Linda is a counsellor, educator, supervisor and consultant and has specialised in loss and grief for 25 years. She educates in many areas of loss, grief, bereavement and trauma including road trauma, suicide, bereavement, illness, pregnancy loss, separation, infertility and job loss. Linda provides course in Japan annually educating in health, welfare and education and she manages Client Support Services in a Melbourne Palliative Care Services.. Linda is a CISMFA trainer.

Alexina Baldini is a psychologist and a Director of Caraniche, a private company specialising in the provision of support services, training and consultation to a wide range of workplaces. She has a background in disability services, child, adolescent and family services and forensic psychology both within the government and private sectors. Alexina has been a trainer with CISMFA for a number of years.

Chris has a broad business background, a significant part of it spent in South East Asia.  After graduating in Commerce/Economics in Sydney he joined Rio Tinto in London as a project analyst, before moving with his young family to live and work firstly in Indonesia, then Malaysia and Singapore and finally to Melbourne.

In 1992 he set up his own business in the field of marine instrumentation and engineering which became an international leader in its field. 

Following his retirement in 2007 he became a volunteer with Great Connections, a Melbourne based organisation, which provides a conduit between not-for-profit groups seeking assistance and retired individuals with free time and skills to assist in a range of disciplines, who connected him with CISMFA.

He undertook to review and make recommendations for the strategic direction and financial wellbeing of CISMFA and recently agreed to take over as President and to implement some of these recommendations.