QPAC BOARD OF TRUSTEES

HENRY SMERDON BCom, BEcon, FCPA, MAICD

Chairman (since July 2007 and Deputy Chairman since June 2000)

Henry Smerdon had a distinguished 36 year career in the public sector, including five years as the Under Treasurer and Under Secretary of the Queensland Treasury Department.

From the end of 1994 until April 1998, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Investment Corporation, an organisation he played a major part in establishing. Henry has also served on a number of Government boards including Suncorp, the Queensland Industry Development Corporation (Deputy Chairman), Workers' Compensation, South Bank Corporation, Queensland Investment Corporation, three Government Superannuation boards (Chairman) and Q-Invest Ltd (Chairman). He also served as Government Statistician for five years.

Presently, Henry Smerdon is Deputy Chancellor of Griffith University; a member of the Public Trust Office Investment Board and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission Advisory Board; and Chairman of Brisbane Cruise Wharf Pty Ltd, Hyperion Flagship Investments and the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Advisory Board. He also operates his own consultancy business, Strategic and Financial Consulting Services.

BILL GRANT

Deputy Chairman (since July 2007 and Member since November 2006)

Bill has an extensive background in the private and public sectors. Previous positions held include: CEO Newcastle City Council; Regional Manager CRI: Indonesia; Retail Sales Marketing Manager: Kitchens of Sara Lee Australia; CEO Gosford City Council; CEO of the South Bank Corporation for eight years from 1997 to 2005.

JANE BERTELSEN

Member (since July 2007)

Ms Bertelsen is an experienced public sector manager. For over a decade she was Manager of Intergovernmental Relations in the Brisbane City Council and Secretary of the South East Queensland Organisation of Councils, which focused on the strategic goals of the region. Ms Bertelsen is Chair of Burnett Water Pty Ltd, and Deputy Chair of Sunwater.

Ms Bertelsen holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Business Administration from Boston University, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Ms Bertelsen has also worked with the Melbourne Theatre Company. Ms Bertelsen gained extensive experience in project analysis, policy development and economic research while working in Rome for the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Council. She has participated in international United Nations missions and conferences in Africa, Asia and Europe.

RAY BOLWELL

Member (since November 2006)

Mr Bolwell recently retired from his position as Chairman of the Board of the Gold Coast Arts Centre (GCAC). He had held that position since 1996 and during that time, drove major changes in the operations, initiatives and directions of the GCAC, including The Summer School initiative which gives young local performers and technicians a solid grounding in the performing arts, the Arts Café, two licensed cinemas and off-premises catering.

Mr Bolwell has previously managed an international performer and worked in the American entertainment industry and met and worked with many of the stars, agents and producers in Hollywood, Las Vegas and New York. When he returned to Australia, he established and managed one of the first studios to produce both video and audio commercials for the leading advertising agencies in Melbourne. He then began producing and packaging shows that played in major entertainment venues in Melbourne, before moving on to producing and packaging shows in Asia.

After returning to Australia, Mr Bolwell produced the top selling jazz album, "The Naked Dance", which is still in catalogue in the USA. Mr Bolwell has also undertaken further studies in accountancy, law and business and has established and owned a successful major art gallery, Regency Galleries and auction house, Queensland Fine Arts.

Mr Bolwell's past and present appointments include Chairman, Listed media company, Media Asia Pacific Limited; publisher and founder of TraveLeisure Magazine; and Chairing of Steering Committee for Queensland House with No Steps Building for Tomorrow Appeal.

SIMON GALLAHER

Member (since July 2007)

Simon Gallaher is the principal of Essgee Entertainment and its associated companies. Known to Australian audiences as a music theatre star, television star, concert performer, singer, musician, pianist, and songwriter, Simon brings a lifetime of experience to the business of theatrical production.

At the age of 15 Simon hosted a Brisbane children's television show. He studied a Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and staged his first professional concert, starring himself, before he was 20. Simon became a regular on Australian television's immensely popular The Mike Walsh Show and his career took off as audiences flocked to his concerts and quickly sent five albums Gold.

He became the youngest entertainer ever to be given his own night-time television variety show which ran for two successful seasons on ABC-TV. By age 23 Simon was at the top of the Australian entertainment scene winning enough many awards and accolades including 3 Mo-Variety Awards, twice voted Queensland's Entertainer of the Year, A Logie Award, A Queenslander of the Year Commendation and an Advance Australia Award.

In 1984 he made the transition to the stage in the Australian production of the Broadway smash hit The Pirates of Penzance. He also performed in Hello Dolly; The Student Prince; My Fair Lady; The Mikado; HMS Pinafore and The Merry Widow.

