Directors

Chairman

 

Mr Mackinlay an independent director and Deputy Chairman.

Mr Mackinlay is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of FINSEA and a Life Member of the Overseas Bankers Association of Australia.  

He has been in the banking industry since 1961, having commenced with the National Bank of Australasia in managerial roles in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. He then moved to Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, Italy’s largest banking group in 1987, where he acted in Singapore as Manager – Corporate Banking, responsible for South East Asia and Australasian banking business, focusing on corporate lending, syndicated loans and capital market deals.

 

In 1990, he established the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino’s Representative Office for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.  He was responsible for corporate lending, syndicated facilities, property finance, treasury products and financial institutions relationships.

 

In 1995, Mr Mackinlay was recruited by Singapore based Overseas Union Bank Limited as Regional Head for Australia and New Zealand.  He was responsible for corporate and retail banking, project finance, capital market facilities, treasury products, intuitional relationships and investment activities throughout the Australia and New Zealand region.  He helped develop risk management and liquidity policies to ensure the bank was compliant at all times with APRA policies and regulations.  He focused on setting strategy and goals and developed a success driven team focused on strong business performance and operational efficiency.  He also assumed responsibility for all regulatory compliance, while establishing offices in Melbourne and Brisbane to enhance and grow the bank’s business.

 

On 1 April 2002 he was appointed by the Singapore Government as the Honorary Business Representative (Sydney) for International Enterprise Singapore and held that position until 31 December 2008.
 

From 2001 Mr Mackinlay took up the role of Chief Executive Officer for the United Overseas Bank Australia and New Zealand following the merger with Overseas Union Bank. He retired from that position in March 2014.

Mr Mackinlay was appointed as a Director on 18 January 2016

 

Mr Grant Archibald is a graduate in Construction Management of RMIT in Melbourne and a Full Member of the Australian Institute of Building since 1974.  

 

After 10 years in Melbourne as a construction company executive, Mr Archibald moved to Sydney and gained extensive experience in the overall delivery of major hotels, large-scale retail and residential projects.  He has since enjoyed a broad and productive career with a record of successful management in most aspects of the property development industry ranging from land acquisition, design and construction, project and development management, marketing, sales and finance.

 

Since 1993, he has acted as CEO and Australian director of a number of major development project companies for investors from Malaysia, Singapore and China, initially in Sydney, then Gold Coast and currently, Melbourne.  In this role, he has been responsible to shareholders and their financiers, for the successful undertaking of substantial property investment commitments.  Mr Archibald’s duties and experience have included most aspects of the related fiduciary duties required for corporate formation, operation, governance and accountability.

 

From 2008 to 2012, Mr Archibald spent 4 years as a senior management executive for a major publicly listed development corporation based in Shanghai, where he was responsible to lead the international consultant team on developing large scale mixed use projects in the Yangtze Delta region.

 

Mr Archibald returned to Australia and established in Melbourne, for Chinese and Australian investors, a residential property development company undertaking a variety of large scale projects.

Mr Archibald was appointed as a Director on 18 January 2016.

 

Ms Kwee Jee Lee is an independent director who has extensive experience in both the public and private sector.  She spent about 20 years in the public sector formulating and overseeing policies in the Ministries of Finance, Defence and the Environment of the Government of Singapore.  Her scope of work included finance and budgetary control, personnel and human resource allocation, public relations and international relations.