Appointments

The former chair of WA Newspaper Holdings, Western Power, and Zinifex, Peter Mansell, has been appointed chair of Darwin-based Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia, which operates the

Kim Papalia has been appointed as the first ever road safety commissioner of Western Australia. Mr Papalia is a former senior WA Police officer.

Richard Guit has been appointed as a partner to the resources and infrastructure team of Ashurst Perth.

Disability employment services organisation Intework has appointed Zenith Zeeman, David Endersby and Simon Rear as directors.

Bruce McFadzean has been appointed as the new managing director of Sheffield Resources. Mr McFadzean is a mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the global resources industry.

Helen Cook has been named as the new chair of the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA.

Peter Canterbury has resigned as the chief executive officer and executive director of Bauxite Resources. The board has appointed Sam Middlemas as the new chief executive officer.

Jim Limerick has been appointed to the board of Environmental Protection Authority. Dr Limerick holds extensive experience in strategic policy and planning.

Peter Iancov has been appointed as a new non-executive director of Valmec.

Wayne Foote has been appointed as general manager – operations at Gold Road Resources.

Steve Tot has been appointed as Norwood Systems’ vice president of sales.

Karl Paganin has been appointed as a non-executive director of OTOC.

Robert Mencel has been appointed as the deputy managing director of Valence Industries.  Mr Mencel will be appointed managing director of the company with effect from December 1, 2015.

Peter Kerr has been appointed to the board of Diabetes Research WA.

John Frame has been appointed as the new chief financial officer and Rebecca Tomkinson has become the chief operating officer at Baptistcare.

David Beilby has been appointed by Korn Ferry as managing consultant to lead its Futurestep service line in Western Australia.

David Cormack has been appointed as the new national mining leader of Deloitte Consulting.

Richard Boffey has been appointed as general manager for Matilda Gold Project and Jeff Dawkins as the chief financial officer at Blackham Resources.

Dayle Bryant has been appointed as the general manager of BallPoint Construction Group.

Julian Donaldson is stepping down from his role as the general manager of Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF). Mr Donaldson managed the festival for the past 10 years.

Michelle Dean has been appointed as special counsel to Corrs Chambers Westgarth Perth Litigation Team.

José Martins has resigned as the chief financial officer of Ausdrill. Mr Martins has been serving the company since the last five years.

Chris Rowlands has been appointed as client director, Resources West, at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Perth office.

Wrays Lawyers founding managing director David Stewart has been appointed principal of Williams + Hughes’ new IP law practice.

Giles Nunis has been named as WA’s inaugural government chief information officer.

Consultancy firm RPS has appointed Sheldon Day as principal urban design and town planner of its planning and development operations in WA.

CPA Australia general manager WA, Colleen Schooling, has been appointed as regional head, Europe and UAE for the organisation.

Tom Fraser has been appointed as chief executive officer of Access Group Australia.

Peter Sullivan has been appointed to the board of Panoramic Resources as a non-executive director.

Terry Durant has been appointed as the managing director of the Challenger Institute of Technology for a five year term.

Daniel Colgan has been appointed to the board of Stochastic Simulation Ltd as a non-executive director.

The Insurance Commission of Western Australia has welcomed three new female commissioners as part of four new appointments.