Ariane Barker

Ariane Barker is an ATLAX Independent Non-Executive Director as well as Chair of the ATLAX Audit and Risk Committee. Prior to joining Atlas Arteria, she was CEO of Scale Investors Ltd, a role she held from 2017.

Ariane currently serves as a Non-Executive Director and Member of the Board Governance and Risk Committees at Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC), a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at IDP Education Limited and a member of the Investment Committee at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI).

Ariane has a wealth of business and financial services experience in senior executive management roles, having worked as General Manager, Products and Markets with JBWere in Melbourne and prior to that had an extensive international career in investment banking at HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

Ariane was formerly a Non-Executive Director of Emergency Services and State Superannuation (ESSSuper) and Taralye, The Oral Language Centre for Deaf Children. She was also an Executive Member of the NAB Wealth Disclosure Committee.

Ariane was educated in the US and France where two of Atlas Arteria’s businesses are located and is a native French speaker. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Mathematics) from Boston University and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).