Board of directors
The SSAA Victoria Board has eleven members. Each director serves a three-year term before their position is up for nominations. Ahead of the Annual General Meeting each year, the entire membership base is given the opportunity to enter a postal vote for Board nominees. The results of the ballot are announced at the Annual General Meeting, usually held in September.
Get to know the directors by reading the short biographies below, or connecting with them via email.
DENIS MORONEY – President
Denis’ background is in the ownership and management of multiple small businesses. Denis was heavily involved in motor racing for many years. For 25 years he held a senior role as Chief Pit Lane Marshal, which saw him training and supervising up to 50 volunteers per meeting.
Denis is keen to secure the future of the SSAA in Victoria, with his energy being channeled into succession planning, establishing new metropolitan shooting ranges and catering to the increased interest in the shooting sports.
Denis is the current President of SSAA Victoria, Junior Vice President of SSAA National and hold positions on the National SHOT Expo sub-committee and finance sub-committee. He is also on the SSAA Insurance Brokers Board.
DAVID SCHERECK – senior vice president
David is a retired senior federal public servant having managed several large defence bases as the IT Operations Manager. Before that, he was a career military officer, commencing as an infantry soldier with the Third Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. Now retired, he has the time to devote to overseeing the direction of the SSAA Victoria as a director.
He has a lifelong involvement in target pistol and rifle shooting (civilian and military) having done stints as Club President and Club Captain of a number of pistol and rifle clubs, and as Regional Coordinator for IPSC Victoria in the 1980s. David is also a keen hunter.
I’m committed to the SSAA. I want to continue contributing to: developing regional branches; undertaking advocacy for hunters – including lobbying for sound moderators; future-proofing our ranges by acquiring adjoining properties; and supporting branches, sub clubs and individuals in fielding state competition teams.
MARION BARNES- junior vice president
Marion is an active committee member at SSAA Shepparton Branch, where her role is Publicity Officer and Event Organiser. She initiated the 2016, 2017 and 2019 Girls with Guns events, attracting close to 100 women to each. Marion also organised four Shooters for Hooters Pink Ribbon Charity Events and three Blue Ribbon charity events in support of the local Police, both attracting huge publicity for the sport.
Marion has served three terms on the Victorian Government Shooting Sports Facilities Program grants committee, was a Justice of the Peace for 10 years and continues to work on the positive promotion of the shooting sports. She is passionate about promoting the inclusiveness of the shooting sports by getting out among the members busting clays every weekend..
Andrew Hepner
I have been involved as an active sporting shooter and hunter for over 50 years, and a SSAA member since 1984. I am committed to the preservation and enhancement of all facets of our sport, particularly hunting.
I enjoy hunting of feral and dangerous game throughout Australia and Africa. I have been an active member of many firearm clubs but now practice at the range for my hunting. I have been a pistol target shooter for over 40 years and collect firearms.
I will continue to support the establishment of a SSAA range in the east of Melbourne and will continue the debate to re-classify self-loading sporting rimfire rifles and shotguns – to allow their use by experienced sporting shooters as target pistol shooters do now.
As is ‘world best practice’, I will endeavour to have suppressors re-classified to allow their use as a hearing health and safety devices by sport shooters and hunters. They just make firearms more pleasant to use.
As a licenced firearm dealer with over 10 years’ experience, I have developed a good working relationship with the Victoria Police and other authorities and as a semi-retired self-employed Engineer, I have many years’ experience with management and financial matters.
JEFF KUYKEN
Jeff Kuyken has been involved in SSAA for more than 20 years. In his free time, 
Jeff hunts fox, duck and deer, and enjoys breaking a clay or two.
Jeff’s interest in SSAA began with his involvement in establishing the Field Hunters Club, of which he is a past President. He then joined the State Board of Directors, where he served in a number of positions, including Junior Vice President, Senior Vice President and Secretary, over 20 years.
Jeff works full-time as a building contractor in the commercial and domestic construction industries. His passion for SSAA has never waned over the years and he maintains a strong desire to see the shooting sports progress and expand into the future.
Jeff is also the Victorian delegate of the SSAA National Board.
