Margaret Seale

Independent Director
Chair of Risk & Sustainability Committee

Experience

Margie has more than 25 years’ experience in senior executive roles in Australia and overseas, including in consumer goods, global publishing, sales and marketing, and the successful transition of traditional business models to digital environments. Prior to her non-executive career, Margie was the Managing Director of Random House Australia and New Zealand and President, Asia Development for Random House Inc., a Director and then Chair of Penguin Random House Australia Pty Limited, and a Director of Ramsay Health Care Limited, Bank of Queensland Limited and the Australian Publishers Association. She also served on the Boards of Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation, Chief Executive Women (chairing its Scholarship Committee), the Powerhouse Museum and the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Current external appointments

Non-executive director, Westpac Banking Corporation.
Non-executive director, Pinchgut Opera Limited
Non-executive director, Jana Investment Advisers Pty Ltd
Chair, Westpac Scholars Limited, trustee of the Westpac Scholars Trust
Mentor, CMi Merryck.