Hydro Tasmania Board Members

Dr David Crean - Chair Dr David Crean was appointed Chair of Hydro Tasmania in September 2004. Dr Crean was Treasure of the State of Tasmania from August 1998 to his retirement from the position in February 2004. He was also Minister for Employement from July 2002 to February 2004. He was a member for Buckingham in the Legislative Council from 1992 to February 1999, and then for Elwick until May 2004. From 1989-1992 he was the member for Denison in the House of Assembly. From 1993-98 he held the Shadow Portfolios of State Development, Public Sector Management, Finance and Treasury. Prior to that Dr Creanwas in private medical practice for 10 years. He graduated from Monash University in 1976 wth a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.

Roy Adair was appointed as CEO and to the Board of Hydro Tasmania on 21 June 2010.  Prior to his appointment he had been Chief Executive of Senoko Power, Singapore’s largest electricity generator and retailer for six years and led the transformation of the business.  A graduate economist and qualified accountant, he has extensive international experience of running electricity businesses in merchant risk environments. A former Director with Coopers & Lybrand, he was actively involved in the liberalisation of the UK electricity supply industry from where he joined PowerGen, one of the two large UK thermal generators.   He occupied a number of senior management positions with PowerGen, including Managing Director, PowerGen Renewables, and became Chief Executive of Yallourn Energy in 1996 following the successful acquisition of this Australian generation company by the PowerGen-led consortium. At Yallourn he figured prominently in the early development of the National Electricity Market in Australia and was founding Chairman of the National Generators Forum.  Prior to joining Senoko, Roy was also Chief Operating Officer of Pacific Hydro. A former Director of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia, he is currently a Director of Roaring 40s, Chairman of Momentum Energy Pty Ltd and a Director of the Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies Pty Ltd.

Saul Eslake - Director Mr Eslake was appointed to the Hydro Tasmania Board on 19 March 2008. Mr Eslake is Program Director (part-time) at Grattan Institute, a Director of Corinna Economic Advisory Pty Ltd and a consultant/freelance economist. He was previously Chief Economist of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) for 14 years to July 2009. He is Chair of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board and a non-executive Director of the University of Tasmania Foundation, as well as a member of the Commonwealth Government's National Housing Supply Council, National Long Term Tourism Strategy Steering Committee, and Tourism Forecasting Committee. He holds an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania and a post-graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, and has completed the Senior Executive Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York. Mr Eslake is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Sally Farrier - Director Ms Farrier was appointed to the Board on 15 December 2004. She is a director of Farrier Swier Consulting and has extensive management consulting experience, including in the Victorian electricity and gas reform process. She has also specialised in the energy sector for consulting company Ernst Young in both New Zealand and Australia, has a Bachelor of Engineering, a Masters in Business Administration, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment Analysis. Ms Farrier is a member of the Securities Institute and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Janine Healy - Director Ms Healey, was appointed to the Board on 9 September 2002. Currently a Chartered Accountant with Ruddicks (Launceston, Tasmania), Ms Healey has wide-ranging commercial experience, particularly in the areas of commercial taxation advice, business structures, and planning and cash flow management. Ms Healey has a strong history of community and commercial involvement in Tasmania which includes serving as a member of the University of Tasmania Council Audit and Finance Committee (including a term as Chair), Treasurer of the Launceston Chamber of Commerce, Director of the Inveresk Railyard Development Authority (including Chair of the Audit Committee), Director of the Female Factory Historic Site Ltd in Hobart and Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of the Port of Launceston Pty Ltd. She was appointed as a Board member of the Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre Pty Ltd (a joint venture between the Government of Tasmania and the University of Tasmania) during December 2006. Her professional memberships include Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia, spending two years as Chairman of the Tasmanian Division, and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Chloe Munro - Director Ms Munro was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2010. Ms Munro is the non-executive chairman of AquaSure, the consortium building Victoria's desalination plant and is also a member of the National Water Commission. Until July 2009 she was an executive director at Telstra, holding leadership positions in human resources, business operations, information technology, public policy and communications and customer service. Previously Ms Munro served in the Victorian public sector between September 1996 and February 2004, and held the positions of Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and of the Department of Primary Industries.  Previously she was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Treasury and Finance. She holds Master’s degrees in mathematics and philosophy from Cambridge University and in business administration from Westminster University. She was awarded a Centenary Medal for outstanding contribution to public administration in 2001.

Roy Adair was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 21 June 2010. Vince Hawksworth left Hydro Tasmania on 16 April 2010.

Michael Cavell retired as a Director on 5 November 2009.