Daniel Briggs

Daniel is a commercial Barrister at the Victorian Bar and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Sandro Demaio Foundation.

With a passion for helping create positive change in the community, Daniel brings to his role on the board both his legal expertise and extensive experience in leadership roles in charities such Make-A-Wish® Australia, St John’s Ambulance, Surf Live Saving Victoria and NCDFREE.

Daniel holds Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. He started his career as a lawyer at Arnold Bloch Leibler in 2009, before coming to the Bar in 2013.

In 2013, Daniel was elected President of the the Bayside Branch of Make-A-Wish® Australia, a role in which he served until 2016, before stepping down to serve as Vice President until 2017.  In 2015, Daniel became a director of NCDFREE, a crowdsourced global social movement dedicated to getting NCDs (non-communicable diseases) on the map of young people around the world. That year, Daniel was part of a small team which organised, produced and delivered the first iteration of festival21 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Building. Daniel currently serves on the Health and Wellbeing Committee of the Victorian Bar.

Kate Ross

Growing up outside of a small town in country Victoria has given Kate an appreciation for just how good fruit can be when fresh off a tree.

Starting her career out in communications, Kate soon pivoted to social impact and has worked across a range of issues including mental health, climate change, affordable housing, domestic and family violence and animal conservation.

A passion for food and all things health have led Kate to the Sandro Demaio Foundation, which keeps her busy alongside her Master of Public Health studies, and looking after her three-year-old, Sonny.

Jason van Grieken

Jason is a partner at law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler where he specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital raisings, private equity and shareholder activism. Jason has advised on some of the Australian market’s largest and most complex transactions, and is recognised by Best Lawyers® International in the area of Commercial Law and by Legal 500 in the area of Restructuring and insolvency.

Jason graduated from Monash University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Law with first class honours. Jason joined the Board in 2021 bringing over a decade of commercial and governance experience.

As a proud dad of two young girls and a food enthusiast, Jason joined the Sandro Demaio Foundation with the aim of furthering SDF’s vision to inspire Australians, through food, to make positive changes to their health.