AWB Limited - 2003 Annual Report

Birchip in Victoria and a former Victorian
Farmers Federation Grains Council
President and Grains Council of Australia
Deputy President. Mr McClelland is a
former director of BRI Australia.
Christopher Moffet
Non-executive director, 59, FAICD
Committee: Corporate Risk
Appointed on 4 November 1998 and reelected
on 14 March 2002 and a nonexecutive
director of AWB (International)
Limited. Mr Moffet’s grains industry
experience includes ownership of a 16,000
hectare grain and grazing property and
involvement in the areas of finance,
marketing and business management. Mr
Moffet’s qualifications incorporate a former
directorship of the Morawa Cooperative and
over 30 years of WA Farmers Federation
membership, including roles as President of
branch, zone and the Federation’s Grains
Council and executive member of Grains
Council of Australia. As a director of the
Grain Pool of WA for eight years, Mr Moffet
completed studies in grain trading and
futures management at the Chicago Board
of Trade. Mr Moffet is a Fellow of the
Australian Institute of Company Directors
and has recently been awarded the
Advanced Diploma from the Institute.
Peter Polson
Non-executive director, 57, BComm,
MBL
Committees: Corporate Risk (Chair),
Remuneration and Investment
Appointed on 31 March 2003. Mr Polson
recently held the position of Group
Executive, Investment and Insurance
Services, Commonwealth Bank, responsible
for all investment and insurance services
for the Group, including the Group’s funds
management, master funds, superannuation
and insurance businesses such as Colonial
First State, Colonial Insurance,
Commonwealth Investment Management,
Commonwealth Insurance and third party
support services for brokers, agents and
financial advisers.
Mr Polson was Managing Director of the
international funds management business
at the Colonial Group, which was acquired
by the Commonwealth Banking Group in
mid 2000.
Kerry Sanderson
Non-executive director, 52, BSc,
BEcons, FCIT, FAIM, MAICD
Committee: Corporate Risk
Appointed on 1 May 1998, and re-elected
by shareholders on 14 March 2002. Mrs
Sanderson is Chief Executive Officer of
Fremantle Ports in Western Australia and
Vice President of the Association of
Australian Ports and Marine Authorities Inc.
Mrs Sanderson has specific skills in
business management and trade promotion
with experience in transport and shipping.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Fremantle Hospital Medical Research
Foundation, a director of Rio Tinto WA
Futures Foundation and a member of the
Australian Logistics Council. She is a
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Transport and of the Australian Institute of
Management.
Mrs Sanderson was a member of the Board
of the Australian Wheat Board from 1995.
John Simpson
Non-executive director, 44
Committees: Remuneration and
Nomination
Appointed on 4 November 1998 and reelected
on 14 March 2002. Mr Simpson is
a former director of AWB (International)
Limited. Mr Simpson is joint Managing
Director of Nowranie Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, a
family owned company farming 10,000
hectares in the Riverina of NSW. He was a
representative for grain growers on the
NSW Farmers’ Association Grains
Committee for seven years, serving two
years as vice chairman. He is also
Chairman of the Billabong Creek Advisory
group and has been appointed by
government to represent landholders and
irrigators on the Murray Unregulated River
Management Committee.
John Thame
Non-executive director, 61, FCPA
Committees: Audit, Remuneration,
Investment and Services Agreement
Appointed a director on 9 April 1999 and
re-appointed on 14 March 2002. Mr
Thame joined the NSW Building Society in
1971 and oversaw the conversion of the
Society to Advance Bank in 1985. He was
Chief Executive Officer of Advance Bank
from 1985 until its merger with St George
Bank in January 1997. Mr Thame is on the
Board of St George Bank Limited, Reckon
Limited, Village Building Co Ltd, Abacus
Property Group and The Council of the
National Museum of Australia.
Richard Fuller
General Manager, Executive and
Company Secretary, 44, BA (Hons),
PhD (Political Science)
(refer to page 33 for personal details)
(pictured on page 33)
Christopher Moffet
Peter Polson Kerry Sanderson John Simpson
John Thame
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