BSES Board
The BSES Board is comprised of directors who possess extensive experience in canegrowing, raw-sugar milling, commerce, and research and development management.
Mr Paul Wright (AM)
Director (Chairman) since 1 December 2006. Paul has combined banking, health, hospitality and consulting experience in a career that has encompassed over 27 years in senior executive management with a variety of leadership roles. He has held the position of General Manager for Queensland and the Northern Territory of the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Limited and has provided executive services as General Manager of The Brisbane Club. Paul has been a company director for more than 25 years and has served as Chairman of The Australian Institute of Management, The Royal Flying Doctor Service, and The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) Trust, as well as having served as Deputy Chairman of the QIMR Council. He is also currently the Chairman of Phoenix Eagle Company Pty Ltd (a medical biotech company). Additionally he is a director of the Australian Sugar Industry Alliance Ltd and Idec Solutions Pty Ltd (a steel fabrication, design, construction and protective coatings company). In 2006, Paul was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to medical administration and to business and commerce.
Mr Ian Davies
Director since 23 October 2007. Ian has over 17 years’ experience in the sugar industry in commercial and managerial roles with previous experience in the cotton and finance industries. He is currently Business Improvement Manager for Sucrogen - Cane Products. Ian has experience on industry boards, with four years on the Board of Australian Molasses Trading and has previously been a director of Mourilyan Molasses Terminal Company Pty Ltd.
Ian McBean
Director since 22 October 2009. Ian is also the Company Secretary with Proserpine Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Limited. Ian has broad expertise in both the growing and milling sectors of the Australian sugarcane
industry.
Mr Ian Sharpe
Director since 23 October 2008. Ian is also a director of Russell Pastoral Company and Independent Chairman of the Executive Committee (in the absence of a board of directors) of Dingo Australia. He is sole director of a private accounting practice in Dalby which he established in 2003. Ian’s previous experience includes Regional Manager for Queensland Cotton Corporation, General Manager of Queensland Grain Growers Association and he has held senior positions with the State Wheat Board and Bulk Grains Queensland. He is a fellow of the Australian Society of CPAs and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mr Joe Russo
Director since 25 October 2005. Joe is a third-generation Isis-district cane grower and Managing Partner of Russo Brothers. He is Chairman of CANEGROWERS Isis Limited, Senior Vice President of Queensland Cane Growers
Organisation Limited, and a director of Queensland Farmers Federation, Canegrowers Superannuation Pty Ltd and Canegrowers Financial Services Pty Ltd. Joe has also been a director of BGA AgriServices since 2007. In
2003, Joe was the Australian Institute of Management’s (Sunshine Coast Region) Rural Remote Manager of the Year.
Mr John Pollock
Director since 24 October 2006. John is also a director of SkyView Solutions Ltd and serves as chair of several government committees. He was an executive director of the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries and
has served as Deputy Commissioner for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, a Board Member of the Queensland Fisheries Management Authority, and a director of the Sugar Research and Development Corporation. John has wide research, natural resource management, primary industry and corporate management experience.
Mr Paul Sgarbossa
Director since 23 October 2007. Paul is currently Chairman of Burdekin Productivity Services, and has been involved in a wide range of industry representation, including Inkerman CANEGROWERS, Chairman of Burdekin Canegrub Steering Committee and Chairman of Queensland CANEGROWERS Canegrub Steering Committee. He has served on CANEGROWERS committees and sub committees from 1991-2003 and has served on Productivity Boards since 1989. Paul has been cane farming for over 30 years and received the SRDC 2000 R&D Sugar Industry Service Award.
Mr Eoin Wallis
Managing director and chief executive officer since 9 April 2003 (director and chief executive of Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations from 5 March 2001). Prior to this engagement, Eoin led the Sugar Research and
Development Corporation as its executive director and was a director of the CRC for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology until 30 June 2010. He also gained extensive knowledge of BSES from his work as a BSES
group manager. His career in agricultural management includes work for the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and the Department of Agriculture at the University of Queensland. Eoin is a Fellow of the
Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and was awarded the industry’s R&D Management Award in 2006. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
