Andrew McLeish
CEO and Managing Director
Andrew McLeish is the CEO at Stopline. Stopline was founded in 2001 and is a industry leader specialising in whistleblower and integrity hotline services and investigations.
Andrew joined Stopline in 2010 as a Director of the business and in 2014 he became the owner and Managing Director of Stopline. Andrew has directed his passion to helping others by giving them a voice and a providing support mechanism through the hotline service.
Our whistleblower hotline service has grown and matured over the years and is more than an whistleblower hotline. It has become a full bespoke service that caters for all manner of reporting, from work place related issues through to client management and customer care services. We also use our bespoke service in an investigation tool. We have created a unique way to collect information during an investigation that may not otherwise have been identified.
We also offer safe guarding services for all our clients that interact with children and young adults. The reporting ability for safe guarding matters is our latest initiative and we are currently working on further enhancing this project to include our new APP or application for reporting of these very sensitive matters. To find out more about our safeguarding services please send me an email or call the office.
Of course Stopline wouldn’t be what it has become today without an amazing team of talented and experienced people. I would like to recognise the hard work and dedication of the disclosure team because they make the business a great place to work - thank you.
If you have any questions about the services, please send me an email at andrewmcleish@stopline.com.au or call the office on 1300 30 45 50 or even respond to the bot on the screen. We will answer you. Have a great day.
Stopline has a strong team behind the name. More about our team in the coming weeks. We are currently putting together a professional portfolio for the website of all our team members.
But for now here is some information about the management team here at Stopline:
Hayley Smith
Hayley is our team manager, providing support and leadership to our disclosure team. Hayley ensures that all the information received through our whistleblower & integrity services hotline is managed in accordance with the legislation (Corps Act - where a genuine whistleblower has disclosed a workplace issue/ misconduct incident that is a genuine whistleblower matter) to ensure that the matter is managed with the upmost confidentiality and where requested the persons anonymity.
Hayley has over 8 years’ experience in our whistleblower & integrity service. Her background before joining Stopline was in client management and customer care. Hayley has a strong knowledge of the whistleblower legislation and is available to discuss any questions you might have. For example, what is an eligible whistleblower, how does an eligible whistleblower make a confidential and where possible an anonymous report to Stopline, what is the role of Stopline as an independent service and can a person make an anonymous report to Stopline if they aren’t an eligible whistleblower?
Our disclosure team have a combined experience of over 35 years managing and understanding whistleblower disclosures and the various Acts and business policies we work with to ensure that information gathered is managed correctly.
Some members of our team are former law enforcement officers (Detectives) within Victoria Police. Tracie Mengler is a former Police officer who also worked at Crime Stoppers Victoria where she was managing all manner of highly confidential information/ disclosures. Peter Callaway, another former Detective with Victoria Police is one of our team members. Peter also managed a whistleblower hotline after leaving law enforcement. He also has experience working in other Government roles where he dealt with Public Interest Disclosures or PID Act reports - PID Act disclosures are managed through Stopline under certain circumstances.
Melissa Murphy-Webster and Nicole Butterworth are both new members to our growing team. Melissa joined our team nearly 12 months ago bringing with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in people and culture management. Melissa has worked in human resources and information management for over 20 years and is well versed in the protection and management of confidential information through her previous role in people and culture.
Nicole joined our team over 6 months ago bringing with her years of experience as an accomplished business owner in real estate management. Nicole has many years’ experience as a leader in her field.
If you would like to know more about how we manage whistleblower disclosures and/ or PID Act disclosures for our clients and Government entities respectively, please call the office on 1300 30 45 50 or send an email to andrewmcleish@stopline.com.au
Jay Spark
Jay is our IT manager and his primary role is to ensure that our systems are aligned with IT security best practices. Jay has many years experience in managing the IT function at Stopline and is currently working with our development team to integrate our latest platform or our Disclosure Management Portal (DMP). Our new reporting portal is due for release in the second quarter of 2024 with some very intuitive and powerful reporting features that we have developed. We will have more information about our new portal for you shortly.
Jay is instrumental in ensuring that our IT and data management aligns with the Australian Governments Essential 8. For more information about the Essential Eight click on the following link to the Cyber.gov.au website.
Our strict access policies and procedures ensure that all the data is managed with these guiding principals in mind. Our cyber security policies dictate that only those with access can have access. Jay works with our clients to ensure that their portal is secure and that access privileges are managed.
If you would like to know more about our whistleblower reporting portal and what’s coming up in April 2024, please call the office on 1300 30 45 50 or send an email to jayspark@stopline.com.au
Denise Parvakis
Denise is our training and investigations manager. Denise provides the awareness training for our clients during the on boarding process and any ongoing training requirements. Her focus is to ensure that each whistleblower protection officer (WPO) and/or whistleblower investigation officer (WIO) is aware of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019, how information from an eligible discloser is to be managed, how to investigate a disclosure report, the protections afforded to the eligible whistleblower/s and how this all fits in with the business whistleblower policy and procedure.
Denise also offers investigation training to those who are new to their role. The objectives of the investigation awareness training are:
Triage reports and refer for investigation – including following workplace policies;
Planning an investigation – creating an investigation plan;
Conducting the investigation – gathering evidence and conducting interviews;
Reporting on the investigation – writing an investigation report; and
After the completed investigation – finalising a matter.
For more information about our training packages please call our office on 1300 30 45 50.
Denise has over 20 years of investigation experience many of which has been with the Australian Government. Denise assists Andrew with the investigations service with the administration of our service to ensure that our planned approach is managed correctly and that our client’s expectations have been met.
If you would like to know more about our awareness training services for your team or your board alike, please call the office on 1300 30 45 50 or send an email to denise@stopline.com.au