Dr Beeby is a development and change management leader with experience as a Non-Executive Director, a Chief Executive Officer and in business development and specialist project management roles in the Australian coal mining, petroleum and gas industries over the past 25 years. She has expertise in relationship building with clients, communities and government. Dr Beeby was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Westside Corporation Limited, an ASX-listed coal seam gas producer and explorer. Dr Beeby is a Non-Executive Director of Queensland Electricity Transmission Corporation Limited (Powerlink).

Mr Kempton has more than 39 years of industry experience in the construction,
property, and civil and mining sectors. He recently retired as Managing Director of Watpac where he was instrumental in taking the business from being a $120 million turnover building contractor in Queensland to a diversified $1.5 billion company with presence in all States and providing mining, building, infrastructure, landscaping, engineering, property development and tourism services. He is Chairman of Skills Queensland, an independent statutory authority driving the State of Queensland's skills policy, planning and investment.

Mr Craig is a Chairman, Director and businessman with an accomplished background in business and law. Current and past Board appointments have involved the law, mining, construction, mining services, financial services and the oil and gas industry, as well as with professional bodies and not-for-profit community organisations. As a partner of a major Perth law firm he specialised in resources and commercial legal advice, which included work on resources joint ventures, the acquisition and disposal of interests in companies and projects, and capital raising by companies. This was followed by ten years in the financial services industry as a stockbroker and an executive director in a national stockbroking and investment banking company. Mr Craig then spent five years working with Woodside Petroleum Ltd in an executive position in the field of public and government affairs.

Mr Simpson has experience specific to the engineering and construction sectors both in Australia and internationally. Prior to joining Forge, he was Chief Executive of UGL's Resources division, servicing the mining and mineral processing, oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, and industrial processing industries. He also held various legal and corporate roles with UGL including Chief Legal Officer and Chief Commercial Officer. Before this David worked for Leighton Contractors, Daimler Chrysler (Adtranz) and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB).

Mr O'Connor had 24 years of experience as an audit Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) serving clients of all sizes across a range of industries. He held a number of leadership positions at PwC, including Managing Partner of the firm's Perth Office. Prior to retiring as a partner of PwC in March 2013, Mr O'Connor specialised in providing accounting advice and assurance to boards and management, particularly in the resources sector.

Mr White has 35 years' experience in the resource sector, primarily in the power generation and coal industries, with involvement in engineering and resource business management; business planning and strategy development; project technical and commercial analysis, and project and contract management. Mr White currently operates a private consultancy services firm, and until May 2013 was General Manager of QCoal, a privately owned company focused on coal exploration, development and mining. Mr White is a Non-Executive Director of the Queensland Resources Council.

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