Corporate Ladder: Your weekly guide to executive appointments in South Australia
South Australia’s premier executive appointments column tracking the movements of those driving the state’s public and private sectors. Plus, the latest executive recruitment opportunities.
Leaders Institute of SA appoints new CEO
Jo Carrick has been appointed as the new Leaders Institute of SA CEO.
Carrick has more than 15 years’ experience across leadership development, education and business development in state and local government, not-for-profit and health organisations.
She previously held the position as relationship manager at Leaders Institute where she played a key role in strengthening strategic partnerships, philanthropy and alumni engagement.
Prior to that, Carrick was senior business development officer at PACE at the University of Adelaide and was professional education program manager at the university.
“Her deep understanding of the institute, strong relationships across our network and passion for our purpose position her well to lead the institute’s next phase,” chairperson Julianne Parkinson said.
Local Government Association new president
Simone Bailey has been elected as the next Local Government Association SA president for a two-year term.
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Bailey has served as the Mid Murray Council Mayor since 2022, where she led the council through the 2022–23 River Murray flood emergency and drought in the region.
She has a professional background in commerce and previous experience working as a council accountant, and was previously elected as a Mid Murray councillor in 2018.
Bailey also serves as vice-president of the Murraylands and Riverland Local Government Association and has served on LGA’s South Australian Regional Organisation of Councils Committee since 2024.
“I’m grateful to South Australian councils for entrusting me with the responsibility of leading and representing our local government sector as LGA President for the next two years,” Bailey said.
Senior lawyer joins Macpherson Kelley
Lincoln Smith has joined Macpherson Kelley’s Adelaide office as a principal lawyer in the Employment, Safety and Migration team.
Smith is a senior employment and safety lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience and has been recognised by Doyle’s Guide as a leading employment lawyer since 2015.
He has experience acting for businesses, local government and individual clients across a range of matters including employment disputes, industrial relations matters and work health and safety proceedings.
Prior to joining Macpherson Kelley, Smith was a partner at Norman Waterhouse specialising in employment, industrial, occupational health and safety, equal opportunity and defamation law.
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Credit Union SA senior appointments
Credit Union SA has announced three key appointments to strengthen its executive technology team.
Mike Gulliver has been appointed as head of technology and data transformation, where he will provide strategic leadership across technology, data, cybersecurity and lead IT services.
Gulliver has more than 20 years’ experience in transformation and technology leadership across retail banking, home lending, wealth management, insurance and disability services.
He was previously chief information officer at SuperSA where he led technology, data and information security risk management functions and has held senior roles at Santos and Minda Inc.
Daniel Kalinovic has been appointed as head of transformation delivery and brings more than 15 years’ experience in banking technology.
Kalinovic has spent the past 11 years at Credit Union SA including roles as executive manager of IT and security where he worked on cyber risk maintenance, information security and regulatory compliance.
Prior to joining Credit Union SA, he was a network service consultant at Progress Business Technologies and was a projects engineer at Data Action.
Robyn Clay has also been appointed as head of transformation delivery and has more than 25 years’ experience across financial services, defence and advanced manufacturing companies.
In the new role, Clay will have a focus on leading the technology transformation program, and oversee the program budget, financial performance and commercial decisions.
She was previously the CEO of medical technology company Smartfem, chief operating officer at Fleet Space Technologies, and is currently the president of Women in Defence SA.
“Working in partnership, they will help us turn our transformation strategy into secure, reliable and member-centred outcomes, and ensure Credit Union SA continues to deliver for South Australians well into the future,” Credit Union SA CEO Todd Roberts said.
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