Executives who have sat on other boards

Don Argus: CEO of NAB from 1990 until 1999 and joined the BHP board in 1996.

Will Bailey: CEO of ANZ from 1984 until 1992 and joined the Coles Myer board in 1991.

Michael Chaney: sat on the BHP board for most of his stint whilst CEO of Wesfarmers.

Terry Davis: has been Coca Cola Amatil CEO since 2001 and then sat on the St George Bank board from 2004 until the 2008 Westpac takeover.

Geoff Dixon: the then Qantas CEO joined the board of PBL in 2006, the same year he quit Leighton Holdings.

John Elliott: sat on the National Mutual board whilst CEO of Elders IXL.

Jerry Ellis: joined the ANZ board in 1995 when was an executive director at BHP running the minerals division before stepping up in 1997 to be non-executive chairman.

John Fletcher: retained his seat on the Telstra board after coming out of retirement to be CEO of Coles Myer in 2001.

Fred Hilmer: quit all his boards with the exception of Westfield when selected to run Fairfax in 1998.


Wal King: has served as Leighton CEO since 1987 and in 2002 joined the Coca Cola Amatil board.

Brian Loton: CEO of BHP from 1981 until 1991 and served on the NAB board from 1988 until 1999.

Frank Lowy: executive chairman of Westfield who found time a few years back to serve on the board of Britain's Daily Mail Group.

Dick McIlwain: persuaded to take the job running Tatt's Group in Melbourne after the Unitab merger in 2006 and then somehow managed to also chair Brisbane-based Wotif and Super Cheap Auto for the next couple of years.

Rupert Murdoch: CEO of News Corp since 1953 and served on Philip Morris board fore more than a decade starting in 1989.

James Packer: executive chairman of PBL who served on the Qantas board from 2004 until 2007.

Peter Smedley: CEO of Mayne Nickless 2000 until 2002 and was chairman of OneSteel fom 2000.

Gary Toomey: was finance director of Qantas in 1998 when he joined the ANZ board and retained the post until he came a cropper as CEO of Air New Zealand when Ansett collapsed in September 2001.

John Stanhope: long time CFO at Telstra who is an executive director and also sits on the board at AGL Energy.

Sol Trujillo: retained his seat on the Target board in the US when recruited to Australia in 2005 to run Telstra.

Stan Wallis: CEO of Amcor from 1977 until 1996 and joined the AFIC board in 1987 and chaired Santos from 1989 until 1994.