Joseph Beal

Mr Beal joined the Cash Converters International Limited board in 2009. Until his retirement in January 2008, Mr Beal was the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), a Texas conservation and reclamation district with over $1 billion in annual revenues, over $3 billion in assets and more than 2,200 employees. Mr Beal joined LCRA in 1995 to lead its Water Services division, and was appointed by the LCRA board in January 2000 to become its eighth General Manager and Chief Executive Officer. Before joining LCRA, Mr Beal was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Espey Huston & Associates, an international engineering and environmental consulting firm based in Austin.