
Paul Quilliam is a former Board Chair of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN). Paul is also a Cofounder of Hummingbird House, which opened in 2016 as Queensland’s only children’s hospice, and only the third facility of its kind in Australia.
Having spent two decades in education and IT, Paul completed his Executive MBA and pivoted to healthcare, community services and not-for-profit advocacy. He is passionate to bring his leadership, management and governance experience, coupled with his experience in philanthropic and political persuasion, to bring advice and added value to the grief and bereavement sector.
In 2019, he received the international entrepreneurship award for Hummingbird House from the global Association of MBA’s (AMBA) in the non-profit category, from a field of nominations from 257 business schools around the world.
He is currently the CEO of Epilepsy Tasmania and Director of Epilepsy Australia.
Paul is our “most southern” advisory council member based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia with his wife Gabrielle and two daughters, Shiloh and Stephanie.