Trustees

Kim was raised in Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne. In her professional life, she worked for Kodak and Telstra in a variety of management roles including marketing and business development.

Bridge is Kim’s second competitive hobby (passion!). In her first — target shooting — she represented Australia many times at Commonwealth Games winning 3 Gold medals and she became an Olympian in 2004 at Athens.

Since retiring from corporate life, she has been actively involved in administration of both her shooting club and the state and national bridge associations.

Kim writes regularly for bridge magazines and is the author of the award winning book Gaining the Mental Edge at Bridge.

She lives with her husband John, blue heeler Zoe and John’s pigeons which he races as his hobby. She still enjoys shooting, and also the theatre, reading, and watching TV series and movies.

Mimi Packer graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is an accountant and mother of four children.

She is on the Board of the Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA and The Fathering Project. Mimi is a former director of the PLC Foundation and has been involved with numerous charities including Clontarf Foundation, The Smith Family and Brightwater Care Group. Mimi has been an enthusiastic bridge player for many years.

Sophie graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and a University Medal.

She spent the first 8 years of her career in investment banking, working for both Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital in Tokyo, London and Sydney as a quantitative analyst then as a risk management consultant.

She eventually saw the light and left to work with her father and create what is now called the Goulburn Health Hub — a multidisciplinary medical centre. She saw the project through from a greenfields site to a now thriving business with over 60 consulting doctors. It was during this phase of her life that she picked bridge up again and met her husband Sartaj Hans, her greatest mentor and the father of her two gorgeous girls.

Peter Cox BEc MBA is the foremost independent economist, analyst and public speaker on the leisure and media industries in Australia.

He has been a leading consultant to Australian and overseas media operators, technology suppliers, US Studios, investment bankers, stockbrokers, the Senate and the Government for forty years. Peter has been invited to be chairman or speaker at over 70 industry conferences, written numerous papers including for the AFR and The Australian and been featured in hundreds of radio, television and newspaper interviews.

Peter has been a leading advocate of new technology building 2DayFM and consulting on Pay TV, broadband and Digital TV. In recent years he has created BridgeTV Australia to broadcast bridge championships.

He has played bridge for 35 years, been a councillor on the NSWBA board, President and Director of the Randwick Bridge Club, a member of the IBPA and Head of Marketing for the ABF from 2017–23.

Tim was originally from Victoria where he commenced playing youth bridge in the late 1970’s, before having a hiatus of 24 years.

He recommenced his Bridge career in 2008, this time in Queensland where he now lives with his partner Sue.

Tim is well-known in the Queensland Bridge community. He was one of the founding members of the Kenmore Bridge Club in 2011 and was made a life member of Kenmore in 2021.

He continues his involvement with the club as Vice President. He was Tournament Organiser of Australia’s largest national event — the Gold Coast Congress from 2018–2025 with the event continuing to grow under his leadership.

Through his work in the commercial Queensland market as a manager for Karndean Design Flooring, his roles also within the bridge community and the nine years he served as President of the Correspondence Chess League of Australia, Tim has achieved experience dealing with a diverse range of stakeholders both within and outside the bridge community.