Cheryl Sarah Bart AO is an Australian lawyer and company director. She is also the first Australian female and the 31st person worldwide to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam.

Early life and education

Bart was educated at

Moriah College The Moriah War Memorial College (or more commonly, Moriah College) is an independent Modern Orthodox Jewish co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school, located in Queens Park, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wal ...

in Sydney and graduated from the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

with degrees in Commerce and Law.

Career

She began her career as a banking and finance lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Bart has been the Chairman of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE),

ANZ ANZ may refer to: People * Anz (musician), a British DJ and electronic musician Banks * ANZ (bank), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, the fourth-largest bank in Australia ** ANZ Bank New Zealand, the largest bank in New Zealand ** ...

Trustees Limited, the

South Australian Film Corporation South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is a South Australian Government statutory corporation established in 1972 to engage in film production and promote the film industry, located in Adelaide, South Australia. The Adelaide Studios are managed ...

, the

Adelaide Film Festival The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF, formerly ADLFF) is film festival usually held for two weeks in mid-October in cinemas in Adelaide, South Australia. Originally presented biennially in March from 2003, since 2013 AFF has been held in October ...

, and the South Australian Environmental Protection Authority. She is also serves as a non-executive director on numerous company boards including: Spark Infrastructure Limited, ETSA Utitilies, Shaw of Australia, Audio pixels Limited, and the Buckland Foundation. On 3 June 2010, she commenced a five-year term on the Board of the

Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...

. She currently serves as Non Executive Director on the boards of ME Bank, SG Fleet Ltd, Audio Pixels Holdings Ltd, Football Federation Australia (FFA), the Prince's Trust Australia, Invictus Games Sydney 2018, Moriah Foundation and TEDxSydney. She is an Ambassador for the Australian Himalayan Foundation and Patron of Sports Connect. Bart is a member of YPO Greater Sydney and of Chief Executive Women. In 2009, Bart was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. Bart is the first Australian female and the 31st person worldwide to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam. Namely, the Seven Summits plus skiing, unsupported, to the North Pole and the South Pole. She completed the North Pole on 22 April 2013.

Family

Cheryl Bart is married to Fred Bart, also a company director, and has two children. On 23 May 2008, Bart and her 23-year-old daughter

Nikki Nikki may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Nikki (Barbie), a fashion doll in the Barbie toy line * Nikki (comics), a Marvel Comics character * Nikki and Paulo, from the TV series ''Lost'' * Nikki, the mascot of Swapnote * N ...

became the first mother-daughter team to reach the summit of

Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...

. The scaling of Everest also saw them complete the "

Seven Summits The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven traditional continents. Climbing to the summit of all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first achieved on 30 April 1985 by Richard Bass. Climbing the Seven Summits a ...

" challenge: climbing the highest mountains in each continent. Her father, Emeric Klinghoffer, was a Hungarian concentration camp survivor, and her mother was Polish. Her daughter is Nikki Bart, with whom she became part of the first mother-daughter team to summit

and complete the

References

External links

Chicks with Altitude website
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