elizabeth mildwater

Completion of Masters of Contemporary Asian Analysis degree at Melbourne University. Undertook casual operational work for SPI PowerNet (see below), ACIL Australia Pty Ltd and the Victorian WorkCover Authority (insurance agent contract management) during this period.

* Key Accountabilities: * Provision of legal support for newly established Australian business (Sydney based) then to whole of International business (Manchester based) * Key Achievements: * Established the company's legal function in Australia and then promoted into international business * Establishment of joint venture with Bechtel for international business * Legal support for the first BOOT water projects in Australia. Support for bids on similar projects in several jurisdictions

* Key accountabilities: * Leadership of human resources (including safety) functions. Leadership of legal and governance functions including company secretarial, compliance and risk management * Chair of Senior Work Health and Safety Group * Company Secretary for the Group (approx 90 entities) * Responsible Manager for AFS Licence * Key achievements: * AS4801 certification for Transurban's Australian businesses * Improvement of existing and implementation of new governance practices (compliance, risk management, board processes) for the group after period of rapid expansion * Implementation of significant leadership, development and diversity programs for staff across the business * Efficient service delivery by and high morale maintained within the HR, Legal and Governance teams throughout prolonged takeover defence process

* Key Accountabilities: * Legal counsel for the electricity transmission company of Victoria * Responsible for all day to day legal matters for the business including contracting, employment law, environmental law, telecommunications, financing and property * Key achievements: * Re-established legal function as key and highly regarded part of the business

* Key accountabilities: * Group Executive leading Transurban's business in Victoria * Responsible for CityLink's operations * with more than 1 million customers and delivering revenue of more than $450M per annum (EBITDA of approx $400M per annum) * Line accountability for 250 people and member of Executive team for business of more than 500 people * Provision of shared services including traffic forecasting, systems and civil engineering * Business development and major upgrade initiatives in Victoria * Strategic Emergency Management * Key achievements: * Successful organisational restructure of Victorian business * Successful implementation of new customer account and billing system (including change management) * Building and maintaining relationships with key external stakeholders * government, industry and customer

* Key Accountabilities: * Leadership of legal, company secretarial, financial services licence and sustainability resources * Member of Executive Management team with input into business strategy, budgeting and policy across the business * Production of Annual Report and security holder communications * Board and Committee processes * Key achievements: * Established and led the legal and company secretarial team through listing process, initial years of listing and large transaction work * Established diversity initiative and led sustainability initiatives to first reporting * High standard of governance achieved in a newly listed business through significant education and engagement

* Key Accountabilities: * Provision of in-house legal resource and management of external resources for the region, including business and project development, bidding, joint venturing, acquisition, disposal, compliance and company secretarial activities * Key Achievements: * Established the regional legal function and became an integral part of both development and operations * Managed significant bidding and due diligence activities within strict budgetary limits while providing timely, accurate and practical legal support * Successfully managed jurisdictional and cultural intricacies and long distance reporting requirements

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