The Department is managed by the Senior Executive Group (SEG), led by the Secretary and comprising the head of each of DTF's five divisions.
Collectively, SEG has significant public and private sector management experience in the areas of economics, finance, people management and technology.
Grant Hehir is Secretary, Department of Treasury and Finance.
Grant was the Secretary of the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) from 2003 before being appointed as Secretary, DTF in July 2006.
Prior to his DET appointment, Grant was Deputy Secretary, Strategic Economic and Social Policy, in the Department of Premier and Cabinet and Deputy Secretary of DTF’s Budget and Financial Management Division.
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Dean Yates is Deputy Secretary, Budget and Financial Management Division.
Dean is responsible for assisting the Government to achieve its fiscal policy objectives, including delivery of the State Budget and Annual Financial Report and public sector resource management reform.
Dean joined DTF in 1996 and has made significant contributions in the areas of Commonwealth-State financial relations, superannuation policy and whole-of-government budgeting. Prior to joining DTF, Dean worked in the Fiscal Policy Division of the Commonwealth Treasury and in the Economics Division of the Tasmanian Treasury.
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David Webster is Deputy Secretary, Commercial Division
David is responsible for the provision of high level and innovative commercial, financial and risk management advice to the Victorian Government including a focus on major infrastructure and the State’s balance sheet.
He has extensive international corporate and commercial senior management experience specialising in infrastructure and public private partnerships as an fund manager and equity investor, financial adviser and as lender.
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Laurinda Gardner is Deputy Secretary, Corporate Strategy and Services
Laurinda is responsible for managing a range of specialist services that contribute to and support the Department’s outputs including legal, human resources, organisational development, communications, corporate planning, information and technology services and financial services.
She also leads organisational strategies to ensure the capability of DTF to serve government and achieve DTF objectives. Laurinda joined DTF in 1998 after holding senior management roles in town planning, strategic planning and corporate services in local government.
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Brendan Flynn is Deputy Secretary, Economic and Financial Policy
Brendan joins us with extensive economic experience in both the public and private sectors, and was most recently the Senior Director for Corporate and Government Ratings for Standard & Poor's.
Prior to this Brendan spent time with ANZ Securities, joining them after a six year stint with the Commonwealth Treasury where his major responsibilities included preparing and researching forecasts of various sectors of the Australian economy.
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Adam Todhunter is Deputy Secretary, Government Services Division
Adam is responsible for developing and implementing strategies that support aspects of the Victorian Government’s Better Financial Management policy and improving service delivery to Government.
Adam has experience in leading large technology and business reform projects at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and prior to that at ANZ. Prior to this Adam held a number of senior roles in DTF including Executive Director, Corporate Services Centre.
The Corporate Services Centre provided a range of shared services to DTF and the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC). Adam brings to his role more than 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors and has extensive experience in using technology to facilitate reform.
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Melissa Skilbeck is Deputy Secretary, Resource Management Reform
Melissa Skilbeck joins us after working as a Partner at Deloitte where she provided advice to regulators, policy makers, infrastructure businesses, community services and central government. Prior to this Melissa was a Director at the Allen Consulting Group for eight years, and from 1994 to 1999 she was an Assistant Director at DTF.
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