Management Committee

Kylie Blucher has an extensive knowledge of both the radio and television industry after more than 25 years working with both the Austereo Radio Network and the Nine Network.

She moved into the television industry at Nine Queensland in 1997 where she has moved through the ranks as Marketing Director to Programming and Marketing Director, before taking on her current role in 2010 as Managing Director.

In 2016 Kylie also took up the role as Managing Director of NBN (regional NSW Channel Nine).

Blucher has held a number of board positions over the past 10 years including Major Brisbane Festival (Deputy Chair), Surf Lifesaving Queensland Foundation, the Queensland Eye Institute Foundation, Youngcare and the Queensland Performing Arts Trust.

Drawing on her 18 years of experience developed since a graduate lawyer at McCullough Robertson, Kristan has extensive experience in the sale and acquisition of commercial, retail and industrial properties, commercial and retail leasing, and often advises on property matters arising out of major corporate acquisitions, including the conduct of and reporting on due diligence investigations.

Paul was Partner, Audit & Assurance at BDO and responsible for the audit of a significant number of the firm’s clients in a broad range of industries. Paul’s expertise is in the area of statutory and special purpose audits, special investigations, due diligence and corporate governance advisory. Paul has wide experience across a number of industries.

Paul acts for a number of high profile clients in the property development, building and construction industry. Across these industries Paul’s clients range from listed public companies to family owned and operated entities.

Key assignments:

• Financial services
• Property & construction
• Retail
• Hotels and Venue management

Meredith is a Senior Principal Town Planner at Tract where she leads the Queensland Planning and Urban Design team. In this role, Meredith works on a range of projects in the residential, healthcare, recreation and commercial sectors throughout South East and Regional Queensland. With experience as a town planner in local government and private sector, Meredith is well versed in statutory legislation interpretation and application, project coordination and the leadership and management of multi-disciplinary consultant teams.

Meredith has been actively involved with the Committee for Brisbane, particularly in the initial production of the Brisbane 2033: Our Olympics and Paralympics Legacies Phase 1 paper.

Meredith is also an active member of the Planning Institute of Australia and Urban Development Institute of Australia, regularly participating in mentoring, committees and policy driven initiatives for these organisations.

David is the General Manager of Hoyne QLD, Australia’s leading consultant in placemaking and property branding. A senior marketing professional, he has worked for some of the most successful creative agencies in Sydney and London, before returning to Brisbane and focusing his expertise on place and destination marketing. He brings a deep knowledge of strategy, qualitative and quantitative research, branding, campaign development and lead generation.

Kelvin is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Treasury Brisbane and has been with The Star Entertainment Group since 2015. He has almost 30 years’ experience in the tourism and hospitality industry. More recently, he has worked for Mirvac Hotels and Resorts and Accor Australia before joining The Star.

Kelvin comes from a sales and marketing background and has vast experience in managing high-end five-star hotels, resorts and refurbishments.

Additionally, he has been involved in numerous pre-openings of new hotels and resorts and will play a critical role for The Star from an operational and strategic perspective in the lead-up to the opening of Queen’s Wharf.

Peter is an award-winning architect, an accomplished and recognised urbanist, and a leading figure in Queensland’s urban design community.

Peter is the Founding Director of Archipelago – an integrated architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture practice and one of Australia’s leading city-making design firms.

With over thirty years of experience in architecture and urban design, Peter provides leadership, design expertise and strategic thinking to the major projects shaping our nation’s cities. Peter combines work on major projects with key involvement in urban design professional bodies. He is regularly sought as a design leader, city-making expert and public speaker who authors and facilitates design enquiry and continues to advocate publicly for better cities through design.

Peter is a TEDx Alumni, past President of the Urban Design Alliance Qld, and a founding member of the Queensland Urban Design and Placemaking Panel, a member of the Griffith University Cities Research Institutes Advisory Council and sits on a number of industry boards and panels.

Currently a Committee for Brisbane Corporate Member, Peter is a long-standing supporter of CFB events through attendance, sponsorship and participation in speaking roles, and is a current member of the Committee for Brisbane 2032 Olympics Legacy Subcommittee.

Lucy, as Managing Principal of the Hassell studio in Brisbane, invests her passion and drive into delivering strategic insights, design excellence and high performance within a collaborative culture.

Lucy leads with an empathetic viewpoint and designs with a people-centric lens. She sees her work as a real privilege; a chance to work with dynamic, committed clients ready to push the limits of what design can do to spark innovation, collaboration and sustainable performance.

