London Business School where she attended the Sloan Programme, an MSc in Coaching Psychology from London University and an MA in History from the University of Cambridge.

Matthew Robertson is a strategy and communications specialist with over fifteen years’ experience across not-for-profit management, policy advisory, communications, change management, and executive and local government roles.

For a decade Matthew worked at the Wayside Chapel, where he was responsible for a successful accreditation program, developed the organisation’s policy framework and social enterprise strategy, and oversaw major change initiatives including a CEO transition, merger with Chapel by the Sea, and a 50% increase in program delivery through partnership with the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.

Since 2012, Matthew has served as a Councillor at Woollahra Municipal Council for the Paddington Ward where he has brought together diverse stakeholders to deliver community outcomes and drive progressive change through strategic initiatives in areas such as place activation, heritage conservation and urban forestry. Matthew serves as the Council’s representative on the Sydney Eastern Central Planning Panel and chairs Council’s Ecological Sustainability Taskforce.

Aidan Tan is an accomplished paediatric doctor, health leader and board director with a breadth of governance experience spanning health, education and research sectors across Australia and internationally. He brings to the boardroom a unique combination of clinical insight, policy expertise, academic rigour and systems thinking. Aidan serves on the Medical Board of Australia, the Board of Vision Australia, the Board of Holdsworth Community, the Board of Woodlands Retirement Village, and the Board of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science, where he also holds the office of Treasurer. He serves on the Academic Board and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Board at the University of Sydney and advises the Board of Community Connections Australia. He previously served on the Board of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Appointed in 2022, Jennifer has 30+ years’ experience in the corporate sector in a wide variety of roles. Jennifer worked as a corporate lawyer in both Australia and the UK before moving to the US in 1990 to complete her MBA and work for National Basketball Association in a wide range of areas – marketing, sponsorship, and consumer products before returning to Australia in 2003. Since returning, Jennifer has worked in a variety of loyalty marketing , payments and product development roles. Jennifer currently works for the Commonwealth Bank overseeing growth for their new in-app shopping experience. In 2018-19 Jennifer took a career break to care for her mother with Alzheimer’s and is grateful for the care and services provided by Holdsworth and is committed in supporting the organisation to grow in the future.

Elena is an Executive at Microsoft, and leads their Specialist Sales organisation in Australia and New Zealand, responsible for Microsoft’s AI, Cloud and Technical Sales specialists for its Enterprise customers.

Elena spent 7 years working in Japan for Google Japan as the Google Technical Services Director, and prior to that as the PayPal Japan Country Manager. Prior to this, Elena spent 16 years in payments with PayPal and American Express in various business and technology roles across Asia Pacific.

Before her career in payments, she was the IT Strategy Manager and Shared IT Operations Centre Manager at Boral Australia, a large Australian multi-national in the energy and construction business. She started her career at Coopers & Lybrand Australia and UK in Management Consulting Services.

In addition, Elena was elected as a Councillor on Sydney’s Woollahra Municipal Council in 2012.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance & Information Systems) from the University of New South Wales, and an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a Chartered Accountant. Elena is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.