Appointments

WA-based Tersum Energy managing director Rodney Littlejohn has been elected to the board of the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia.

Kathleen Miller has joined West Perth-based accounting firm Faulkner & Co as a senior tax advisory manager.

Law firm Leaker Partners has appointed Katrina Palmer as a solicitor in the commercial group.

WA law firm Squire Sanders has appointed corporate and energy lawyer Clare Pope as of counsel.

Town planning and property consultancy Urbis has appointed Simon Newberry as head of its new economics and market research team in Perth.

Frederic Drouin has been appointed as general manager of newly created IT consultancy ES2.

Dawn Freshwater has been appointed as senior deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Western Australia, from end-March 2014.

Engineering firm RCR Tomlinson has appointed Andrew Phipps as chief financial officer.

James Pearson is now a board director of not-for-profit United Way.

Aged and community care provider Amana Living has appointed Hawaiian chief financial officer Damian Gordon to its board.

The WA Symphony Orchestra has appointed Paul Shannon to its board of directors.

Westoz Investment Company and Ozgrowth non-executive director Jay Hughes has been appointed as non-executive chairman of both boards, following the resignation of Peter Diamond, who has been at the

Long-term ANZ manager Mike O’Neill has been appointed to the board of P&N Bank, formerly known as Police & Nurses.

The board of Australia- and Fiji-focused mineral explorer Conto Resources has undergone a spate of changes, with the resignations of Mike Ralston, Francis DeSouza and Jonathon King making way for t

Lease Equity, the commercial property agency that boasts Brookfield Place and enex100 among its portfolio, has added a new senior portfolio manager with the appointment of David Murray.

AECOM alumnus Mark Pettigrew will become the new managing director for Australia and New Zealand at global consulting and construction firm CH2M Hill.

Major national law firm Clayton Utz has beefed up its Perth industrial relations team with the appointment of Anna Casellas as a new partner.

UWA astrophysics professor Peter Quinn was among 25 Australians elected as new fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) last week.

Gold producer Regis Resources has expanded its board with the appointment of Frank Fergusson as a non-executive director.

Pilbara iron ore producer BC Iron has appointed former BHP executive Peter Wilshaw to its board as a non-executive director.

Just two weeks after joining the board of mining contractor Macmahon Holdings, former WesTrac managing director and CEO Jim Walker has been appointed as a director of nationwide recruitment firm SK

Xstate Resources managing director Gary Jeffery has been appointed to the board of the California-focused Australian Oil Company.

Former WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore has joined the Perth office of law firm Minter Ellison as a consultant.

Melissa Howie has joined Subiaco-based communications and marketing consultancy Magnetize as PR & marketing manager.

Former London-based investment banker Gina Elward has been appointed as Lumina learning specialist at training consultancy Aveling in Perth.

Better Hearing TSH, the new identity of Telethon Speech & Hearing’s adult support program, has appointed Belinda Leksas as manager.

Bass Metals has appointed Hemming+Hart managing partner Rick Anthon as non-executive chairman and Helmsec Global Capital managing director Gavin Solomon as an independent non-executive director, fo

Engineering firm McDowall Affleck has appointed Kerstin Schoen as principal mechanical engineer.

IMX Resources chairman John Nitschke has assumed the role of interim managing director, following the resignation of Neil Meadows after two years in the role.

Paul Starcevich has been appointed as design director in the Perth studio of architecture and design firm Woodhead.

Recruitment consultancy Downing Teal has promoted Mark Nicholas to general manager of the WA office, following John Downing’s move to NSW to head the company’s operations there.

John Langoulant has been appointed as an advisor to Curtin University on major initiatives aligned to the tertiary education provider’s 2013-2017 strategic plan.