Board

Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed Non-Executive Director on 20 December 2011, and Chairman of the Board on 1 October 2020.

Mr Billings retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2011 after 34 years, where he was head of the Melbourne Assurance practice as well as heading the firm’s Australian and Global Industrial Products business.

Mr Billings is currently a Non-Executive Director of Korvest Limited (appointed May 2013) and became Chairman of that company in September 2014, a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Azure Healthcare Ltd (appointed 21 October 2015), a Non-Executive Director of Clover Corporation Limited (appointed 20 May 2013) where he is Chair of the Audit Committee, and a Non-Executive Director of DomaCom Limited (appointed 23 February 2015) where he is Chair of the Audit Committee.

Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed Non-Executive Director on 20 December 2011, and Chair of the Remuneration, People and Culture Committee.

Mr Robinson spent the past 22 years, prior to joining the Board, with global automotive parts, general industrial and consumer products manufacturer and marketing company Robert Bosch GmbH.

In that time he has worked in the USA, Germany and Australia and had responsibility for sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, accounting and personnel. He was President of Robert Bosch Australia and Robert Bosch New Zealand.

Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2015, and Chair of the Risk and Compliance Committee.

Appointed Deputy Chair on 1 October 2020 and interim Chair of the Audit Committee.

Ms Templeman-Jones is currently a Non-Executive Director of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (appointed 5 March 2018) and a Non-Executive Director of Worley Parsons Limited (appointed 1 November 2017). Anne previously served as a Non-Executive Director of The Citadel Group Limited (retired May 2020), HT & E Limited (formerly APN News & Media Limited) (retired May 2018), Cuscal Limited (retired March 2018), Pioneer Credit Limited (retired November 2016), Notre Dame University (retired December 2016) and HBF Health Limited (retired October 2014).

Ms Templeman-Jones has considerable executive experience in institutional and commercial banking, wealth management and insurance, having previously held a number of senior executive roles within Westpac and ANZ.

Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed Non-Executive Director on 1 March 2020.

Ms Douglas is currently a Non-Executive Director of Hansen Technologies Ltd (appointed 15 February 2017), a Non-Executive Director of Opticomm Ltd (appointed 21 August 2017) where she is Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a Non-Executive Director of Essential Energy (appointed 15 March 2018) where she is Chair of the Regulatory Committee. She is also a Non-Executive Director of St Kilda Football Club and Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation and a former Non-Executive Director of Telstra SNP Monitoring (retired 2016), Family Life Inc (retired 2010), Pacific Access Superannuation Fund (retired 1999) and Kilvington Girls Grammar School (retired 1994). 

Ms Douglas has considerable experience as an executive in the communications and technology sectors having held a diverse range of executive roles at Telstra and Sensis from 1997 to 2016. Prior to this, Ms Douglas was a lawyer with Mallesons and Allens where she specialised in intellectual property, communications and media law.

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2018.

Mr Whickman was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Australia and New Zealand (2015 – 2018). He had a 20-year career with Ford in senior executive roles in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.