Doug Aberle, 52
Managing Director, Western Power, Perth

In April Doug Aberle became managing director of the newly-established Western Australian state utility Western Power. He is responsible for operating, maintaining and expanding the electrical transmission and distribution network in the southwest of the state.
Aberle has overseen extensive changes within the business to prepare it to operate as a stand-alone entity in the new electricity market in WA. This included expediting Western Power's success in securing a $2.3 billion investment in the network to improve reliability of supply.
He will also oversee the allocation of $483 million, allocated in the recent state budget for 2006/2007, to assist the utility to meet growing demand pressure in the network area.
Aberle has a masters in engineering science and bachelors degree with honours in power systems from the University of Western Australia. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Ken MacKenzie, 42
Managing Director and CEO of Amcor, Melbourne

Ken MacKenzie was appointed managing director and CEO of Amcor in 2005, relocating to Australia with his family from Switzerland.
Being CEO of a company with over 27,000 employees and over 200 plants in 36 countries involves a broader focus on how the company functions in a changing global environment. Mac-Kenzie's day-to-day activities include developing short- and long-term strategies and working closely with his senior executive team to ensure their successful implementation. Currently, MacKenzie sees his role as fostering important cultural changes within the company and evaluating and strengthening the group's portfolio of businesses.
MacKenzie received his bachelor of mechanical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, in 1987.

Peter Brecht, 50
Managing Director, Abigroup, Sydney

"We have had a very good 12 months with a record turnover ($1.3 billion for 2005) and record levels of work in hand," Peter Brecht told Engineers Australia magazine.
Abigroup employs about 1520 staff and is active in civil engineering, building, project management, infrastructure development, toll road operation, asset maintenance and specialist property advisory services.
A graduate in civil engineering from Newcastle University, Brecht has been managing director of Abigroup since January 2004.
After working with BHP at its steelworks and with an underground mining construction company, Brecht joined Abignano (which later became Abigroup) in 1983 where he worked as project manager on various high-profile projects including the Windemere Dam and Cullom Deviation on the Hume Highway.
Between 1990 and 1998 he held various management positions with Abigroup including project director for the M2 Motorway and general manager for NSW.
In July 1998 he was appointed managing director of Abigroup Contractors and, after Bilfinger Berger purchased Abigroup in 2004, he was appointed to his current position.

George Maltabarow, 56
Managing Director of EnergyAustralia, Sydney

EnergyAustralia managing director George Maltabarow is currently overseeing the execution of the company's $3 billion, five-year capital works plan. The investment aims to maintain a safe and reliable power supply for the company's 1.5 million customers in Sydney and the Central Coast and Hunter regions.
The capital works plan will remain a focus for Maltabarow for some time, along with the continued roll-out of smart meters that give customers more control over their energy use and costs. In the past year, EnergyAustralia has become NSW's largest employer of apprentices with 420 currently in training.
In 2005, the company received a gold ranking in the Community Responsibility Index survey.
Maltabarow received his engineering degree from the University of Sydney and also holds an economics degree from Macquarie University. He was appointed managing director of EnergyAustralia in 2005, previously serving as general manager network, general manager finance and corporate secretary.

Peter Farrell, 64
Chairman and CEO of ResMed, San Diego

Dr Peter Farrell is chairman and CEO of ResMed Inc, a US and Australian dual-listed public company and a leader in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of devices for the diagnosis, treatment and management of sleep disordered breathing (SDB).
A chemical engineering honours graduate from Sydney University, he also holds a masters degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of Washington in biomedical engineering.
In 1984, after a distinguished academic career in the US and Australia he became both vice-president, Research and Development at Baxter Healthcare (the world's biggest hospital-medical supply company), and director of Baxter's Japanese subsidiary.
In 1986, he formed ResMed to design, manufacture and market, on a global basis, a range of continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP) devices for treating sleep apnea, based on the invention of Professor Colin Sullivan of Sydney University.
ResMed markets SDB products in more than 60 countries.
The company has 1300 employees and revenues of almost $500 million.

Stuart McGill, 63
Senior Vice-President of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, Texas, US

Stuart McGill has been the senior vice-president of Exxon Mobil Corporation since 2004. He holds a bachelor degree and a doctorate in chemical engineering from Sydney University.
He joined Esso Australia in 1969 as an engineer in the production department. He has held various engineering positions in their offices in Melbourne, Longford and Long Island Point, and handled assignments with Exxon Company in the US. After management roles in Australia in corporate planning and production, McGill returned to the US in 1978. He continued working in various management positions in US, Australia and other parts of the world. In 1980, he was appointed managing director of Esso's Kuala Lumpur productions. In 1988, he was appointed vice president of Exxon Company International, holding responsibility for supply, transportation and Middle East producer relations. McGill found himself in the Benelux in 1991, working as chief executive officer of Esso Holding Company Holland.
Returning to the US in the 1990s, McGill held several executive positions culminating in his current role.

