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  • July 20, 2021

Stephen Bull joins the board of civil specialist Moits and Catherine Leahy steps up to m3property’s board, GHD lures Romina Cavallo and WSP welcomes Hany Ghaly.

Stephen Bull has joined the board of Sydney civil company Moits. The appointment of the 20-year industry veteran, formerly Stockland’s CEO for retirement, is a company milestone as CEO Dale Clark grows the business. Bull brings deep experience in property development, management and financial transactions from his time in executive roles with Stockland, Westfield and AMP. Moits, now in its 38th year of operation, has more than $70 million of work-in-hand, including the Sydney Fish Markets, Concord Hospital Redevelopment, Mastery by Crown and Macquarie Exchange.

The board of m3property welcomes Catherine Leahy as independent non-executive director. A former KPMG partner, Leahy is on the board of privately owned financial services firm, Mutual Trust, and has previously served on other boards including Housing First.

Romina Cavallo joins GHD as business group leader and will lead the region’s engagement, communication and communities team. Cavallo has held roles in stakeholder engagement in both public and private sector organisations, including nearly seven years with RPS. She is a lecturer at University of NSW in urban planning.

Engineering firm WSP welcomes Hany Ghaly as technical director and national team lead for its new mission critical facilities service offering – which covers complex data centre projects – in Australia. Ghaly brings more than 30 years’ experience in engineering and project management, including roles with Meinhardt Australia and Schneider Electric.

WSP has also pointed two new directors in its strategy, community and place team: Sara Stace in New South Wales and Mark Redmond in Victoria. The pair will apply their experience in strategic planning, research, policy, and project facilitation. Stace was director of national urban policy for the now defunct Major Cities Unit and Infrastructure Australia for five years, has founded a tech start up and written transport plans for local and state government. Redmond has held senior roles with the Victorian Government, most recently with the Suburban Rail Loop Authority. He has previously worked for Lendlease and RLB.

Also with the Suburban Rail Loop Authority, Sarah Reid has been appointed senior sustainability development and delivery advisor after nearly six years with the City of Melbourne. Reid was led the city’s zero carbon buildings agenda. She’s also held roles with Fishermans Bend Taskforce and Norman Disney & Young.

Clare Gallagher has been promoted to national sustainability manager at built after five years delivering the construction firm’s sustainability agenda.

Richard Burley is the new national strategic leader public private partnerships and major projects for architecture and design firm, Architectus. Burley who has enjoyed 25-years of international industry experience, most recently worked as an independent consultant. Prior to that he was project director for social infrastructure at John Holland, focusing on PPPs including the $1.4 billion New Footscray Hospital and North-East Link.

Raine & Horne has launched a new foundation that will be supported by its 300-strong global office network. The Raine & Horne Foundation’s board will include executive chairman Angus Raine and non-executive board member Doug McCluskey. Inaugural community partner will be not-for-profit Dignity, which provides shelter for up to 180 Australians every night of the year, 10,000 meals a month and since 2015 has supported 65,000 homeless Australians.