The Tasmanian Community Fund is delighted to welcome Ric de Santi as a member of the TCF Board.

Ric has extensive public sector and not-for-profit experience in governance, executive management, external reporting, and audit.   Ric’s current public sector governance roles include a Director of the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority; a member of the Audit Panels of Launceston City (as Chair), Glenorchy City, Sorell and Glamorgan Spring Bay Councils; a member of the Audit Committee of the Australian Accounting and Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Boards; and a member of the Local Government Board conducting the Future of Local Government Review.

With not-for-profit, Ric is Deputy Chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Tasmania; Director of the Launceston City Football Club Inc; a Divisional Councillor on the Tasmanian Division of CPA Australia, Chair of its Public Sector Committee and a member of CPA’s External Reporting Centre of Excellence.

Ric previously served as Deputy Auditor-General in Tasmania until 2021.  He was also a Director of CPA Australia from 2017 to 2021, being Deputy President and Chair of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee in 2021.

Ric has a Bachelor of Business in Accounting, a Fellow of CPA Australia and a Graduate member of the AICD.

Ric has been appointed to the TCF Board for a three-year term.

Michelle Swallow has been reappointed for a further three years.