Appointments March 27, 2020

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Tracey Brand, Lisa Holland-McNair, James Bruce and Tom Stephens. 

Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service Aboriginal Corporation has appointed Tracey Brand as chief executive. A descendant of the Arrernte people, Ms Brand has worked as general manager health services division at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress since 2014. She has also held positions in local government and at the Department of the Chief Minister in the Northern Territory.

Lisa Holland-McNair has been appointed associate director at Platform Communications. Ms Holland-McNair has worked as a journalist and in communications for the past 30 years for the state government, The West Australian newspaper, Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation and mining companies including WMC Resources and Rio Tinto. She is also an author and publisher who writes non-fiction books.

James Bruce is returning to WA after Mineral Resources appointed him as head of investor relations from April 1. Prior to this appointment, Mr Bruce was a partner and investment analyst at SailingStone Capital Partners LLC and a portfolio manager and analyst for Perpetual Investments based in Sydney where he managed Perpetual’s Global Resources Fund and the Australian Small Companies Fund.

The federal government has appointed Tom Stephens to the Advisory Group of Northern Australia. A former WA politician, Mr Stephens was minister for regional development and the Gascoyne. He is currently a board member for the WA Regional Development Trust, a member for the WA Geographic Names Committee, and an independent director at MG Corporation and WDLAC Jamukurnu-Yapalikunu.