Addendum
Qantas Group shareholders to vote on new chair at October AGM
June 1st 2024
John Mullen, Qantas chair elect since April 22, is expected to win shareholder endorsement of his new role leading the company’s board at the group’s AGM on October 25. Read More » If confirmed, Mullen will succeed Richard Goyder who announced early this year he would step down as chair before the AGM.
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The former boss of Toll Holdings, former Telstra chairman and present chair of Penfolds Treasury Wines, Mullen started at Qantas on April 22, weeks earlier than his previously announced date of July 1. He will make his first formal appearance in his new role at the group’s full-year results announcement on August 29. See cover story Taking Time to Listen, page 16.
Also expected to be endorsed by shareholders at the AGM is Dr. Nora Scheinrestel. She took up her Qantas Group non-executive directorship on March 1. In addition, she chairs the group’s remuneration committee. A lawyer by training who then changed to the banking world at Hill Samuel, later Macquarie Bank, she has more than 25 years’ experience as a non-executive director at leading Australian companies including Westpac, Origin Energy and transport logistics conglomerate Brambles.
