Maxine Brenner MAICD

Maxine has extensive corporate advisory experience, particularly in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructures. She is a Director of Woolworths Group, Origin Energy, Qantas Airways Limited, Orica Limited and a member of the University of NSW Council. 

Maxine also serves as Chairman of Origin Energy’s Safety and Sustainability Committee and a member of the Audit, Nomination and Risk committees. Maxine is also a member of the Climate Governance Initiative Australia Steering Committee. She is a former Managing Director of Investment Banking at Investec Bank (Australia) Limited. She also practised as a corporate lawyer with Freehill Hollingdale & Page (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and spent several years as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at both the University of NSW and the University of Sydney. Maxine was also formerly the Deputy Chair of the Federal Airports Corporation and a Director of Neverfail Springwater Limited, Bulmer Australia Limited, Treasury Corporation of NSW and Growthpoint Properties Australia Limited. She also served as a Member of the Australian Government’s Takeovers Panel.