Breathe gives Kiss of Life to new CEO

Breathe gets some new wind in its sails as Nightingale’s current Head of Operations, Dan McKenna was recently tapped as the new CEO for the forward-thinking design firm.

Along with Breathe co-founder and partner Tamara Veltre, current CEO Jeremy McLeod has lived and dare we say, ‘breathed’ Nightingale for the past five years, advocating for a better, more sustainable and human-focused model of housing development and building the organisation to achieve it.

Now, with the Nightingale team steadily growing with the recent completion of Nightingale Anstey, Ballarat and the long-awaited Village, McLeod says it is time he handed over the CEO role, although he will still be present in the background at Nightingale as a board member.

While McKenna has been at Nightingale since the beginning, on the future of Nightingale, he says, “I want to keep the spirit of Nightingale as a grassroots organisation, while also ensuring it has the tools to grow its impact as it moves beyond Brunswick and fully into the world.”

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