\u201cWe are pleased to welcome Clare and Diane to the Solaris Cancer Care board,\u201d said Solaris Cancer Care CEO, David Edwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bring a wealth of experience to the team from their time in the marketing and legal world, two areas which are vital for a non-profit such as ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clare has over 14 years of legal, risk management and commercial experience across a range of industries, having worked at Macquarie and law firm, Allens. She recently relocated back to Perth after extended time working away in London and Sydney, during which time she served as\u00a0a Board member of the\u00a0London-based health and social care charity, Manor Gardens Welfare Trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am extremely honoured\u00a0to join Solaris Cancer Care’s Board.\u00a0 Solaris plays such an important role in\u00a0furthering\u00a0the wellbeing\u00a0and support of Western Australians affected by cancer.\u00a0 I am passionate about making a positive difference in peoples’ lives and\u00a0welcome\u00a0the opportunity\u00a0to contribute to the Solaris community,\u201d said Clare, who currently acts as Senior Commercial Manager for BGC.<\/p>\n
Diane is an experienced executive manager with 20 years\u2019 experience in senior management and marketing positions in Australia and Europe, having worked for MICROSOFT, British Telecom, Telefonica O2, HTC Europe, and local organisations Tourism WA and MICROMINE.<\/p>\n
Diane\u2019s qualification in life coaching and human behaviour studies have been driven by her passion for empowering individuals and teams for high performance. She was the director of Mpowerment Consulting that delivered workshops and coaching to a wide variety of local organisations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am passionate about joining an organisation which is providing such unique support to improve the quality of people\u2019s lives during their time of need. When I heard Solaris Cancer Care offered such a positive, empowering and supportive approach based on the patient\u2019s needs, I was touched. I\u2019m looking forward to working with such an inspirational community of people,\u201d said Diane who is currently Head of Global Marketing for ASX company IMDEX Limited.<\/p>\n
The pair join an existing board of directors, which includes Professor David Joske, Patrick Ryan, Graham Laitt, Patricia Williams, Kirsty Danby and John Hassell.<\/p>\n
McNeill and Porteous have joined Solaris Cancer Care during a busy period as it raises funds in its annual May we Thrive<\/em><\/strong> campaign.<\/p>\n For more information and to make a one-off tax deductable donation, visit www.solaristhrive.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WA\u2019s leading cancer support provider \u2013 Solaris Cancer Care \u2013 has today announced the appointment of two new board members, Clare McNeill and Diane Porteous. \u201cWe are pleased to welcome Clare and Diane to the Solaris Cancer Care board,\u201d said Solaris Cancer Care CEO, David Edwards. \u201cThey bring a wealth of experience to the team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[653],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-solariscare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}