Executives who have sat on other boards

July 19, 2010

This list tracks CEOs or executive directors of major companies who have simultaneously been non executive directors of other major public companies.

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.