Our leaders
Board of Directors
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Roger Gill
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Roger has extensive experience in the electricity, water and associated infrastructure development and construction sectors. He is a highly experienced company Director and also consults globally providing renewable energy advice.
He is currently Chair of TasNetworks, a Non-Executive Director of Pacific Hydro (Aust.), Upper Hunter Hydro and São Simão Energia S.A. (Brazil), and Chair of the expert Technical Review Panel for Queensland Hydro. He is the immediate past President of the International Hydropower Association (UK) and has been Chair of Marinus Link.
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Katherine Schaefer - Non-Executive Director
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Kathy is an experienced non-executive director and former senior government executive with over 30 years’ experience working across Government portfolio areas of economic and industry development, infrastructure and major projects delivery, tourism, education, training and employment, land use planning and local Government.
Kathy is currently a non-executive Director on the Sustainable Timber Tasmania Board, a nonexecutive Director of Cradle Coast Authority, a Commissioner on the Tasmanian State Grants Commission, a Divisional Council Member for AICD Tasmania and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for the Department of Treasury and Finance Tasmania. Kathy holds a MBA from the University of Adelaide, a Bachelor of Education (BEd) and a Graduate Diploma in English as a Second Language Teaching from the Brisbane College of Advanced Education and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2016, Kathy was awarded the Public Service Medal in the Australia Honours and Awards System.
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Kevin Kehl – Non-Executive Director
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Previously an executive leader at Powerlink Queensland and Energex, Kevin has more than 40 years’ experience in the energy industry across the distribution and transmission networks sector. Kevin has held senior leadership roles in the energy sector, including twelve years in chief and senior executive management positions across business and market development, change, policy, strategic, regulatory, finance, customer and stakeholder relations, operations and governance functions.
Kevin holds a BE (Hons) in electrical engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Electricity Supply Engineering. His former corporate governance roles have included Member Director of a range of subsidiary companies including QCN Fibre.
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Cheryl Hopkins – Non-Executive Director
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Cheryl has accumulated more than 35 years’ experience in the Australian energy industry, working in executive positions across the supply chain in retail, wholesale, upstream gas, networks, and strategic risk and governance. Cheryl’s diverse experience includes leading transformational change within large private businesses and government-owned corporations who operate in highly competitive energy markets.
Cheryl is currently Deputy Chair of Jacana Energy and Chair of the Jacana Energy Audit and Risk Committee. Cheryl holds a Graduate Certificate (Management), Master of Business Administration through Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Dr Nicholas (Nick) Fleming
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Nick is an experienced company director and strategist with a solid track record across multiple industry sectors, locally and abroad, including water, energy, natural resources and defence. He routinely works at the interface of technology, commerce and society, with the public and private sectors, to resolve complex challenges in elegant ways.
He is currently a non-executive director of Southeast Water and Iota Services, Managing Director of Innergise Pty Ltd, and a member of the Infrastructure CoLab Advisory Board. He is the immediate past National President and Chair of the Board of Engineers Australia.
TasNetworks Leadership Team
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Seán Mc Goldrick – Chief Executive Officer
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Seán commenced as CEO with TasNetworks in August 2021. Prior to his appointment, Seán was a senior executive in the utility industry, having served at managerial and board level for energy organisations worldwide. He joined the executive team at TransGrid in 2019 and was responsible for overseeing the delivery of several major transmission projects across NSW and the ACT.
Seán was Executive Manager of Asset Management at Western Power, where he was responsible for a $10.2 billion transmission and distribution asset and managed to reduce capital expenditure sustainably by $170m per annum. Seán also worked as Director of Parsons Brinkerhoff’s Networks Business covering Europe, Middle East and Africa, and is a former General Manager of the Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO).
With more than 30 years’ experience working on Electrical Power Systems globally, Seán has acquired expertise in the research and development, construction, operation, consultancy, planning and asset management of large-scale power systems. He has acted as consultant on many EU, World Bank and EBRD funded projects and his experience includes working and consulting for power utilities, transmission system operators and regulators in Australia, Europe, North America and Africa.
Seán's qualifications include BA (Mathematics), BAI (Engineering), PhD (Molecular Phyics).
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Andrew Davis – Executive Digital, Strategy and Customer
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Andrew, has built an outstanding reputation in the energy sector as a senior commercial executive with a specific focus on delivering customer value via innovation. Over a 25 year career, he has worked in over 30 markets globally, working with governments, agencies, tertiary institutions and investors on strategic, commercial, government and environmental issues.
Prior to joining TasNetworks in early 2022, as Executive Transformation, Digital & Strategy, he worked at Jemena for four years in multiple Executive roles. Andrew has previously been General Manager Retail, for the fuel company Viva Energy Australia (the Shell brand in Australia). During this time Andrew, led Australia’s largest retail fuels business based on market share and turnover (in excess of $5.5B). Prior to this, Andrew was Shell’s Global Retail Innovation, CVP and Sustainability Manager and held multiple senior roles both in Australia and overseas in the Shell Retail business.
Andrew, is a current Board member of the Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation. Prior to this he has been a board member of the Electricity and Water Ombudsman Victoria and the Electric Vehicle Council of Australia. In addition he is on several commercial advisory committees including Start-up Boot-camp and Monash University’s “Digital Energy Future”. Andrew, is passionate about building greater trust between the energy sector and its customers.
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Michael Westenberg – Executive Finance and Regulation
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Michael’s 20+ years of leadership experience spans Executive, General Management, Program Management, Business Improvement and Organisational Change Management.
He holds a Graduate Certificate in Corporate Management from Deakin University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Michael is currently the Executive of Finance and Regulation at TasNetworks (Transmission and Distribution Network Service) provider in Tasmania. Prior to this, Michael’s roles included General Manager of Technology and Performance and Program Director roles for large scale Technology enabled Transformation programs including the implementation of TasNetworks Ajilis SAP program.
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Peter Stuckey – Executive Governance
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Peter has worked throughout the energy industry, both in Australia and internationally, for nearly 20 years. He has worked for developers, gen-tailers, asset managers and contractors across oil & gas exploration, renewable and thermal generation, energy storage, transmission & distribution, and retail.
Peter is a qualified lawyer and is admitted to practice in both Australia and England & Wales. He has been company secretary and governance advisor to more than a dozen entities in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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Renee Anderson – Executive People and Transformation
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With over 15 years’ experience as a senior HR executive, Renee joined TasNetworks from the Tasmanian Department of Health, where she was the Chief People Officer.
Renee has previously worked in the mining, engineering and energy sectors, both locally and internationally with organisations such as Rio Tinto and Coffey International. Renee holds a Bachelor of Business (Management) and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Renee is a Director on the boards of the Australian Power Institute and Virtual TAS.
Renee is active in the community, volunteering HR expertise to a number of community organisations.
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Kevin McGrath – Executive Operations
Kevin is a senior executive in the utilities industry, having served at managerial level in utilities & service providers worldwide.Read more
He has over 40 years' experience working on Electrical Power Systems globally covering such diverse fields as construction, operation, consultancy, and planning management of large-scale power systems. He has worked in and consulted for power utilities, namely National Grid UK, Transpower NZ, Energex Qld & AusNet Services Vic.
His roles have covered Trades, engineering & general management in utilities, consultants & contractors in the UK, Middle East, far East, Europe, NZ & Australia. Most recently, Kevin has held the role of General Manager Major Projects for AusNet in Victoria, and prior to this was the General Manager Zinfra.
Kevin holds qualifications in electrical trades, electrical engineering and Exec MBA.