Board of Directors & Managing Director

MR DON VOELTE AO
Don Voelte
Non-executive Chairman
Don Voelte was appointed Chairman of Nexus Energy on 11 October 2012. Mr Voelte is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Seven West Media and has 36 years of experience in the global oil and gas industry. Prior to his retirement in June 2011, he was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Woodside Petroleum, a position he had held since joining the company in 2004.  Prior to joining Woodside,     Mr Voelte held a number of Senior Executive positions at Mobil Corporation, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and Chroma Energy Inc. based in Houston. Mr Voelte is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Chi Epsilon Honor Society, a Foreign Fellow to ATSE (FTSE) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). He is a trustee of the University of Nebraska Foundation and was awarded the University of Nebraska Engineering Alumni of Year in 2002. He has a degree in Civil Engineering, from the University of Nebraska. Don was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 30 November 2012 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
 
Special responsibilities
Chair of the Nomination Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Remuneration & Performance Committee

 

MR LUCIO DELLA MARTINALucio Della Martina Aug12
B.S. Chemical Engineering, M.B.A.
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Lucio Della Martina commenced with Nexus Energy Limited on 13 May 2012 as Chief Executive Officer and
was appointed Managing Director on 12 October 2012. 
Mr Della Martina has over 25 years experience in the international oil and gas industry.   He has held various positions in Woodside covering gas business development, LNG marketing, supply planning and oil development. Prior to his tenure with Woodside, Lucio spent 11 years with the Shell group of companies in Africa and Europe in a variety of roles covering refining technology, operations, economics, planning and international oil trading. Lucio graduated from the University
of Natal, South Africa with a Bachelor of Science (Chemical Engineering)
and later completed post graduate studies in engineering at the University Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy and business administration (MBA)
at
Henley Management College, UK.  Lucio completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard
Business School
in 2008.

 
Symon Drake-Brockman
MR SYMON DRAKE-BROCKMAN
B.Com
Non-executive Director
Symon Drake-Brockman was appointed to the Board of Nexus on 18 November 2009. Mr Drake-Brockman has over 20 years of finance experience covering both the debt and equity markets. He was formerly chief executive officer of RBS Global Banking and Markets in the Americas and chief executive officer of RBS Greenwich Capital, Global head of RBS' Debt Markets division and Board member of RBS Global Banking and Markets.
Mr Drake-Brockman previously held senior positions with ING Barings and JP Morgan in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.


Special responsibilities
Chair of the Remuneration & Performance Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nomination Committee
 

MR JOHN HARTWELLJohn Hartwell
MCom (Economics)
Non-executive Director
John Hartwell was appointed to the Board of Nexus on 31 March 2011. Mr Hartwell has over 18 years experience working in the Australian government where he held a wide range of positions dealing with trade, commodity and energy and resources issues. From 2002 to 2010 he was head of the resources division, in the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Canberra. The resources division provides advice to the Australian government on policy issues, legislative changes and administrative matters related to the petroleum industry, upstream and downstream and the coal and minerals industries.
 
Special responsibilities
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nomination Committee
Member of the Remuneration and Performance Committee
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