BILL CAMPBELL
Bill Campbell is an avid pistol shooter, who has been President of Practical Pistol League of Australia for 26 years – since 1992. As President of the PPLA, he has transformed the club from a newly established SSAA sub-club to one of SSAA Victoria’s largest and most respected clubs. PPLA is now the premier IPSC club in Australia because of work Bill was involved in.
Bill was also President of IPSC in Victoria for 16 years. He was also a member of the National Executive, making decisions relating to IPSC Australia-wide.
His professional background involves maintenance and management work. As a maintenance manager at BHP, he had up to 400 people under his leadership and was responsible for maintaining machinery valued at up to $100m.
As a Board member, Bill’s focus will be on advocating to government; retaining, and growing, the membership; finding suitable land for ranges, particularly in the east; and securing access to National Parks for hunters.
Chris Ryan
I have 41 years’ experience in the law as a Barrister, Crown Prosecutor, Senior Crown Prosecutor, Senior Counsel and Judge to bring to the Board.
I have been an SSAA member for 19 years. I am not affiliated with any group. I shoot at Eagle Park and when time permits hunt on friends’ properties.
COLIN WOOD
Colin Wood is an active hunter. He retired from a management position
within SSAA Victoria at the start of 2015 after more than 10 years of service.
Colin has extensive knowledge of hunting and pest control in Victoria and offers sound representation on duck, deer, and quail hunting issues.
Colin’s experience includes 10 years managing hunting and conservation for SSAA Victoria; five years as President of the SSAA Deerstalkers; six years as President of the Victorian Game and Deerstalkers Association; three years as President of the Shooting Sports Council of Victoria (SSCV); five years as President of the SSCV Hunting Committee; 20 years as a farmer and 28 years as a senior manager of Defence Force equipment manufacturing and repairs.
Neil Hibble
I am a long-term SSAA Victoria member, experienced corporate professional, active hunter and dedicated shooter. My aim is to help build the Association for the future.
While the organisation has been transformed over the last 7 years, there are still things I’d like to see done.
My enthusiasm, experience and skills can serve the organisation well, as I have a strong professional background in administration, finance, budgeting and investment. While I can offer a broad range of skills in stewarding the Association in finance and governance, I believe we should also be looking at future opportunities which will cement the SSAA Victoria as the premier shooting organisation in the state.
I am a good fit with the Board, and given my history as a long-term committee member of the Big Game Rifle Club, working harmoniously with other Board members is a priority.
With respect to longer-term strategic development, it is my commitment to focus on membership growth and retention, youth, hunter education, range acquisition and development, hunting sector cooperation and political advocacy.
Only by building a strong organisation can we secure the future of the shooting sports. And that is what I have committed myself to.
HENRY ROGERS
Henry has been a member of SSAA Victoria since 1992. He is an experienced competition shooter, with a particularly interest in various handgun disciplines. However, his lifelong passion has been hunting.
Henry grew up hunting rabbits and foxes on farms owned by relatives. In more recent times deer stalking has been his sport of choice. In 2014 Henry achieved a life goal of hunting plains game in Africa. Henry is also an active participant in the SSAA Conservation and Pest Management program, which he sees, not as a personal hunting opportunity, but rather as volunteer service for the benefit of the community.
Henry sees growing restrictions and bureaucracy as posing a major threat to the sport. He believes that hunting and fishing are intrinsic and necessary parts of our nature as human beings. Furthermore he sees that hunting and fishing provide the cornerstone to effective environmental land management.
LANCE EASTWOOD
Lance has been a shooter since he was 15 years old and a member of SSAA since 1975.
Lance has been a member of the Big Game Rifle Club (BGRC) since its inception in 1983. He has served in every position of the BGRC committee, including President.
Field hunting is Lance’s passion and he hunts game birds in season and pursues deer whenever he can escape his work commitments. Lance hunts feral goats and pigs, using visits to his Queensland family stations to help control the numbers. Lance has been fortunate enough to have hunted buffalo in the Northern Territory, camels in Queensland and other feral animals on the edges of the Simpson Desert.
Lance has been actively involved with the Eagle Park Range Consultative Committee for the past 10 years and is proud of what it has achieved.
Being a small business owner for the past 36 years as an electrical contractor in the commercial field, as well as running a security business for the past 20 years, Lance can manage projects from design to completion. He believes this experience has been helpful in his role as a Director of SSAA Victoria.