QIC April 14th Meeting

Program      14th April

                Economic World Update

      Vinod Muthanna

Guest Speaker:

Michael Riches

Chief Executive Officer

Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure

Mr Riches has extensive infrastructure, regulatory and operational experience across multiple industries throughout Australia.  Before DBI, Mr Riches was the Chief Executive Officer at Axicom, the owner of more than 2,000 mobile phone towers across Australia, where he led a customer transformation program that secured longer term contracts with key customers, ultimately positioning the business for a successful sale.  Prior to Axicom, Mr Riches was Group Executive, Network at Aurizon where he was the architect of, and responsible for the negotiation with customers on, the UT5 regulatory reform that delivered substantial benefits to the Queensland coal industry. Mr Riches’ corporate life began at Alinta Energy where over almost 6 years he held a number of senior executive roles. From 2000 to 2010 Mr Riches was a partner at Minter Ellison and Clayton Utz, specialising in the financing of mergers and acquisitions and major infrastructure projects.