Our Team
Andrew Wilsmore
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew is a senior executive with extensive experience in the retail, hospitality, tourism, and agricultural sectors who brings a wide range of skills to ABA including business strategy development and execution, organisational and team cultural change abilities, operational management, financial and fiduciary skills and team management.
He also acts as an advisor and advocate to both internal and external business and political leaders.
Gohar Yazdabadi
Director, Policy & Government Affairs
Gohar brings over ten years of experience in leading and implementing strategic evidence-based policy changes across the Federal and NSW Governments and has also worked as an in-house commercial lawyer.
Tony Ritchie
Director, Media & Communications
Tony has a long career in corporate communications including in professional services, state government, law enforcement and federal politics.
He previously worked in TV news, including being the inaugural CEO of Sky News Australia.
Sophie Gobbo
Marketing Officer & Office Manager
Sophie is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, with a Bachelor of Media, majoring in PR and Advertising and has a background in professional public relations.
Shivana Chandra
Research and Policy Officer
Shivana is a researcher with a deep interest in policy and ethics. She previously worked in the autism sector, where she developed evidence-based research to help inform and improve service delivery. Shivana also has a background in education teaching primary school students.
Executive Committee
