John is PwC’s first independent non-executive Governance Board chair. He has significant director and governance experience across various domestic, international, large-scale, founder-led, private, ASX-traded, and Government organisations.

His other current non-executive director roles are at Challenger Limited, the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and UOW Global Enterprises. He was also a non-executive director of global professional services firm Worley (before and after ASX-listing), and was Deputy Chair of global insurer, QBE Insurance. He’s been a member of the Australian Takeovers Panel, a councillor of the National Library of Australia, as well as director of a number of not-for-profit organisations, including CIS.

John’s executive career spanned 30 years, first as a partner in two law firms and then as an investment banker at Macquarie Group. Throughout that career, John advised boards across multiple industries and helped many organisations through various strategic phases.

John is also a novelist, with six crime thrillers to date, and he co-founded independent book publisher Pantera Press.