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 CEO of Photon Group, a marketing and communications company. Prior to joining Photon in June 2010, he was Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, at News Corp in New York, where he was a member of the Executive Management Committee. Previously he was Vice-Chairman and co-founder of ecorp Limited. Prior to that, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Jeremy is a graduate of the University of New South Wales and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 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 founded See-Saw Films with UK producer Iain Canning in 2008. Since 2008 See-Saw has produced Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Loach's Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson, Australian box office hit comedy The Kings of Mykonos and Anton Corbjin's Linear. In 2011 The King's Speech collected four Academy Awards® including Best Picture and to date has won the Audience Prize at Toronto Film Festival 2010, a British Independent Film Award for Best British Film and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. Sherman and Canning were the recipients of the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award at the 2011 Producer Guild of America Awards. See-Saw's latest feature, Shame starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender and directed by British filmmaker/artist Steve McQueen completed principal photography in March 2011 and will be released later in 2011.

Soon after inception, See-Saw founded finance company Fulcrum Media Finance together with Sharon Menzies and Barry Sechos. Fulcrum provides finance to cashflow the Australian Producer Offset, the New Zealand Screen Production Incentive Fund (SPIF) and the UK tax credit, as well as providing gap finance and cashflowing presales. Fulcrum has provided finance to over 20 films and is backed by Media Super, a large Australian pension fund.

Through his previous company, Sherman Pictures, Sherman produced films including the Toronto International 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 (as EP). Emile was the recipient of the Screen Producers Association Of Australia 2009 "Independent Producer of the Year Award".

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 Environmental 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 environmental 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 efficiency 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.

Katrina Sharman

Katrina Sharman is an experienced commercial, corporate and non profit lawyer. She previously worked as a Senior Associate in Minter Ellison’s Dispute Resolution Group. She is also the former Corporate Counsel of Voiceless, having led the organisation’s legal arm for six years. Katrina was included in Australasian Legal Business Magazine’s showcase of top 20 in-house Lawyers in 2009.

Katrina has represented the interests of animals on State and Federal Government committees and was also Chair of NSW Young Lawyers Animal Rights Committee, the first committee of lawyers to focus on animal law issues in Australia, for five years. She is currently the international coordinator of the secretariat of the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel and is currently undertaking her Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School. 

Katrina has written extensively on the area of animal law and has contributed chapters to Australia’s first two animal law textbooks. She has also been interviewed about animal law matters on numerous Australian radio and television programs and has delivered more than 50 presentations on animal law topics across Australia and the United States.

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