Grant Every-Burns, 54
Managing Director, Macquarie
Generation, Sydney

NSW state-owned Macquarie Generation is one of Australia's largest electricity generators.
The utility's power-stations are located in the Hunter Valley and about 40% or 4640MW
of the state's electricity demand can be met by Macquarie Generation's two giants Ð Bayswater and Liddell Power-stations.
Electrical engineer Every-Burns was appointed as chief executive in 1996, following the establishment of Macquarie Generation when the former Pacific Power state utility was dissolved.
He has an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of NSW.
For almost 30 years he worked in six of the seven major NSW powerstations, including senior management positions at Liddell, Bayswater and Eraring, before joining the executive of Pacific Power as assistant general manager.
He has been vice-chair of the National Generators Forum since 1998 and is chair of the National Electricity Market Management Company (NEMMCO) Participant Advisory Committee.

Peter McMorrow, 56
Managing Director of Leighton Contractors, Sydney

Peter McMorrow was appointed managing director of Leighton Contractors in 2004. He has worked overseas as director and general manager in Asia where he was responsible for operations in Hong Kong, China and the Philippines. Recently, he was involved in Leighton's acquisition of mining company Henry Walker Eltin which increased its workforce to 5000 with $3.8 billion worth of work in hand and an annual revenue in excess of $2 billion.
McMorrow studied highway engineering at the Western Australia Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in 1971 and joined Leighton in 1976. In his 30 years of working with large infrastructure projects, he managed profit centres, introduced new technology and led entries into new markets. He has also been involved with safety, training and dispute resolution.
Reflecting on his career, McMorrow cherishes the experience of working on remote sites, both locally and overseas, which he believes helped him develop professionally.

Philip Aiken, 57
Group President Energy, BHP Billiton, Melbourne

Under Philip Aiken's nine-year leadership, the Energy Division of BHP Billiton has moved from being a predominantly Australian-based producer to an international energy company, with operations in Algeria, Pakistan, Trinidad, the UK and the Gulf of Mexico. Aiken will retire from BHP Billiton at the end of this year.
A chemical engineer, Aiken is a former director of BTR and a former managing director of BTR Nylex, following a long career at BOC where his last role was managing director gases Europe.

Denny Mooney, 50
Chair and Managing Director of Holden, Melbourne

Denny Mooney has been the chair and managing director of Holden since 2004.
Mooney received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1978 and a masters degree in national resource strategy from the National Defence University in 1998. He joined General Motors in 1978 as a college graduate in training with Oldsmobile Division in Lansing, Michigan. His subsequent positions with Oldsmobile included detail engineer, project engineer, senior project engineer and business team manager.
In 1992, he became director of N-car planning for the former Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group's Lansing Automotive Division. He became director of projects for future programs in 1993 and was promoted to vehicle chief engineer for small cars in 1996.
In 1998, he became engineering director for the midsize and luxury car group in Flint, Michigan.
In 2001, he became executive director and was placed in charge of vehicle performance in North America. Later that year, he was named executive director of vehicle integration for General Motors North America Engineering.

Trevor Eastwood, 64
Nonexecutive Chairman, Wesfarmers, Perth

"With the continuing resources boom Wes-farmers has done very well in the past 12 months, but there has been some nervousness relating to our coal business because, with very high coal prices, it now makes up a large part of our revenue," Trevor Eastwood told Engineers Australia magazine.
Eastwood holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of WA.
He started his career with the then Westralian Farmers Cooperative in 1963 and held a number of management positions up until his retirement in 1992, including his final eight years as managing director of Wesfarmers.
He was appointed chairman of Westfarmers in 2002.
Since its public listing in 1984 Wesfarmers' assets have grown from $400 million to more than $7 billion and it has diversified into a conglomerate employing 30,000 people.

Ken Moss, 60
Nonexecutive Chair of Boral, Sydney

Ken Moss is a non-executive chair of Boral. In this role, his duties include representing shareholders' interests, deciding how much authority is delegated to management, increasing the company's capital and developing its strategic direction. He is also chair of the Centennial Coal Company, director and chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee for GPT Management Holdings, director of Adsteam Marine Limited and a board member of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. He is a director of the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and a member of the Board of Governors for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
Moss received a bachelor of mechanical engineering from the University of Newcastle in 1968.

