Appointments July 28, 2023

Youth mental health charity zero2hero has recruited four board members and revealed its new board structure. Paul Larsen has been appointed as chair, bringing his leadership experience as a chief executive to the organisation. He most prominently served as Arc Infrastructure chief executive for 12 years and has additionally served on several boards in the past, including for Youth Focus, Centurion Transport, Perron Institute, Qube Property Group and the Kimberley Ports Authority. The three other board members joining zero2hero are Stephen Daly, Jodie Perram and Leigh Dyson. Mr Daly has expertise in the NFP sector, previously working as COO and CFO at both Minderoo Foundation and Tattarang for nearly four years, and he currently serves as the Western Force chair. Ms Perram is the founder and current managing director of recruitment agency Itch and serves on the board of Starlight Children's Foundation. Mr Dyson, owner of Dyson Advisory Group brings experience in leading litigation and accounting support for family law matters.

Mineral Commodities has appointed Scott Lowe as chief executive, effective September 1. Mr Lowe is a senior mining executive and brings more than 35 years of experience and expertise to the company. In previous years, he has worked as a contracted project director at South32, and was the chief executive at ArcelorMittal’s West African mining business in Liberia for nearly three years until November 2021. Since October last year, Mr Lowe has worked as Firefinch managing director and will transition to MRC from this position at the end of August.

Bianca Sandri will start her new role as City of Bayswater community services director in October. Ms Sandri has been a director and co-founder of Urbanista Town Planning since 2016. She has been a City of Stirling councillor since October 2017, having been deputy mayor from 2019 to 2021. Ms Sandri was featured in Business News’ Power 500 list in 2022 and was a 40under40 award winner in 2019.

Fortescue Future Industries’ finance chief Felicity Gooding has resigned after more than 10 years climbing the ranks of the Forrest business empire. Ms Gooding will leave FFI at the end of September as the company nears a major point in its global green energy ambitions. Starting out as a business development manager for Fortescue Metals in 2010 following a stint at PwC, Ms Gooding was promoted to FFI’s acting chief financial officer in November 2022 after a two-year stint as Minderoo’s deputy chief executive.

Minderoo Generation One director Shelley Cable has called it quits after nearly four years with the Forrest family’s philanthropic foundation. Joining Minderoo in September 2019, Ms Cable was tasked with leading the foundation’s Generation One initiative, which seeks to create employment parity for Indigenous Australians. During her tenure, Ms Cable oversaw what was considered Australia’s first Indigenous employment index.

Singapore and Perth-based medtech company Osteopore appointed Michael Keenan as non-executive director. Mr Keenan served as a federal member of parliament for 15 years and his ministerial portfolio included human services which involved providing direction to Medicare. In 2019, he resigned from Cabinet and became chief executive at disability accommodation provider Sana Living, a role he held until April this year. Mr Keenan currently serves as board member for The U Group and Co, Wevolt and Australian Strategic Policy Institute.