Board of directors

David Armstrong is a Non-Executive Director of the National Australia Bank (since August 2014). Chair of the Risk Committee and a member of its Audit Committee. David is also a Director of the Opera Australia Capital Fund Limited (since May 2013), and a Trustee of the Australian Museum (since January 2014) and Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (since April 2014).

Yasmin Allen is a non-executive director of Cochlear Limited, Chairman of its Audit Committee and a member of Cochlear’s technology committee. She is also a non-executive director of ASX Limited, member of the ASX Audit Committee and ASX Clearing and Settlement board. Yasmin is a director at Santos Limited and a member of Santos’ Remuneration Committee and Environment, Health and Saftey Committee. She is also a director of the National Portrait Gallery.

David Baffsky AO holds a law degree from the University of Sydney and was the founder, and until 1991, the senior partner of a Sydney legal firm specialising in commercial and fiscal law.  David is Honorary Chairman (formerly Executive Chairman between 1993 and 2008) of Accor Asia Pacific, which is the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific region.  He is Chairman of the ASX listed Ariadne Australia Ltd and Chairman of Investa Property Group.  He is also on the boards of Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Destination NSW and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.  He was until July 2016 a Director of SATS Limited (Singapore) and Chairman of Food & Allied Support Services Corporation Ltd.  

Catherine Brenner was previously a Managing Director at ABN AMRO Australia & New Zealand (formerly BZW). Catherine is the former Chair of AMP and has previously served on the boards of Coca-Cola Amatil, Boral, Sydney Opera House and the Art Gallery of NSW, among others in the corporate, not for profit and government sectors.  She has Bachelor of Laws (Macquarie) and a Bachelor of Economics (Macquarie) as well as an MBA from the AGSM (UNSW).

Meena is founder and principal at BoardQ, an advisory practice consulting in top team and board effectiveness with global clients in Australia, Asia and the UK. As part of her consulting practice she has been actively involved in leading major business change projects including restructures, acquisitions and divestments and the risks associated with any major business change.