Board of Directors

Dr Ian Pollard

BA (Macquarie University); MA (Oxford University); D Phil (International Management Centre); Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia

Non-Executive Chairman, Independent Director
Age: 54 years

Dr Pollard was appointed to the board on 1 July 2004, and became chairman on 1 January 2005. He has a broad background in corporate finance and advice, private equity investment and public company governance. He was Managing Director of the formerly publicly listed Development Capital of Australia Limited (later DCA Group Limited) from 1989 to 1998 and Managing Director of Development Finance Corporation Limited in 1986- 1987.
 
Dr Pollard is a member of the ASX Corporate Governance Implementation Review Group and has authored three books on corporate finance.
 
Other current directorships of listed companies:
Milton Corporation Limited

Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years:
DCA Group Limited (resigned December 2006)
Just Group Limited (Chairman)
 
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note:
OPSM Group Ltd (Listed)- Retail industry- From 1992 to 2003.
GIO Australia Holdings Ltd (Listed)- Insurance industry- From1992 to 1999


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Ms Christina Gillies

MAICD, MACS

Non-Executive Director, Independent Director
Age: 64 years

Ms Gillies was appointed a director on 26 July 2005. She has had extensive business management and Information Technology experience spanning a 40 year career.
 
Prior to her board career, Chris was Group Executive, Group Services at St George Bank where her role included managing the integration with Advance, Chief Information Officer for the Bank of Melbourne and Victorian Director of the DMR Group, an international IT consulting company, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions and in designing and implementing major IT change programs to deliver business results. Chris has over 10 years experience as a director and more than 35 years experience in business management and information technology.
 
Other current directorships of listed companies:
Oakton Limited
Commsecure Limited
United Customer Management Solutions Limited (IT Committee and Remuneration Committee Chair)
 
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed companies:
2000 –2002          CPT Global Ltd   - (Audit and Remuneration Committees)
 
Other directorships or positions of note:
2001 – Present     Asgard Wealth Solutions Ltd (subsidiary of St George Bank) (Audit Chair)
2004 – Present     United Customer Management Solutions (IT and Remuneration Committees Chair)
1997 – 2005         Centrelink Director - (IT Committee Chair)
1999 - 2001         St George Staff Retirement Fund and Advance Insurance Agencies
2000 –2002          CPT Global Board   - (Audit and Remuneration Committees)
 
Committees
2006 – Present     Department of Finance (Canberra) IT Committee Chair
2002 – Present     Bendigo Bank IT Committee
2001 – Present     Centrelink IT Committee
 
Pro Bono Boards
2006 – Present     Multiple Sclerosis Limited (Vic, NSW and ACT) (Board Chairman)
2001 - Present      Australian Homecare Services (IT Committee Chair)
2004- Present       Multiple Sclerosis Australia Research
2005- Present       Vic ICT for Women
1990 – 2006`       Multiple Sclerosis Society of Victoria


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Mr Paul Hitchcock

Associate Chartered Accountant, Diploma of Marketing- Auckland University.

Executive Director
Age: 49 years

Mr Hitchcock was appointed to the board on 30 March 2009.
 
He was Managing Director of Goodman Fielder Commercial, a division of Goodman Fielder from 2003 to 2008. In addition he was Managing Director of Goodman Fielder’s Asia Pacific businesses from 2005 to 2008. These businesses had combined revenue of $1.1billion, EBITDA of $117 million and over 2000 employees in 10 countries. In this role he consistently grew revenue, margins and profits. Paul has held general management and leadership roles, senior commercial roles in finance (his original discipline), human resources (at Lion Nathan) and sales (at both Goodman Fielder and Lion Nathan). At Goodman Fielder Commercial he has also gained experience in B2B commerce and logistics management.
 
 
Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Nil

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Mr (David) Malcolm Keefe

BSc.(Hons) University Of London

Executive Director
Age: 57 years

Mr Keefe was appointed to the board on 1 September 1999. He has over 30 years of general management experience in a variety of businesses including information technology, print, and office products businesses. He established the Company’s print management business and has over the past several years been actively involved in mentoring the management teams across all of the Company’s lines of business. He is currently its Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr Keefe was Chief Executive Officer of Kalamazoo (Aust) Pty Limited. He has also held senior management positions with the Swire Group in Hong Kong and with Kalamazoo PLC in the United Kingdom.
 
Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Nil

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Mr Anthony Larkin

FCPA; FAICD

Non-Executive Director, Independent Director
Age: 66 years

Mr Larkin was appointed to the board on 1 July 2004. He had a successful career with BHP spanning 39 years, during which he held various senior finance executive roles including General Manager Accounting, General Manager Finance BHP Minerals, and Corporate Treasurer. While employed by BHP, he was seconded to the role of Chief Finance Officer with Fosters Brewing Group for 4 years.

In 1998 Mr Larkin was appointed to the position of Executive Director Finance with Orica Limited from which he retired in 2002. He has since held a variety of non-executive director and Chairman roles of publicly listed companies.

Other current directorships of listed companies:
Oakton Limited- appointed 30 July 2009, Chairman Audit and Risk Committee
Incitec Pivot Limited – appointed May 2003, Chairman Audit and Risk Committee, member Health, Safety and Community Committee
Eyecare Partners Limited – appointed August 2007, Chairman Audit and Risk Committee

Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years:
Chairman Ausmelt Limited, Chairman Wolfden Resources Inc, Oz Minerals Limited March 2004 to 4 May 2009

Other previous directorships or positions of note:
Orica Limited (Listed)- Chemicals industry- From 1998 to 2002- Executive Director Finance
Incitec Limited (Listed)- Fertiliser Chemicals industry- From 2000 to 2003-  Chairman
Qenos holdings Pty Ltd (Unlisted)-Petrochemicals industry- From 2000 to 2003-  Chairman
Australian Vinyls Corporation (Unlisted)- Plastics industry- From 2000 to 2002- Chairman
Essential Services Commission (Victorian Government Agency)- From 2002 to 2006- Commissioner 


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Mr Grant Logan

BCA, Victoria University, CPA NZ, AICD member

Executive Director
Age: 56 years
 
Mr Logan was appointed a director on 15 December 2004. He has extensive business and financial experience, and has held senior executive positions with a number of international, private and publicly listed companies. During his career he has held direct accountability for finance, M&A, audit, treasury, legal, secretariat, corporate communications and IT functions . 
 
