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Directors
R M Herron* FCA FAICD (Age 61)
Appointed Non-Executive Director on 17 June 2004. Appointed Chairman on 1 January 2012.
Mr Herron has been a Chartered Accountant since 1973. He is a former Deputy Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and retired as a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in December 2002.
Mr Herron is also a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) Ltd (since July 2007), Select Harvests Limited (since January 2005), Customers Limited (since October 2010) and a major industry superannuation fund.
Mr Herron is a former Director of Heemskirk Consolidated Limited (retired February 2011).
P A F Hay* LLB FAICD (Age 61)
Appointed Non-Executive Director on 26 May 2009.
Appointed Chairman of the Remuneration Committee on 22 June 2010.
Mr Hay is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board at Lazard in Australia. He is also a Director of Alumina Limited (since December 2002), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (since October 2008), NBN Co Limited (since August 2009) and Myer Holdings Limited (since February 2010).
Mr Hay is a Director of Landcare Australia Limited and Epworth Foundation, and is a member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel (since May 2009).
M G Smith* Dip. Business (Marketing) FAMI CPM FAIM MAICD (Age 56)
Appointed Non-Executive Director on 26 May 2009.
Mr Smith is a Non-Executive Director of Toll Holdings Limited (since July 2007) and was appointed Chairman of Food Holdings Pty Ltd (Manassen Foods Group) in February 2010.
Mr Smith is a former Managing Director of Cadbury Schweppes Australia and New Zealand (2003 to 2007) and a Member of the Asia Pacific Regional Board, a former Managing Director of Confectionery ANZ and prior to that three years as Director of Marketing for Cadbury Trevor Bassett in the UK and senior roles in Cadbury Schweppes' North American operations.
G A Billings* (Age 55)
Appointed Non-Executive Director on 20 December 2011.
Appointed Chairman of Audit & Compliance Committee on 1 January 2012.
Mr Billings recently retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a senior partner in the Assurance practice. He is a former head of the Melbourne Assurance practice as well as heading the firm’s Australian and Global Industrial Products business.
He has had extensive experience over a 34 year period providing assurance, transaction and consulting services to multinational and national clients in the automotive, construction and manufacturing industries.
D Robinson* (Age 63)
Appointed Non-Executive Director on 20 December 2011.
Mr Robinson has spent the past 22 years 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. Most recently he was President of Robert Bosch Australia and Robert Bosch New Zealand.
I A Campbell FAICD (Age 61)
Appointed Managing Director on 5 October 1998.
Mr Campbell was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Mirrabooka Investments Limited on 15 November 2007. He is also Vice-President of Ai Group (Vic.).
* All Non-Executive Directors are independent.