John White has been a director and chief executive of several public-listed and private Australian companies. He was chair of the Federal Government’s Uranium Industry Framework Council, a member of the Federal Government’s Defence Procurement Board, and director of the DefenceSA Advisory Board.
Mr White had extensive involvement with Woodside’s North West Shelf Offshore Gas and LNG Development from 1978 to 1984, and then participated in the RAN Collins Class Submarine Project tender as project director for the Australian-German owned AMEC proposal. He was also chief executive of Transfield Defence Systems from 1988 to 1996 and global chief executive of the recycling and packaging group Visy Industries.