Staff

CEO

Mick Sheehy is a former cattle station manager who managed Walhallow station in the Northern Territory for the Heytesbury Pastoral Group and Ethel Creek station in The Pilbara for BHP. Mick worked for the Heytesbury Group for eight years and was also Managing Director of Heytesbury Thoroughbreds and the CEO of the Heytesbury Beef Asian Operations. Mick lived in Indonesia for fifteen years where he was the Chief Operating Officer for PT Natural Resources Indonesia an Indonesian company that has business interests in mining, property and agriculture. Mick was also the CEO of PT Dharmabakti Purna Wira, a PEPAPRI (Indonesian Retired Armed Forces Union) company. In 2018 and 2019 Mick was engaged as the Academic Program Officer for the inauguralAgricultural Professional Practicum in Indonesia under the New Colombo Plan. This program allowed Australian University students to undertake a two week academic program and a four week internship in Indonesia. Mick was awarded a Nuffield scholarship in 1992 where he studied international agricultural policy in Europe and the live cattle trade between Australia and South East Asia.

Office Administrator

Liz has over 28 years of experience in administration and bookkeeping. Coming from a background in education, she embodies qualities such as attention to detail, effective planning, compassion and problem solving which are transferable to any profession. Such qualities, as well as an affinity with mathematics and her eagerness to learn independently, saw her role in Campion Design Group evolve as Office and Accounts Manager. In 2019, Liz and her husband decided on a sea-change which led them to work at Anna Plains Station for 2 years. Liz’s role there was both in administration and as a station cook. It was during this time at Anna Plains that Liz was introduced to KPCA so the progression to work with them was a natural one. Liz already had a good understanding of what KPCA stood for and the great work that it did for the cattle industry in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. As a child, Liz spent several years living in Derby due to her father (a civil engineer), working on the Gibb River Road. In 1990, Liz returned to Broome for her honeymoon and has been drawn to the north of WA ever since! She is married with 2 grown up children

Aboriginal Pastoral Coordinator

Jeremy is employed by KPCA as the Aboriginal Pastoral Academy Coordinator under a grant from the WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. He has worked in agricultural related positions with the CSIRO and the NSW and Commonwealth agriculture departments since completing a Bachelor of Rural Science (UNE). These positions have included roles in research, extension, program management, regulation, policy development and international trade. Personal highlights have included secondments to work in Cambodia, Parliament House, South Korea and Taiwan, and Kununurra on a 6-week Jawun project in 2017. It was the last of these that provided the impetus for him to take on his current role with KPCA.

Business Development Officer 

Lauren has over a decade’s experience in the northern beef industry; working on stations, in live export yards and as a pastoral trainer/assessor for North Regional TAFE. In this time Lauren completed Certificate IV in Agriculture and Training and Assessment, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Animal Science (2017, UQ). Lauren is passionate about helping build resilient communities and businesses in the north-west. Recently Lauren focused on R&D in an emerging agricultural industry, insect farming. This included establishing and operating a pilot farm in Broome to assess its viability as an organic waste management strategy for northern Australia. For this work, Lauren was a finalist and runner up in the 2020 WA Rural Women’s Award.

Biosecurity Officer

John has over 28 years in emergency management focusing on PPRR, Incident Management, bushfire risk management and response throughout the Kimberley’s.