OHA NEWS

From the OHA President

BRAD HYDE (OH ’82)

President of the Old Haileyburians Association

OHA Council

President: Brad Hyde (OH ’82) Senior Vice-President: James Kemper (OH 2012) Treasurer: Ian Clydesdale (OH ’77) Business Relations: Clayton Ford (OH '91) Chapter Relations: Gerard Garson (OH 2002) Clubs: Peter Sise (OH 2000) Community Relations: Grace Sutcliffe (OH 2015) Digital Technology: Kym Huynh (OH 2002)

Our Values

Staying Connected: Physically, emotionally and virtually by caring for community beyond Haileybury

Supporting Dreams: Through mentorship, networking and connection

Providing a Home: With a place of belonging and purpose giving meaning to like-minded members At the commencement of each of the past two years, the OHA looked forward to delivering programs of services, initiatives and events that looked very different to what turned out to be the case.

And while the program is different to what was planned, it remains of truly outstanding quality and had a significant impact on us staying connected and building foundations for a stronger future.

In March this year, we looked at not just what we couldn’t do but what we could bring forward in our plans, perhaps enhance and make bigger.

This crisis, has in many ways helped accelerate our evolution and development as a relevant, contemporary and leading Alumni Association.

As an OHA for all Old Haileyburians, great progress has been made on our framework to engage with and become relevant for graduates from Haileybury Rendall School and Haileybury Senior School, Tianjin; creating tailored programs that recognise different expectations and needs.

In the new year, we launch our bespoke Mentoring Program providing support for Alumni with their careers and presenting opportunities for others to contribute to the OHA community. We recognise this service as a key pillar in our offering.

In the coming months, we will launch the OHA Rewards member benefits program. The main focus of the program is rewarding our Alumni and supporting the businesses of Old Haileyburians and our sponsors. Members will be able to spend at Haileybury businesses and receive their rewards as a percentage ‘cashback’ on their credit or debit card, online vouchers and in-store discounts. We have also included a function whereby members may opt in to donate all of or a portion of their cashback reward to the Haileybury Foundation.

The OHA Podcast and Bite News are the latest major steps in our intent to deliver a multimedia communications suite suitable for the contemporary, busy Old Haileyburian who may want to consume their news in more than a static traditional format. We will continue to expand on this program in 2022 with new content and an international focus as the popular ‘Australia Wide’ interview series becomes ‘Worldwide’ featuring the stories of Old Haileyburians from across the globe.

The foundation for all of our initiatives is our stated strategy to recognise and respond to all Old Haileyburians with relevant and engaging communications and offerings.

As always, if you have ideas and input on how we can best achieve that, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

We are all very much looking forward to genuinely seeing you in the new year. No matter how…. let’s Stay Connected!

Outstanding young alumni awards

The Outstanding Young Alumni Awards are awarded to alumni who have graduated within 12 years and have made significant achievements in their field of endeavour and have exemplified the best attributes of youth in today’s world. Nominees must also have exceptional human values to others and/or rendered excellent and sustained service to the OHA or its alumni community. We congratulate the 2020 winners in the fields of Business, Arts, Community, Sport and STEM.

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Hayley Marlow (OH 2013) was

awarded in the field of Business. Hayley is the owner and designer of the funky and fun jewellery and homewares business Colours & Honey. Hayley has always had a strong interest in design and launched the business in 2018. Fast-forward two years and Colours & Honey is now her full-time job with a platform of over 10,000 followers.

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Matthew Rogers (OH 2015)

was awarded in the field of Arts. Matt’s self-publishing success story is nearly as thrilling as the action-packed, white-knuckle thrill rides he has been publishing on Amazon for many years now. Matt is a self-published author who has written more books than we can count. He is always in the Amazon bestsellers list and is adored by fans. Millie Hogben (OH 2013) was

awarded in the field of STEM. Millie is a key member of EY’s Oceania’s Women in Technology (WiT) community, which established in June 2020. The purpose of the community is to close the gender gap in technology consulting at EY and create an environment where girls and women are encouraged to enter, remain and thrive in the tech industry and beyond. Over the past 12 months, their community has grown to nearly 300 members and events have had over 500 attendees from across six countries. Millie was one of the five original team members (they now have a team of 53) and was a critical contributor across four of six workstreams. She is now a Pillar Lead for their Innovate stream, leading a team of eight. Millie is also an OHA Councillor and has already shown much promise in her first six months of appointment.

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Amy Lawton (OH 2019) was

awarded in the field of Sport. Amy began playing Hockey at the age of nine and was named Emerging Athlete of the Year at the Australian Institute of Sport Awards in 2020 and this year made her Olympic debut in Tokyo with the Hockeyroos, making her the fourth youngest Hockeyroo to compete at that level.

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James Kemper (OH 2012) was

awarded in the field of STEM. Dr Kemper is the Registrar (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) at Monash Health and a researcher with Monash Women’s, examining fertility outcomes, research integrity and structure, and bioethics. In addition to this, James is a volunteer with Team Medical Australia and Temple Society Australia and is the Senior Vice-President of the OHA.

Mathisa Vidyarante (OH 2011) and Anthony Trainor (OH 2010)

were awarded in the field of Business. At the start of 2021, they launched Trader Vidz Investment (TVI). They have amassed nearly 1,000 members since launching in February and the numbers keep on going up. TVI is a one-stop shop for all things investing—from stocks, cryptocurrency, commodities and everything in between. They also have an active Discord community which posts daily market updates, weekly stock/crypto picks and host fortnightly Zoom sessions for all members to banter with and learn from each other. As well as this, they have an in-house accountant and trading psychologist available to members to assist with their investing journey. Daniel Lopez (OH 2016) was

awarded in the field of Community. Daniel has been a professional lifeguard with Livesaving Victoria for the past five years, working across the Victorian surf coast and at special events. Daniel developed a passion for first aid and emergency care and has now set his sights on completing a degree in Disaster and Emergency Management. He has aspirations to become a career firefighter, working in the emergency service sector.

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Barbara van der Merwe (OH 2015)

was awarded in the field of Business. Barbara is the founder and CEO of financial business Mandy. Mandy was ‘born’ in the middle of Australia’s first recession after 28 years of unbroken prosperity and economic growth. Mandy is passionate about getting young Aussies feeling good about their money and its vision is to provide education, support, guidance and the tools they need to be financially empowered. The Mandy team has worked closely with Haileybury to educate our young Haileyburians and has shown great support to the OHA through our online webinars.