Neville Buch

Non-Executive Chairman

Neville Buch joined as a Non-Executive Director of Cardno Limited in November 2015. He became the Interim CEO in November 2016 to March 2018 and was appointed as a Deputy Chairman in May 2018. He is a Partner of Crescent Capital Partners where he heads Crescent’s Operating Improvement Practice. He brings expertise in operational management and strategic planning.

Prior to joining Crescent in 2009, Neville was the Chief Executive Officer of Wormald Australia and a Senior Executive of Tyco, where he was the Global Deputy Chairman of the Fire and Safety Division. He spent twelve years in senior management with Tyco, both in Australia and overseas and has significant experience in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Neville is the Non-Executive Chair of Viridian, PrimePanels NZ, Hall Contracting and Nude By Nature.

Neville holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (Hons Computer Design) and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Matt Courtney

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer  – Construction Sciences

Matt has more than 30 years’ experience providing quality control and quality assurance to all sectors of construction for government and private clients, with multiple delivery modes including JV, Alliances, EPCM, and PPP.

Matt’s career started with Queensland Water Resources Commission (now SunWater) a Queensland Government owned corporation, prior to joining Bowler Geotechnical in 1992, and purchasing a franchise in Bowler Geotechnical in 1995.

Bowler Geotechnical was acquired by Cardno in 2008. Matt has held several management roles in Cardno and was appointed CEO of Construction Sciences in 2016. During this period Matt has led the acquisition and integration of a number of businesses in Australia and in the USA.

Matt holds a Masters Degree in Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Michael Alscher

Non-Executive Director

Michael Alscher joined as a Non-Executive Director of Cardno Limited in November 2015. He then became Chairman in January 2016.

He is the Managing Partner and founder of Crescent Capital Partners, a leading Australian based private equity firm with more than $2 billion in funds under management, specialising in high growth companies and certain industries such as healthcare and the services sector across multiple disciplines.

Prior to founding Crescent in 2000, Michael was a strategy consultant at Bain International and the LEK Partnership as well as holding several senior operating roles.

Michael is currently a Non-Executive Director of ClearView Limited and the Non-Executive Chair of Australian Clinical Labs, NHDS and National Dental Care.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance & Mathematics) from the University of New South Wales.

Jeff Forbes

Independent Non-Executive Director

Jeff Forbes is an experienced Finance Executive and Company Director with over 30 years’ merger and acquisition, equity and capital markets and project development experience. He has significant expertise in the financing and development of resource projects in both Australia and in the Asia Pacific Region.

Jeff previously worked at Cardno as CFO and Company Secretary before leaving to commence non-executive director roles. He has spent time as a member of the remuneration and audit and risk committees of both listed and unlisted companies in a variety of sectors.

Prior to first joining Cardno in 2006, Jeff was the CFO, Company Secretary and Executive Director at Highlands Pacific Limited, a PNG-based mining and exploration company. He has significant experience in capital raisings and during his career has worked for a number of major companies including Rio Tinto, BHP and CSR.

Steven Sherman

Non-Executive Director

Steven Sherman joined Cardno Limited as a Non-Executive Director in January 2016. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in corporate restructuring and insolvency. His experience ranges from advising on and facilitating restructuring and turnaround strategies, to the re-engineering of entire businesses.

Shael Munz

Chief Financial Officer – Construction Sciences

Shael has over 20 years of domestic and international experience in the services, media and banking fields.

Shael began her career in Sydney as an auditor and business services senior before travelling overseas to the United Kingdom to work for several years in finance roles with Merrill Lynch, Westminster Council and Barclays Bank.

In 2006, on returning to Australia, she joined APN News and Media as the Group Financial Controller before moving to Transpacific Industries (now Cleanaway) in 2007 as the Group Reporting and Treasury Manager until the head office relocated to Melbourne in 2015.  Shael was appointed Group Financial Controller of Cardno in February 2016 before moving over to the Construction Sciences division as CFO in February 2019.

Shael holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Charles Sturt University, is a Chartered Accountant (CA 2001) and has completed courses in treasury management (University of Melbourne), leadership (Cert 4 Diploma of Management) and project management (Australian Institute of Management).