Appointments

Kresta Holdings has appointed Xianfeng Lu and John Murphy to its board, following the resignation of company directors John Molloy, Peter Abery and Kevin Eley.

Law firm Gadens has appointed Doug Stipanicev as head of its Perth office.Mr Stipanicev was most recently banking and finance/ property partner at the firm.

Anthony Cipriano has joined Lachlan Star as non-executive director.Mr Cipriano was a chartered accountant at Deloitte for 27 years until his retirement in 2013. 

International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Paul Lingard as a partner in its Perth office.

WA Super has appointed Tim Shanahan to replace retiring chairman Nick Catania, with effect from July 1.Fellow long-serving directors Alex Bajada and David James will also retire.

Citation Resources has appointed Peter Landau as a director, while director and company secretary Sophie Raven has resigned.

Curtin University has awarded former vice-chancellor Jeanette Hacket an honorary doctorate of technology.

Munity Gold non-executive director Rowan Johnston has assumed the role of acting chief executive following John Greeve’s resignation as managing director.

Racing and Wagering WA has appointed Kirrilee Warr and Anthony Hasluck to the board to replaceretiring members Jim Freemantle and John Bradshaw.

East Perth Football Club has appointed David Christison and Martin Mileham to its board as directors.

Energy and Minerals Australia has appointed former state government minister Cheryl Edwardes as chairman, replacing Mike Young who has taken a new role as managing director.

The Minerals and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia has appointed deputy director general of strategic policy at the Department of Mines and Petroleum, Michelle Andrews, and direct

Derek Fisher has joined IMX Resources as a non-executive director.

Infrastructure and environmental services company Cardno has appointed Nick Pugliese as senior project manager.Mr Pugliese was most recently engineering manager of Calibre Global.

Denise Goldsworthy has joined Aquila Resources as an independent non-executive director.

Amanda Burton and Beth Bolt have joined Clarity Communications as account manager and content creator respectively.

Former Gindalbie Metals boss Garret Dixon has joined Watpac as a non-executive director, signaling the company’s interest in building up the Perth-headquartered mining contracting division of its b

Oil and gas explorer Range Resources has appointed Rory Scott Russell as its new chief executive, with executive director Peter Landau having stepped down from his position.

Stuart Lake has been appointed chief executive officer at African Petroleum, replacing Karl Thompson who has held the role since 2010.

Mining company Globe Metals & Mining has appointed Alice Wong as non-executive chairperson.Ms Wong is the principal of Globe’s major shareholder, Apollo Metals Investment Company.

Construction cost consultant Ralph Beattie Bosworth has promoted Clayton Boyd and Sadmir Ceric to associate directors.Mr Boyd has spent more than 10 years with RBB.

Veteran mining engineer Robert Dennis has been appointed chief operating officer at Sirius Resources.

Iluka Resources has appointed general manager USA Matthew Blackwell as head of marketing and mineral sands; general manager sales and marketing Chris Cobb as head of alliances new ventures and roya

Irwin Tollman has retired from Monadelphous Group after having been a member of the board since 1992.

Grant Thornton has replaced Perth office managing partner Bill Stephen with Matthew Donnelly.

AusGroup subsidiary AGC Industries has appointed Paul Birighitti as executive general manager for maintenance services.

Gary Dean has joined IRDI Legal to lead its litigation team.Mr Dean was previously a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers and has more than 25 years’ experience in legal practice.

Lavan Legal has appointed Daniel Kirk as corporate services partner and Gavin Rakoczy as senior associate in reconstruction, recovery and insolvency.

The national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways, has appointed Vincent Frascogna as manager WA.

Not-for-profit organisation Celebrate WA has appointed Tonya McCusker, Bruce Robinson, Tom Baddeley and Krista McMeeken to its board.

Redstone Resources has raised $1.65 million to fund exploration of its 100 per cent owned Tollu copper project in the West Musgrave region of Western Australia.

Northern Star Resources has announced an expansion of its management team following two major acquisitions in the gold mine sector.