Brenton Caffin Chief Executive Officer
Brenton began his career in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, later consulting to Australian and British governments on public policy, performance improvement and change management.
Brenton returned to South Australia to pursue his passion for public sector reform through executive positions with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government Reform Commission and WorkCover.
Brenton has degrees in economics and international relations and a Master of Public Administration from Flinders University, where his research focused on public sector innovation in South Australia.
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Erin Green Program Manager
Erin is passionate about achieving positive social impact with and for communities and brings with her considerable experience in program and project management, communication/marketing and stakeholder engagement in the international community development arena.
Erin has worked with Austraining International/AusAID on the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program, for Volunteering for International Development from Australia (VIDA), CARE Australia, Oxfam Australia and the Arts Council of Mongolia.
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Jason Quin Operations Manager
Jason Quin brings passion, commitment, as well as considerable operational and financial experience gained in the social innovation arena.
In 2002, Jason joined the newly established UnLtd - the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. Since then, Jason has developed a strong belief in the role of the individual as changemaker and UnLtd has become the world's largest funder of social entrepreneurs.
In 2009, Jason helped grow a social enterprise, EGO - Empowering Grassroots Organisations, providing collaborative support around social impact measurement.
Born in Adelaide, Jason has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and the outback of Australia. With a strong sense of social justice combined with a curiosity for all things digital, his interests span social media, new economics and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Chris Vanstone & Sarah Schulman Family Project Co-Leaders
Chris and Sarah blend design, 
social science and business to prototype new kinds of practice and policy. They work together as InWithFor, an organization they set-up to partner in, with, and for centres of social innovation like TACSI to solve social problems and improve problem-solving.
Their approach has been developed over the last 10 years by working with politicians, civil servants, young people, old people, and the chronically ill to redesign public services.
Sarah wears the social policy thinker/doer hat. A graduate of Stanford University and a Rhodes Scholar, she’s worked with national, state and local governments around the world to engage users in the design, delivery, and evaluation of health, education, child, youth and family interventions.
Chris Vanstone wears the design thinker/doer hat. A graduate of Central Saint Martins he’s worked with organisations like RED and Participle in the UK to address problems like drug use, obesity, ageing, loneliness and youth disengagement.
Carolyn Lockett Family Project Co-Leader
Carolyn is extremely passionate about bettering the lives of people both personally and professionally. She has a long history of work that supports and develops individuals, families and communities. She has worked with NGO’s aiming to develop impoverished communities in Uganda, East Africa and will again support similar work on the ground next year.
Carolyn’s strong drive to achieve social justice saw her complete a Bachelor of Social Science specialising in Human services. Other professional qualifications include frontline management, workplace training & assessment, child protection, narrative therapy and physical rehabilitation. Her most outstanding professional achievement in social services is the successful management of an innovative pilot program. The project, Safe Babies is a highly successful, sustained, intensive home visiting program for families in crisis or struggling to manage the care of their infant/children. Carolyn is very excited to join the team at Tacsi and is looking forward to exploring social innovation with South Australian families.
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Nadia Kilimann Admin & Project Support Officer
Nadia spent the last couple of years teaching English in Vietnam and travelling extensively throughout South East Asia, and this sparked a passion to become involved in finding solutions to the big issues facing the global community.
Whilst new to the social innovation arena, she has worked with a diverse group of people from all walks of life in her previous roles abroad, in the International Office at the University of South Australia as well as considerable time in the recruitment field.
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Sophia Rainbird Family Project Ethnographer
Sophia Rainbird is an anthropologist with extensive ethnographic field work experience with young families, ethnic communities, asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Australia and in the UK. The interface of service provision to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people has also been a significant aspect throughout her work. She holds the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia.
Genevieve Williamson Family Project Ethnographer
Genevieve has worked as a research assistant with the Department of Human Factors, within the Centre for Sleep Research at UniSA. She has done ethnographic field research in hospitals as part of the Safe Tools for Electronic Clinical Handover (SafeTECH) scheme asd associated with the Department of Health. She has also done field work as part of the evaluation of the Delta Dog Safe Program, which included interviewing and surveying children on their awareness of dog safety. She is currently studying an Honours degree at the University of Adelaide with a particular interest in communities writing about their post colonial experiences in the Pacific and with film genre.
Bert Meijers KaosPilot & Intern
Bert is currently finishing his studies at the KaosPilots in Denmark.
KaosPilot is a creative business design school set up to create positive societal change through personal growth and enterprise. It is the vision of the KaosPilots to be the best school for the world.
Born in the Netherlands, Bert came over to Australia to join TACSI in it's mission to support social entrepreneurs. For the last couple of years, Bert has been leading a wide range of projects within both the private and the public sector in Scandinavia, the UK, the Netherlands and the Middle East.
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