Co-founders and managing directors, father and daughter team Brian and Ondine Sherman, are joined by the following Directors on the Board of Voiceless:

Peter Hall

Peter Hall is Executive Chairman and Executive Director of Hunter Hall International Limited and Hunter Hall Global Value Limited and a Director of Hunter Hall International Ethical Fund plc, all of which are publicly listed entities.

Peter has over 25 years experience in investment markets. Previously he was Investment Manager of Hancock & Gore Limited, Portfolio Manager and Analyst with Mercantile Mutual Holdings Limited, Industrial Analyst with Pembroke Securities Ld, Investment Analyst with New Zealand South British Insurance Ltd and a journalist with John Fairfax & Sons Ltd.

Peter is also a Director of Prospect Publishing, a Patron of the Asian Rhino Project, a Director of the International Rhino Foundation, a member of the Sydney Film Festival Council, a Trustee of the Bedales Grants Trust Fund and the ABC Trust, a UK based charity.

Peter completed the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program in 2003. He is currently based in London.

Jeremy Philips

Jeremy Philips is Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, at News Corporation. He is a member of News Corp's Executive Management Committee, and is based in New York. He was Vice-Chairman and co-founder of ecorp Limited in Australia , and prior to that, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. 

Jeremy is a graduate of the University of New South Wales and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the board of directors of One Laptop Per Child, which distributes low cost computers to children in developing countries. The World Economic Forum named Jeremy as a Young Global Leader. 

Dr Jeffrey Masson

Dr Jeffrey Masson is an author who has served as a professor at several universities in Canada and America. After serving as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, he wrote a series of books critical of psychiatry and therapy. In the 1990s he turned his attention to animals, and in particular, their emotional lives. His book When Elephants Weep became an international best seller, as was Dogs Never Lie About Love.

Jeff also wrote about the emotions of farm animals in The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, and explored several issues related animal agriculture in his latest book, The Face on Your Plate:  The Truth About Food.  He has also signed a contract with HarperCollins to write a new book about the profound love between dogs and humans called The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving:  a 40,000 Year Romance. 

Jeff is a vegan who has lived for 8 years on a beach with his wife Leila, also vegan, and their two vegetarian children, Ilan, 12, and Manu 7, three cats (about whom he wrote The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats) and Benjy the failed guide-dog who never stops loving.   

Emile Sherman

Emile Sherman has established himself as one of Australia’s leading feature film producers with credits including the Toronto Film Festival FIPRESCI awarded film Disgrace starring John Malkovich and based on Nobel Prize winning author J.M.Coetzee's novel, the Annie Award Best Film nominated stop motion animation feature $9.99 and award-winning films Candy starring Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence. Other films include Australian box office hit Oyster Farmer and Peter Cattaneo's (The Full Monty) Opal Dream which sold to Universal's Focus Features.

Emile recently launched a new film production company, See-Saw Films, in partnership with UK producer Iain Canning, who executive produced Cannes Camera d’Or winning film Hunger, and Camera d’Or Special Mention Control. See-Saw is producing projects with directors including Ray Lawrence (Lantana, Jindabyne), Shirley Barrett (Camera d’Or winner for Love Serenade), John Curran (The Painted Veil), John Polson (Hide and Seek), Tom Hooper (Emmy Award winner for John Adams) as well as continuing to work with Steve McQueen (Hunger) and Anton Corbijn (Control).

In additional to his film activities, Emile is on the board of a number entities aside from Voiceless, including The Sydney Film School, Australia’s leading non-government film school, The Sherman Group, an investment company managing a substantial portfolio and The Sherman Foundation, a Prescribed Private Fund (PPF).

Yael Cohen Paran  

Yael Cohen Paran has been involved in environmental activity for the past 11 years. As an undergraduate, during her first year of studies at Hebrew University, she was one of the students who established Green Course.  After graduating in 1998 (B.Sc., Physics), Yael began her graduate studies in physics at Ben-Gurion University. Yael was a research student at the Solar Energy Center in the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research. 

Between 2002 and 2006, Yael was the executive director of Green Course, today one of Israel's largest environmental organisations.

Yael is the founding director of the Israel Energy Forum – a new initiative to achieve and implement sustainable energy policy in Israel. She has been awarded the IVN Social Entrepreneur Fellowship for the initiative. Yael has taken part in some of the largest international conferences dealing with environmental issues, including: the UN WSSD (World Summit on Sustainable Development) in Johannesburg in 2002, the UNFCCC (UN Forum on Climate Change Convention) in Bali, 2007 and in Poznan, 2008.

Dr Dror Ben-Ami
 
Dror is currently working with the Sherman Group on the development of environmental technology investment concepts. He graduated BA from UC Santa Cruz, USA, and PhD Ecology from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His dissertation was on the life history of the swamp wallaby, Wallabia bicolor, and adaptive wildlife management. He was a research assistant at the University of New South Wales, focusing on road ecology; lecturer at the Arava Institute for Envitonmental Studies, Israel; and a postdoctoral researcher at Ben Gurion University, Israel, focusing on disease dynamics.
 
Dror has been involved in environmental activities for nearly 15 years. He was a coordinator of environmenal activities for the Jewish National Fund of Australia and later served on the boards of JNF NSW and JNF Australia. Dror designed the first wildlife corridor project in Israel on behalf of JNF Israel, and is currently consulting on the implications of kangaroo harvesting in Australia. Dror is currently a board member of the Israel Energy Forum which advocates renewable energy and energy efficieny policy in Israel. He has been a board member of Voiceless since the organisation was established in 2004.
 

Dr Daniel Ramp

Dr Daniel Ramp is an environmental scientist working in the fields of wildlife ecology, road ecology and conservation biology. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, was awarded an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2003, and is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Dan has published widely in international scientific journals, has written numerous book chapters, and has written for Australian conservation and animal welfare magazines.

Dan's past research has highlighted the misrepresentation of the impacts of kangaroos on biodiversity and highlighted the plight of native fauna on Australian roads. Dan's recent research examines the effectiveness of protected areas to represent biodiversity and create resilience from threatening processes such as climate change. He has seven post-graduate students.

Dan has served as a judge of Voiceless’s annual grants program since the organisation was established in 2004.

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