A big part of that is developing long term trusted relationships” Whatever the nature of a project, Lucy believes in the power of close partnerships and genuine teamwork to make it exceptional. It’s about exploring and testing ideas together to develop lively and agile environments. A gifted communicator and focused listener, Lucy has the ability to cut straight to the heart of client’s aspirations and business needs.

Dr. Alan Patching brings multiple competencies to C4B across a range of disciplines. He is perhaps best known in Brisbane for being the founding Director of well-respected project management consultancy RCP, and he is better known more broadly for his work as owners’ Project Director for the design and construction of the Sydney Olympic Stadium, CEO of the owning entity of the largest Olympic stadium venue ever built, and member of the Sydney Olympics Venues Management Committee. He also was Project Director for the early stages of Lang Park redevelopment (Suncorp) and advisor to the Treasurer and the Queensland Cabinet Review Committee for the construction phase. In all Alan Patching has a career experience in property and construction totalling some $20 billion in 2020 values. He is now a professor of construction management and quantity surveying, and of project management at Bond University, as well as serving as Director of Industry Engagement for Bond. He also holds a masters degree and a PhD in the psych-related area of workplace stress, and supervises PhD candidates in both the construction and psychology areas at Bond.

Stephanie Paul is Managing Director, Phillips Group. She is highly respected for her strategic ability to work with leadership and multi-disciplinary management teams to address complex business challenges to achieve outcomes. Her extensive experience spans the private and public sectors.

Stephanie has held a number of directorships of various organisations across the arts and medical research fields. Her international experience extends to being appointed Global Chair of Worldcom Public Relations Group Inc with more than 120 offices worldwide, overseeing the organisation’s strategic transition to one global partnership with an agreed strategy and improved governance structure. Her international contacts extend globally across more than 40 countries.

She is a current member and active participant on the Committee for Brisbane’s Communications and Engagement Standing Committee. Stephanie provides counsel to boards and senior management in strategy, communication, reputation management, organisational change and transformation.

Dr Caroline Riot is Director, Games Engagement and Partnerships at Griffith University and is leading the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic engagement for the University. As Senior Lecturer in Sport Management with Griffith Business School, Caroline brings expertise in high performance sport, elite athlete development, community engagement and wellbeing. She is highly respected in the Olympic movement, with strong business and government networks and a track record of achievement particularly in the Oceania region.

Caroline worked with the International Olympic Committee across eight countries, is a two-time recipient of International Olympic Academy (IOA, Olympia Greece) nominations, and has represented Australia at international seminars on Olympic studies. Caroline chaired the Queensland Olympic Council Education Committee, was inaugural Chair of Special Olympics Queensland (Logan City), delivered pre-Sydney 2000 Olympic training experiences for international delegates with Queensland Government International Sport Unit, and was delegate at Athens 2004 and Vancouver 2012 pre-Olympic conferences.

Caroline is an engaging and pro-active leader of partnerships across universities, industry, government, community and non-profit sectors, and is passionate about bringing Queenslanders along the journey to Brisbane 2032 to ensure enduring legacies for all people, in areas of employment and training, regional and economic development, social justice, sport and health.

Debbie Smith is a Partner of PwC Brisbane. She leads the strategic direction of the Brisbane office which comprises more than 950 people who dedicate themselves to identifying and solving important problems and realising the opportunities that are critical to our business and social communities. We achieve this by collaborating with global and Australian businesses, governments, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs.

Debbie is also National Mining Leader of PwC Australia, leading the firm’s expertise and focus on helping our mining clients drive value.
She is a senior Partner with PwC’s Assurance practice. She leads our audit businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and has led some of the firm’s largest audit engagements during her 20+ year career at PwC including Global Engagement Leader for the audit of the Rio Tinto group.

In addition to her work at PwC, Debbie has long term commitments to community organisations and external Boards. She was a board member of Breast Cancer Network of Australia, was a key driver behind the World’s Big SleepOut in Brisbane in 2019 and is currently the Chair of St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School.

Paul Turner is the Director of Government Relations and Protocol at QUT where he has served since June 2021. Previously he was Chief Communication Officer for RACQ for more than 10 years, where he was responsible for Advocacy.

Paul also served as a Director on community rescue helicopter partner, LifeFlight and was previously a member of the Committee for Brisbane management committee for two years where he chaired the communications sub-committee.

Paul has worked for more than 30 years in advocacy, media, politics, public relations and corporate communications including for companies such as Bank of Queensland and Origin Energy. He has previously worked in politics as a media advisor and chief of staff both in government and opposition and began his career as a newspaper journalist.