Stuart Read Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Daylesford

Australia's first community-owned Wind Farm

Key Responsibilities:• Principal legal adviser, responsible for a team of in-house lawyers providing high quality legal and governance advice for Australia's largest Superannuation Fund Administrator.• Company Secretary, advising the Board of Directors and administering Board and Committee meetings and processes.• All company secretary functions such as preparation and distribution of Agendas, Board Papers, preparation and approval of minutes, allocation of action items to Executives, preparation of annual governance calendar. Key Achievements • Led team of lawyers advising on regulatory changes including implementation of Privacy Act amendments, StrongerSuper, MySuper; Prudential Standard SPS 231 (Outsourcing). • Pursuit/ recovery of claims under professional indemnity insurance programme • Supported successful delivery of remediation programme for Superpartners’ core administration systems• Supported the engagement of service providers to deliver major IT transformational change project • Providing legal support for two successful Capital Raisings• Supporting the Sale of Superpartners by shareholders to Link Market Services

Key Responsibilities • Engaged on contract basis to Computer Sciences Corporation, a leading global IT services provider; assisting in advising on legal and commercial issues. • Legal support to CSC’s Account Management Team in relation to discontinuation of services provided to BHP Billiton’s Corporate Division (transferring services to IBM). Key Achievements • Negotiation of successful bid for an SAP implementation

Providing expert legal advice and support for Accenture Australia's IT outsourcing contracts, including new business contract negotiations, dispute resolution, and regulatory advice.

Providing high level legal advice and support for CSC Australia's commercial contracts as well as mergers and divestments and dispute resolution.Key Responsibilities • Reporting to Asia Pacific Vice President, Legal and Business Assurance; one of two lead outsourcing lawyers for CSC Australia. Key Achievements • 2005-2006: Led the legal negotiations for CSC’s successful bid for Rio Tinto IT Outsourcing contract• 2005: Led the legal stream for the successful pursuit by CSC of an opportunity to provide IT outsourcing services for the Western Australian Government’s Office of Shared Services• 2004: Led legal negotiations supporting CSC’s successful extension of a contract with GE for the provision of Mainframe Processing for GE’s largest business unit (GE Money)• 2003: Legal support for CSC’s divestment of its Australian payroll processing business to Empower (an Australian business)• 2002: Led the legal stream for the negotiation of IT services outsourcing agreement with Western Australia Police Service• 2001: Negotiation of an extension of CSC’s agreement with Victorian Workcover Authority for the provision of applications support and mainframe processing services for VWA’s core insurance management business application• 2001: Legal support for CSC’s divestment of its New Zealand business to Hewlett Packard• 2000: Led the legal stream for the negotiation of mainframe processing services agreement with Transport Accident Commission• 2000: Led the legal stream for CSC’s successfully bid for full scope outsourcing of BHP’s information technology services and the share purchase of BHP’s wholly owned subsidiary (BHP IT).

Bachelor Of Law/ Bachelor Of Arts

Grad Dip (Applied Science), Organization Dynamics

Grad Dip Applied Corporate Governance