Board Members
Simon McKeon, Chairman
Simon McKeon is the 2011 Australian of the Year.
He is also Executive Chairman of Macquarie Group's Melbourne office.
Simon is Chairman of CSIRO and Business for Millennium Development.
Simon is a Director of VisionFund, World Vision International's microcredit arm, Global Poverty Project and Red Dust Role Models.
He is an Australia Day Ambassador for the Victorian Government and serves on the Federal Government's Human Rights Grants Scheme Advisory Panel and the Victorian Government's NDIS Implementation Task Force.
He previously served as Founding President of the Federal Government's Australian Takeovers Panel, Founding Chairman of MS Research Australia and Founding President of the Federal Government's Point Nepean Community Trust.
Simon is the helmsman of Macquarie Innovation which in March 2009 became the first sailboat in the world to sustain more than 50 knots and in so doing, peaked at a speed of 100 kmh (54 knots).
He is also a Patron of the Australian Olympic Sailing Team which won 2 gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Dr Dan Evans, Deputy Chairman
Dan has had two professional careers covering the mining and professional services sectors. After 26 years with WMC Resources where his final role was Vice President Exploration - Africa/Eurasia, Dan spent the last 13 years in management consulting. He was strategy partner in Accenture focused on the global mineral resources industry. Currently, Dan is the Principal of Executive Compass, a management consultancy focused on business strategy he founded in 1991. His current other Board positions include Monash University Medical Foundation and Summer Foundation. Previously, Dan was Chairman of RMDSTEM, a professional services company focused on the resources sector, Vice President of Australian African Business Council (Vic) and a member of Scope’s Risk & Audit Committee. Dan holds Bachelor, Masters and PhD degrees in geological sciences from USA and Canadian universities plus an MBA from Melbourne Business School. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Elizabeth Raut, Company Secretary
Elizabeth Raut completed ten years as the Victorian Manager of the Australian Institute of Architects at the end of 2010.
Prior to this Elizabeth worked in a number of roles within the health care sector. She was the National Business Development Manager with the Victorian Healthcare Association, undertook a number of management roles at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and with the Sisters of Charity Health Service Melbourne Region and completed a public health project for Health Victoria.
Elizabeth’s corporate governance experience includes being the Company Secretary of St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) Limited and the Sisters of Charity Health Service facilities in the Melbourne Region and managing the Board of Directors functions at Hospital Supplies of Australia.
Her qualifications include a Master of Business in Management from RMIT University and she completed the Company Directors Course, conducted by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, in October 2010.
Mark Ingram, Chief Executive Officer
Mark Ingram served as the New Zealand Consul General to Victoria and Trade Commissioner for Biotechnology from 2003 - 2007. During this period, Mark brokered the establishment of the Australia New Zealand Biotech Alliance, founded the New Zealand Victoria Business Group, and led the first official visit of the Victorian State Premier to New Zealand in over 50 years. Prior to his diplomatic posting, Mark had worked for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as an Export Consultant from 2001-2002. Mark also spent 7 years working in international trade with Anthony Marquet Ltd (1999 - 2001) as Trading Manager and with the large Japanese trading house Kanematsu Corporation (1994 - 1998) as Metals Division Assistant Manager. Mark is currently a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Advisory Committee for Human Security at La Trobe University. Mark is married to Niki and they have a young son.
Daniel Blue
Daniel Blue is a senior commercial partner of Freehills, a major Australian law firm.
Daniel has advised the CEOs and Boards of leading Australian and overseas companies on many complex commercial matters. He has worked in the resources sector and assisted in the development of new resource projects in remote locations and communities particularly in Africa and Asia. In addition to his experience in the resources sector he has advised clients across a broad range of industries.
Daniel has served as a director of listed companies and was previously a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia. He has taught company law at the University of Western Australia and the principles of corporate finance at the Melbourne Law School. He has also taught company law in company directors courses. In addition to his law qualifications Daniel has a B. Ec and an MBA from the University of Western Australia
In 2006 Daniel was a volunteer with the Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FVSC) assisting the Egyptian Capital Market Authority to write its Takeovers Code. FSVC is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership whose mission is to help build the sound financial systems needed to support robust market economies in transitional and developing countries.