By 1992 Simon's production company was a major concert presenter and has co-presented attractions with the Sydney Opera House, The Victorian Arts Centre, The Adelaide Festival Centre and QPAC. In 1994 he created a new stage production of The Pirates of Penzance. It received a triple-platinum video and an Aria Award for Best Musical Soundtrack. New productions of The Mikado and HMS Pinafore followed. The musicals toured internationally and Essgee's television productions are screened across the world.

Essgee produced a new and lavish production of The Merry Widow which toured nationally in 1998-9. The acclaimed Tony Award-winning play Master Class followed and was an outstanding triumph and a new production of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum toured Australia and New Zealand.

Simon marked 25 years in show business by returning to the concert platform in 2000. The following year saw Pirates return for a national tour which lasted nearly three years. In 2004, Simon produced the new Australian musical EUREKA which opened in Melbourne to much critical acclaim. In 2007 Essgee launched Showstoppers an immensely successful initiative for young up-coming performers offering a series of music-theatre workshops using the cream of Australian show business talent as tutors and mentors.

HELENE GEORGE

Member (since July 2007)

Helene George is Company Director of Creative Economy, a company internationally recognised for creative business development. Ms George was a keynote speaker at the First International Cultural and Creative Industries Forum in Beijing. Ms George was a member of the Prime Minister's Working Party for Creativity in the Innovation Economy and developed Australia's first Creative Industries Strategy for the Brisbane City Council.

Ms George has over 15 years experience in management and consulting throughout Australia. She has worked as a manager of creative companies and facilities, export trade representative and as an executive in local government. In addition to successfully managing her own business for over a decade, she has been engaged as a business development consultant and policy adviser by both government and the private sector.

Most recently she was honoured with a Leadership Award at the 2007 Future Leadership Summit by Australia's pre-eminent leadership organisation, AusDavos.

PAUL PITICCO

Member (since November 2006)

Since their inception in 1990, Paul Piticco has managed the career of multi-platinum, multi-award winning Brisbane act Powderfinger. Powderfinger have since sold in excess of 2 million albums in Australia alone.

Forming Secret Service Artist Management in the late 1990s, Paul continues to nurture the careers of artists and bands alike — currently monitoring the solo career of Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning and fellow Brisbanians and debutants on the international music scene, The Grates.

In addition to artist management, Paul is Director of Dew Process Recordings, a label he created in 2001, based in Brisbane. Dew Process has a stable of incredibly successful Australian artists — gold selling The Grates and Sarah Blasko and 5 x platinum selling Bernard Fanning - in addition to releasing the music of international artists for distribution in Australia and New Zealand.

Paul is also heavily involved in the live music arena through his annual arts and music festival, Splendour in the Grass and tour promotion business Secret Sounds (both are co-promoted by booking agency, Village Sounds). Secret Sounds has brought such high profile acts to Australia as Coldplay, Brian Wilson, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ryan Adams, Queens of the Stone Age, Doves and PJ Harvey. Splendour in the Grass has increased in success, profile and capacity since the inaugural event in 2001.

Paul was also invited by Brisbane Powerhouse to curate and stage a live music event as part of the multi-million dollar re-launch of the venue in June 2007, resulting in the sold-out PAUHAUS: A Festival of Contemporary Music.

Throughout 2007, Paul is co-promoting Across The Great Divide — a live tour of Australia and New Zealand headlined by Powderfinger and Silverchair. The tour is proving to be the largest tour of its kind for Australian audiences — reaching 22 metropolitan and regional centres in a little under 2 months and has a potential audience of 350 000. Across The Great Divide is carbon-neutral, and is presented by reconcile.org.au in an effort to reduce the gap in life expectancy of 17 years between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

RHONDA WHITE

Member (since July 2007)

Ms White is co-founder of the Terry White Chemists Group of pharmacies and Managing Director, White Retail Group Pty Ltd. Ms White is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. She is a pharmacist and an organisational psychologist and consults to the retail industry, and currently owns and operates a number of pharmacies throughout Australia.

Ms White has served on a number of boards including the Energex Retail Board, the Ergon Energy Board, the Australian College of Natural Medicine Advisory Board, the Nudgee College Foundation Board, the Terry White Chemists Board and she was Foundation Chairman of the Queensland Cancer Fund Volunteers Committee.

Ms White was awarded the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World International Award in 2000, the National Business Bulletin — Business Star of the Year in 2000, the Pharmacy Guild Distinguished Service Award for services to the pharmacy industry in Australia in 2004, and a recipient of the 2006 Pharmacy Practice Foundation Medal of Excellence.