Committee membership
- Finance, Audit and Compliance Committee (Chair)
- People and Culture & Remuneration and Nomination Committee
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Commerce, University of Tasmania
- Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Fellow, Chartered Secretaries Australia
- Fellow, Governance Institute of Australia
- Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
- RG146 Superannuation
Background
John is an Employer-Representative Director nominated by the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ltd. John was a Director of Tasplan from 2016 until the fund merged to become Spirit Super in April 2021. He was also a Director of the Retirement Benefits Fund Tasmania (RBF) from 2013 to 2016. John is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ consulting experience with PwC, IBM and his own business GSD Advisors. John has also held several contract senior executive roles in Tasmanian Government businesses overseeing planning and delivery of major transformation projects.
John is a past National President (2020), Non-Executive Director, National Councillor of the Governance Institute of Australia. He’s the Independent Member of the TasBuild Limited Investment Committee and former Chair of the Tasmanian Catholic Education Commission Centralised Long Service Leave Fund Investment Committee. John is a Non-Executive Director of Mafematica Pty Ltd and Executive Director of GSD Advisors Pty Limited. He is also a Non-Executive Director of The Public Trustee Board of Tasmania.
Appointed: 1 April 2021
