Central Committee of Management

President

Stuart Love

Stuart Love joined the Central Committee of Management in 2019 and was elected Treasurer at the 2020 AGM, proudly serving two terms before being elected President in 2025.
Stuart’s connection to Childhood Cancer Support is deeply personal. In 2010, his daughter Emma was diagnosed with a rhabdomyosarcoma in her head and neck. Over the next 2.5 years, she underwent 15 surgeries, 14 chemotherapy rounds and 55 radiation treatments. During this time, the Love family spent long periods away from home and relied heavily on the support and care provided by Childhood Cancer Support—an experience that continues to drive Stuart’s dedication to the organisation.
For more than 12 years, Stuart has been an active and passionate fundraiser, leading charity lunches and establishing The Ride for Love, now an annual event delivered in partnership with the Gold Coast HOG Chapter and Childhood Cancer Support.
Professionally, Stuart is the founder and CEO of Aurora Training Institute, a leading Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in South-East Queensland committed to delivering accessible, high-quality education and training. He also serves as a Director of Imagine Education Australia, contributing to the growth of innovative learning pathways across the region.Stuart holds formal qualifications spanning Human Resources, Training and Assessment, Adult Education, Business, Hospitality and Tourism, Auditing, and Occupational Health and Safety.

Qualifications: MBA, GradDipMan (Learn), Dip VET, Dip Training Design & Development, Dip Quality Auditing, FAIM, JP.

Treasurer

Grant Hewitt

Secretary

Ben Cox

Committee Member

Bert Pulman 

Committee Member

Mark Sanders

Mark was elected to the Central Committee of Management at the 2019 Annual General Meeting and has served as a committee member since that time. He was re-elected at the 2025 Annual General Meeting.

Mark’s career has covered most aspects of property and corporate based assets. He has provided strategic advice and managed asset portfolios of over $1b. Mark’s focus has always been on achieving the optimum outcome for his clients on both a financial and delivery perspective.

Mark has over 35 years’ experience in finance, property and construction across a diversity of asset classes such as commercial property, leisure, residential development, sports facilities, retirement and infrastructure. Having worked with several property-based investment companies Mark also has a wealth of experience in relation to portfolio and fund management.

Mark’s career began in banking and finance before moving into the construction and engineering field. With a comprehensive knowledge in the property field, Mark was asked to join one of Australia’s emerging merchant banks to oversee their property interests. As CEO of $2 billion in property funds, Mark’s responsibilities included corporate acquisition, restructuring, corporate governance, asset management, financial management and project management.

In 2006, Mark moved into private consulting and developed a niche market in problematic projects and transactions. During this time, he has worked in Europe, New Zealand and Australia on a range of individual projects and portfolios. Much of the work related to issues of corporate, project and financial structure as well as delivery.

Since 2009 Mark has worked with TBH initially in delivery of $300m worth of social housing projects as part of the Nation Building Stimulus Program. Since then, he has been responsible for projects involving rail, health and residential development. Mark currently heads up TBH’s Queensland operation.

Mark’s work at TBH includes:

• Strategic Advice
• Reviewing and verifying the progress of all parties involved in the project, identifying corrective actions and recovery techniques and preparation of multi-level progress reports and as-built programmes.
• Actively participates in the development of planning, design and documentation programming, monitoring and management techniques, especially for complex engineering and fast–tracked projects.
• Preparation of analysis and validation of claims including supporting documentation for time related matters. Preparation, administration and assessment of contractor’s claims for extensions of time

Mark holds a Bachelor of Business – Accounting.

Committee Member

Ruth Pickton

Ruth was elected at the 2023 AGM to the Central Committee of Management as a Committee Member and was appointed Acting Secretary during 2025.

Ruth began her association with Childhood Cancer Support in January 2017 when she and her family moved into the Herston long-term units for six months while her child received treatment at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane. They appreciated the home-away-from-home accommodation, and the connections made with other families through regularly hosted events onsite, and invitations to special events such as the EKKA Family Day, Camp Crystal and the Childhood Cancer Support Christmas party. They experienced first-hand the care and commitment that Childhood Cancer Support provides to the many regional families affected by a childhood cancer diagnosis.

Since then, Ruth and her child have been supported by Childhood Cancer Support with accommodation at the short-term housing facility at Woolloongabba and this has cemented Ruth’s commitment to Childhood Cancer Support in providing support to regional families. From being a family receiving support, Ruth is humbled to now being able to offer support to the families in her local Bundaberg region as a Childhood Cancer Support Family Ambassador.

Ruth holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science, and a Graduate Certificate of Education.

BEnvSci

Grad Cert Ed