Executive

  

2012 Executive

Keith Jordan	President
Roger Wheelahan	Vice President
Carol Russell	Secretary
Phillip Wendell	Treasurer
Danielle Wheelahan	Executive Member

President

Keith Jordan Keith is a business allrounder. His career highlights are too numerous to mention, but fourteen years as a navigator and in intelligence in the RAAF plus thirty years managing trade associations gives you an idea of his abilities and the scope of his career. When Keith decided to slow down a bit in 2005 he thought that he would take up bus driving to fill in some of his spare time. Keith is now the manager of Hillsbus Dural Depot, in charge of two hundred and thirty staff and one hundred and sixty buses. So much for slowing down a bit! Keith is married with three adult children and has lived in Crusader Road Galston for twenty-five years. Keith is a great supporter of the local community and has been active in local community causes and events. Two highlights are his editorship of the Galston News during which he reformatted it from a newspaper to a magazine and his eight year presidency of the Galston RFS. Keith has a great passion for the Galston district and believes that it is extremely undervalued as a tourist destination. “It is a simple equation, more tourists means more opportunity and more business and I will work towards achieving that goal” said Keith. When he is not ‘On the Buses’ Keith is a keen model train and aircraft enthusiast and spends time in the garden with Helen, a keen gardener and member of the Galston Garden Club.

Vice President

Roger Wheelahan Roger Wheelahan is not your average Financial Adviser. Roger’s journey to establishing his own financial planning practice, North Shore Private Clients, started as an apprentice refrigeration mechanic. Then after 10 years, took a detour through a music magazine before he completed his Diploma of Financial Advising and Diploma of Financial services. He is now coming up to his 11th year as a Financial Adviser. Roger believes that his earlier careers add to his ability to identify with ‘mums and dads’, as well as business owners, when offering advice. Roger is focusing his practice on the Hills area and his specialty is Self-Managed Super Funds and small business proprietor Buy/Sell agreements. His philosophy is simple “In my business, it is all about integrity, service, honesty and follow through, essentially my clients are relying on me and my recommendation. It is a very personal business” Roger added. Residing on five acres at Arcadia with his wife Danielle, they share a common love of music and the semi-rural lifestyle. Roger and Danielle can’t think of a better place to start and raise a family than the Hills. Just to keep his hand in on his past life as a refrigeration mechanic, Roger also owns The Hills Slushie Co., hiring out his Slushie machines for parties and functions. Roger brings to the Chamber a unique combination of ‘hands on’ tradesman experience and detailed financial knowledge.

Secretary

Carol Russell To Carol Russell, giving back to her community is second nature and something imbued in her since her childhood, spent in the Hunter Valley. In her professional life Carol is the Principal and Wealth Manager of independent mortgage house, Yellow Brick Road’s Castle Hill branch, where she specialises in Home Loans, including refinancing and debt consolidation. “I get immense personal satisfaction helping my clients maximise their financial opportunities and being independent means that my clients’ needs always come first” said Carol “And because I am also an Authorised Representative specialising in superannuation and life insurance, I can assist holistically with their overall financial wellbeing.” she concluded. Family and community are extremely important to Carol, daughter Linda is the office manager for a local nursery while her other daughter, Jillian works as a marketing manager at Yellow Brick Road. In what time she has to spare Carol is also an accredited Civil Marriage Celebrant and the Treasurer of West Pennant Hills/Cherrybrook Rotary Club. Carol strongly believes in the future of the business community in the Hills rural area and that by building a stronger business community, ultimately the community as a whole can only grow and be stronger.

TREASURER	Phillip Wendell
Executive Member	Danielle Wheelahan