Our Board
Experienced Leadership, Trusted Oversight
The Board of Community Options Australia brings together experienced leaders from across aged care, governance, health and community services. United by a shared commitment to integrity, accountability and person centred care, our Board provides strategic direction, strong governance and clear oversight to ensure the organisation remains focused on the people and communities we serve, while responding to the changing needs of Australia’s aged care system.
Norm Cockerell
Chairperson
Norm brings Finance, Risk, customer experience and business transformation expertise developed over an extensive corporate career in the financial services and health sectors in Australia and across Asia. Together with his governance, patient and community engagement experience through his position as Deputy Chair of a Health service in regional Victoria, he brings a wealth of skills to COA.
He is currently involved in two consultancies to a wide variety of Government and Corporate clients on Health and Safety Risk management and addressing mature age workforce transition challenges. As well as Deputy Chair Heathcote Health he is also Deputy Chair of their Risk and Governance sub-committee.
Norm holds a Bachelor of Business Degree and is a Graduate of the AICD
Responsibilities
Member of the Governance, Remuneration and Nomination Committee
Sara Haslinger
Sara rethinks service delivery, funding models and stakeholder engagement and designs new systems that make differences to communities, and government, not-for-profit and commercial delivery systems. She combines and integrates co-designing, strategic thinking and project delivery. She is an executive, a project lead, advocate, public speaker and problem solver. She has led and managed teams and organisations and more than 20 projects in Australia and the United Kingdom with a focus on the need to integrate social, legal, commercial, public, and individual perspectives so that what emerges are outcomes that provide opportunities for new work/life-conditions, and that meet the ever-changing levels of complexity in our society.
She has extensive experience in major capital works project management, assurance, governance and delivery covering both the public and private sectors. An expert in strategic asset planning, Sara has provided expert advice to NSW Government clients to improve asset governance planning, delivery, and management.
Sara has held senior executive leadership roles in legal, commercial and government sectors, and is passionate about her work, bringing a high level of passion and rigor.
Responsibilities
Chair of the Board
Dalvin Chien
Dalvin brings strategic legal, commercial, and technology skills from over 16 years’ experience practicing as a commercial and technology lawyer in the health, technology, and government sectors.
He is currently a senior lawyer at a global law firm where his main areas of practice are in cyber security, government contracting, technology sourcing, and e-commerce. In addition to his professional practice, Dalvin teaches a Master of Law Course at the Australian National University. Dalvin holds a Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), and a Master of Law.
Dalvin is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves as Vice Chair of the Technology Sourcing committee of the International Technology Lawyers Association. He has presented and written on a wide array of commercial and cyber security topics.
Dalvin is strategically focussed and believes that putting the end-consumer at the centre of, and the use of effective risk management techniques in, decision making is the key to achieving long term positive outcomes.
Responsibilities
Deputy Chair of the Board
Member of Governance, Remuneration and Nomination Committee