Board, Chief Executive, and Executive Changes - April 2023

Our region's executive landscape continued to evolve materially in April 2023. The past month saw a surge in leadership appointments, resignations, and retirements, with nearly 100 new industry experts moving their insights and energy to drive momentum and progress.

Check out the April 2023 edition of Morgan Young's "Word on the Street" newsletter for a digest of the month's executive and non-executive changes.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS

Scott Wharton was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Smartgroup?Corporation.

Glenn Corrie was appointed as Managing Director of Hazer Group.

David Locke was reappointed as Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman of AFCA.

Jamil Barmania was appointed as Managing Director at Longreach Alternatives.

Erica Berchtold was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Best & Less Group.

Mark Woodruff was appointed as Chief Executive of the Australia and New Zealand cluster at Citi.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS

Katrina Rathie was elected Chair of Bubs Australia.

Ana Cláudia Akie Utumi was appointed chair of the FPSB Board.

Greg Columbus was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Talon Energy.

Kerry Gleeson was appointed Non-Executive Chair of St Barbara Limited.

Raymond Shorrocks will transition from Executive Chairman to Non-Executive Chairman at AuTECO Minerals.

Iain Allan Tarutia was appointed Chairman and Non-Executive Director of BSP Financial.

Mary Harney was appointed Non-Executive Chair of Race Oncology.

Greg Paramor was appointed interim Chair of Charter Hall Social Infrastructure Ltd.

George Zoghbi was appointed as an Independent Director of Goodman Limited and Goodman Funds Management Limited.

Michael Green was appointed as non-executive director to the board of Omni Bridgeway.

Lis Boyce was appointed Non-Executive Director of Immutep.

John Beevers will join as a new Non-Executive Director of Lynas.

John Featherby was appointed Non-Executive Director of Cyprium.

Brad Cooper was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Credit Corp.

Brian Gell was appointed as an independent non-executive director to the board of KGL.

Fiona Oliver named as Director at New Zealand Super.

Damon Rees was appointed as a new independent non-executive Director of Ventia

Jill Hoffmann was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Strike Energy.

Shezad Okhai was appointed Director of Bravura Solutions.

Sue Dahn joins as financial adviser to the board and investment committee of HESTA.

OTHER EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS

Liz Westcott was appointed Executive Vice President Australian Operations at Woodside.

Chloe Surridge was appointed as Chief Operations Officer of Auckland Airport.

Shez Ford was appointed as the Chief General Manager of Allianz Australia.

Christian Johnstone was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Austal Limited.?

Jon Latto was appointed Chief Financial Officer at Liontown Resources.

Justin Mitchell was appointed Chief Financial Officer at Ingenia.

Jonty Gibbs was appointed Chief Financial Officer at Cash Converters.

Iain Short was appointed Chief Financial Officer?of Lark Distilling.

Michelle Russo was appointed Chief Operating Officer at DASH.

Neil Sparks will head up Membership and Corporate Development at the SMSF Association

William Myer appointed as Investment Director of family offices and private clients, Regal Funds Management.

Nicole Mathias-Browne will drive new member acquisition at Mercer Super.

Peter Smith takes the role of Head of Business Development at MLC Life Insurance.

Diana Mousina was appointed Deputy Chief Economist at AMP.

Mark Blair was appointed Superannuation Specialist at DASH.

Corrin Collocott was appointed Investment Chief at Mercer Super.

Andrew Wallace was appointed Personal Super and Member Experience Leader at Mercer Super.

Jason Hoang was appointed Chief Executive of Trading and Market Data at Iress.

Paul Giles was appointed Chief Executive of Superannuation at Iress.

John Harris was appointed Chief Executive of Managed Portfolio at Iress.?

Harry Mitchell to head the Wealth Management division at Iress.

Chris Brookman was appointed Head of distribution at Tidal Ventures.

John Allmey was appointed Strategic Relationship Leader at Mercer.

Frank Hegerty was appointed head of private wealth at Ord Minnett.

Ben Griffiths was appointed Director of Equities at Future Fund. ?

Joey Mouracadeh was appointed as senior investment director at Stanford Brown.

Ashish Goyal was appointed as executive vice president and head of Asia-Pacific at OMERS.

Shiqi Wang will lead client solutions in Asia for Aviva Investors.

Grace Yu appointed as Global Head of Cloud Policy, Office of Cloud CISO at HPE.

Sachin Gupta was appointed as CTO and Tech Advisor for Digital Solutions at Johnson Controls.

Justin Ong was promoted to Chief Privacy Officer at Panasonic Asia-Pacific.

Rahul Yadav was appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Milestone.

Dan Bognar was appointed new JAPAC Vice-President and Managing Director at HubSpot.

EXECUTIVE RETIREMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

Magnus Billing left his position of Chief Executive Officer with Alecta.

Richard Moore resigned as Chief Financial Officer from the PEXA Group.

Justin Arter resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Cbus.

Lukasz De Pourbaix resigns as Chief Investment Officer from Lonsec.

BOARD RETIREMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

Dave Woodall will retire as Chairman of Hawson's Board.?

Brian Schwartz AM announced his plan to retire from the Board of Scentre Group.

Martin Barret retired as Managing Director of Auswide Bank.

Peter Watson retired from the board of New Century Resources.

Ruth Stringer will retire as a Non-Executive Director of HUB24.

Susan Young retired as a Non-Executive Director of Clearview.

Sue Dahn will step down as Director of Spirit Super.

John Ryder will resign from his role as Chair of New Zealand King Salmon.

David Williams will resign from the board of Medical Developments.

Mugunthan Siva has resigned from Magnis Energy.

Peter Kennan resigned as Non-Executive Director of MMA Offshore.

Don Marples resigned from the board of Australian Unity Investment Real Estate Limited.

Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore?resigned from the board of Sezzle.