Transfield Holdings

Holy dooly.

Prior to these appointments, George dedicated 10 years to Transfield services.

Wow.

I was contracted to Transfield back in the day.

Small world, eh? Complementing his operational experience, George holds extensive governance credentials, including past services director and vice chair of the Facility Management Association of Australia and committee contributions to the Cancer Council of Victoria.

There you go.

When I joined the private sector, at best, you might have an annual performance appraisal.

At best, someone might give you some level of cursory feedback.

Well, no, they couldn't find me.

Well, what actually happens with that story is that Kumagai Gumi and Transfield are on the job.

They're following me and they get to BHP and they say, we know who your man is, we've been following him and we know everything that you're doing.

So BHP went through their whole building in Melbourne went through their whole building in Melbourne and debugged it.

I'd been contacted by the head of the FBI once, but this is all right.

So this guy calls me, I forget his name.

And he said, oh, you know, Chris, he said, well, you know, what do you think about all that's going on? And, you know, what's your opinion on all of this? Because this Transfield people, the Italians, were really big stuff.

But the Pope came, he got in a car, 40 degree heat, and the limo took him out to meet the Transfield brothers at Pancras.

Mm

... you know, very senior at Transfield.

Was he the CEO-

Yes

... couple of large Australian organizations which have emerged that would have the significance of, of, of being a, you know, a locally owned prime.

And, you know, we, we, we had, we had those, those companies sort of emerging out of, was it Transfield back in the day?

Mm.

Which become pretty significant industries in their own right.