Directors

Robert Wright (Chairman)

Robert Wright is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Responsible Entity and a member of its Audit Committee. 

Robert has over 30 years financial management experience, having held a number of Chief Financial Officer positions, including Finance Director of David Jones Limited.  He is currently the Chairman of SAI Global Limited, Super Cheap Auto Group Limited, RCL Group Limited and a director of Australian Pipeline Limited, the responsible entity of the registered managed investment schemes that comprise APA Group.  He was previously Chairman of Dexion Limited. 

Nancy Fox

Nancy Fox is an independent director of the Responsible Entity and Chairman of the Board's Audit Committee.

Nancy is Chairman of Adelaide Managed Funds Ltd, a subsidiary of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, a director of the Energy Security Council, ThinkSmart, HCF Life, the Australian Theatre for Young People and a director of the Taronga Conservation Society Australia.  Nancy has had more than 10 years experience as a board director including a number of not-for-profit boards.  She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Her previous board roles include 9 years on the board of the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Nancy has more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry in Australia, Asia and the US.   Nancy has held senior executive investment banking positions with Ambac Assurance Corporation, ABN Amro (now RBS Group), AIDC Ltd and Citibank. She is a lawyer by training and admitted to the Bars of New York and New Jersey (now retired).

Rick Coles

Dr Rick Coles is an independent director of the Responsible Entity and a member of the Board’s Audit Committee. 

Rick has more than 30 years of experience in the petrochemical, gas and pipeline industries in Australia, the United States, Canada and Asia. He was ICI Australia Ltd’s project manager for the Moomba to Sydney Ethane Gas Pipeline during its construction between 1994 and 1996 and worked in a number of roles in the ethylene business unit of ICI Australia, culminating in his 1996 appointment as the business manager of the unit.   

After leaving ICI Australia Ltd in 1997, Rick worked as a consultant to the oil, gas, petroleum and petrochemical industries in Australia and throughout Asia as the principal of his own consultancy firm.  He also acted as Vice President, Asia of a variety of petrochemical projects (including ethylene and polyethylene) for the Houston-based chemical consultants, DeWitt and Company Inc.