EXPERTISE/SPECIALISATIONS:

• Business leadership and management
• Major change programs
• Financial and Professional Services
• Corporate Governance.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Rob is currently CEO of the L’Estrange Group, providing high-end corporate governance advisory services to corporate Australia and major inbound investors.

Rob had a distinguished 30 year plus career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), including serving as Global Managing Partner of PwC’s worldwide audit practice comprising 78,000 people across 148 countries. This was during the period after the collapse of Arthur Andersen when trust needed to be restored in the profession globally.

As global audit leader, Rob lead the design, build and rollout of PwC’s system for the delivery of the audit.

Other roles with PwC included National Managing Partner of the Australian firm, Australia’s largest professional services organisation. During his tenure, Rob doubled profitability per partner while leading a major program to create a distinctive PwC culture.

On his return to Australia, Rob created and lead PwC Australia’s Public Policy formulation group and served as the inaugural Chair of the Australian Public Policy Committee.

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Bachelor of Commerce

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS & MEMBERSHIPS:

• Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia
• Member, Public Interest Oversight Board based in Madrid
• Member, Advisory Board to the Australian Statistician on their program of ‘ Measures of Australia’s Progress
• Member, Strategy Council of the Global Foundation
• President, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
• Chairman, Australian Public Policy Committee
• Member of the Order of Australia.

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

Family, including three grandchildren, gardening, thoroughbred racing and breeding, bridge, rugby and AFL.