Executive leader and senior lawyer with seats on numerous boards and executive leadership teams. My legal background includes numerous high-profile matters conducted while working with prominent global law firms. I worked as managing partner for a global law firm in California, USA and ran the Asia practice of another major law firm From Sydney.My specialisations are in governance and risk management, strategic acquisition, integration management, and sustainability. I held numerous appointments including: * TAL Life Australia representative, United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative: Principles of Sustainable Insurance * Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, Australian Meat Processing Corporation (AMPC) * Adjunct Professor, Law and Agriculture, University of New England * Chairman of the Board and Major Shareholder, GM Scott (sold in 2014) a small stock processor in Cootamundra NSW processing about 15,000 sheep and lambs a week from 1988 until 2014.*Initial director on the board of a United Nations Environment Program Principles of Sustainable InsuranceI am presently on the advisory board of Australian Country Choice the largest family owned integrated beef and meat processor in Australia.I am also on the board of Invasive Animals Ltd trading as The Centre for Invasive Species Solutions and the chair of the Governance and Remuneration committee. I have recently been appointed as chair of the Invasive Species Solutions Trust: A tax-deductible public-private partnership trust established to encouraged many corporate entities, philanthropic supporters and individuals to invest in the Centre’s transformational mission and innovation platforms.