Kath is the managing director of SINC Solutions and sinconline. She brings extensive public sector experience to the role and a focus on ensuring best practice contemporary solutions to myriad issues.

Previously, Kath was the Executive Director of Governance and Regulation at the NSW Department of Housing. This role had responsibility for corporate governance across the Department and, in particular, ensured a separation of governance from policy and service delivery functions.

Prior to Kath’s appointment at the Department, she was the first Internal Ombudsman for a local council in NSW establishing the Office at Sutherland Shire Council in 1999. She developed the ‘Triple Governance Track – Prevention, Education and Investigation’, which is a best practice model for embedding a fraud management strategy across an organisation. Kath has continued with independent reviews as part of her consulting work.

Kath has more than 13 years’ experience as a member of the Australian Federal Police. She undertook a variety of roles including fraud and narcotic investigation and detection; surveillance activities; as an investigator with the National Crime Authority (now known as the Australian Crime Commission); as an International Police Officer in Cyprus with the United Nations; and the investigation of, and liaison with external agencies on, organised crime figures operating on the East Coast of Australia.

Kath holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (majoring in Public Sector Management and Human Resource Management) as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree (majoring in Legal Studies for Business and Human Resource Management).

She completed the Emerging Leaders Program with the Centre of Economic Development of Australia. Kath is an independent Conduct Reviewer across Councils in NSW. Kath is an independent member of a Local Planning Panel and is a member of an Audit Risk and Improvement Committee in local government.