Appointments

Surf Life Saving Western Australia has appointed its corporate and legal services manager James O'Toole as chief executive officer, to replace ten-year veteran Paul Andrew, who left late last year

Brian D'Netto has been appointed director of the Master of Business Administration program at the Curtin University Graduate School of Business.

Diabetes Research WA has appointed Cathy Broadbent to its board.

Retired PwC partner David Smith has been appointed to the Fremantle Ports board.

Glen Power has been appointed chief executive officer of the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals, due to open in November.

Perth-founded intellectual property law firm Wrays has launched a Melbourne office with new principals David Chin and Andrew Butler at the helm.

Former WA governor Malcolm McCusker and his wife, philanthropist Tonya McCusker, have been recognised by Curtin University for their respective contributions to the public good and the broader comm

The members of grain handling co-operative CBH Group have elected Simon Stead from Esperance to replace Neil Wandel as the District 5 representative member director.

Retired University of Western Australia vice-chancellor Alan Robson has been appointed to the Higher Education Standards Panel, a new body created by Education Minister Christopher Pyne to replace

Fortescue Metals Group group manager, treasury and business planning Ian Wells has been made company secretary, replacing Mark Thomas, who will now head the WA iron ore miner’s infrastructure servi

CSA Global chairman Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed to the RSPCA WA board of directors.

Law firm HopgoodGanim has appointed Catherine Wheeler as partner, from February.

Brian Martin has been appointed state manager WA at The Tax Institute.

Newera Resources has appointed Will Dix as chief executive officer.Mr Dix was the founding managing director of Fitzroy Resources, and remains a non-executive director there.

Andrew Frazer has joined GMP Securities as managing director, corporate finance Australia, to replace Karl Paganin who has left the corporate advisory firm after four years.

Global engineering group SNC-Lavalin has appointed Perth-based Brian Kelly as senior regional executive Australia & Asia.

Board changes

Aged care and not-for-profit business Baptistcare has appointed Rebecca Tomkinson as director of strategy and communications.

Perth-based information and communication technology firm Diverse IT has appointed Julian Catton as enterprise account manager.

Valmec has appointed Kelvin Andrijich to head its marketing and projects development team in Australia.

Former federal Senator Chris Ellison has stepped down from his chairmanship of Australia’s North West Tourism board, following the expiration of his fixed five-year term.

Infrastructure and environmental services company Cardno has appointed Michael Waite as section leader – environment. 

Law firm Squire Patton Boggs has promoted Felicity Clarke to counsel in its Perth labour and employment team.

Insurance specialist Will Harrison has joined the Perth office of Minter Ellison as head of insurance & corporate risk: Asia and Western Australia.

Alan Warne has been appointed chief executive officer at Perth-based recruitment firm Staff Link Personnel.

Perkins Builders has appointed Darryl Lathwell as group general manager, taking responsibility for managing Perkins Builders, Commercial Aquatics Australia and the company’s interest in Perkins Tot

Frank Cooper has been made a trustee at not-for-profit business St John of God Health Care, and been appointed as a director of St John of God Australia.

Board changes

Board changes

Platform Communications has appointed former Business News journalist Shanna Crispin as a media adviser.

Rockwell Olivier Perth solicitors Gray Porter, Andrew Read, Karyn Thomson, Joanne Deligeorges and Geraldine Jordan have moved to the newly revived Civic Legal brand, following the break-up of Rockw

Oilfield equipment provider Knight Oil Tools International has appointed Gholam Rastegar as regional manager of the Asia-Pacific region and Ricardo Montemayor as country manager for Australia.