chairman & board members.
Founder and Chairman
Elizabeth Venzin
Elizabeth Venzin is the Founder and Chairman of The MindShift Foundation and an advocate of preventative mental health.
With a Master’s in Business, Elizabeth has a successful career focussed on events and business management that has spanned more than 30 years.
Elizabeth started her corporate career with Qantas Airways as the first female management intern. She then spent several years with Thomas Cook Travel, rising to the position of Corporate Travel Manager. Later, having relocated from Melbourne to Brisbane, she established her own corporate events company. Successes included many one-off corporate events, the establishment and management of the boutique Farmer’s Market at Sirromet Winery, and identifying and delivering executive relocation services.
Driven by new challenges, Elizabeth spent five years as CEO of the Australian-Israel Chamber of Commerce, one of Australia’s most prestigious and active national not-for-profit business organisations. In addition to strategic development and policy implementation, Elizabeth was responsible for the organisation of more than 60 large-scale, high-profile executive events with guest speakers that included both Australia’s political and business leaders. In addition, she organised a number of political and business delegations between Israel and Australia.
Being a passionate businesswoman and skilled networker, Elizabeth gained a strong ability to connect like-minded people and instigate mutually rewarding and long-term personal and professional relationships. As a result, she has built and maintained solid relationships with an impressive and extensive clientele at the highest level of corporate and political life.
Exploring new interests and ideas, Elizabeth returned to the world of event management, and is well-respected for her work on executive level corporate functions. She also co-founded MedSoft, a Health IT company that provides total Project/Program Management, Research & Development and best-of-breed solutions for healthcare systems.
Elizabeth’s personal passion for preventative mental health initiatives led to her create The MindShift Foundation where she is now Chairman. Since 2012, she has advocated tirelessly on the importance of preventative mental health at state and federal levels, and on various public outreach campaigns.
In 2020 her book “MindShift to a Better Place” was published by HarperCollins Publishers and ABC Books.
CEO
Giorgina Venzin
(Effective 1 November 2024 – Bio coming soon).
Board members
Armin Weiner
The Chief Technical Officer of MedSoft, Armin Weiner is a global industry leader in Healthcare systems with strong analytical skills alongside extensive experience in providing next-generation Information System solutions to complex data and workflow issues.
Involved in the industry from its infancy in the 1980s, Armin has spent more than 30 years in Israel, Europe and the US in IT development, including Scitex, France Telecom and the Dutch PTT. Having moved to California, he co-founded RealTimeImage, an innovator in the field of medical imaging with a global significance.
After the company was successfully sold to GE/IDX Armin moved to Australia in 2010. He currently helps NSW eHealth in Enterprise/Solutions software design.
It is Armin’s personal yet modest drive as an innovator that has seen him take on the position of Chairman of Mind Shift. His self-belief in overcoming adversity as he established his successes in Europe, the US and now Australia is testament to what can be achieved with a healthy outlook and hard work.
Eric Shmilovits
A lawyer and businessman for more than 25 years, Eric’s global experience in business covers acting in litigation matters, commercial dealings, family, property and finance.
Eric’s pro bono work includes the position of Vice President of the Technion Society of Australia, Israel’s oldest university and its top university for science, engineering and technology, and he also provides advisory assistance to the trade committee of the Australian-Israel Chamber of Commerce, one of Australia’s largest and most active not-for-profit organisations.
Eric is a passionate advocate of MindShift. He lives by the opinion that one’s confidence and belief in oneself is a mandatory requirement for life, and by far the major contribution to one’s achievements.