Kirby Adams, 50
Managing Director and CEO of Bluescope Steel, Melbourne

Industrial engineer Kirby Adams was appointed managing director and chief executive officer of Blue- Scope Steel in 2002.
Bluescope Steel's revenue was about $8 billion in the 2005 calendar year, up almost $1 billion on the year before.
The firm has almost 18,000 employees, less than half of whom (8300) are located in Australia. The rest of the labour force is spread between North America, South East Asia, China, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Adams was appointed to Bluescope's board in May 2002, having been chief executive officer of the former BHP Steel since March 2000.
He joined BHP in 1995 and has held the positions of president BHP Services, group general manager and chief executive officer BHP Service Companies, and corporate general manager Planning and Development.

Kevin Murray, 56
Managing Director of Transgrid, Sydney

After 37 years experience in the electricity transmission business, Kevin Murray was appointed managing director of TransGrid this year. In his current role, he has focused on improving responsiveness to customer and stakeholder requirements. He has also been working to establish a clear framework and accountabilities to deliver a $1.2 billion five-year capital program. This capital program will continue the company's emphasis on asset replacement, focusing on ageing substations, transmission lines and power transformers.
Murray received his bachelor of electrical engineering from the University of NSW in 1973. Before his current position, he worked for the Electricity Commission of NSW and Pacific Power. He also served as TransGrid's network manager for 10 years. He was responsible for developing and implementing an asset management model which has delivered 40% efficiency improvements and sustained reliability, safety and environmental performance.
When not doing engineering, Murray enjoys golf, soccer, travelling and spending time with his family.

Leigh Clifford, 58
Chief Executive, Rio Tinto Ltd, London

ÒNotwithstanding our record levels of investment and return of capital to shareholders, we are generating cash that is surplus to our needs, enabling us to maintain a strong balance sheet and retain our capacity to take advantage of opportunities as they arise,Ó Leigh Clifford told shareholders recently. He said Rio Tinto's strategy is to focus on long life, low cost assets which can still deliver good returns when markets are weak.
Rio Tinto is a diversified mining company, with more than 30,000 staff and a profit of US$8.3 billion holding a portfolio of investments in aluminium, copper, diamonds, gold, coal, iron ore and industrial minerals.
It has operations spanning six continents and is the third largest mining company in the world.
Originally from South Australia, Clifford graduated from the University of Melbourne with a bachelor of engineering in mining and a masters in engineering science.
His work and travel consume a lot of time, but he still manages to fit in some golf and cycling.

Ken Scott-MacKenzie, 56
CEO of Bilfinger Berger, Sydney

Ken Scott-MacKenzie is the chief executive officer of Bilfinger Berger Australia, the holding company for Abigroup and Baulderstone Hornibrook. The Bilfinger Group has more than 50,000 staff worldwide with an annual turnover of over $10 billion.
Scott-MacKenzie is also a director of Abigroup Contractors and Tollaust.
Scott-Mackenzie is a lawyer and engineer. He received his bachelor of engineering (mining) from Melbourne University in 1977. He completed a diploma of law in 1984 and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
He has worked in the construction industry in Australia and overseas for some 29 years. In 2004, he worked as director and chief executive officer of Abigroup. Before then, he was involved in the structuring and negotiation of privately funded infrastructure. He was involved in securing the $560 million M2 motorway, $280 million Sydney SuperDome and the $2.3 billion WestLink M7 projects.
He also worked as a senior partner of Interlease Capital and general manager of mining for Roberts Construction.

Chris Denney, 56
CEO, Downer Engineering, Sydney

A civil engineering graduate from Syd-ney University, Chris Denney has more than 30 years ex-perience in construction engineering and contracting services in Australia and New Zealand.
He became CEO of Downer Engineering in 1998 and has led the development of the division from a civil engineering and building construction focused business to one offering specialist skills in food processing and in contracting services for the telecommunications, electrical, industrial, resources and oil and gas industries.
Downer Engineering, headquartered in Sydney, employs more than 6000 staff.
Its most recent annual turnover figure was about $1.4 billion.
The firm, a division of the publicly-listed Downer EDI, focuses on process engineering, telecommunications, the power industry and electrical and mechanical contracting services. Its key markets are in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Christopher Roberts, 53
President and CEO of Cochlear, Sydney

Chris Roberts has been president and CEO of Cochlear since 2004. The company develops implantable hearing technology. Roberts has rebuilt the senior management team, redirected research and development and broadened direct distribution through acquisitions in Japan and Europe. He also led a strategic acquisition into implantable bone conduction technology.
Roberts graduated with honours in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales in 1975. Since then, he has worked in the medical device industry.
From 1992 to 2004, he was director and executive vice-president of ResMed, where he was responsible for 450 people in Europe and the Asia Pacific and a turnover of US$180 million. He remains a nonexecutive director of the ResMed board.
Outside of work, Roberts is chairman of Research Australia, a not-for-profit organisation of over 180 entities promoting health and medical research as a national priority. He believes his engineering education contributed to his success: "I have spent 30 years in the medical device area, and chemical engineering was a most useful base, indeed the older I get the more I realise how my engineering training, systems thinking for example, shaped my approach to things, particularly my approach to business."

