St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia - March 25, 2013, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia - Leighton Holdings Limited, a contract miner, advises that Robert Douglas Humphris OAM has been elected chairman of the company.
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With 50 years of global construction and mining experience, including 10 years as Managing Director of Peabody Resources Pty Limited, Mr. Humphris is Chairman of mining services company Ampcontrol Pty Limited and a Director of the ASX listed Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited. He spent 23 years in executive positions with a major UK based constructor.
Mr. Humphris is an Independent Non-executive Director since September 2004, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Leighton Contractors Pty Limited and a member of the Advisory Board of Leighton Asia, India and Offshore since November 2012.
Mr. Humphris is an Honours graduate in Mining Engineering at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University. He is Chairman of Ampcontrol Pty Limited and former Managing Director of Peabody Resources Pty Limited (previously Costain Australia Limited).
Mr. Humphris is a former Chairman of Eroc Holdings Pty Limited, New South Wales Mineral Council, Australian Coal Association and Newcastle Coal Shippers Limited, former Director of Australian Coal Research Limited and Port Waratah Coal Services Limited and former Director of Leighton Contractors Pty Limited from February 2012 to November 2012. He is former Director of Leighton Asia Limited from November 2011 to September 2012, and former Director of Leighton International Limited from September 2007 to November 2011.
As at 31 December 2012, Mr. Humphris was a Director of the following other ASX listed entity:
Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited since August 2006.
Paula Dwyer has been appointed deputy chairman.
Ms. Dwyer is an Independent Non-executive Director since January 2012. Elected Deputy Chairman on 24 March 2013. She is a member of the Advisory Board of John Holland Group Pty Limited since December 2012. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne - Bachelor of Commerce. Ms Dwyer is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
Ms. Dwyer had an executive career in finance, holding senior positions in investment management, investment banking and chartered accounting with Ord Minnett (now JP Morgan) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Ms. Dwyer is a member of the Takeovers Panel, a Director of Lion Pty Ltd since March 2012, a member of the Kirin Holdings International Advisory Board since 2012, a Board member of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, a Member of the ASIC External Advisory Panel and Deputy Chairman of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
As at 31 December 2012, Ms. Dwyer was a Director of the following other ASX listed entities: Chairman of Tabcorp Holdings Limited since June 2011 (Director since August 2005), and Director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) since April 2012. ■