Eva Skira and Denise Goldsworthy have been appointed to the Board of Western Power.
Ms Goldsworthy and Ms Skira replace outgoing directors Sharon Warburton and Western Power’s longest serving current board member, George Cash. Peter Iancov has also been reappointed for a further term.
Ms Skira has more than 20 years’ experience in senior roles across banking, financial markets and stockbroking, along with strategic management consulting. Her previous board experience includes roles as chairperson of government-owned entities the Water Corporation, Westscheme and the Forest Products Commission.
Ms Goldsworthy is an experienced director with listed, government and not-for-profit boards along with senior executive experience across the resources sector. Ms Goldsworthy is currently chairperson of the ChemCentre WA Board and chairperson of the Trustees of the Navy Clearance Divers’ Trust. She is also a member of the Edith Cowan University Governing Council and a board member of the Minerals Research Institute of WA and Export Finance and Insurance Corporation.
The new appointments take female representation on the Western Power board to 50 per cent.