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Highly experienced governance professional Rachel Todd joins GHD as Company Secretary
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Rachel Todd has been appointed Company Secretary at GHD, a leading professional services company with 10,000 employees globally.
Rachel Todd has been appointed Company Secretary at GHD, a leading professional services company with 10,000 employees globally.
Rob Knott, Chair, comments, “We are delighted to welcome Rachel as we continue to build a great employee-owned enterprise. Rachel brings extensive legal and governance experience to support the work of the Board, helping us meet our regulatory and compliance obligations in all 14 countries of operations.”
Rachel says, “Being passionate about sustainability and corporate social responsibility, I was very much drawn to GHD’s mission of building sustainable living environments for future generations. I was also very impressed with the strength and diversity within the global Board and leadership teams, whom I will be working with closely. In addition, the employee-owned structure, which I believe drives a positive and invested culture, is a key differentiator for an organisation of this scale. I am excited to be supporting GHD’s directors, officers, employee shareholders and the wider teams around the globe”.
An experienced legal practitioner in Australia and the UK, Rachel was most recently General Counsel at global building materials company Holcim, where she was also responsible for leading the company secretarial, compliance and property functions. She is based in Sydney.
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GHD is a leading professional services company operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. Committed to a vision to make water, energy, and communities sustainable for generations to come, GHD delivers advisory, digital, engineering, architecture, environmental and construction solutions to public and private sector clients. Established in 1928 and privately owned by its people, GHD’s network of 12,000+ professionals is connected across 160 offices located on five continents.
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