Our People

Staff

Hannah Attwood

BEMAC Program Manager

Combining a passion for the arts with expertise in business, management, education, programming, and communications, Hannah finds great satisfaction in…

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Kaitlyn Smith

Acting QMC Venue & Business Development Manager

A dynamic practitioner with expertise in production, technical, and creative fields, embarked on her journey with QMC and BEMAC in…

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Eyal Chipkiewicz

BEMAC Producer

Eyal Chipkiewicz has extensive experience in curatorial, technical and leadership roles in the arts, community and for purpose sector. In…

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Nihad Duranovic

Venue Facilities Coordinator

Nihad’s career with BEMAC has spanned an incredible 20 years. Three years after arriving in Brisbane as a Bosnian refugee,…

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National SSI Arts & Culture Team

Executive

BEMAC is overseen by the executive team of our parent company SSI.

Sonia Vignjevic

General Manager, Client Partnerships and Business Growth

Sonia is an executive manager with over 20 years’ experience, has significant skills and knowledge of, the multicultural sector, migration…

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Ram Neupane

General Manager, Corporate Services

Ram has a proven track record of strong strategic thinking, innovation, change management, commercial astuteness and leadership roles across the…

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Stephen O’Neill

Acting General Manager, Service Delivery - Community

Stephen has many years of experience in the community care and disability sectors in NSW, with over 35 years in…

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Yamamah Agha

Yamamah Agha General Manager, Newcomers, Settlement and Integration

Yamamah joined SSI in 2011 as the Manager of the Humanitarian Settlement Program gaining extensive experience in team leadership, program…

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Katia Kullengren

Chief of Staff

Katia is a senior leader with over a decade’s experience leading and building high-performance teams, delivering business improvements and leading…

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Violet Roumeliotis (AM & GAICD)

Chief Executive Officer

Member of the Order of Australia 2017 Telstra Business Woman of the Year and national winner of the For Purpose…

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Board

BEMAC’s Board of Management are also the Board of Management for our parent company Settlement Services International (SSI).

Tharani Jegatheeswaran

Tharani is a partner at Deloitte Australia and leads Deloitte’s Social Impact Consulting Practice. Drawing on over 15 years’ of…

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Alex McCauley

Alex is CEO and Executive Director of Australia’s peak advocacy group for tech startups, StartupAUS. He has a national and…

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Voula Messimeri AM MAICD

Voula Messimeri has had a long career in the community and multicultural services sector. She has had roles as a…

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Nathan Hagarty

Nathan Hagarty is a Director at Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre, an SSI member organisation. He is also a Councillor at…

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Scott Machin

Scott has extensive experience in the financial services industry including senior leadership roles in strategy, finance, advice and program management…

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Frank Zheng

Frank Zheng is the CEO of Auburn Diversity Services Inc, a SSI member organisation. He holds a Master of Applied…

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Elfa Moraitakis

Elfa is the CEO of SydWest Multicultural Services, one of SSI’s member organisations. She has been involved in the community sector…

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We love music and art. We believe it has the power to transform lives and communities. It brings people together, dissolves barriers and teleports us into distant lands by leading us into the very soul of culture.

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Staff

Hannah Attwood

Kaitlyn Smith

Eyal Chipkiewicz

Nihad Duranovic

National SSI Arts & Culture Team

Iman Etri

Laura Luna-Zamora

Raphael Ramires Brasil

Executive

Sonia Vignjevic

Ram Neupane

Stephen O’Neill

Yamamah Agha

Katia Kullengren

Violet Roumeliotis (AM & GAICD)

Board

Tharani Jegatheeswaran

Alex McCauley

Voula Messimeri AM MAICD

Nathan Hagarty

Scott Machin

Frank Zheng

Elfa Moraitakis

HOW TO GET INVOLVED