Annual Review - Campus Living Villages
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8 <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Villages</strong><br />
The board<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Review</strong> 09/ 10 9<br />
The board<br />
the board<br />
Walter Carpenter<br />
Independent Director, CLFM<br />
Walter Carpenter commenced his career in 1980 with Price Waterhouse in Sydney,<br />
before moving into merchant banking in 1983 with ABN Bank. He then worked with Lloyds<br />
Bank and Jardine Fleming gaining a comprehensive understanding of corporate and<br />
project finance.<br />
Walter joined the First Pacific Davies Group as General Manager, Hong Kong<br />
in 1989. In 1992, he returned to Sydney to establish a commercial real estate agency<br />
and property management business. Under his leadership the business grew to employ<br />
over 1,000 people across Australia. Walter sold his interest in the business to Savills Plc<br />
in 2003 and continued as Chief Executive of the organisation until mid 2006.<br />
Walter is currently a member of the World Presidents Organisation and is<br />
Chief Executive Officer of Flat Glass Industries Ltd. He is the Chairman of Middle Harbour<br />
Yacht Club in addition to being a director of <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong> Funds Management Limited.<br />
BEc (Syd)<br />
Professor John Niland, AC<br />
Chairman and Independent<br />
Director, CLFM<br />
BCom, MCom, Hon PhD (UNSW),<br />
PhD (Illinois), DUniv (SCU)<br />
John is a Professor Emeritus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW).<br />
He was Vice-Chancellor and President of UNSW from 1992 to 2002, having joined UNSW<br />
from ANU in 1973 as Professor of Economics. He was on the faculty at Cornell University<br />
and served as President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee from 1998 to 1999.<br />
Professor Niland is currently an Independent Director on the Board of Macquarie<br />
Group Limited. He is a member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong and<br />
is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Singapore Management University.<br />
John is a Past President of the National Trust of Australia (NSW). He is a former<br />
Chief Executive of the State Pollution Control Commission, Executive Chairman of the<br />
Environment Protection Authority and Chairman of the Centennial and Moore Park Trust<br />
in Sydney. He has served on the Australian Universities Council, the Prime Minister’s Science,<br />
Engineering and Innovation Council, the Boards of realestate.com.au Limited (as Chairman),<br />
St Vincent’s Hospital and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Foundation, and the Sydney<br />
Olympic bid’s Building Commission.<br />
Professor Niland is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors<br />
and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2007 he received the Royal<br />
Australian Institute of Architects Prize for the 1990’s redevelopment of the UNSW campus.<br />
Nicholas James<br />
Transfield Appointed<br />
Director and Responsible<br />
Manager, CLFM<br />
BCom (with Merit) (UNSW)<br />
Nicholas is Chief Financial Officer at Transfield Holdings. While at Transfield,<br />
Nicholas has had responsibility for overseeing the financial performance of <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Living</strong><br />
<strong>Villages</strong> and was closely involved in the acquisition of the US Student Accommodation<br />
Portfolio and establishment of the Fund.<br />
Nicholas has extensive experience in investment and transaction management<br />
in infrastructure and property. Prior to joining Transfield in November 2005, Nicholas<br />
was a Director of Deutsche Bank in London from 2004 to 2005. He was with Macquarie<br />
Bank from 1993 to 2004, where he worked as a Division Director in Sydney, London and<br />
New York. Nicholas was associated with or led many of Macquarie Bank’s landmark<br />
infrastructure transactions, including the establishment of the Macquarie Infrastructure<br />
Group (MIG) and the acquisition, financing and ongoing management of a number of<br />
motorway assets for MIG.<br />
Steve has extensive global management experience, previously holding the positions<br />
of Managing Director of OTC, Group Managing Director of Telstra and Managing Director<br />
of British Telecom Asia Pacific. In addition, Steve has experience as a non-executive director<br />
on over a dozen private and public company boards in Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan.<br />
He is currently a Visiting Professor of Management at the University of Technology Sydney<br />
and CASS Business School London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company<br />
Directors, Australian Institute of Management (“AIM”), and Institution of Engineers<br />
Australia respectively.<br />
*Professor Steve Burdon is a Transfield nominated director however he also<br />
meets the test of ‘External Director’ as defined in section 601JA of the Corporations Act<br />
and the assessment of independence under the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s<br />
‘Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations’.<br />
Gayle is a finance professional with extensive audit and risk management<br />
experience. In 1994, she joined QBE Insurance Group Limited as group Financial Controller<br />
and became the Group’s first Chief Risk Officer, a position she held until her retirement<br />
from full-time employment in 2006.<br />
Prior to joining QBE, Gayle spent 14 years in public accounting, qualifying<br />
as a chartered accountant in Canada in 1981 and then working with Coopers & Lybrand<br />
in Bermuda and Australia for 11 years.<br />
Gayle was previously a director of many QBE subsidiaries in Australia, Bermuda<br />
and Europe and until 2005 chaired the Insurance Council of Australia/Australian Prudential<br />
Regulation Authority (APRA) Liaison Working Party, an industry committee that worked<br />
closely with the APRA to develop prudential reforms for the general insurance industry.<br />
Gayle is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD),<br />
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (FCA) and member<br />
of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.<br />
Professor Steve Burdon<br />
Gayle Tollifson<br />
Transfield Appointed Director<br />
of CLFM*<br />
Independent Director, CLFM<br />
BCom (Saskatchewan)<br />
MBA (Cranfield)