Board and Management

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Chairman of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Joined the Board in February 2015 and was appointed Chairman in December 2015. A professional non-executive director since 2002, Erich has held board positions with a number of listed and unlisted companies.

Past directorships include Woodside Petroleum Limited, WorleyParsons Limited, Wesfarmers General Insurance Limited, Rabobank Australia Limited, Rabobank New Zealand Limited, West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited and Foodland Associated Limited.

Until his retirement in 2002, Erich was a senior executive of Wesfarmers Limited, including Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this he was involved in investment banking, project lending and venture capital investment.

Appointed to the Board as Managing Director in February 2014. Since joining Wesfarmers Limited in 1995, Michael has held a number of senior executive roles across the Wesfarmers Group including appointments as General Manager Finance at Wesfarmers for a period of five years and also as the Chief Financial Officer of Bunnings Group Limited for a period of nine years. Immediately prior to joining BWP, he held the role of Executive General Manager, Business Improvement for the Wesfarmers Group. Before joining Wesfarmers, he held finance roles with the HSBC Group in Australia and Hong Kong, and prior to that with Arthur Andersen.

Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee
Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Joined the Board in October 2012. A professional non-executive director for the past 25 years, Fiona has held board positions for over 25 companies covering a range of industries and geographies. She is a former member of the National Board and a former WA State President of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Governance Committee for Chief Executive Women. Fiona is currently director of ASX listed company Oil Search Limited and unlisted companies Perron Group Limited and Linear Clinical Research Limited.

Past listed company directorships held in the last three years include Infigen Energy Limited Group.

Fiona was previously a Sydney-based partner of chartered accountants, KPMG, retiring in December 1994.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Joined the board in October 2012. Tony is a Life Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and has more than 30 years’ experience in the banking and finance industry. He has held several senior management positions during his career, including Managing Director of Challenge Bank Limited and Chief Executive Officer of Hartleys Limited.

Tony is a Director of ASX-listed company Coventry Group Ltd. He is also a director of Alinta Energy Pty Limited and a Fellow of AICD. He is an Adjunct Professor (Financial Management) at The University of Western Australia Business School and a former member of The University of Western Australia Business School Advisory Board (retired March 2018).

Past listed company directorships held in the last three years include Wesfarmers Limited (2007 to November 2019) and MMA Offshore Limited (Chairman) (retired November 2017).

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Joined the Board in February, 2015. Michael, an experienced valuer by background, has over 30 years general property services experience covering all property types (including hotels, shopping centres and large format retail valuation and advisory), primarily in New Zealand and Australia, and more recently in Asia. Between 1988 and 2009, he was a director of Richard Ellis Ltd New Zealand (now CBRE). He moved to Sydney in 2001 to take control of CBRE’s Australian and New Zealand valuation and advisory business. His experience at CBRE also included strategic planning, business acquisitions, financial management, risk and compliance management and technology development. From 2009 to 2014, he was Executive Managing Director of CBRE’s Asia Pacific Valuation and Advisory services business.

Mike is a non-executive director of Dexus Wholesale Property Limited and he is the non-executive Chairman of Dexus Wholesale Funds Limited. He was a non-executive director of the New Zealand listed Kiwi Property Group Limited until his retirement from that board on 29 June 2020.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Joined the Board in December 2019. Alison is an experienced director, CEO and executive with an extensive background in property development, aged care, banking and finance. Between 2016 and 2019, she was CEO of Retire Australia, Australia’s largest private operator, developer and manager of seniors housing in Queensland, NSW and South Australia. Prior to that, she held a number of senior executive positions with entities including Aveo Limited, Growth Management Queensland and Mulpha Sanctuary Cove Developments.

She is a non-executive director of SunCentral Maroochydore Pty Ltd; a member of the Advisory Panel of Economic Development Queensland; and a member of the Brisbane City Council Infrastructure Council Advisory Committee.

Appointed to the Board as Managing Director in February 2014. Since joining Wesfarmers Limited in 1995, Michael has held a number of senior executive roles across the Wesfarmers Group including appointments as General Manager Finance at Wesfarmers for a period of five years and also as the Chief Financial Officer of Bunnings Group Limited for a period of nine years. Immediately prior to joining BWP, he held the role of Executive General Manager, Business Improvement for the Wesfarmers Group. Before joining Wesfarmers, he held finance roles with the HSBC Group in Australia and Hong Kong, and prior to that with Arthur Andersen.

Andrew has 22 years experience in the property industry covering valuation, property and asset management, leasing, development and funds management. He joined BWP Management Limited in 2005, having worked most recently as a syndicate Portfolio Manager with Centro Properties Group and Asset Manager at MCS Property in Melbourne.

David has over 20 years experience in accounting, tax and finance, having practised in Australia and the United Kingdom working with large companies and not-for-profit organisations. David joined BWP Management Limited in July 2008 as corporate accountant and became finance manager in December 2009.