Ms Tina McMeckan

CERA Board Chair Tina McMeckan has 20 years experience as a company director and senior executive in corporate governance, enterprise development, equity investment and industry reform.  Her specific skills are in the energy sector and commercialisation of science and technology.

She has extensive Board expertise in public and private utility infrastructure including power production, networks and retailing businesses in the gas and electricity industries.  She has recently retired as a Director of Alinta Limited.  Her other appointments as a Director have included United Energy, Snowy Hydro Trading, the Westar and Kinetik Energy Group, Victorian Power Exchange, and Solaris Power.

Her significant experience in technology development includes current appointments as Chairman of the Centre for Eye Research Australia and a Director of Nanotechnology Victoria Ltd, the Vision Cooperative Research Centre and MediHerb Holdings Ltd.  She is a past Member of the Funds Management Committee of the AusIndustry Research and Development Board.

She is also a Member of the National Board of Deacons law firm.

In the arts and tourism areas, she formerly held the positions of Chairman of the Zoological Parks and Gardens Board and a Director and Treasurer at the Museums Board in Victoria.

She has served as the Chairman or a Member on various Audit, Compliance, Due Diligence, Nomination and Remuneration Board Committees.

During her career, she has worked in an executive management capacity with GPU PowerNet and the SECV Energy Traders and as a project manager with the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance on gas industry reform.  Prior to this she held a number of senior investment management positions at the Australian Industry Development Corporation and AMRAD Corporation focussing on capital raisings for innovation-based ventures.
 
A Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences from San Diego State University in California, Ms McMeckan also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.