Gill has over 30 years of international experience in the areas of Disaster Management, Human Resources, and Public Relations that span a broad array of industries, cultures, and languages. During her career, she has developed extensive knowledge working with local businesses and multinational corporations, across Australia, Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

She has held a number of C-suite roles and worked at the highest levels, as a trusted partner advising chief executives and senior management across the core functions of strategy, communications, crisis management, human resources, legal, operations, compliance, training, ethics, and reputation management. Gill has worked both in-house and as an external consultant for organisations in the aviation, education, emergency services, finance, government, health, not-for-profit, technology and tourism sectors.

Brands she has worked for and supported include the Australian Government, Blackboard, Boeing, Cameragal Montessori School, Dentsu Aegis, Habitat for Humanity, HMD Nokia Phones, Korda Mentha, Matrix Health, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Mitsubishi Electric, Pizza Hut, Red Cross, Regal Springs, Room to Read, Save the Children, Victorian State Government, University of NSW, Westfield, and International SOS.

Gill works collaboratively with stakeholders, and her extensive experience within the humanitarian and disaster management field offers a balance of empathy and care to provide realistic, considered, and effective counsel. She has a calm approach to disaster and emergency management and provides support guidance to those affected by crisis with care, dignity, and respect. GoCrisis is thrilled to have Gill join our community of professionals in support of our many valued clients around the world.

Chris Gray is Managing Director of Australian-based public relations agency and a Senior Associate with GoCrisis.

A highly experienced crisis communications practitioner, he regularly advises clients and helps them manage complex, difficult and confronting issues so they can communicate with speed and clarity to key stakeholders.

As a former journalist with leading news organisations, he brings his knowledge of newsroom environments to the fore to equip clients to deal confidently and persuasively with media in order to manage their messaging in both benign and hostile scenarios.

He has trained more than 500 executives over the past two decades in the art of media relations and crisis communications across both the private and public sectors. Chris is often called on to speak on reputational matters and undertakes training of senior executives in the areas of crisis, media and presentation skills. He provides ‘on-call’ support to organisations and has responded to major crises in Australia and overseas.

Alistair Nicholas has more than 25 years’ experience in crisis management communications, crisis planning, and crisis training covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, China and the United States. Alistair has written crisis communications manuals and crisis management plans for major multinational corporations and government agencies and provided crisis training programs to them. He has counselled many organisations during their responses to crises, including acting as an official spokesperson for organisations during live crisis situations.

Alistair has worked on crises ranging from accidental deaths and injuries through to pharmaceutical and consumer product market recalls, fraud and embezzlement, and government corruption cases. He has provided communication counsel and support during media inquiries, coronial inquests, court trials, and government inquiries.

Alistair’s career of more than 30 years also includes senior roles in government, politics, diplomacy, and the media.

Alistair holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from the University of New South Wales and a Certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University. He is based in Sydney, Australia.

Jeanine Burt looks after GoCrisis’ clients, operations and crisis response in the Asia Pacific region.

Jeanine has extensive frontline leadership experience in crisis response and has led several GoCrisis incident activations for our oil and gas, manufacturing, aviation and university clients. She has responded to major product recalls, multiple cyclone evacuations, the Myanmar Coup, COVID-19, major data breaches, Hurricane Katrina, the South East Asian Tsunami and British Airways flight BA38.

Prior to joining GoCrisis, she had 15 years of experience in events management and 8 years of business management in the tourism industry.

Jeanine has a Bachelor of Business from Southern Cross University and a Project Management Diploma from Varsity College.