Deputy Chair
Yorick has extensive experience in industrial relations, policy development, stakeholder engagement and governance. He has worked with the forest and wood products, manufacturing, food processing and fishing sectors, as well as at senior levels of government.
He is a passionate advocate for high quality vocational training and skill development and sees it as a key building block for workers’ career development and more effective and successful businesses. He believes that there is great potential for industry to utilise skill development to help drive innovation and transformation in workplaces, build more resilient supply chains and strengthen the broader economy.
Improving health and safety outcomes for workers and businesses is one of Yorick’s highest priorities.
Yorick has previously worked as the Chair of Central Victorian Advanced Manufacturing to develop greater collaboration between academic and training institutions and industry to drive innovation, productivity, investment and secure employment.
He is currently a board member of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and previously served six years on the Board of the Victorian Fisheries Authority.