Board
As a stapled entity, the Boards collectively refers to the Babcock & Brown Communities Limited (BBCL) Board and the Babcock & Brown Communities Investor Services Limited (BBCIS) Board as Responsible Entity of Babcock & Brown Communities Trust (BBCT).
The Boards (collectively the BBCL board and BBCIS Board) will comprise the following members:
Professor Judith Sloan
Chairman (Non-Executive)
Professor Sloan is a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission, Commissioner of the Australian Fair Pay Commission and a Director of Santos Limited and is also a member of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. She has held a number of academic appointments, including Professor of Labour Studies and Director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at the Flinders University of South Australia. Her previous appointments include Chair of SGIC Limited, Deputy Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Director of Mayne Group Limited, SGIO Insurance Limited and South Australian Ports Corporation. Professor Sloan has been a member of the Primelife Board since May 2006.
John Martin
Managing Director
John Martin joined Primelife in December 2004 as General Counsel and General Manager Corporate and moved into the role of Managing Director in October 2006. He has also been the company’s representative director on PrimeLiving Trust since September 2005. John has extensive experience as an executive manager, corporate lawyer and company director including being a former executive director and current non-executive director of an ASX listed biotechnology company, Proteome Systems. John was a former executive and corporate partner of Allen Allen & Hemsley where he specialised in mergers and acquisitions and fundraising.
Robert Topfer
Non-Executive Director
Rob Topfer joined the Primelife Board of Directors in December 2003. Mr Topfer is a senior executive of Babcock & Brown, where he is Global Head, Corporate Finance Group. He has over 17 years of high level experience in corporate finance, including structured equity and debt raisings, delivering large projects and takeovers. Mr Topfer was a founding partner of Atanaskovic Hartnell and formerly a partner of Allen Allen & Hemsley. Mr Topfer is also a Director of Babcock & Brown Capital Limited and eircom Group Limited.
Andrew Love
Non-Executive Director
Andrew Love joined the Primelife Board of Directors in July 2005. Mr Love is a Senior Partner with Ferrier Hodgson. Mr Love has had over 30 years’ experience in corporate recovery and reconstruction. He has had experience at the public company level in the energy, mining and exploration, mortgage securitisation and international public sectors. Mr Love is currently Chairman and Non-Executive Director of ROC Oil Company Limited, a Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Deputy Chairman of Riversdale Mining Ltd and, prior to its takeover in 2004, a Non-Executive Director of Principal Real Estate Investors (Australia) Limited.
Graeme Martin
Non-Executive Director
Graeme Martin joined the Primelife Board of Directors in June 2005. Mr Martin is currently National Consultant, Healthcare and Retirement Living, Colliers International. Mr Martin is a former Managing Director of Colliers International Valuation and Consultancy, past National President and a Life Fellow of the Australian Property Institute, and former executive member of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy. He has had some 35 years’ experience in providing professional advice to the Aged Care, retirement and hospital industry sectors.
Andrew Schwartz
Non-Executive Director
Andrew Schwartz joined the Primelife Board in May 2007. Mr Schwartz is Babcock & Brown’s Head of Property for the Asia Pacific region including Australia. He has more than 20 years’ experience in high end value asset financing, cross border real estate financing, project financing, acquisition and advisory work. He has been involved in numerous transactions involving both the private and government sectors. Prior to joining Babcock & Brown in 1997, he was employed by AIDC Ltd (a government owned financier), where he was Director – Risk, and prior to that Mr Schwartz was a Senior Manager at Bank of America.