Mr Logan has been the Finance Director/ Chief Financial Officer at Corporate Express for 4 years. As CFO his responsibilities also cover the Company’s project management office, which is charged with managing all major projects undertaken by the Company. Prior to Corporate Express Mr Logan held the CFO position with Goodman Fielder. In this role, he helped implement a new strategic direction for the company, and oversaw a major overhaul of Goodman Fielder’s financial and corporate governance processes and systems, as well as the sale of non-core businesses worth more than $700 million. Prior to that he was with Philips Electronics as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Australia and New Zealand, after being promoted from the CFO role.  From 1989 to 1994, Mr Logan was CFO of Bayer Australia.
 
Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Metroscreen Director

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Mr Bjorn Maarud

MBA from the Norwegian School of Management, Bachelors degree in engineering from Oslo University College

Non-Executive Director, Non-Independent Director
Age: 52 years

Mr Maarud was appointed a director on 15 May 2008.

Mr Maarud is currently the Regional Vice President, Nordic region, for Corporate Express NV (“CENV”). He is responsible for the management and strategic development of the Nordic and Baltic states businesses of CENV, an area with annual sales of 3.6 billion NOK, and 1,200 employees.

He is a director of the Bertel O. Steen Group, a leading Norwegian importer and distributor of motor vehicles and sports wear. He is chairman of Micro Matic Norge AS a Norwegian importer and marketer of components and systems for the management and control of heating and ventilation technical installations.

Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Nil

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Mr Michael Miles

Bachelor of Economics (Yale University) MBA (Harvard University)

Non-Executive Director, Non-Independent Director
Age: 48 years

Mr Miles as appointed a director on 27 October 2009.

Mr Miles is the Chief Operating Officer of Staples Inc, and has assumed responsibility for Staples International, overseeing Staples’ businesses in Europe, South America, and Asia and its shareholding in Australia. In addition, he oversees Staples’ Brand Group, Corporate Advertising and Public Relations.

Mr Miles began his career at Staples in 2003 as Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for US Retail, including the marketing, merchandising and supply chain, and real estate functions. He was promoted to President and COO in 2006 and has most recently had responsibility for all of Staples' North American business.

Before joining Staples, Mike was COO of Yum! Brands’ Pizza Hut division.  He joined PepsiCo in 1993 where he was Vice President of Strategic Planning and moved to its Pizza Hut unit in 1994 as a Division Vice President. Prior to that, he worked at Bain and Company, a Boston– based management consulting firm.

Other current directorships of listed companies: Western Union, a company publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Nil

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Mr John Randall

ACIS, FAIM.

Non-Executive Director, Independent Director
Age: 64 years

Mr Randall was appointed a director on 3 January 2006. He has a strong background in logistics and general management.
 
Prior to the sale of the business to Canadian interests in December 2005, Mr Randall was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of P&O Cold Logistics Limited. He held the Chief Executive position since 1995, and was Chairman from 2002. P&O Cold Logistics, whilst part of the larger P&O conglomerate, was a division with world wide operations, managed globally from Sydney, with revenues of almost $600m, 50 distribution centres across the world and 3,000 employees.
 
Mr Randall began his career with P&O in 1981, and has held general management, finance and marketing roles since that time. He was been a director of P&O Australia from January 1997 to December 2005, and for a number of years sat on the Executive Committee of the UK parent company. 
 
Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Pure Logistics Group Limited (transportation company)


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Mr Gordon Glover

University of Glasgow:   Master of Arts  
University of Strathclyde:  Postgraduate Diploma in Accountancy
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland  (C.A)

Alternate director to Michael Miles (Non-Executive Director, Non-Independent Director)
Age: 54 years

Mr Glover is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Staples International. Prior to joining Staples in 2008, he was the CFO for Unisource Worldwide Inc, the largest independent paper and packaging distribution company in North America with revenues in excess of US$6 billion. From March 2000 to June 2005 Mr Glover was CFO of Corporate Express Inc, based in Denver Colorado.  From April 1997 to March 2000 he was the Director, Merger and Acquisitions for Corporate Express NV, based in Amsterdam. In this role he led the deal team in the €2.3 billion acquisition of US NASDAQ company Corporate Express Inc.

Prior to joining Corporate Express NV, he held senior finance roles with Bunzl PLC and MK Electric, and an audit role at KPMG in Scotland. 

Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil.
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Nil


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Mr Garry R Whatley

BBus (Accounting and Information Technology), MBA, GAICD

Alternate Director and Chief Information Officer
Age: 49 years

Mr Whatley was appointed an alternate director to Mr Keefe on 15 September 2003. He has over 24 years’ experience in the information management and technology industry. Prior to joining Corporate Express, he held the role of General Manager, Information Technology, Telecommunications and E-business for Sony Australia Limited. Mr Whatley has also provided consultancy/professional services to a number of medium to large Australian organisations in the corporate and government sectors.

Other current directorships of listed companies: Nil
Previous directorships of listed companies within the last 3 years: Nil
Other previous directorships of listed or unlisted companies of note: Multiple Sclerosis Limited

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