Our People

   Chairman
 

Elena Kirillova
LLB, M.Jur (Hons), GAICD

Elena Kirillova joined the AEBC Board in 2011.

She has practised law for over 25 years and is a qualified solicitor in New South Wales, Australia (1985) and in England and Wales (1991).

She spent 17 years in London, where she specialised in international transactions in emerging markets; was lead counsel on privatisation and restructuring issues and debt and equity financings. She founded and headed the CIS practice of CMS Cameron McKenna from 1990 to 2000 and established the Moscow, Almaty and Tashkent offices. In 2000 she moved to Denton Wilde Sapte, (now, SNRDenton) along with the Almaty and Tashkent offices of CMS Cameron McKenna. She was awarded the title of "Highly Recommended Energy Lawyer" by Global Counsel 3000 in 2003.  In 2004, a transaction on which she was lead counsel, was awarded "Mining Deal of the Year" by Project Finance Magazine. At the start of her career, she was solicitor at the then newly established Environmental Defenders Office in Sydney and has been pro bono legal advisor to that Office since 2009.

Directorships and other offices held:

Chairman and Director, Australian Employee Buyout Centre, (2011-to date)

Expert Advisory Panel Member,1 East West World (2010-to date)

Director, Anglo-Russian Opera and Ballet Trust (2002-to date)

Director, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (2003-2006)

Chairman, CIS Advisory Group, International Financial Services London (2002-2007)

Member, Confederation of British Industry Russian Business Roundtable (1998-2006)

Founding member, Uzbek-British Trade and Industry Council (1993-2007)

Founding member, Kazakh-British Trade and Industry Council (1993-2007)

Member, Australian Employee Ownership Association Inc. (2011-to date)

 
   
  Director
  Robert (Bob) E. Corben

Bob is Principal of Corben Consulting Services, an accounting practice based in Sydney.

Bob has been in private practice for some 30 years and was appointed by the NSW Attorney General to the boards of the Legal Aid Commission and the Sydney Catchment Authority. His practice provides extensive accounting, taxation and financial advisory services to a client base drawn from private enterprise and not-for-profit organisations, including those receiving government funding. He has been actively involved in co-operatives and employee buyouts for many years. He is also the Treasurer of the Australian Employee Ownership Association Inc.

Bob has lectured on financial management and the co-operative sector at seminars conducted by the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Chartered Institute of Accountants.

 
   
   Director
 

Alan Greig
BA(Econ).

Alan is Ownership Strategies Director at the Mercury Centre Cooperative Ltd, a cooperative development agency and social enterprise that specialises in building collaborative enterprises through consultancy, research, information, advice and training. Alan has a long standing interest in employee and community ownership dating back to the 1970s and has been Public Officer of the Australian Employee Ownership Association since its inception in 1986 and was elected President at it's AGM in December, 2011.  Alan is also a Director of Social Business Australia

Alan brings to the AEBC his in depth historical, policy and  commercial knowledge of employee ownership in Australia. He has significant access to social business and commercial networks in Australia and actively works to promote the benefits of employee ownership and participation to business and commerce, as well as to social inclusion.

   
 

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