Margaret L Seale

Non-executive Director since May 2012 and last re-elected in 2018. Member of the Audit & Risk Committee and the Nomination Committee.

Margie has more than 25 years’ experience in senior executive roles in Australia and overseas, including in consumer goods, global publishing and the transition of traditional business models to adapt and thrive in a digital environment, and in sales and marketing. Margie was Managing Director of Random House, Australia (with managerial responsibility for Random House New Zealand) and President, Asia Development for Random House Inc, the global company. She was Chief Executive Officer of The Macquarie Dictionary and Lansdowne Publishing (1997-1999), and also of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (1994-1997). She served on the boards of Penguin Random House Australia/New Zealand as non-executive Director then Chair (2000-2016), the Australian Publishers’ Association, the Powerhouse Museum, the Sydney Writers Festival and on the Council of Chief Executive Women, chairing its Scholarship Committee (2011-2012). In 2015 Margie founded a philanthropic literary travel company, Ponder & See, which funds writers’ festivals and writers through creating literary trips or experiences for interested readers. She donates funds and time to create, organise and lead the trips.