Ms Hele is a Non-Executive Director and an experienced Audit & Risk Chair with a strong commercial and finance background. Ms Hele is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors specialising in strategic business advisory, mergers and acquisition, risk management and corporate governance.

Ms Hele is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia and New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.

Ms Hele is also a Director of Argo Global Listed Infrastructure Limited and CEA Technologies Pty Ltd. Past Directorships include the Adelaide Venue Management Corporation, South Australian Tourism Commission, Celsus Securitisation Pty Ltd, Prime Q, Adelaide Fringe Festival and SA Water.

Ms Hele joined the Board in 2016 and is Deputy Chair of the Board, Chair of the Company’s Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee and a member of the People, Culture & Remuneration Committee.

Chair Appointment

Mr Feuerherdt joined Kelsian Group as Group CEO in 2020 following the acquisition of the Transit Systems Group. Mr Feuerherdt was CEO Transit Systems Group for 10 years and, under his guidance, Transit Systems Australia was entrusted with more franchised bus service contracts than any other company in Australia, growing revenue by over 400%.

Mr Feuerherdt has led the global expansion of the Kelsian Group into the United Kingdom in 2012, Singapore in 2015, and USA in 2023.

Mr Feuerherdt graduated from the University of Queensland with an Honours Degree in Commerce and was awarded the University Medal. Mr Feuerherdt previously worked in investment banking.

In addition to holding the role of Group Chief Executive, Mr Feuerherdt was appointed as Managing Director, and a member of the Kelsian Group Board, in July 2023.

Mr Dodd has extensive experience in business management and the marine industry. After qualifying as a commercial diver in the USA and working as a commercial diver in the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, he successfully established a recreational diving business and a travel agency in North Queensland, (after which he built both a marine construction and ferry business).

Mr Dodd is Managing Director and owner of Pacific Marine Group Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s largest marine construction and commercial diving companies. Mr Dodd was previously Managing Director of Sunferries, a ferry transport business based in Townsville, prior to its sale to Kelsian in March 2011 when Mr Dodd joined the Board of Kelsian.

Mr Dodd is former deputy chair of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music as well as the former deputy chair of Commerce Queensland, and former chairman of Sydney Fast Ferries.

Mr Dodd is Chair of the Nominations Committee and is a member of the Company’s Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee.

Ms Grady is a highly regarded company director with extensive international experience across a variety of industries. She has been a full-time independent director since 1994 serving on a range of public company and not-for-profit boards, and was previously a partner of McKinsey & Co where she led the Consumer Goods, Marketing and Retailing practice in Australia and was a global leader of the Firm’s Organisation, Culture and Change Management practice.

Ms Grady is currently a non-executive director on the Boards of Grant Thornton and Tennis Australia and is on the Strategy Council of Heads Over Heels (a not for profit that supports women entrepreneurs seeking to scale up their businesses). Her former directorships include the Macquarie Group, Woolworths, BlueScope Steel, Goodman Group, Lend Lease, and Wattyl. She has also served as a Trustee of The Sydney Opera House, President of Chief Executive Women, Chair of Ascham School, and Chair of The Hunger Project Australia.

Ms Grady is a member of the People, Culture and Remuneration Committee.

Mr Smith was one of the founding shareholders and a former Director of the Transit Systems Group prior to the acquisition by Kelsian. He has over 30 years of commuter transport operations experience.

Mr Smith commenced his career within the Sydney bus industry, before acquiring a number of bus operations in rural NSW and then Queensland. In 1995, Mr Smith joined with Graham Leishman and Lance Francis to found Transit Systems and in 2013, was a founding shareholder of Tower Transit.

Mr Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Masters of Transport Management from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics. He is an occasional lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Sydney and the University of Johannesburg.

Ms McArthur is a highly experienced company director, currently on the Boards of Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd and Qube Holdings Ltd. Ms McArthur was previously a non-executive director of Inghams Group Ltd, Tassal Group Ltd, InvoCare Ltd, and Blackmores Ltd.

With over 20 years of valuable experience at executive and board level from her roles in strategy, general management, global and regional transport, supply chain and logistics, corporate social responsibility, governance, and IT, Ms McArthur is expected to enhance and complement the skills and experience mix of the Kelsian Board.

In her role as Managing Director of Martin Brower-ANZ, a global distributor and supply chain services provider, she was responsible for the oversight of a supply chain worth $4.5bn across 38 markets. Ms McArthur was the 2016 Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year and overall, 2016 Telstra Business Women’s Awards – Corporate and Private National winner. She has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Sydney, completed the INSEAD International Executive Program and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Hockridge has extensive international experience in the transportation, manufacturing, and logistics sectors with a focus on safety, operational and financial transformation of businesses.

Mr Hockridge was previously the Managing Director and CEO of Aurizon Holdings Limited (2010 to 2016) following the demerger of Queensland Rail and QR National from a government owned railway to an ASX50 company. Other notable accomplishments as an executive include the oversight of BHP’s global transport business, together with key roles in financial and operational reform in the heavy industrial sector and leading a major turnaround for BlueScope Steel’s North American operations.

Mr Hockridge is also currently Chair and member of AVADA Group Limited, a Director of Saudi Arabia Railways, and Chair of the Salvation Army Queensland Advisory Group, and an active advocate for diversity in the workforce.

Mr Hockridge is Chair of the People, Culture and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee, the Nominations Committee and Investment Working Group.

Mr Muir joined Kelsian Group in 2017, bringing extensive experience in strategy and planning, debt and equity markets, mergers and acquisitions and leadership of cost reduction programs. Prior to Kelsian, he has held various financial and commercial senior management positions, including ASX-listed Hills Limited as Group General Manager of Business Development, and then as CFO and Company Secretary, Ahrens Group and E&A Limited.

Since joining Kelsian, Mr Muir has overseen significant growth in the domestic business and the Group’s expansion to USA in 2023.

He is a chartered accountant and holds an MBA with substantial experience across ASX-listed and non-listed companies in a range of sectors.

Ms McDonald joined Kelsian in 2018 as General Counsel and Company Secretary, and in 2022 became Chief Legal and Risk Officer for the Group. Ms McDonald is responsible for overseeing the legal, risk and corporate governance requirements of the Group as well as being Company Secretary for Kelsian and many of its subsidiaries.

Ms McDonald holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide and has over 25 years’ experience in commercial and corporate law at senior levels in a range of industries, together with extensive strategic risk and executive management experience.