Margaret Seale

Independent Director
Chair of Risk & Sustainability Committee

Experience

Margie is a company director and executive mentor. Prior to her non-executive career she held senior executive roles in Australia and overseas in consumer goods, global publishing, sales and marketing, and the successful transition of traditional business models to digital environments. Her last executive roles were as CEO of Random House ANZ and President, Asia Development for Random House Inc. She was then a Director and ultimately Chair of Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd. Her previous non-executive board roles include Telstra Group Limited, Ramsay Health Care Limited, Bank of Queensland Limited, the Australian Publishers Association, Chief Executive Women (chairing its Scholarship Committee), Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Pty. Limited, 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 Trust
Mentor, CMi Merryck.