Professional Excellence
Charles Sturt University Distinguished Alumnus of the Year – Professional Excellence
This award recognises outstanding leaders in their industry or profession who have made or are making a significant and positive impact on their communities, their industry or the world.
Winner
Winner: Jenna Mayhew
Career: Psychologist, Founder of Hola Therapy, Cross-cultural Clinic in Mexico
Course: Master of Clinical Psychology
Ms Jenna Mayhew is Founder and Principal Psychologist at Hola Therapy in Mexico City. The thriving practice is dedicated to ethical, evidence-based and progressive intercultural psychology, purposefully built on a culture that celebrates and promotes diversity and inclusion. Specialising in working with the English-speaking community, it provides over 600 clients from around the world with individual, couples and family therapy in English and Spanish.
Jenna’s 20-year career in the social services sector spans disability and foster care, domestic violence and sexual assault, youth mental health, and intercultural psychology. She holds a Master of Clinical Psychology from Charles Sturt and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Psychology from Western Sydney University, and is dually registered as a psychologist in Australia and Mexico.
Highly Commended
Winner: Dale Hurley
Career: Chief Technology Officer, Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, CDO, CTO, Expert in Technology, SaaS, Digital, AI, Strategy, and Scaling Start-ups
Course: Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
Dale Hurley is an entrepreneur and innovator with over 20 years of experience in fintech, banking and software engineering. In 2010 he cofounded CreditorWatch, a credit management entity that transformed the assessment and management of credit risk and dramatically increased the speed of the credit reporting process.
Cofounding Avenue Bank – Australia’s first and only bank specialising in bank guarantees – in 2018, Dale steered it from startup to fully licensed banking institution, developing innovative solutions that set new sector-wide benchmarks for operational efficiency. He has also led numerous other cutting-edge fintech projects.
Dale transitioned to his current role as Chief Technology Officer of Greener in August 2024. He holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from Charles Sturt and a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University.
