The managing director of Rio Tinto subsidiary Dampier Salt, Denise Goldsworthy, has been named the 2010 Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year.
The managing director of Rio Tinto subsidiary Dampier Salt, Denise Goldsworthy, has been named the 2010 Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year.
Ms Goldsworthy was appointed to head DSL in August 2008.
In January 2009, she was appointed managing director of HIsmelt, a Rio Tinto joint venture that has an iron making plant at Kwinana.
She is responsible for 500 employees and a global customer base.
"Denise Goldsworthy has demonstrated steady growth and broadening of her skills in a career spanning 28 years in the resources sector," said Telstra Business Women's Awards ambassador Kate McKenzie.
"She has created a culture of innovation at Dampier Salt where her key achievements include record sales earnings, improving safety by reducing lost time injuries significantly, increasing workforce engagement and reducing staff turnover."
See statement from Telstra below:
The managing director of the world's leading exporter of solar salt was named today as the 2010 Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year.
Denise Goldsworthy is Managing Director of Rio Tinto subsidiary Dampier Salt (DSL), a business that produces industrial salt by solar evaporation of seawater at Dampier and Port Hedland and from underground brine at Lake MacLeod.
Appointed to head DSL in August 2008, Ms Goldsworthy was appointed in January 2009 to managing director of HIsmelt, a Rio Tinto joint venture that has an iron making plant at Kwinana, Ms Goldsworthy is responsible for 500 employees and a global customer base, principally chemical industry markets in Asia.
After winning a university medal and graduating with an honours degree in metallurgy in Newcastle, Ms Goldsworthy worked for BHP Steel for 17 years at its Newcastle Steelworks. She joined Rio Tinto in 1998, spending five years in senior roles in its iron ore business before moving to its minerals division and heading the operations of its Asia Pacific salt, gypsum and talc businesses from 2006.
Ms Goldsworthy also won the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award at the sixteenth Telstra Western Australian Business Women's Awards, announced today in Perth.
Other winners were Jan Ford, owner of Jan Ford Real Estate in Port Hedland; Jo Harrison-Ward, CEO of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority in Perth; Jessica Blackwell, owner of Equestricare in Marangaroo; and Lee Broomhall, an executive at Workpower Incorporated in Osborne Park.
Telstra Chief Marketing Officer and Telstra Business Women's Awards Ambassador Kate McKenzie said the winners of the Western Australian Awards were successful business women whose leadership qualities and achievements would provide inspiration for women across the State.
"Denise Goldsworthy has demonstrated steady growth and broadening of her skills in a career spanning 28 years in the resources sector," Ms McKenzie said.
"She has created a culture of innovation at Dampier Salt where her key achievements include record sales earnings, improving safety by reducing lost time injuries significantly, increasing workforce engagement and reducing staff turnover."
The CEO of Hudson Australia/New Zealand, Mark Steyn, said Hudson has been a very proud sponsor of the Awards for the past nine years. "It is a privilege to be associated with an event that showcased the calibre and quality of talented women working across Australia," he said.
"Employment participation by women has been increasing over the past 40 years but it is still well below the rate for men and lower here than in many other developed countries. That is why we are keen to recognise the vital role that women play in the Australian workforce. This year's line-up of finalists in the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award, including Denise Goldsworthy, is an exemplary group of Australia's finest business women and we commend them on their achievements," he said.
