The Board of Directors
Gail Pemberton-Burke Chairman
Gail's distinguished career in financial services and the IT sector has spanned the globe, with her most recent appointment taking her to London where she was COO of BNP Paribas Securities Services, UK.
Prior to her transfer to London, Gail was Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand for BNP Paribas Securities Services, where she oversaw 450 staff and guided Assets Under Custody to $190bn, doubling the size of the business in just under three years.
Before joining BNP, Gail was an Executive Director at Macquarie Bank where she was CIO for 12 years and then COO for the Financial Services Group. In that capacity, she was responsible for the successful implementation of the largest business and IT Change Program ever undertaken in the Bank at that time including: a new unit registry, broker desktop, WRAP platforms and STP engine for online broking.
Gail has gained extensive knowledge of financial products and markets from a front and back office perspective with emphasis on wealth management products including; managed funds, financial planning, private banking and stock broking.
Gail was awarded CIO of the year in 1999 and CIO of the Decade in 2000 in the Banking and Finance magazine industry awards. She is also a recipient of the Federal Government Centenary medal for her outstanding services to Australian business.
Gail also currently holds the following positions:
- Director and Member Remuneration and Audit & Risk Committees, Trans-Tasman Collection Holdings
- Director and Member Audit, Risk & Remuneration Committee, SIRCA
Michael Cole Board member
Author of the Cole Report, Michael Cole is chairman of PLATINUM Asset Management and a significant shareholder of OneVue Limited. Mr Cole brings extensive wealth management experience to OneVue and, through his capital investment and broad-based understanding of the business drivers behind successful funds management organisations - and recognises the benefits of OneVue products and services.
Michael Cole has enjoyed an extremely successful career and has held many prominent positions within the wealth management industry. During his tenure at BT, from 1980 until 1997 he headed the following divisions; Fixed Interest/Capital markets, Retail funds management, Capital markets/Structured Finance, BT Stockbroking and Equities.
Since leaving BT, Michael Cole's other appointments, in addition to his appointment as chair of PLATINUM Asset Management in April 2007, include: previous Chairman of SAS Trustee Corporation (State Super); Director NSW Treasury Corporation; Chairman of the Illawarra Mutual Building Society and Chairman IRONBARK Capital.
Nigel Stokes Board Member
Nigel Stokes has enjoyed a long and successful career working in a diverse range of senior and influential roles across government, public utilities and financial services. He is an experienced board member with a strong background in financial management.
Nigel held the role of financial adviser in the NSW Government for 10 years working on a number of public works and government contract projects. During this time Nigel also participated in a Commonwealth review of the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway and was on the Board (and for a part Acting Chairman) of the Electricity Commission of NSW.
Nigel made the move into private enterprise as a founding shareholder and Board member of Continental Venture Capital Limited. From here he joined Bankers Trust and worked on a series of significant privatisations (Government Insurance Office of NSW, NSW State Bank and NSW TAB). As partner of Hogan Stokes Pty. Ltd, Nigel advised on the demutualisation of the ASX as well as consulting to the NSW Treasury Corporation on risk strategy, and the Advance Bank on funds management strategy.
Nigel has sat on the Boards of the CSIRO, Gene Shears Pty Limited and was Chairman of Link Alarm Internet Service and Cortical Pty Ltd. During his involvement with the CSIRO, Nigel was involved with a number of start-up investments such as Quantum Pty Limited and Gene Shears Pty Ltd.
Compliance committee structure
Don McLean, Chair Ray Horne, member Peter Hutley, member
External committee members (not on the Board)
Don McLean Don has over 30 years experience in superannuation, insurance and funds management. He served as CEO State Super (NSW) and CEO First State Super and has held several general management roles within the MLC Group.
Don has held senior positions at two leading, Australian retail fund managers, BT and MLC. He saw both organisations through from their early development to their successful establishment in the market.
Don holds both actuarial and financial planning qualifications which provide him with an excellent technical understanding of financial services products including superannuation, allocated pensions and unit trusts.
Peter Hutley Formerly the Director in charge of KPMG's Regulation & Compliance practice in Sydney, Peter now delivers high quality advice to clients across risk management, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Throughout Peter's career he has assisted over sixty companies preserve their operating license through meeting stringent new requirements introduced by the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA). Major clients include National Corporate Investment Services, Arab Bank, ING Bank, HSBC, Marvin & Palmer and ANZ Bank, Norwich Insurance, Commonwealth Bank, Taiwan Business Bank and The International Commercial Bank of China. Peter is also a co-author of the standard reference work on FSRA, now in its 3rd edition.
He has also developed an innovative Compliance Maturity profiling tool that enables Boards and Senior Management to benchmark their compliance frameworks against better practice, peers, and Australian Standard AS3806. Major clients include IAG and Macquarie Financial Services.
Peter provided expert assistance to RetireInvest (part of ING group) as ASIC-approved external compliance consultant assisted the company to successfully deal with regulatory intervention.
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