David Clarke, 62
Managing director and CEO of Rinker Group, Florida

David Clarke has spent his entire career in the heavy building materials industry and he has worked extensively in the US, Australia and South-east Asia.
He graduated as a civil engineer from the West Australia Institute of Technology in 1966 and joined the Readymix Group, then 50% owned by the sugar and construction materials firm CSR.
Clarke had been a director of Rinker Materials since 1987, CEO of Rinker Materials since 1992 and an executive director of CSR from 1996 to 2003.
He joined the Rinker board early in 2003, the same year the Rinker Group was established following the demerger of the heavy building materials business of CSR.
Rinker is one of the world's top 10 construction materials companies and supplies aggregate, cement, concrete block, asphalt, concrete pipe and other construction materials.
The firm's net profit after tax was more than US$740 million for the year ended in March 2006.
The group has more than 14,000 employees in over 770 sites in the US, Australia and China.
About 85% of the earnings comes from Rinker Materials in the US.

Wayne Osborn, 54
Managing Director of Alcoa World Alumina Australia, Perth

Wayne Osborn is the managing director of the Australian operations of Alcoa which exports $2.8 billion of product annually. He leads an integrated business of bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting in Victoria and Western Australia, providing 7500 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs. The company currently holds over $2 billion of projects, including the $580 million major upgrade of Alcoa's Pinjarra alumina refinery in Western Australia.
Osborn received his degree in electrical engineering (electronics) from the Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, in 1972. He also has an MBA from Deakin University. He began working in the iron ore industry and joined Alcoa in 1979 at the company's Point Henry smelter in Victoria.
Osborn supports workplace diversity and has pursued ways to attract more women into the resources sector. Within Alcoa, there has been a rise in the number of female managers from six women 10 years ago to 47 this year.
When not engineering, Osborn enjoys sailing, scuba diving and underwater wildlife photography.
Last year, he dived with sperm whales in the Azores and photographed Australian sea lions in the Abrolhos Islands. His underwater interests have led to his appointment as a fellow international of the Explorer's Club in New York.
He is also vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Western Australia and a chair and board member of the Australia Business Arts Foundation, West Australian Chapter.

Jim Gill, 59
CEO of Water Corporation, Perth

Dr Jim Gill is chief executive officer of Western Australia's Water Corporation. He has been the executive in charge of the statewide utility since it was corpo-ratised in 1996. In that time he has overseen a major water and wastewater capital development program that is now running at more than $600 million a year and this is expected to continue into the future. At the same time revenue has increased to more than $1 billion a year.
For the past five years Gill has led the Water Corporation's source development. Streamflow from catchments into dams providing 1.6 million people with their drinking water supplies has dropped by two thirds.
This has presented formidable engineering challenges and culminated in 2004 in the Water Corporation recommending to the WA government that Australia's first major seawater desalination plant be built in Perth.
Gill has an engineering degree from the University of Western Australia, a PhD from Cambridge and a MBA from Harvard.

Carlo Salteri, 85
Nonexecutive Chair of Tenix Group, Sydney

Carlo Salteri chose the engineering profession to follow his grandfather, who was an engineer. ÒI have never regretted it,Ó
he said. He is a nonexecutive chair of the Tenix Group. The company earns almost $1 billion annually and employs over 3000 people. It is currently delivering Anzac frigates for the Australian and New Zealand navies as a defence and technology contractor.
Salteri was one of the founding shareholders of the Transfield Group and was its joint managing director to 1989 and joint chairman until the formation of the Tenix Group in 1997. Born in Italy in 1920, he gained a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Milan in 1946.
He came to Australia in 1951 to work on a project for an Italian company building a 132KV powerline from Tallawarra power-station to Homebush substation. He emi-grated to Australia with his family the
same year.
Salteri then worked on various projects including a hydroelectric powerstation in Cairns, oil and gas platforms in the Bass Strait, a 15km jetty for the Bundaberg bulk sugar terminal and the Mt Newman iron ore mine in Western Australia.
In 1999, the Italian government awarded him the title of Grande Ufficiale, Italy's second-highest honour.

Albert Goller, 55
Chairman and Managing Director of Siemens Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne

Albert Goller commenced his career as an electronics engineer with Siemens in Germany in 1973.
He has held a number of senior executive positions throughout the world including president and CEO of Siemens Canada in Toronto and head of the corporate office for e-business in Munich, Germany.
Goller was appointed as chairman and managing director of Siemens in Australia and New Zealand in 2002.
In 2005, Siemens in Australia and New Zealand earned $1.735 billion in sales and had a regional workforce of 3360.
The activities undertaken by the company in this region include power, communications, automation, transportation, healthcare and construction.
Goller's major achievement has been leading the Siemens Australia and NZ business in 2005 to what has been the company's most successful and profitable year in its history.
Goller has a masters degree in information and telecommunications from Paderborn University in Germany.

