Kerryn Newton

Kerryn Newton (CEO, Directors Australia)

LLM, MBA, MA, Grad Dip (Applied Finance and Investment), FAICD, FGIA, FIML

Kerryn is the CEO of Directors Australia, a Queensland based national board consulting and non-executive director recruitment firm. In this capacity, Kerryn advises a wide range of businesses nationally on how to improve board and organisational performance through strategy, board structures, board composition, risk and governance systems and practices. She is passionate about our corporate landscape and its diversity.

Kerryn has over 25 years’ experience working in various legal, management and commercial roles in the private and public sectors, and as a consultant working across the private, government, publicly-listed, and not-for-profit sectors in an extensive range of industries.

Kerryn’s consulting advice is enhanced by her extensive personal experience as a director on the boards of private, public sector and not-for-profit companies in diverse industries including aged care, education, child care, energy, property and housing.

Her board and governance experience includes the Queensland Liquor and Gaming Commission, Energex Ltd (electricity distributor), Energy Queensland Ltd (electricity distributor and retailer with an asset base of $25B), and a leading independent secondary school for girls. Kerryn also serves as an independent governance expert on Nominations Committee for a number of Australian banks.

Kerryn holds Master qualifications in Law, Business Administration and Arts, and is a Fellow and accredited facilitator of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

As a female leader her experience was developed through officer training in the Australian Army where she graduated at the age of 21 with the sword of honour as top of her class.