TSBE welcomes five new board members

Five new board members took their place at the table for the first time at the Toowoomba and Surat Basin Annual General Meeting on Thursday, October 20.

Dr Anthony Lynham, Tim Miles, Amanda Kenafake, Julie Whitcombe and Erika Brayshaw joined the other board members, with Peter Lock and Rob Hart taking their leave from the group.

Board Chair, Dr John McVeigh, welcomed the new members, while expressing his thanks to Mr Lock and Mr Hart for their service.

“Peter and Rob both provided outstanding service and dedication to TSBE over many years,” he said.

“Their departure however provides an exciting opportunity to welcome new board members from diverse backgrounds, industry and skill sets to enrich the TSBE board going into 2023.

“We are about to embark on TSBE’s second decade of linking business with opportunity to create sustainable growth and diversity for our region, and our board members play a pivotal role in this process.”

The five new members have impresseive CVs, and will be familiar to many people in the local community, and even further abroad.

Dr Anthony Lynham is a Queensland based maxillofacial surgeon, and a serving member of State Parliament from 2014 – 2020, holding ministerial portfolios during that time. He was appointed as Director and Chair of the Gladstone Port Corporation in October last year.

Tim Miles is General Manager, Corporate at Newlands Group, a local privately-owned construction company specialising in design and construction services for the civil, essential services, commercial building and resources sectors.

Amanda Kenafake is CEO and Executive Director of Toowoomba accounting firm Power Tynan, while Julie Whitcombe is General Manager Strategy and Development and CleanCo, a Government-owned Corporation focused on the development and supply of firmed renewable energy for Queensland customers. 

Erika Brayshaw has been the General Manager for the Toowoomba Chronicle since June 2020.

Full bios for the TSBE Board members can be found here: https://www.tsbe.com.au/board-members

Pictured (left to right) TSBE board members Ali Davenport, John McVeigh, Erika Brayshaw, Amanda Kanafake, Tim Miles, April Cavanagh, Tom McVeigh. On the screen, Ian Macfarlane and Anthony Lynham. Absent: Julie Whitcombe, Stewart Morland, and Kathryn McKeefry.