Peter Watson, 49
Managing Director and CEO of Transfield Services, Sydney

Peter Watson, a civil engineer from Caulfield Institute of Technology, has been the managing director of Transfield Services since June 2002. Tran-sfield Services is a provider of operations, maintenance and asset management services with activities throughout Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Gulf Region.
The company has more than 130 contracts across 11 industries, including major national and international companies as well as all levels of government.
Under Watson's leadership the company has become a significant investor in infrastructure, with the company owning 100% of Collinsville, Townsville and Kemerton powerstations; 50% of the Macarthur and Yan Yean water treatment plants; and 30% of the Kwinana Powerstation.
Today Watson oversees a company with more than 14,000 employees with a turnover approaching $2 billion.
A highlight in his job in the past year was the transition of the company from an Australian to a global service provider.
A major challenge was Òthe successful adoption of company's brand promise "Partners for Change' across many new and culturally diverse employees", he said.
Watson sits on the Strategic Advisory Panel for Sydney University's Project Management Graduate Program; and is a member of the Australian Industry Group Defence Council's National Executive, a founding sponsor of the Australian Sustainable Industry Research Centre, and a member of the Save the Children Australian Business Alliance Council.

Raymond Horsburgh, 63
CEO of Smorgon Steel Group, Melbourne

Since becoming CEO of Smorgon Steel in 1998, Raymond Hors-burgh has supervised an annual growth in revenue from $750 million to $3.5 billion. The company has operations in nine countries, with a total of 5000 employees.
Horsburgh has been involved in takeovers of ANI, Metalcorp and Email.
Following these takeovers, divestment of over 12 businesses valued at $1.5 billion was conducted. He also supervised acquisitions of Hartwell, GSA, ITI and several smaller companies.
Horsburgh received training as an engineering cadet with ACI and went on to complete a chemical engineering degree.

Don Voelte, 53
Managing Director of Woodside
Petroleum, Perth

Don Voelte has been the managing director of Woodside Petroleum since 2004. A civil engineer from the University of Nebraska, he is the first American to hold that position.
Woodside is Aust-ralia's largest publicly listed oil and gas exploration and production company. With a staff of 3200 it produces nearly 60 million barrels of oil equivalent a year, generating sales revenue of $2.7 billion last year. Outside Australia the company has production facilities in Africa and the US.
In a presentation to US investors last month, Voelte forecast significant increases in LNG production over the next 10 years. He said by 2015 the company could have an operated LNG capacity of 45Mt/a, up from about 12Mt/a at present, making it the second largest LNG supplier after Shell, excluding national oil companies.
The fifth LNG processing train is currently under construction at Karratha, expected to be operational by the end of 2008.
Outside his job, Voelte and his wife Nancy have a charitable foundation focused on education. The have endowed the Donald Voelte and Nancy Keegan Engineering Chair and the Donald Voelte Medical Chair at the University of Nebraska.

David Hudson, 60
Managing Director of Barclay Mowlem, Sydney

David Hudson has been managing director of Barclay Mowlem since 1990. Barclay Mowlem is a stand-alone business of Carillion and has a market capitalisation of $2.25 billion within the global $10 billion parent construction and services company. Barclay Mowlem's 2000 staff operate in Australia, Oceania and Asia.
Hudson has taken a company and industry leadership role in the sponsorship of alliance and relationship contracting. The company has now undertaken 11 alliance-type projects for a wide range of private and public clients.
Hudson is vice-president and a founding director of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA) and chair of the ACA Contracts and Commercial Taskforce.
Since 1996 he has also been a member of the Austrade Infrastructure Advisory Board, and the University of Technology Sydney's Faculty of Engineering Industry Advisory Network.
Prior to emigrating to Australia from South Africa in 1987, Hudson spent 19 years with the Murray & Roberts Group. He holds an honours degree in civil engineering from Leeds University, UK.
He has also completed senior executive courses and programs from business schools in Stanford and Manchester.
Hudson is a keen sailor, competing each weekend in the Sydney One Design Series at Pittwater, and annually in the Sydney to Coffs Harbour race.

Mike Quigley, 53
President and Chief Operating Officer of Alcatel, Paris

Mike Quigley began his career in 1971 in Alcatel Australia, (ITT Australia at that time), as part of his scholarship. He first spent 10 years in research and development. In the 1980s, he moved into senior positions in manufacturing and quality and then into senior roles in marketing and sales.
In 2003, he was appointed president of the fixed communications activities, and in 2005, he took over his current position.
Quigley graduated from the University of New South Wales with a degree in physics and mathematics and a degree in electrical engineering.

