Emeco Team

Meet our Executive Team

Keith Gordon - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Keith Gordon was appointed as Managing Director of Emeco Holdings Limited on 1 December 2009.

Keith has had an extensive career in the industrials sector with significant senior leadership experience. He joined Emeco with more than 10 years experience with Wesfarmers Limited, where he held a number of very senior roles. He has a strong record of achieving value creating growth through innovation and disciplined strategies.

Keith holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science with Honours and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia.

Email: keith.gordon@emecogroup.com

Stephen Gobby

Stephen Gobby - Chief Financial Officer

Stephen Gobby joined Emeco as Chief Financial Officer in March 2008. Stephen brings to Emeco broad and extensive experience in the finance and commercial aspects of large corporations. Stephen worked for KPMG in Australia and Canada, specialising in the energy and resource sector working with a range of large Australian and multi-national organisations.

Stephen spent a number of years in the corporate finance group of Alinta Limited a large ASX listed energy group, undertaking the assessment, funding and structuring of various corporate transactions. More recently, Stephen was the CFO of Alinta Infrastructure Holdings a separately listed ASX 200 Company where he was responsible for the overall finance and commercial aspects of the energy infrastructure business.

Stephen is currently responsible for all of Emeco's finance, treasury and risk management functions. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, holds a Bachelor of Commerce and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Email: stephen.gobby@emecogroup.com

Mike Kirkpatrick

Mike Kirkpatrick - General Manager Corporate Services

Mike Kirkpatrick commenced work with Emeco in April 2005, having worked previously in the Corporate Advisory practice of national law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron. Mike worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer for approximately ten years. He is also a former director of the Westscheme superannuation fund.

Email: michael.kirkpatrick@emecogroup.com

Guido Gadomsky

Guido Gadomsky - General Manager Strategy & Business Development

Guido joined Emeco in May 2010 as General Manager Strategy & Business Development. He has ten years of experience in management consulting with a strong focus on strategy development and value based management. Prior to joining Emeco, Guido worked as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Perth, OC&C Strategy Consultants in the Middle East and Stern Stewart & Co in Europe. Stern Stewart & Co is known for Economic Value Added (EVA) analysis and is widely recognised as the global leader in value based management.

Before his consulting career Guido worked as a registered trader for derivatives at the German and Swiss derivatives exchanges and OTC.

Guido holds an economics degree from the University of Saarland (Germany), an MBA from Boise State University (USA) and he is a CFA charter holder.

Email: guido.gadomsky@emecogroup.com

David Tilbrook

David Tilbrook - General Manager South East Asia

David Tilbrook joined Emeco in October 1998. David has over 30 years experience in sales, marketing and maintenance roles within the construction and mining sector. David's background is strongly aligned with the heavy earthmoving equipment industry and he has extensive experience in Australia, Africa and Indonesia. He has heavy equipment qualifications from the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

David previously held the roles of Australian General Manager Rental and Executive General Manager Western Region prior to him taking up his current role as General Manager South East Asia in July 2010.

Email: david.tilbrook@emecogroup.com

Ian Testrow

Ian Testrow - President Emeco North America

Ian Testrow joined Emeco in October 2005 and has over 15 years of experience in the mining and civil sectors. Prior to relocating to Canada in April 2009 from Australia to take on the position of President Emeco Canada, Ian was responsible for Emeco's business in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales as General Manager of the "Northern Region".

Ian has a Diploma in Surveying, Bachelor of Civil Engineering and an MBA, majoring in Finance, with the University of Southern Queensland. In January 2010 Ian was appointed to the position of President Emeco North America to lead the Canadian and United States operations.

Email: ian.testrow@emecogroup.com

Tony Halls

Tony Halls - General Manager Australian Rental

Tony began his career with Gough and Gilmour who were the Cat dealer in NSW at the time, they have since become a large after market supply, rental and service industry company. Tony enjoyed a number of management roles with G&G and most recently was their Service Operations Manager. Coupled with this experience and his Tertiary education from the University of Newcastle Tony brings an excellent skill set to the business.
He joined us at Emeco in September 2006.

Email: tony.halls@emecogroup.com

Hamish Christie Johnston

Hamish Christie-Johnston - General Manager Australian Sales & Parts

Hamish Christie-Johnston joined Emeco in July 2007. He has accumulated over 20 years experience in the heavy equipment industry in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He spent six years in sales and marketing roles with Caterpillar of Australia before leaving to join the Cat dealer network.

Hamish then spent nearly 15 years working with two separate Caterpillar dealers in New Zealand and Australia where he advanced through a number of senior roles in sales, marketing and operations. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration degree from Canterbury University, Christchurch.

Email: hamish.christie-johnston@emecogroup.com

Mick Turner

Mick Turner - General Manager Global Asset Group

Mick Turner has over 30 years experience in the open cut, underground mining, construction, marine and contract mining industries within Australia. His experience includes 15 years in a Caterpillar dealership where he held a variety of roles throughout the Western Australian region.

Mick joined Emeco in 1999 after five years as a maintenance superintendent with a large mining contractor. Mick's areas of operation encompass all Emeco's Australian and global business units where his core responsibilities include asset selection, acquisition, disposal and management of the maintenance systems and programs. In his current role he is responsible for the general management of the Emeco Global Asset and Procurement Groups.

Email: mick.turner@emecogroup.com

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