The EOA Board of Directors is delighted to welcome Janna DeVylder and Marie-Louise Czech to the Board and Dean Jagger to the position of Company Secretary.
Janna DeVylder
Janna is a Founder, Director and Principal Designer at Meld Studios, an award-winning Australian service design consultancy. Meld’s focus is on helping organisations to co-design better policies, services, systems, decision-making and ways of working with their customers and their people.
In addition to managing Meld and leading design projects, Janna and her co-founders are guiding Meld to becoming the first Australian-based organisation that is employee-owned by trust, and are looking to find ways to support other small and medium-sized businesses to do the same.
Janna has extensive experience in the non-profit space, serving as President of the international Interaction Design Association for three years during a period of massive change and growth. She sat on their non-profit Board of Directors for four years, growing membership from 7,000 to 70,000 and global local groups from 12 to 70. She currently serves as a Good Design Australia ambassador and has served as a judge of the international Good Design Awards.
Marie-Louise Czech
Marie-Louise is a HR professional with over 20 years’ experience. Working the last 10 years in Remuneration and Benefits at Newcrest Ltd and specialising in employee share plans, she brings her global knowledge to the Executive, and to the broad employee base.
Marie-Louise has developed a broad range of skills in employee share plan delivery, working with the share registry, internal and external teams, to ensure tax and securities law compliance, improve employee communications and ease of use with employee share sales facility.
As a member of EOA for 7 plus years, Marie-Louise greatly values the work carried out to educate, inform on issues and promote best practice on employee share plan management. Marie-Louise also values community and is the Vice President of a local community Board, bringing to the Board both a Corporate and community perspectives.
Dean Jagger
Dean is a Company Secretary at Automic Group. Dean’s clients are ASX listed and private companies across a number of sectors including software, media, biotechnology and mining. Dean specialises in and provides advice across matters including corporate governance, capital raisings and continuous disclosure.
Dean holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business & Commerce and has a Certificate in Governance Practice from the Governance Institute of Australia.