Wal King, 61
CEO of Leighton Holdings, Sydney

Wal King was appo-inted CEO of Leig-hton Holdings in February 1987 after almost 20 years with the Leighton Group. He is also a director of all major operating subsidiaries.
Leighton Holdings expects its annual net profit to rise around 20% this financial year. Leighton's unaudited total revenues stood at $7.14 billion in the nine months to March. Work in hand stood at a record $16.1 billion at the end of March. The company employs over 27,000 people across Australia and Asia.
King participates in various business groups and is president of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA). ACA member companies collectively employ over 49,000 people in their Australian and international operations.
King was the 2001 winner of the ICAA/Zurich Business Leader of the Year Award. He was also awarded the Institution of Engineers Australia's highest individual award in 2001, the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal. In June 2004, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.
With a bachelor of engineering and master of engineering science from the University of NSW, King was conferred an honorary doctorate of science by the same university in October 2002 for his distinguished eminence in the field of construction engineering.

Alan Watkins, 40
Managing Director of Industrial & Special Products, BOC South Pacific, Sydney

Alan Watkins became managing director of the Industrial & Special Products division of BOC South Pacific earlier this year. He came from the BOC Group in Britain.
The Industrial and Special Products division has almost 2000 staff and last year generated about $1 billion in revenue. It serves the industrial, scientific, hospitality, medical, refrigeration, airconditioning and chemical industries.
BOC recently received a take-over bid from Linde and approval is currently being sought from the regulatory authorities in Europe and the US.
On the basis that the take-over proceeds, Watkins' major challenge will be Òto see the smooth transition of our very successful business in the South Pacific to the new ownersÓ, he said.
Watkins is also chairman of Elgas, one of Australia's major LPG suppliers with a turnover of $550 million.
An electrical engineer from Oxford University, he spent most of his career with BOC and ICI in Britain, the Netherlands and France.

Grant King, 51
Managing Director of Origin Energy, Sydney

Grant King was appointed to his present position in 2000 following the demerger from Boral Limited. Origin Energy has a market capitalisation of over $5 billion and is one of the top 50 companies on the ASX. It has over 3300 employees and supplies natural gas, electricity and LP gas to over 2.6 million business and retail customers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.
Prior to his current position, King was managing director of Boral's energy group since 1994.
A civil engineer from the University of NSW and with a masters in management from Wollongong University, King has extensive experience in the energy industry.
He holds a number of directorships including chair of Contact Energy.
He is also chair of Energy Supply Association of Australia Limited (ESAA) and a councillor of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association.

Trevor Worthington, 42
Vice-President of Product Development at Ford Australia, Melbourne

Trevor Worthington is the highest ranking professional engineer at Ford Australia. An aeronautical engineer from Royal Melbou-rne Institute of Techn-ology, he is the vice-president of product development answe-ring to Ford Australia president Tom Gorman and director of Ford Asia Pacific Product Development John Shelton.
The company's motor vehicle development capabilities have recently received a major boost with the announcement that more than $1.8 billion will be spent over the next decade on new projects for the Australian and international markets.
Worthington's product development team received high praise from Ford chairman Bill Ford, when he announced the new program, saying that "the skills and technologies available in the Australian marketplace are some of the best in our global organisation".
Worthington's team, consisting of more than 1200 staff, will have a lead design and engineering responsibility for a new light commercial vehicle with both right- and left-hand drive, to be sold in more than 80 countries. It will also further develop export opportunities for the successful Falcon and Territory vehicles.
These projects build on the successful launch of the Fiesta Sedan for the Indian market, introduced early this year.

Richard Leupen, 52
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of United Group, Sydney

With a successful year behind him, Leupen continues in striving to build United Group to a significant Australia/Asia service group employing more than 1000 engineers and 10,000 staff. United Group recorded revenue results up 17% to $1.3 billion last financial year.
Leupen is also chair of United Group's executive committee and of the company's operating subsidiaries. He has 30 years experience in engineering and construction and has worked for international and Australian engineering companies including GHD. He has also been president, chief executive officer and executive chair of Kaiser Engineers.
A highlight in his career was project managing a 2x24MVA silicon smelter at the age of 33.
Leupen said that integrity, dependability and commercial as well as technical skills were all keys to his success. He is a mechanical engineering graduate from Wollongong University.

