PingPongParkinson® Australia Coordinator
Global Implementation Specialist
Assistant to Nenad Bach
Helen started the first chapter in Australia in Hervey Bay, Queensland, on 2 September 2024. She assisted PPP founder Nenad Bach with his talk “Ping Pong vs Parkinson: Uncommon Solution at TEDxZagreb, Croatia, in November 2024 and volunteered at the birthplace of PingPongParkinson, Westchester Table Tennis Centre in Pleasantville, New York, in December 2024 and January 2025.
Helen has been a human rights advocate and a consultant working to assist people with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions and their support people via lifestyle interventions and sensory, cognitive and movement therapies for the past decade. She is also a qualified personal trainer and yoga teacher.
Nenad is a composer, producer, singer-songwriter, peace activist, civil engineer and table tennis champion. Nenad has recorded for Sony, Universal, Decca, Polygram and many other labels and performed all over the world, including Woodstock in 1994 and Modena, Italy, in 1995 with Luciano Pavarotti, Bono & The Edge (U2). Nenad is the creator of the Croatian World Network, www.croatia.org, an information source for Croatians and friends of Croatia. In 2006 Globus Magazine listed Nenad Bach as one of the 100 most influential Croatians in the world. In 2010, Nenad was diagnosed with “Parkinson’s Disease” and in 2017, he founded PingPongParkinson® at Westchester Table Tennis Centre in Pleasantville, New York. In 2024, he released his seventh album. Through singing, songwriting and PingPongParkinson®, Nenad spreads the message of hope, joy, compassion and universal peace. Nenad is a mentor to the Australian PingPongParkinson® movement.
Assistant Coordinator, PingPongParkinson in Victoria
Andy has been a passionate table tennis player for over 40 years. His love for the sport grew alongside his awareness of family members who lived with Parkinson, which also fuelled Andy’s personal and professional interest in evidence-based therapies and lifestyle interventions for optimal health, especially strategic applications of light. Music is another of Andy’s passions, and spending time with Nenad Bach during his trip to Melbourne in 2025 was a true highlight. For Andy, light, rhythm and movement can be a life-changing combination in the context of health, technology and the game of table tennis.
Robert Fox is a volunteer with Ping Pong Parkinson (PPP) at Dee Why PCYC in Sydney, Australia. He joined the PPP community after meeting Nenad Bach in May 2025 and has been enthusiastically involved ever since.
Now 68, Robert has been married to his wife Jenny for 40 years. He is the proud father of two daughters and became a grandfather to Monty in September 2025. Robert and Jenny live in Narrabeen, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Before retiring in 2020, Robert worked for 30 years as a paramedic. Outside of PPP, his passions include surfing and long-distance adventures—whether multi-day or multi-week walking and cycling trips. He has also had a lifelong love of table tennis and looks forward to being involved with PPP for many years to come.