Leadership

A proud graduate of Nudgee College, Scott Thompson is Deputy Chair of the Advisory Council. Scott was appointed to the Council in 2018, bringing with him more than three decades of experience in journalism, media and strategic communications. From 2010 to 2013, Scott was the editor of The Sunday Mail – Queensland’s largest-selling newspaper. Before that role he was editor of The Cairns Post and editor-in-chief of Quest Community Newspapers in Brisbane. His final role in journalism was editor of the Gold Coast Bulletin. Leaving the industry in late 2017 and returning to Brisbane, Scott became Director of a Communications and PR agency before assuming his current role in 2021 as Group Communications Manager for an Australian-owned global defence and munitions company.  As well as being Deputy Chair of the Advisory Council Scott is also chair of the College's DevComm committee looking at issues pertaining to Marketing and Communications.

Born in Far North Queensland and educated at St Ursula’s boarding school Yeppoon, Carm Nugent is a proud past “Nudgee Mum” and Tierney House Mum, Chair of the Nudgee Foundation and appointed to the Nudgee Advisory Council in 2018. Carm is a strategic marketing and communications leader in the Public and Private sector taking complex policy and environmental and social governance (ESG) marketing strategy and data analytics into areas of digital content, traditional and social media, public relations, campaigns, and advertising on a global scale. Carm has an interest in international capacity building, in particular with our Pacific neighbours. In 2022, Carm in partnership with the Department of Foreign affairs and Trade (DFAT) lead the “in country’ mission building to the Republic of Palau delivering important communication to support tax reforms. To encourage the development of ideas, beliefs, and sense of purpose, Carm explores her spirituality through pilgrimages such as Camino de Santiago de Compostela. In fact, Carm would suggest “it is hard to walk any pilgrimage without thinking about these things!"

Born in Mackay and spent most of his life in Brisbane, attending school at St Patrick’s College Shorncliffe, St Joseph’s College Gregory Terrace, and St Joseph’s College Nudgee. His father Keith was a boarder at Nudgee from Wondai during WW2 (1943 and 1944), before devoting seven years to the NCOBA as secretary. Mick’s sons Henry and Toby recently completed Year 12 at Nudgee and are excelling in their chosen trades as a result of the alternate education pathways now offered at Nudgee. Mick is a toiler, completing Year 12 in 1986 then followed in the footsteps of Joseph to become a carpenter. Mick holds a Masters in Construction and is set to complete a Juris Doctor in 2023. His skills as Operations Manager for Australia’s oldest private builder, Woollam Construction, help steer the College’s Building and Master Planning Program to provide first class education and sporting facilities in the spirit of the Edmund Rice tradition.

Mark Reppel graduated as a Boarder in 1987 and has enjoyed the privilege of watching both his sons walk the same path. With his wife Amanda, Mark established several large scale horticultural operations across FNQ. Along with his own farms, Mark managed properties for several multi-national companies which together totalled many thousands of acres of irrigated horticulture, including bananas, sugar cane, macadamia, cashew, avocado, biofuels and broiler chickens. During this time, Mark has served as Director of Australian Banana Growers Council, Horticulture Australia Council and as a Delegate for the FNQ Chicken Growers Association. Mark and Amanda have recently relocated to a small farm near Dayboro and are enjoying a quieter style of farming. Mark is a part of the College Masterplan Committee and sees his involvement on the Advisory Council as an opportunity to ensure that boarding remains as the heart of the College.

Matt Baxby joined the Nudgee College Advisory Council in 2022, with a focus on risk, compliance and governance aspects.  Matt has more than 20 years experience in businesses and sectors facing disruption or significant regulatory change, with the last 15 years in financial services.  Matt is currently a partner and the CEO of Australia and New Zealand for Revolut, the global fintech and is responsible for market launch and scale up in Australia and the APAC region.  Matt was previously Group CFO and retail banking head at the Bank of Queensland, having spent ten years with the Virgin Group in London, Edinburgh and Sydney.  Matt holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Business from the Queensland University of Technology, a Masters of Applied Finance, is a Senior Fellow of FINSIA and admitted as a Chartered Banker.  He lives in Brisbane with his wife Eliza, and four teenage children including twin boys at Nudgee College.

Angie is an energetic and collaborative finance and business professional with a background in business management, strategic planning and finance. Angie was appointed to the Nudgee College Advisory Council in 2021 and is the Chair of the Finance Committee. Angie is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Missile Corporation, a private organisation appointed as Enterprise Partner of the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise, a Division of the Department of Defence.   Prior positions include a 10 year career as Partner leading the Financial Advisory division of Mazars, an integrated global assurance, tax, advisory and consulting firm and 13 years at Macquarie Group as a Division Director leading high performing teams in structured products and corporate banking.  Angie holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing and Finance and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Dr Caroline Clancy is a General Practitioner, with 20 years' medical experience. In her daily practice she regularly sees adolescent patients, often with a focus on mental health. In addition, she works as a GP Liaison Officer with the Metro North Hospital and Health Service. Her experience also includes working at headspace, and the medical assessment of refugees and asylum seekers who had been relocated to PNG for offshore processing (during the period of the Medevac law in 2019). Caroline, and her husband, Liam, have four children, and both their boys attend Nudgee College. She and her family are active in their parish at Chermside West, and Caroline has had a passion and respect for Edmund Rice ministries since volunteering with Edmund Rice Camps, and associated ministries, after finishing school.  Caroline joined the Advisory Council in 2023, in a formation role, and appreciates the opportunity to be involved in helping Nudgee students becoming Signum Fidei - a Sign of Faith, as they move through school, and life.

Michael Senior joined the Nudgee College Advisory Council in 2022 after 40 years of teaching with the Christian Brothers and EREA. After nine years of education at St Laurence’s College Michael started his teaching career at Nudgee College in 1980. Over Twenty four years Michael contributed to the life of the College in various roles including teacher, sports coach,  Head of Year, Head of Boarding, Deputy Principal and Acting Principal. Michael enjoyed the unique caring community that was the College during those years. In 2004, he was appointed to the role of Principal at Nudgee Junior College and was responsible for overseeing the decision to transition the college from a Year 4 to 7 primary school to Ambrose Treacy College. ATC provides a needed Catholic high school option for parents living in the western corridor of Brisbane. 

Luke Ingham-Myers is a solicitor of over 25 years’ experience. Prior to opening his firm IM Lawyers, Luke was in-house counsel at Suncorp and Allianz and held corporate roles in listed companies being responsible for legal, risk and compliance, procurement, project management and employment. Luke has developed a general legal practice specialising in both commercial law and personal injuries and is attuned to the practices and policies implemented by institutions that ensure the safeguarding of students, staff and the public. Luke is appreciative of the education he received through the Christian Brothers commencing at Nudgee Junior as a day boy followed by six years of boarding at Nudgee College. His family has had a long association with the school, most recently with his son Bill (2020) and prior to that his father Robert (1962), his brothers, in-laws and uncles as students dating back to the 1930s. Luke has been involved on a voluntary basis with EREA schools as a former Chair of the Ambrose Treacy College Foundation, past member of the Jack Ross Bursary and enjoyed coaching rugby from 2018 to 2022.