Ralph Waters, 57
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Fletcher Building, Auckland, New Zealand

A mechanical engineer from RMIT in Melbourne, Ralph Waters has been CEO of New Zealand company Fle-tcher Building since 2001.
During his five years at the helm the company's earnings have grown about 500%. This year it expects to achieve revenue of nearly NZ$5.6 billion.
Fletcher Building has four divisions Ð Building Products, Infrastructure, Distribution, and Laminates & Panels Ð and employs about 8000 people in New Zealand, 4400 in Australia, 1200 in the South Pacific and 700 in North and South America.
Waters will retire from his position on 31 August, but will remain a director on the Fletcher Building board, along with his directorship of Fisher & Paykel Appliances.
He intends to return to his home base in Sydney.
His successor, Jonathan Ling, is also an Australian and a mechanical engineer.

Bob Kirkby, 59
Executive President of BHP Billiton, Melbourne

Bob Kirkby is currently an executive president of BHP Billiton. He is also a member of the Office of the Chief Executive of BHP Billiton and chair of its Executive Committee. He has responsibility for the Energy Coal Business Unit which is a significant supplier to the electricity and generation industry. He will retire at the end of this year.
Prior to his current position, which he assumed two months ago, he was responsible for the Carbon Steel Materials Customer Sector Group. The Carbon Steel Materials Group generated EBIT of $US2.2 billion for the six months to December 2005.
Following graduation in civil engineering from James Cook University (Townsville) in 1970 he joined MIM as a project construction engineer. On completion of the construction activities and a period in mining research, he moved into the mining area to be able to obtain his mine manager's certificate.

Douglas Rathbone, 60
Managing Director and CEO of Nufarm, Melbourne

Doug Rathbone has led Nufarm for more than two decades developing the company into one of the world's leading crop protection manufacturers.
With operations in Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Asia and the Americas, Nufarm has a staff of nearly 2500, and last year generated sales revenue of nearly $1.7 billion.
Nufarm's latest acquisitions of two canola seed businesses earlier this year expanded the company's seed operations which, according to Rathbone, is a "logical extension" of the company's crop protection operations.
The past year saw Nufarm develop a much stronger presence in South America, via its 50% owned Agripec operations in Brazil and an acquisition in Colombia. South America is an increasingly important region for agriculture and Rathbone believes the mid- to long-term growth opportunities are substantial. This is balanced against an increased degree of volatility associated with earnings from Nufarm's South American businesses, due to regional issues such as currency movement and local economic conditions.
Rathbone is a chemical engineer from Melbourne University.
He has a number of interests outside Nufarm. He is president of the Children's Cancer Centre Foundation at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, of which Nufarm is a key supporter, and he also maintains a strong interest in the family wine business.

Bob Johnston, 45
Managing Director of Alcoa World Alumina Australia, Perth- WRONG

An electrical engineer and graduate of James Cook University at Townsville, Bob John-ston has been with Lend Lease since 1987.
In 2005 he was appointed CEO of Construction, Project Ma-nagement and PFI businesses and is now based in London, the global headquarters of Bovis Lend Lease. The company employs over 7500 people and operates in 30 countries around the world, with a presence in Europe, the US and Australia.
Prior to taking up the global CEO position, Johnston was CEO of Bovis Lend Lease Asia Pacific. In this role he was responsible for the firm's project management, design and construction services across the Asia Pacific region.
Johnston is married and has three children who keep him busy in his spare time. Annual family ski trips are his favourite hobby along with watching his children's sporting events on weekends.

Julian Segal, 51
Managing Director and CEO, Incitec Pivot, Melbourne

A chemical engineer, Julian Segal has been managing director of listed fertiliser supplier Incitec Pivot since June last year. In the past 12 months he has been overseeing a number of major changes.
When he took over his job, coming from a senior position with Orica, the company was undergoing a restructuring program to cut costs. Once that program began bearing fruit, he started looking for growth opportunities. As a result the company last month announced the purchase of Southern Cross Fertilisers, Australia's only producer of ammonium phosphate fertilisers, from BHP Billiton.
Last month also saw Orica, which was the major shareholder at 70% of shares, sell the bulk of its shareholding in Incitec Pivot. With shareholders' approval, Incitec Pivot will buy back Orica's remaining 13.5% holding in July.
Incitec Pivot believes the broadened shareholder base will give it more flexibility to respond quickly to new business opportunities.
Incitec Pivot supplies more than 50% of Australia's fertiliser needs, last year generating sales revenue of about $1 billion.
A major achievement for Segal in his first 12 months in the job has been turning the business around to the point where it announced a 60% increase in underlying profit for the first half of the company's financial year.
Segal graduated from the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa.
In his leisure time he likes running. However, as he recently broke his leg, for the next few months he will be confined to listening to music.

