Chairman
John Brooke, OAM
BCom., BEd., FCPA, CA.

Mr Brooke farms beef cattle and walnuts near Pyramid Hill.  He is also a Director of Goulburn-Murray Water, member of the Remuneration Committee, joint Northern Victorian Irrigation Renewal Project (NVIRP) Goulburn-Murray Water Co-ordinating Committee, and Chairman of their Pricing Review Committee.

Mr Brooke has extensive experience in water resource management, local government and business.  He is a former senior partner in Brooke Bird & Co., chartered accountants, a firm which specialises in insolvency work.

Mr Hanlon has a background in environmental science and business, and has extensive experience in leadership roles in both catchment management authorities and local government.

He was Chief Executive Officer of the North Central Catchment Management Authority for four years prior to his appointment to Coliban Water, and was Chief Executive Officer of Mallee Catchment Management Authority from 2001 to 2004.

Deputy Chairman - Noel Harvey, OAM
MIPA, MAICD.

Appointed to the Board in October 2001, Mr Harvey has been involved in local government in Central Victoria since 1991. He was twice President of the Shire of Kyneton and served three terms as Mayor of the Shire of Macedon Ranges. Mr Harvey is a Board Member of Parks Victoria, a former Board Member of the North Central Catchment Management Authority and Chairman of the Victorian Mineral Water Committee. He has extensive experience in travel, transport and tourism industries and is currently involved in the natural resource management and carbon offset industry.

David Beard

MAICD, FIEAust, CP Eng., MBus.

Mr Beard moved to Bendigo in 2000 and was appointed to the Board in October 2005. He is currently Group General Manager for Veolia Environmental Services and has over 20 years experience in engineering, transport and business. Mr Beard has previously worked in local Government as Infrastructure Director for both Murrindindi and Bendigo Councils.

Mr Beard has served on the MAV's Transport Advisory Committee, Goulburn Valley and Calder Regional Waste Management Groups, Calder Highway Improvement Committee, the Institute of Engineers Australia and the Victorian Waste Management Association.

Andrew Cairns
BEng (Electrical)., Assoc Fellow AIM., MAICD.

Mr Cairns is Chief Executive Officer of Community Telco Australia and has held several management positions across a variety of industries both locally and internationally. In the past few years he has applied his experience and start-up organisation success to Bendigo Community Telco and is responsible for the roll-out of the community Telco model across Australia.

He is currently a director of Bendigo Community Telco Limited, iTEL Community Telco Limited.

Andrew Skewes
BSc, Grad Dip Ed, MComm (Econ Hons).

Appointed to the Board on 1 July 2010, Mr Skewes has a background as an academic and as a senior executive in both the State and Federal Government developing policy for innovation, economic development and the governance of government enterprises.

He is the Executive Director of La Trobe University Bendigo, a Non-Executive Director of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation and the Principal of Canvass Consulting.

Russell A Walker
FCPA, DipBus(Acc), GradDip(Govt Acc).

Appointed to the Board on 1 July 2010. Mr Walker works as a consultant specialising in governance, auditing, and financial and performance reporting. Mr Walker was the former Assistant Auditor General for Victoria, a Commissioner on the Victorian Commission of Audit, and has undertaken a number of consultancies, including for the Victorian Parliament’s Public Accounts and Estimates Committee. He is a Board member and Treasurer of Guide Dogs Victoria, and was a former chair of a Western Bulldogs Football Club fundraising group. Mr Walker has a Diploma of Business Accounting, Graduate Diploma in Government Accounting and is a Fellow of CPA Australia.

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