Board of Directors

Chairman: Jim Limerick

Dr Limerick, who joined the Board in October 2009, has an honours degree in metallurgy and a PhD, and has done post-graduate research in extractive metallurgy. He has worked in the WA nickel industry. He joined the Department of Resources Development in 1986 and in 2001 became Director General of the Department of Industry and Resources. He has been influential for over a decade in strategic planning for future industrial infrastructure in WA. In 2008, he was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal. He is now the Principal of Ramelton Consulting Pty Ltd.

Dr Affleck, who joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in August 2011, is also Chairman of WA’s Freight and Logistics Council and the Planning and Transport Research Centre, and is a member of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority. He was formerly Chair of WA’s Port Operations Task Force and Strategic Grain Network Review, and was a Commissioner on the National Transport Commission. For two decades until 2000 he was a senior executive in the National Rail Corporation Ltd. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and has a PhD from University College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. 

Ms Malaxos, appointed in October 2009, is an Electronic Engineer with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management. She started her working career in the upstream side of the oil and gas industry, in a variety of technical, consulting and management roles on the Dampier to Bunbury, Goldfields and Parmelia pipelines in WA. She joined ARC Energy Ltd in 2002 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2006. In 2008, Marie began a career consulting to the resources industry in WA. Marie is a member of the Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Feutrill was appointed to the Board in November 2010. He is a barrister and member of the WA Bar Association. He practices in corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration. He graduated from UWA with bachelors of law and economics in 1996 and masters of law, with distinction, in 2007. He currently teaches International Commercial Arbitration at the UWA law school. Mr Feutrill has experience in marine litigation, commercial and trade practices and worked in Paris as counsel in international arbitrations concerning shareholder, oil and gas and foreign investment treaty disputes.