Daniel is married with three children and lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Peter Botten
Peter joined Oil Search in 1992, just after oil and gas production started from Kutubu and Hides. Since that time Oil Search has grown to become a regionally significant Operator, owning over 70% of the oil and 50% of the gas business in PNG, operating all producing oil and gas fields in the country and being responsible for around 13% of the country's GDP. The Company's market capitalisation has also grown from just over A$200m to where it is now around A$7bn over this period. Oil Search is a major interest holder in the PNG LNG Project which recently entered Final Investment Decision (FID)
Peter has been a leader in the PNG petroleum industry for over 12 years. He is presently President of the Chamber of Mines and Petroleum and is a Council Member of the Australia PNG Business Council. He was recently made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Honours List for services to the community and mining and petroleum industries in Papua New Guinea.
Tim Costello
Since February 2004, Rev. Tim Costello has been the Chief Executive of World Vision, Australia's largest overseas aid organisation. Tim studied law and education at Monash University, followed by theology at the International Baptist Seminary Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and a Master's in Theology at the Melbourne College of Divinity. In 2005 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), for "service to the community through contributions to social justice, health and welfare issues, international development assistance, and to the Baptist Church". Tim and his wife, Merridie, have three adult children, Claire, Elliot and Martin.
Bill Hurditch
Dr Bill Hurditch is a principal and director of The Fifth Estate, a Sydney-based corporate advocacy firm which specialises in strategic development and issues management for businesses, particularly in the natural resources and environmental services sectors. The firm acts in an advisory role for a number of major Australian companies. Bill holds a First-Class Honours degree and a PhD in Science (Ecology) from the University of New England. In 1990 and 1991, he was a visiting scientist at Oxford University. Bill was executive director of the NSW Chamber of Mines from 1993 to 1995, and executive director of the NSW Forest Products Association for the 10 years prior to that. Bill lives in Sydney with his wife Susan and they have three children.
Barry Pipella
Barry currently holds the position of Executive Director, Strategic Sales for Telstra Enterprise & Government, developing market-leading Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions for many of Australia's largest companies. He commenced with Telstra in October 2010.
Coming to Telstra from IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) ANZ, Barry was responsible for the growth of infrastructure, application outsourcing and technical services in the region and held several sales and general management roles.
Previous to IBM, Barry worked for 10 years in Sales leadership in the Financial Services sector with Digital Equipment Corporation.
Barry's deep commitment to the cause of Humanitarian Aid is evidenced in his longstanding membership of the Board of Directors of Australia's largest overseas aid organisation, World Vision Australia.
Barry is married with two adult sons and is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Richard Rome
Richard Rome is a Business Development Executive at IBM Australia specialising in IT outsourcing. He is also a subject matter expert on technology trends in developing markets and actively involved in several poverty alleviation initiatives outside of work. He is a board member of Osiepe and a member of Australian African Business Council (Vic) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Deakin University. Prior to IBM Richard worked for Goldman Sachs investment bank in London.
Richard spent 2006 on a leave of absence doing volunteer work for the Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC), a locally run grassroots NGO based in rural western Kenya. UCRC supports a range of community services including schools, a health clinic, microfinance, women support groups and AIDS education.
Mick Turnbull
Mick is the Regional CEO for North Asia & Australasia of Agility Logistics a global top 10 logistics provider. His oversight extends to Australia, NZ, PNG, Korea, Japan and the Philippines. Following the joining of Agility in 1998 he has also taken onboard a number of key roles including being a member of Agility's Asia Pacific Management Board as well as a director of two associated joint venture companies.
Mick holds a Certificate of Business from RMIT as well as a Post Graduate Diploma of Management from the University of Southern Queensland. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Member Company Directors Institute, Fellow Customs Brokers Council of Australia and Member Australian Institute of Export.
Outside of Agility Mick holds the role of Chairman and Director of Tabor Victoria a NFP tertiary education college. Mick is married to Annette and they have 4 adult children and 4 small grandchildren.
