Ros has been immersed in the arts and creative industries for over 25 years, working as a CEO,
Creative Consultant, and Festival Director. Currently engaged as the Executive Director (CEO) at Regional Arts Australia, a not-for-profit national organisation that is the voice for arts in regional Australia, Ros facilitates cross–sector, multi-arts and intergenerational connections across the creative industries. She works to advocate and support regional sustainability and implement learnings to engage new models.

Ros' previous roles include Program Director of Moomba Festival, Creative Director of the City of Melbourne NYE, CEO of Shepparton Arts Festival, Director of Taste of Tasmania alongside consulting with many local councils and independent organisations.
Ros’s qualifications include Executive Education Yale School of Management,
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management, Victoria University, BA Hons Social Anthropology, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and is a graduate of AICD.

Nick Baylart is SAM's Exhibitions Manager, joining the team in early 2022 to oversee the development and installation of the museum's exhibition program. He has previously worked in collections, exhibitions, and artwork conservation roles at HOTA Gallery, the National Library of Australia, and commercial galleries in Brisbane.

Working as SAM's Head of Engagement, Gabriella Calandro oversees the way the Museum engages with audiences across marketing and communications, public programs, education, program funding and a young professionals training program.
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Born and raised in Shepparton, throughout Gabriella's career she has held positions in arts funding management, marketing, curatorial, public program, and audience development. ⁠ 
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Before joining SAM in July 2021, Gabriella was the Director of Grants and Curatorial Affairs at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City where she spearheaded the organisation's national grant and curatorial programs.⁠ 

In 2022 Gabriella was elected as a regional representative on the Board of Management for the Public Galleries Association of Victoria.

Gabriella holds a Master in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University.⁠ She is currently completing a Master of Business Administration at La Trobe University.   

Danny Lacy is the Artistic Director of Shepparton Art Museum. Having previously been a part of the SAM curatorial team from 2010-2012, Danny rejoined SAM in 2024 after spending 8 years at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG), initially as Senior Curator and later as Gallery Director, during which time he led MPRG through a period of sustained growth and change.

Danny has held an active curatorial practice across a range of contemporary art spaces, including as Director of West Space, Program Administrator at Monash University Museum of Art, and Installation & Project Coordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. He holds a Master of Arts (Visual Culture) and Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Art History and Film Studies) from Monash University. In 2015 he was based in Singapore for three months as he undertook an Asialink Arts Management residency.

Based in Melbourne, Evan Lowenstein is a Director at Lowensteins, an arts management firm that has amassed 40 years of experience in servicing the arts and providing specialist advice in financial, taxation and business areas.

Evan has had a long association with Boards of Management for many arts organisations throughout his career, including Gertrude Street Artist Spaces and the Centre for Contemporary Photography. He has also been on the Board of The Resale Royalties Art Market Professionals Advisory Panel, Treasurer of Westspace Artists Spaces in Melbourne, Board of Directors of the Australian Artists Association Ltd, as well as Theatreworks, Q44 Inc, Embraced Inc.and, Southern Disability Advocacy Inc, Sunshine Print Artspace Inc, Genesis Baroque Inc., and Studio A.

Tegan Nash Ollett is an artist and creative producer working in the field of dance and live

Art, and currently works as Director of Live Art Benalla and Education and Public Programs Curator at the Benalla Art Gallery. She has produced numerous original works and received the Dance Award at the North Queensland Arts Awards (2015). Tegan’s career has also focused on producing opportunities for others to engage in creative practice or establish new work, by devising projects for youth, artists and the wider community; through her roles as an arts manager, artist and producer with a range of leading, Australian contemporary arts organisations. Tegan has worked and trained with a range of Australian artists, and her residencies include Guts Dance Alice Springs, Castlemaine State Festival and Lucy Guerin Inc. Tegan is an alum of the Footscray Community Arts Centre’s Emerging Cultural Leaders Program and Theatre Network Australia's Victorian Independent Producers Initiative.

Lachie Petrie is an editor, writer, and arts worker, with an enduring interest in questions of labour and value in art and working closely with artists. Lachie has worked in numerous roles at TarraWarra Museum of Art and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Lachie recently joined SAM to help deliver special projects, including SAM's new art journal, MASS. 

Sarah Walker is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer, artist, and researcher. She makes work about anxiety, control and intimacy across video, sound and text. Her first book, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, a collection of non-fiction essays about the unruly body in late capitalism, won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award, and her fiction and nonfiction have been widely published and awarded. She is a current PhD candidate at RMIT, where she teaches in video and sound.