Ron McNeilly
Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Ron is Chairman of the Board, 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 steel 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 director of Alumina Limited. He is a former Chairman of Ausmelt Limited and the Melbourne Business School Limited and is a former director of BHP and BHP Billiton, QCT Resources and Tubemakers of Australia.
John Grill
Chief Executive Officer
John is the Chief Executive Officer of the Group. He joined ESSO Australia in 1968 and in 1971 became Chief Executive of the entity that ultimately became WorleyParsons Limited, Wholohan Grill and Partners. 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 WorleyParsons 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 WorleyParsons’ major clients and remains closely involved at Board level with WorleyParsons’ joint ventures.
Grahame Campbell
Non-Executive Director
Grahame is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. Grahame was Managing Director of CMPS&F from 1987 to 1995, at the time one of the largest engineering and project management groups in Australia. Grahame has over 30 years experience in the management of major Australian and offshore infrastructure projects including oil, gas, road, rail, mining and minerals projects. Grahame was a director of Pacific Hydro Pty Limited, Iluka Resources Limited and a past President of the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia and the Australian Pipeline Industry Association. Prior to his appointment as a non-executive director of the Company on listing in 2002, Grahame was a member of the advisory board for four years.
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 and of the Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries of the Rabobank Group. He is Chairman of Wesfarmers General Insurance Limited, Wesfarmers Insurance Pty Limited and the Western Australian Opera Company. 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 the group’s commercial division and from 1992 until his retirement in July 2002 was an executive director and Chief Financial Officer of the Group.
John Green
Non-Executive Director
John is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee. John is a company director, writer and co-founder of book publisher, Pantera Press. Until August 2006, he was an investment banker at Macquarie Bank, where he was an executive director for 13 years. His professional career before investment banking was 17 years in law, including as a partner in law firms Freehills and Dawson Waldron. John is director of QBE Insurance Group Limited. He is also a director of a not-for-profit; The Centre for Independent Studies. He was appointed a member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel in May 2009. In past years, John was 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 non-executive director of the Company on listing in 2002, John was a member of the advisory board for nine years prior to listing, including a period as its Chairman.
William Hall
Alternate Director
William (Bill) resigned as director of the Board and was appointed alternate director for Larry Benke on 1 July 2010. He joined the Board as director in 2004 following the Company’s acquisition of Parsons E&C Corporation. Bill was with the Parsons Group for 25 years. He became Chairman and CEO of Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group Inc., in 2002. Prior to this position he served as President of Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group Inc., (1997-2001), President of The Ralph M. Parsons Company (1992-1995), and Senior Vice President and Manager of the Petroleum & Chemical (P&C) Division with the company (1989-1991). Bill has 42 years' experience in the global engineering field, holding a number of key project and other US and international management positions with Parsons. Bill has bachelor and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has completed the Executive Program at Stanford University. He is also on the Board of Directors of the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council.
David Housego
Chief Financial Officer
David has held the role of Chief Financial Officer of the Group since he joined the Company in July 1999. He led the corporate reorganisation and initial public offering and listing on the ASX of Worley Group Limited (now WorleyParsons Limited) in 2002 and the subsequent capital raisings for the acquisition of Parsons E&C in 2004 and the Colt Group in 2007. He joined the Board as an executive director in 2002.
Eric Gwee Teck Hai
Non-Executive Director
Eric joined the Board in February 2005 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee. Eric is a Singaporean national with extensive international experience in the hydrocarbons and power industries, including a career spanning more than 31 years with the ExxonMobil Group. Eric is currently a non-executive director of Singapore Power Limited and Chairman of SP Services Limited. He is a non-executive director of the three stapled entities that form SP Ausnet. Previously, he was the Chairman of CPG Corporation Pte Ltd and was a director of ExxonMobil Singapore Pte Ltd and the Melbourne Business School Limited.
Larry Benke
Non-Executive Director
Larry was appointed as non-executive director of the Board on 1 July 2010. He was appointed as alternate director for Bill Hall in March 2007 following the Company’s acquisition of the Colt Companies. He joined Colt Edmonton as a design engineer in 1977 and has undertaken engineering design, project management and other management roles within the business. In 1988, Larry established the Toronto and Sarnia offices as General Manager before returning to Calgary in 1999 as President of Colt. He has been successful in leading Colt through a period of substantial growth and expansion into the new disciplines of pipelines, power generation and geomatics. Larry graduated from the University of Alberta in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Honours Standing).
Catherine Livingstone
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 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.
Peter Janu
Company Secretary & Corporate Legal Counsel
Peter was appointed Company Secretary & Corporate Legal Counsel of WorleyParsons on 1 October 2008. He has broad experience across a range of disciplines including company secretarial, governance, legal, remuneration, project finance and corporate taxation. Peter was formerly a Company Secretary and General Manager Corporate Administration of Leighton Holdings Ltd, prior to which he held the roles of General Manager Project Finance and Group Taxation Manager with the same company. Peter has degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney and is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary.
