Ron McNeilly
Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Ron is Chairman of the Board and the Nominations Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Ron is currently the Deputy Chairman of BlueScope Steel Limited (previously BHP Steel) and has over 30 years experience in the resources industry. Ron joined BHP Billiton in 1962 and has held positions with BHP Billiton including executive director and President BHP Minerals, Chief Operating Officer, Executive General Manager and Chief Executive Officer BHP Steel, General Manager Transport, General Manager Long Products Division and General Manager Whyalla Works. Ron is a former Chairman of Ausmelt Limited and the Melbourne Business School Limited and is a former director of Alumina Limited, BHP and BHP Billiton, QCT Resources and Tubemakers of Australia.
John Grill
Chief Executive Officer
John is the Chief Executive Officer of the Group. In 1971 he became Chief Executive of the entity that ultimately became WorleyParsons Limited - Wholohan Grill and Partners, after having joined Esso Australia in 1968. This specialised consulting practice acquired the business of Worley Engineering Pty Limited in Australia in 1987. Following group restructuring, in 2002 Worley Group Limited listed on the ASX. In 2004, Worley Group Limited acquired Parsons E&C Corporation, a US-based global project services company, and changed its name to WorleyParsons Limited. In March 2007, the Company then acquired the Colt Group in Canada substantially increasing the Group's capability in the upstream and downstream components of oil sands. John has personal expertise in every aspect of project delivery for projects in the resources and energy industries. He has been directly involved with most of the Group’s major clients and remains closely involved at Board level with the Group’s joint ventures. John is on the board of Neuroscience Research Australia.
Erich Fraunschiel
Non-Executive Director
Erich is the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee. Erich is a non-executive director of Woodside Petroleum Limited. He is Chairman of Wesfarmers General Insurance Limited and Wesfarmers Insurance Pty Limited. Erich’s early business career was in the petroleum marketing and management consulting industries. In 1981, he joined the Australian Industry Development Corporation where he was involved in project lending, investment banking and venture capital investment. In 1984, he joined Wesfarmers to start the company’s projects and business development function. In 1988, he became General Manager of Wesfarmers’ commercial division and from 1992 until his retirement in July 2002 was an executive director and Chief Financial Officer of Wesfarmers.
John M Green
Non-Executive Director
John is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee. He was Acting Chairman of the board for a short period in FY2011. John is a company director, writer and co-founder of book publisher, Pantera Press. He is the author of two novels (a financial thriller, 'Nowhere Man' and a political thriller, ‘Born to Run’). John is a director of QBE Insurance Group Limited, a member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel, and a director of The Centre for Independent Studies (a public policy think tank). He was previously an investment banker at Macquarie Bank, as an executive director. His career before banking was in law, including as a partner in Freehills and Dawson Waldron. In past years, John was also a member of the ASX National Listings Committee and held a number of posts in the Securities Institute of Australia (now Finsia). Prior to his appointment as a non-executive director of the Company on listing in 2002, John was a member of the advisory board for nine years, including a period as its Chairman.
Larry Benke
Non-Executive Director
Larry joined the Board as a non-executive director on 1 July 2010 and is a member of the Nominations Committee. He was appointed an alternate director for Bill Hall from March 2007, following the Company’s acquisition of the Colt Companies, until his retirement as Managing Director Canada on 30 June 2010. Larry has extensive experience in the engineering and construction industries including roles in engineering design, project management and general management including President/ CEO of the Colt Companies and Managing Director of WorleyParsons Canada. He successfully led Colt through a period of substantial growth and expansion which continued with the integration of the company into the WorleyParsons Canada business. Larry is a director of the Board of The Calgary Airport Authority, a not-for-profit responsible for the operation and development of the Calgary International and Springbank airports. He is also a director of CEDA International, an OMERS owned corporation, providing specialty maintenance and turnaround services to industry. Larry graduated from the University of Alberta in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Honors Standing).
Catherine Livingstone, AO
Non-Executive Director
Catherine joined the Board on 1 July 2007 and is a member of the Nominations Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee. She is Chairman and a director of Telstra Corporation Ltd and a director of Macquarie Bank Ltd and Macquarie Group Ltd. She was Chairman of CSIRO from 2001 to 2006 and has also served on the Boards of Goodman Fielder Ltd and Rural Press Limited. Catherine was the managing director of Cochlear Limited from 1994 to 2000, taking it through to an initial public offer in 1995. In 2000, Catherine received the Chartered Accountant in Business Award for that year and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. She was further awarded in 2003 the Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society in Business Leadership and the 2006 Macquarie University Alumni Award for Distinguished Service (Professional). In 2008, Catherine was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the development of Australian science, technology and innovation policies to the business sector. She has a BA (Hons) in Accounting, is a Chartered Accountant and was the Eisenhower Fellow for Australia in 1999.
JB McNeil
Non-Executive Director
JB was appointed to the Board on 1 May 2010 and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee. His appointment follows a 34 year career with ExxonMobil Corporation. He began with Exxon in 1974 and over the next two decades he was involved in a variety of engineering and operations assignments in the Middle East and in the USA. In 1994, JB was appointed Offshore Division Manager responsible for production in the South China Sea. In 1996, he was appointed Director General for the Sakhalin 1 Project in Russia and in 2001, Vice President for Deep Water Development in Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Between 2003 and 2005 JB held project development responsibilities for Russia and the Caspian region and in 2005 was appointed Vice President of Arctic Projects (Russia, Canada and Alaska). JB retired from ExxonMobil in 2008.
Wang Xiao Bin
Non-Executive Director
Ms Wang was appointed to the Board on 1 December 2011 and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. She is based in Hong Kong and is an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited. Prior to joining China Resources Power in July 2003, she was a director of corporate finance of ING Investment Banking, responsible for execution of capital markets and merger and acquisition transactions in the Asia Pacific region. Ms Wang worked for Pricewaterhouse in Australia in the audit and business advisory division for five years before joining ING Barings. She is a member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and holds a graduate diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Murdoch University in Australia.
Christopher (Chris) Haynes, OBE
Non-Executive Director
Chris Haynes was appointed to the Board effective 1 January 2012 and is a member of the Nominations Committee. He is based in the United Kingdom and is a senior oil and gas industry professional having 39 years’ experience with the Shell Group of companies and their affiliates in a number of countries around the globe and across the full range of oil and gas exploitation business functions, including as General Manager of Shell’s operations in Syria. During Chris’ time with Shell, he also served secondments as Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited and as General Manager of Woodside Petroleum Limited’s North West Shelf Venture from 1999 to 2002. He retired from Shell in August 2011. Chris is currently a director of Woodside Petroleum Limited. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Honours from the University of Manchester and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Applied Sciences from the University of Sussex. Chris is a Chartered Engineer and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in June 2009 for his services to the British oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Peter Janu
Company Secretary & General Counsel Corporate
Peter has broad experience across a range of disciplines including company secretarial, governance, legal, remuneration, project finance and corporate taxation. Peter has degrees in Law and Economics from The University of Sydney and is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary.
