OUR TEAM

Australian Opal Centre Ltd - Board of Directors

 
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Carolyn Childs

Director

Carolyn Childs co-founded MyTravelResearch.com to help organisations across the visitor economy achieve their goals by making insight an accessible foundation for decision-making. Her career spans 30 years and 35+ countries…

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Paul Dale

Director

Paul Dale is a geoscientist, explorer and director with skills developed in private mining and services companies, the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations…

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Lynne Jenkins

Director

Welcome to Lynne Jenkins, former Secretary of Lightning Ridge Opal and Fossil Centre Inc. and now Non-executive Director of AOC Ltd.

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Darren Naumann AM

Director

Brigadier Darren Naumann (retd) is Infrastructure Advisor to the AOC and serves on the AOC Building Subcommittee. Darren brings a wealth of infrastructure delivery experience from his management of Australia’s multi-billion dollar Defence national capital facilities program, and 36 years in leadership, management, engineering and project, program, and portfolio management…

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Staff

 
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Jenni Brammall

Head of Collections, Programs and Research
Principal’s Representative, AOC Stage 1

Jenni Brammall was Manager of the Australian Opal Centre / Lightning Ridge Opal and Fossil Centre from 2004 until early 2019, overseeing its development from an idea to a substantial reality, and from reliance on local government seed funding to being a self-funding, nationally significant not-for-profit entity. In 2019-2021 Jenni was the AOC’s Special Projects Officer and from 2022, its Chief Executive Officer…

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Helen Evans

Operations Manager

Helen Evans has recently joined the AOC as Operations Manager. We’ll upload Helen’s photo and story to this page soon.

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Teresa Cree

Showroom Coordinator

Teresa Cree oversees the AOC’s public exhibition space and museum shop, and coordinates the volunteer team who staff the showroom, SPARK cinema under the stars, and programs for visiting groups…

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Honorary Advisors

 
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Anthony Smallwood

Scientific Advisor - Opal (Honorary)

Tony Smallwood is a jewellery valuer, gemmologist and opal expert who has been involved in opal education and research for more than 30 years…

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