A shortlist of contenders said to include a big mining heavyweight is this week being interviewed for Woodside’s top job as it the energy group chases a successor to Meg O’Neill by the end of the month.
Sean Smith
Filings on Friday show Mr Gallagher sold 830,132 shares on-market at an average of $6.77 apiece on February 27, “primarily to fund pending personal tax obligations”.
Australia’s biggest oil and gas group on Tuesday reported a 24 per cent fall in full-year earnings to $US2.72 billion, bettering market expectations.
Kevin Gallagher’s pay packet for the 2025 year was inflated by a multimillion-dollar payment of performance rights as the oil and gas producer also announced sweeping job cuts
Cuban oil play Petro Australis Energy has parted ways with chief executive and former Woodside Energy executive Shiva McMahon after less than a year.
Michelle Kruger is stepping back from leadership of the flagship shipbuilding business ahead of retiring on June 1, leaving it to be run by its chief operating officer.
Four blue-chip CEOs announced their departures this week as rapid advances in AI intensify pressure to deliver shareholder returns.
Tom Richardson
Nick Rohrlach has served as chief of Virgin’s loyalty program Velocity since 2021, when he jumped shipped from rival Qantas in a move that sparked a legal battle between the two airlines.
Cheyanne Enciso
One of the ASX’s longest serving mining bosses says dealmaking between global resources giants needs to “make sense” and not be driven solely by a frenzied hunger for copper.
Simone Grogan
Struggling pizza giant Domino’s has tapped former McDonald’s Australia and New Zealand boss Andrew Gregory to take on the top job after Mark van Dyck’s abrupt exit.
Actions speak louder than words, with investors continuing to sell Atlassian stock despite its founder declaring that he ‘couldn’t be more bullish’.
Helen Lofthouse, the embattled chief executive of ASX is set to step down from her role in May, according to a statement on Tuesday.
Chiranjivi Chakraborty
Company filings show the 44-year-old resigned as a director of up to 18 companies on Sunday, including his privately-owned VGW Holdings and his Lance East family office.
The under-pressure founder and boss of Corporate Travel Management has quit — two months after his company was forced to admit it had overcharged clients more than $150 million.
Daniel Newell
The appointment was announced with the promotion of Matthew Nixon to chief executive, with outgoing non-executive chair Tony Kiernan to remain on Genesis’ board as lead independent director.
Helen Robinson has been named as the new chief executive of the Insurance Commission of WA, having run the group as its interim boss since the retirement of Rod Whithear in July last year.
Woodside Energy is forecasting annual production for the next 12 months will fall from a record 198.8 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2025 to between 172mboe and 186mboe.
Sean Smith and Daniel Newell
Australian Foundation Investment Company’s portfolio lost 2 per cent in value during the six months, falling well short of the 4.2 per cent returned by the S&P-ASX200 Accumulation Index for the period.
Albemarle’s highest ranking operations manager in the State has abruptly stepped away from running the US giant’s anchor lithium processing operations in the South West.
VGW says the deal provides for its portfolio of online social games to “collaborate with WWE across multiple platforms, providing premium entertainment experiences” for players in its flagship market of the US.
The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has found a new leader in RAC’s chief lobbyist Will Golsby, whose first order of business will be spearheading the fight to keep the State’s lucrative GST deal.
Amanda Lacaze will step down as chief executive of Lynas Rare Earths after leading the “double-century” turnaround of a once-cash strapped startup into the commodity’s biggest producer outside of China.
A large Rio Tinto shareholder has chided the mining giant for its lack of detail about a potential merger with Glencore and believes no premium should be paid for the deal to be done.
Adrian Rauso
Listed glove manufacturer Ansell has found an unlikely new chief executive in the former boss of a Finnish group behind Wedgwood, Georg Jensen and Waterford.