Greg Lewin, 53
President of Shell Global Solutions International, The Hague, Netherlands

Chemical engineer Greg Lewin is the president of Shell Global Solutions International, a division of Royal Dutch Shell that provides business and operational consul-tancy, catalysts, technical services and research and development expertise to the energy and processing industries worldwide. He was appointed to his current role in 2003.
Shell Global Solutions has over 4500 staff, mainly consisting of chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineers. In the past year Lewin said Global Solutions has supported Shell's business activities in many areas including downstream manufacturing, gas and LNG. Lewin is proud that Shell Global Solutions technology is to be provided in an integrated (coal) gasification combined cycle powerstation with carbon dioxide sequestration in Stanwell, Australia.
A graduate from Melbourne University, Lewin took over the presidency of the Institution of Chemical Engineers last month. His aim is to encourage multidisciplinary working between scientists and engineers to find solutions for society's needs, and to further encourage young people to take up chemical engineering.
Lewin is the third Australian leading the UK-based institution following Prof Rolf Prince in 1986 and Dr Robin Batterham
in 2004.

Else Shepherd, 62
Chair of Powerlink Queensland, Brisbane

Else Shepherd is one of only few female engineers, if not the only one, heading a large Australian corporation. She has been chair of Powerlink Queensland since 1994. The Queensland government corporation owns, develops, operates and maintains the state's high-voltage electricity transmission network.
The $3.5 billion network extends 1700km from north of Cairns to the NSW border. The company's capital program for the next five years is in the order of $500 million per annum.
Shepherd said a major challenge for Powerlink is delivering transmission services fast enough to match Queensland's rapid growth.
Shepherd has also created and led two high-tech development companies – Mosaic Information Technology and Microwave & Materials Designs. The first develops telecommunications products using digital signal processing and the second develops microwave products using high-temperature superconducting materials.
Shepherd said a highlight for Microwave & Materials Designs in the past year was appointing a new CEO, attracting investment and winning an R&D Start grant.
Shepherd is an electrical engineer from the University of Queensland. She also has a graduate diploma in music from the Queensland Conservatorium. Music is one of her main activities outside work. A trained pianist and conductor, she founded and has directed Diversions, a Brisbane community choir, for 20 years.

Andrew Liveris, 51
President, CEO and Chairman of The Dow Chemical Company, Michigan

The Dow Chemical Company, over which Andrew Liveris presides, is a $46 billion global chemical and plastics manufacturer based in Midland, Michigan.
Liveris has been with Dow since leaving university in 1976. His 30-year career has spanned manufacturing, sales, marketing, new business development and management. He has spent the bulk of his career in Asia, where he was general manager for the company's operations in Thailand, and later head of all Asia-Pacific operations.
He has been a member of Dow's board since February 2004 and was elected as chairman last April.
Liveris also serves on the board of Citigroup, the world's leading financial services company. He is an officer of the American Chemistry Council, the industry's trade association, and is a member of many industrial and business associations including the G100 and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Liveris received first class honours in chemical engineering from the University of Queensland and was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in science by his alma mater, as well as being named Alumnus of the Year for 2005.

Roger Trundle, 50
Managing Director of Thiess, Brisbane

Civil engineer Roger Trundle was appointed managing director of Thiess in November 2000.
Under Trundle's leadership the company has experienced significant growth with turnover this year expected to reach $4.5billion with over 16,000 direct employees.
Current major projects include EastLink in Victoria, Lane Cove Tunnel and Epping-Chatswood Rail Line in New South Wales and SEQIP Rail Alliance in Queensland.
The company is exploring further options to expand the business including recently establishing operations in India.
He said the continued high performance and growth of Thiess has been a major highlight in his job in the past year. A major challenge on the other hand has been ensuring that the company has sufficient qualified and motivated staff to meet its needs. "Comprehensive recruitment, training and development, and retention initiatives have been further enhanced to help cater for our needs," he said.
Trundle has a bachelor of engineering (civil) from the University of Queensland and has completed postgraduate management studies at the Queensland University of Technology and Harvard University.

Robert Logan, 58
CEO of Roche Mining, Brisbane

Robert Logan is the CEO of Roche Mining. In the past year, he has been involved in growing and diversifying the company. Significant developments include the recent acquisition of Snowden, a multidisciplined resource sector consultancy, and Otraco International, a company offering tyre management technology. Logan said the company will use the technology for both internal and external growth and to develop its mining, process engineering and blasting services. He said the company has also been expanding its international activities through coal and mineral operations in China, India, South America and Africa.
Logan received his bachelor of civil engineering from Melbourne University in 1972, and a master of engineering science in 1975.
Logan is a board member of the Minerals Council of Australia and the Australian Mines & Metals Association. Through these activities, he has engaged his company in improving the mining industry's safety and health performance, in training initiatives to address the industry's skills shortage, and in the further development of indigenous partnerships.

Engineers Australia Magazine, Volume 78 No 6, June 2006.

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