The Board
Michael Harding - Chairman
Chairman since November 2010, Deputy Chairman since July 2010, Independent Non-Executive Director since July 2008
Mr Harding is currently a Non-executive Director of Santos Limited. He has held management positions around the world with British Petroleum (BP), including President and General Manager of BP Exploration Australia.
Mr Harding holds a Masters in Science, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr Harding lives in Melbourne.
Grant Fenn - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer since July 2010, Finance Director in July 2010, Chief Financial Officer from October 2009 to July 2010
Mr Fenn is an experienced executive with over 20 years in operational management, strategic development and financial management. Mr Fenn was previously a member of the Qantas Airways Limited (Qantas) Executive Committee, Chairman of Star Track Express and a Director of Australian Air Express. Mr Fenn held a number of senior roles at Qantas including Executive General Manager of Strategy and Investments and Executive General Manager - Associated Businesses, responsible for the Airports, Freight, Flight Catering and Qantas Holidays businesses.
Mr Fenn holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Mr Fenn lives in Sydney.
Annabelle Chaplain
Independent Non-executive Director since July 2008
Ms Chaplain is a former investment banker with extensive experience in public and private sector debt financing. She also has considerable experience as a director of government-owned corporations which includes ten years as a director of Seqwater Ltd, including over three years as its chairman. Ms Chaplain is a member of the Board of Taxation and she chairs the Council of St Margaret's Anglican Girls School.
A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Ms Chaplain holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Economics and Mandarin in addition to an MBA from the University of Melbourne.
Ms Chaplain lives on the Gold Coast.
Lucio Di Bartolomeo
Independent Non-executive Director since June 2006
Mr Di Bartolomeo was Managing Director of ADI Limited for four years and prior to this he was Chief Executive of a number of substantial businesses for more than ten years, including six years as Managing Director of FreightCorp (now Pacific National).
Mr Di Bartolomeo is National President of the Australian Industry Group, Chairman of Macquarie Generation and a Director of Australian Rail Track Corporation Limited and Australian Super Limited.
Mr Di Bartolomeo is a qualified civil engineer and has a Masters degree in Engineering Science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and a Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Mr Di Bartolomeo lives in Sydney.
Philip Garling
Independent Non-executive Director since November 2011
Mr Garling has over 30 years' experience in the infrastructure, construction, development and investment sectors. He was most recently the Global Head of Infrastructure at AMP Capital Investors, a role he held for nine years. Prior to this, Mr Garling was CEO of Tenix Infrastructure and a long term senior executive at the Lend Lease Group, including five years as CEO of Lend Lease Capital Services.
Mr Garling is currently Chairman of Australian Renewable Fuels and a director of The DUET Group, of which he was inaugural Chairman for seven years. Mr Garling is also a director of the unlisted Infrastructure Fund of India and Chairman of the Asian Giants Infrastructure Fund.
Mr Garling holds a Bachelor of Building from the University of New South Wales and the Advanced Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building, Australian Institute of Company Directors and Institution of Engineers Australia.
Mr Garling lives in Sydney.
Eve Howell
Independent Non-executive Director since January 2012
Ms Howell has over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in a number of technical and managerial roles. She was most recently Executive Vice President for Health, Safety & Security at Woodside Energy Ltd and served as Executive Vice President of North West Shelf at Woodside.
Ms Howell is currently a director of the West Australian Ballet and the Ngarluma & Yindjibarndi Foundation. She has previously served on a number of boards, including the Fremantle Port Authority, the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association where she chaired the Environmental Affairs Committee and as a board member and President of the Australian Mines and Metals Association. She is also a past President of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, a life member of the Petroleum Club of WA and a distinguished member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.
Ms Howell holds a Bachelor of Science (with Honours in Geology and Mathematics) from the University of London and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, and she attended an Advanced Management Program at Thunderbird Campus in the United States.
Ms Howell lives in Perth.
John Humphrey
Independent Non-executive Director since April 2001
Mr Humphrey is currently Deputy Chairman of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, based in Brisbane where he specialises in corporate, M&A and infrastructure project work.
Mr Humphrey is currently a Director of Horizon Oil Limited and Wide Bay Australia Limited and is a former Chairman of Villa World Limited. He was appointed to the Board of Evans Deakin Industries Limited in 2000 and, subsequently, to the Board of Downer EDI Limited. He is also a member of the Australian Takeovers Panel.
Mr Humphrey holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland.
Mr Humphrey lives in Brisbane.
Kerry Sanderson AO
Independent Non-executive Director since January 2012
Ms Sanderson is an experienced executive and was most recently Agent General for the Government of Western Australia, based in London. In this role, Ms Sanderson represented the Government of Western Australia in Europe and Russia and promoted investment in Western Australia and Western Australian exports to Europe. She was previously Chief Executive Officer of Fremantle Ports for seventeen years, and prior to that was Deputy Director General of Transport and worked for the Western Australian Department of Treasury for 17 years.
Ms Sanderson is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Curtin University Business School. She has previously served as a director of Austrade, the Australian Wheat Board, the Rio Tinto WA Future Fund and the Western Australian Lands Authority (LandCorp) and was a member of the Ambassadorial Council of the University of Western Australia Business School in the United Kingdom as well as having served as President of Ports Australia.
Ms Sanderson holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Western Australia. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Western Australia in 2005 and was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2004 for services to the development and management of the port and maritime industries in Australia, and to public sector governance in the areas of finance and transport.
Ms Sanderson lives in Perth.
Grant Thorne
Independent Non-executive Director since July 2010
Dr Thorne has over 36 years of experience in the mining and extraction industry, specifically in senior operational and executive roles across a broad range of product groups and functional activities in Australia and overseas.
Dr Thorne has previously held a number of senior roles at Rio Tinto, including as a group executive reporting to Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Officer, as head of Rio Tinto’s coal businesses in Indonesia and Australia, and as global head of its technology, innovation and project engineering functions. From 2006 to 2009, he was Group Executive Technology and Innovation and a member of Rio Tinto’s Executive and Investment Committees.
Dr Thorne is a director of Queensland Energy Resources Limited, a Fellow and Chartered Professional (Management) of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Dr Thorne also holds directorships with a number of private companies.
He holds Bachelor and Doctoral degrees in Metallurgy from the University of Queensland.
Dr Thorne lives on the Sunshine Coast.