Marist Brothers Darlinghurst
Reg Richardson A.M.
FCPA FCIS FGIA Dip CM
Honorary Fellow University
of Sydney
Reg
Richardson has been self-employed since the seventies, owning and
managing businesses in the service industries, including pharmaceutical
wholesaling, information management, document self-storage and property.
He is
currently Chairman of the Melanoma Institute Australia, which was
founded in 2010 following a donation of $40 million from his close
friend and colleague, Greg Poche.
The Melanoma Institute is now recognised as the world leader in
melanoma research and treatment.
Reg is a
Co-Founder of the Poche Centres of Indigenous Health at the Universities
of Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Western Australia and Flinders
University and serves on the Advisory Boards at these universities.
Greg Poche has donated $10 million to each university.
On 27 May
2015, the Minister for Health, The Hon. Sussan Ley MP, launched the
National Network of Poche Centres, of which Reg is a Co-Founder.
It is the intention that this national body, chaired by the
highly respected indigenous leader, Professor Tom Calma AO, will become
a strong advocate for improvement in aboriginal health in this country.
In 2007, Reg
was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his support of the
visual arts and for his involvement in a range of social welfare and
medical research organisations.
In 2013, he
was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney, in recognition
of his philanthropic activities across the university and outside of it.
In 2014, Reg
was made a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for his philanthropic
activities.
In 2014, he
was awarded Arts NSW Highest Achievement Award for his work in the
community.
To date, Reg
has raised $123 million for charitable projects, with $102 million being
donated by Greg Poche.
In 2015, he
was appointed to the NSW Advisory Council of St Vincent’s Health
Australia.
Reg is a
Director of the Friends of the Mater Foundation and a member of the St
Vincent’s Hospital Art Committee which, over time, has sourced
approximately 500 art works, which hang in the public hospital at no
cost to the Hospital.
Previously
Reg has been a Director of the Mercy Foundation, the Ted Noffs
Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of NSW
Foundation.
