AWB Limited - 2004 Annual Report

Promotion Committee and Founding Chairman of
Grains Industry Training Network (Victoria). Mr
McClelland is a former Victorian Farmers Federation
Grains Council President and Grains Council of
Australia Deputy President and a former director of
BRI Australia.
8. Christopher Moffet
Non-executive director, 61, FAICD
Committees: Group Corporate Risk and Investment
Appointed on 4 November 1998 and re-elected on 14
March 2002. Mr Moffet’s grain 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 Morawa Cooperative and over 30 years
of WA Farmers Federation membership, including
roles as President of branch, zone and Federation’s
Grains Council and executive member of Grains
Council of Australia. As a director of 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.
9. Peter Polson
Non-executive director, 58, BComm, MBL
Committees: Group Corporate Risk (Chair),
Remuneration and Investment
Appointed on 31 March 2003. Mr Polson has broad
experience in the financial services industry, first as
Managing Director of the international funds
management business with the Colonial group, then
as an executive with the Commonwealth Bank group
with responsibility for all investment and insurance
services for the group, including the CBA group's
funds management, master funds, superannuation and
insurance businesses and third party support services
for brokers, agents and financial advisers. In 2003, Mr
Polson commenced his career as a non-executive
director. Mr Polson is Chairman of Challenger
Financial Services Group Limited and a director of
Challenger Life Limited and Professional Indemnity
Insurance Company of Australia Pty Limited.
10. Kerry Sanderson
Non-executive director, 54, AO, BSc, BEcons,
MAICD, FCIT, FAIM
Committees: Group Corporate Risk and Services Agreement
Appointed on 1 May 1998, and re-elected on 14 March
2002. Mrs Sanderson is Chief Executive Officer of
Fremantle Ports Authority 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.
11. John Simpson
Non-executive director, 45
Committees: Services Agreement (Chair) and
Remuneration
Appointed on 4 November 1998 and re-elected 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
Limited, 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.
12. John Thame
Non-executive director, 62, FCPA
Committees: Audit, Remuneration and Investment
Appointed 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 Chairman of St George Bank Limited, and
on the board of Reckon Limited, Village Building Co
Limited and Abacus Property Group Limited.
13. Richard Fuller
General Manager Executive and Company
Secretary, 45, BA (Hons), PhD (Political Science)
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