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Group Executive

Graeme R Liebelt

BEc (Hons)

Managing Director   

Graeme has held a variety of key positions within the Orica Group since joining in 1989 including Chief Executive of ICI Paints Pacific, General Manager Plastics and Advanced Sciences Groups and Chief Executive Officer Orica Mining Services.

Prior to joining Orica Graeme held a number of senior positions including Marketing Director Repco (Australia), Marketing Director Philip Morris (Australia) and Consultant for Pappas Carter (now Boston Consulting Group).

 

Noel Meehan

BSc (Hons),
CPA

 



 

Executive Director Finance 

Noel joined Orica in April 1999 as Corporate Reporting Manager.  Since then, he has held a number of other senior finance roles within the Group, including CFO for Chemicals and Orica Group Investor Relations Manager. Noel was appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer in May 2005 and Executive Director Finance in September 2005.

John Beevers

BEng (Mining)
M.Bus.


 

Chief Executive Officer, Orica Mining Services

Since joining Orica in 1985, John has held a variety of positions in Mining Services with leadership roles in Technology, Operations and Business.

 

In 2005 he was appointed General Manager, Chemical Services, returning to Mining Services as General Manager Australia/Asia in 2006. John was appointed to his current position in November 2008.

 

Craig Elkington

BBus (Acc)
CPA

Chief Executive Officer, Minova

Craig joined Orica in 1994 initially with corporate accounting responsibilities before moving into several senior finance roles acoss the Group's business platforms. In 1998 he moved to Denver, Colorado to join the North American Mining Services business following the acquisition of ICI's explosives operations.
 
In recent years he has held the CFO positions of the Company's former subsidiary Incitec Ltd, the Chemicals Division and Orica Mining Services. Craig was most recently President, Orica Mining Services, North America, before being appointed to his current position in April 2011.

Greg Witcombe

BSc

Chief Executive Officer, Chemicals

Greg joined Orica in 1977 as a research chemist with the Agricultural Products business before moving into a series of commercial roles in the Chemicals business. 

His senior management positions have included General Manager of Trading (now Chemnet) and Mining Chemicals, General Manager of Polyethylene Group, Manager Director of Incitec Ltd and Managing Director of Incitec Pivot Limited.

Prior to his current appointment, Greg was General Manager People and Community with responsibility for Human Resources, Safety Health and Environment, Corporate Affairs, Six Sigma and Group Procurement.

Andrew Larke

LLB
BComm
Grad Dip (Corporations & Securities Law)

General Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy and Technology

Andrew has more than 18 years experience in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, divestments and corporate advisory.  He joined Orica in 2002 and has been responsible for leading Orica's corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions program, including the merger of Incitec and Pivot and the subsequent divestment of Orica’s shareholding, the acquisitions of Dyno Nobel and Minova and the demerger of DuluxGroup. 

Andrew is also responsible for Orica’s SH&E, procurement, engineering and technology activities.  Prior to joining Orica, Andrew was head of Mergers and Acquisitions at resources company North Limited and prior to that was a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron.

Trisha McEwan
Dip Bus (Admin)

General Manager Human Resources and Communications

Trisha joined Orica in June 2009 and has had a broad HR career spanning a number of industry sectors, mainly within New Zealand and Australia.  Trisha recently spent seven years as Group Director Human Resources with Telecom NZ, helping build people and organisational capability as the business underwent a period of major change.

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