Board of Directors
Hon. Dr David Hamill AM
Chairperson – Non-Executive Director
Dr Hamill was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 7 August 2020 and as Chair of the Board on 20 October 2020. Dr Hamill has served as a director on the boards of public and private companies, statutory authorities and not for profit and charitable organisations and his experience spans various sectors including transport, health, utilities and education. Dr Hamill was Treasurer of Queensland (1998-2001), Minister for Education (1995-1996), Minister for Transport and Minister Assisting the Premier on Economic and Trade Development (1989-1995) and served as the Member for Ipswich in the Queensland Parliament (1983-2001).
Dr Hamill is an independent director of both Brookfield Business Partners LP and Brookfield Business Corporation. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the University of Queensland and attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar for his Master of Arts degree. Dr Hamill was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland.
Michael Riches
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mr Riches is an experienced executive with extensive infrastructure, regulatory and operational experience across multiple industries throughout Australia. Before DBI, Mr Riches was the Chief Executive Officer at Axicom, the owner of more than 2,000 mobile phone towers across Australia, where he led a customer transformation program that secured longer term contracts with key customers, ultimately positioning the business for a successful sale to an Australian Super and Singtel owned tower company. Prior to Axicom, Mr Riches was Group Executive, Network at Aurizon Holdings Limited for three years where he was the architect of, and responsible for the negotiation with customers to execute, the UT5 regulatory reform that delivered substantial benefits to the Queensland coal industry. Mr Riches’ corporate life began at Alinta Energy where over almost six years he held a number of senior executive roles. From 1993 to 2010 Mr Riches was a lawyer in private practice, specialising in the financing of mergers and acquisitions and major infrastructure projects, and was a partner of Minter Ellison and Clayton Utz from 2000. Mr Riches holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Bronwyn Morris
Non-Executive Director
Ms Morris was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 30 October 2020. Ms Morris is a chartered accountant and a former partner of KPMG. She has over 25 years’ experience on the boards of entities in the publicly listed, unlisted, government and not for profit sectors. Ms Morris has considerable experience with regulated organisations across numerous industry sectors including infrastructure, utilities and financial services. Ms Morris is currently chair of RACQ Foundation and a director of National Intermodal Corporation and Data#3 Limited.
Ms Morris has a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting from the University of Queensland and is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.
Eileen Doyle
Non-Executive Director
Dr Doyle was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 30 October 2020. Dr Doyle has more than 30 years of experience in innovation in large companies, small to medium sized enterprises and start ups. Dr Doyle has been a director of Boral Ltd, GPT Ltd, OneSteel Ltd, Oil Search Ltd and Bradken Ltd. Dr Doyle is the past Chair of Port Waratah Coal Services and Deputy Chair of CSIRO. Dr Doyle is presently a director of Kinetic Tco Pty Ltd, SWOOP Analytics Pty Ltd, Air Services Australia and NextDC Ltd.
Dr Doyle holds a PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Newcastle. Dr Doyle was Australia’s first Fulbright Scholar in Business Management for which she attended Columbia University. Dr Doyle is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.