AWB Limited - 2003 Annual Report

oard of directors
AWB Limited
Brendan Stewart
Chairman, Non-executive director,
36, MAICD
Committees: Remuneration (Chair),
Nomination (Chair), Investment (Chair),
Audit (ex-officio member) and Corporate
Risk (ex-officio member) (pictured on
page 6)
Appointed on 3 February 2000 and reelected
on 13 March 2003. Mr Stewart
was elected by the directors as Chairman
on 14 March 2002 and re-elected
Chairman on 13 March 2003. Mr Stewart is
also Chairman and a non-executive director
of AWB (International) Limited. Mr Stewart
operates a 3,200 hectare property that
produces grain, cotton and cattle at
Chinchilla, QLD. He is a former President
of Queensland Graingrowers Association
and Grains Council of Australia and was
Chair of the Joint Ministerial Working Group
on the Australian Wheat Board Restructure
and Vice President of National Farmers
Federation (NFF). Mr Stewart is a former
Chairman of the NFF Economics and Trade
Committee and former chairman of
Wideland Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd.
In January 2003, Mr Stewart was appointed
inaugural Chairman of the Council for
Australian Arab Relations.
Andrew Lindberg
Managing Director, 50, BComm,
BSc, MBA, FAICD
Committees: Investment and Remuneration
(Refer to page 32 for personal details)
(pictured on page 6)
Robert Barry
Deputy Chairman, Non-executive
director, 56, BComm, FCPA, FAICD
Committees: Audit (Chair), Nomination
and Investment
Appointed on 12 January 1999 and reelected
on 15 March 2001. Mr Barry has a
mixed farming enterprise at Willow Tree in
NSW and has extensive financial
experience in domestic and international
capital markets. He was Chief Executive
Officer of Dominguez Barry Samuel
Montagu Limited (a predecessor to UBS
Australia) and Head of International Capital
Markets for the Midland Bank Group in
London. Mr Barry is a non-executive
director of Sugar Australia Pty Limited, New
Zealand Sugar Company Limited, Snowy
Hydro Limited, Queensland Cotton Limited
and Unisearch Limited.
Brendan Fitzgerald
Non-executive director, 59, FCDA
Committee: Corporate Risk
Appointed on 13 March 2003. Mr
Fitzgerald is a grain grower from Kimba in
SA. He has operated in partnership with
his family a farming and contract harvesting
business since 1975. In 1986, Mr
Fitzgerald was elected to the SACBH
Board and as a director was involved in
finance and audit, nomination/remuneration
and listing committees and chaired the
strategic infrastructure committee. Mr
Fitzgerald has studied export grain
marketing and storage in North America,
South Africa and England.
Laurie Marshall
Non-executive director, 53, FCDA
Committees: Services Agreement (Chair)
and Audit
Appointed on 1 May 1998 and re-elected
on 15 March 2001. Mr Marshall has over
30 years experience on his grain and
merino sheep enterprise at Lake Grace,
WA. Mr Marshall is a former president of
the Grains Section of WA Farmers
Federation and a former member of the
Grains Council of Australia Executive and
Wheat Committee and was also Chairman
of the latter.
Mr Marshall was a member of the
Australian Wheat Board from 1995.
Xavier Martin
Non-executive director, 44, MAICD
Committee: Audit
Appointed on 13 March 2003. Mr Martin is
a wheat grower and director of his family
farming enterprise near Gunnedah, NSW.
During the past decade, Mr Martin has
been representing growers in leadership
positions across a range of organisations
including NSW Farmers Association, Grains
Council of Australia, Durum Wheat Growers
Association and the new Australian Durum
Industry Association. Mr Martin is a director
of various private companies and the public
company, Plant Health Australia Ltd.
Warrick McClelland
Non-executive director, 60, BAgSc
Committees: Audit, Services Agreement
and Investment
Appointed on 4 November 1998 and reelected
on 14 March 2002. Mr McClelland
is a grain and livestock producer from
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Robert Barry Brendan Fitzgerald Laurie Marshall Xavier Martin
Warrick McClelland