Grant is a Non Executive Director and Corporate Advisor with a coveted portfolio that includes listed, private and Not for Profit organisations.
Grant has over 39 years chartered accountancy experience. For 8 years, from 2004 to 2008, he headed the Corporate Finance Team for Ernst & Young Queensland overseeing a doubling of revenue over that time (including the GFC). In addition to these responsibilities Grant was an audit partner from 1980 to 2000.
During this time with Ernst & Young he:
Lead the TAS team for the re-capitalisation of Transpacific through the investment by Warburg Pincus, which was recognised in the UK Magazine Transaction Quarterly
Lead the engagement team on a number of QLD Government asset sales, including the recent $3bn sale of Queensland Motorways and Golden Casket
Lead the engagement team on many significant IPOs, including Transpacific and Wotif
Qualifications:
- Master of Commerce (Honours), University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Bachelor of Commerce, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Graduate of Kellogg Advanced Executive Program, North Western University, Chicago, USA (1988)
- Advanced Leadership Program, North Western University, Chicago, USA (1998)
- Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (past Chairman at the Queensland Committee and Member of the National Professional Standards Committee)
- Fellow of Financial Services Institute of Australasia
- Public Practice Certificate, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
- Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors
- Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (prior Chairman of the Canterbury/Westland Branch – 1990)
Grant’s ability to accurately and methodically piece together sometimes disjointed scenarios consistently yields excellent results.
Current Board roles
- Non-Executive Director of ALS Limited, formerly Campbell Brothers (Chair of the Audit Committee)
- Non-Executive Director of QIC (member of the audit committee)
- Senator of the University of Queensland ,(Chair of the Risk Committee and member of the Finance Committee)
- Director – UQ Holdings Ltd
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland Business School
Past Boards
- Past Non-Executive Director of Cardno (member of the audit committee)
- Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Endeavour Foundation (Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee, member of the Audit Committee and the Property Committee)
