Amanda Lacaze is a credentialed manager who brings more than 25 years of senior operational experience to Lynas, including as chief executive of Commander Communications, executive chair of Orion Telecommunications, and chief executive of AOL 7. Prior to that, Ms Lacaze was managing director of marketing at Telstra and held various business management roles at ICI Australia (now Orica and Incitec Pivot). Ms Lacaze's early experience was in consumer goods with Nestle.
Ms Lacaze is a non-executive director of ING Bank Australia and McPherson's Ltd, and is on the advisory board of CMOS research group at UTS.
She is a member of Chief Executive Women and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.