Board of Directors

Bede Burke, Chairman

Bede Burke was elected to the Board on 24 November 2016.

Bede has run a successful grain and livestock farming business, including laying hens and pullet rearing as well as ewes and breeding cattle, with his wife, Narelle, for more than 35 years. The farm not only produces most of its own feed requirements with an on-farm feed mill but has an extensive on-farm compost system as part of the fertiliser program for grain production. In 2009, Bede and Narelle’s farm was awarded the Brownhill Cup for Sustainable Farming, while the couple were also finalists in the same year for the NSW Farmer of the Year awards.

Bede has always been involved in numerous industry and community projects. Until recently he was Chairman of the NSW National Party, Chairman of the NSW Farmers Egg Committee and Chairman of Tamworth Rural, an unlisted public rural merchandising company. He is a Deputy Captain of the Tamworth branch of the NSW Rural Fire Services. Bede is also an active promoter of the industry representative body, Egg Farmers Australia.

Ian Wilson, Elected Director

Ian Wilson is a third-generation free range egg farmer from Western Australia. The farm is located 25 minutes south of Perth’s CBD and is also home to an on-site shop that supplies eggs to local communities and over 50 businesses including bakers, butchers, cafés, deli’s, food and merchant distributors, independent IGA’s, local sporting clubs as well as patisseries.

As a family-owned farm, Ian also employs his two brothers and one niece, making four generations of Wilson egg farmers.

Ian was a board director of Egg Farmers of Australia from its inception in 2016 to 2024. He is also the president of the Commercial Egg Producers Association of WA and chairperson of the Agriculture Produce Commission Egg Producers' Committee.

Andrew Postregna, Elected Director

Andrew Postregna is a second-generation egg farmer based in Victoria and owner of Tamarix Poultry Farm. The farm supplies eggs across the Melbourne metropolitan area, mainly to the hospitality industry and operates an on-site retail egg shop. Tamarix has been supplying quality eggs to Melbourne for over six decades and continues to maintain a reputation of excellence in the industry.  Tamarix Poultry Farm also rears its own pullets and produces its own poultry feed.

Andrew took over ownership from his late father in 2006, overseeing a capital expansion and now employs 23 people, including two of Andrew’s children. 

Sustainability and the environment is a focus for Andrew, installing a 200kw solar system on the farm, transitioning to electric vehicle fleets, becoming a Tesla destination charging site and planting hundreds of gumtrees and scrubs to minimise their carbon footprint. 

Sarah Britton, Specialist Director (Public Policy)

Sarah is an experienced Chair and Non-Executive director with over 30 years of veterinary experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and a trusted advisor to government, industry and community on veterinary and biosecurity risk management and animal health.

Through her work in public policy, Sarah has a deep understanding of the government and private sectors and how to drive mutually beneficial outcomes and collaborative policy. Sarah’s expertise also includes corporate, risk, financial governance, and leading research development, review, and implementation.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Diploma of Veterinary Clinical Studies from the University of Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Liz Rowell, Specialist Director (Marketing)

Liz is an experienced CEO, non-executive director and chair and has an extensive advertising and marketing background with global and national businesses and brands. She has worked across diverse industries including FMCG, retail, animal and human health, travel and tourism, and financial services, guiding them through the ever-changing worlds of communications, media, technology and consumer behaviour.

She lectures in business and communications at the Whitecliffe Institute of Creative Arts and Technology and University of New South Wales and has experience in state and federal government relations and not-for-profit organisations. She is a graduate of The Australian Institute of Company Directors with qualifications in Economics and Business Management.

She brings her SME business management experience, customer focus and understanding of ESG principles to the boardroom. 

Rowan McMonnies, Australian Eggs Managing Director 

Rowan has a legal and compliance background and has been a key adviser to the agriculture sector and the egg industry in recent years. Prior to commencing with Australian Eggs, Rowan was a commercial disputes partner at global law firm, Baker & McKenzie, and held senior positions at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Through a focus on the agriculture sector in legal practice, Rowan has advised peak state and national farming associations and key stakeholders in the egg, chicken meat, cattle, dairy, bulk grain and agricultural chemical industries. Rowan’s involvement in the egg industry includes assisting the industry in its response to the free range egg labelling standard consultation process and working with egg industry representative bodies on the formalisation of Egg Farmers of Australia. Through this work, Rowan has been recognised for his strategic capability and his ability to effectively engage with key industry stakeholders.

Rowan holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Masters of Commerce from the University of Sydney.

Rowan commenced with Australian Eggs on 31 October 2016.