Lynn WARNEKE
Lynn is an accomplished company Chair and Non-Executive Director of listed, private and public companies, with deep expertise in business transformation and change, digital & data strategy and programs, AI, emerging technologies and regulation. She has multi-sector experience across high-growth and highly regulated industries, including critical infrastructure and essential services, professional services, tertiary education, government, telecommunications, and the tech start-up and cyber sectors.
Lynn holds a Master of Laws (New Technology and Corporate Law specialisations) from the Australian National University.
Lynn Warneke
FGIA, FACS (CP), GAICD, LLM
CURRENT BOARDS
South East Water (SEW) Chair of the Board and member Network Assets & Sustainability Committee and Finance Audit & Risk Management Committee.
Government-regulated metropolitan retail utility providing fresh and recycled water and sanitation services to 1.8M customers and managing over $5B critical infrastructure assets in Melbourne’s rapidly growing south-east region.
Infotrust (ASX:ITS) Non-Executive Director and Chair Audit & Risk Committee.
Leading ASX-listed sovereign cybersecurity and secure managed technology provider, helping to secure the future of small, mid-market and enterprise customers across Australia. (Formerly known as Spirit Technology Solutions.)
RMIT University Council Member
Australia’s largest tertiary and vocational education institution supporting the education and career development needs of approximately 100,000 students, with multiple campuses in Australia and Vietnam and sites in Spain and across South East Asia.
VERNet Non-Executive Director and member Audit & Risk Committee.
Member-owned provider of high speed, high availability telecommunication infrastructure to the Victorian research, education, health and government sectors.
Boomaroo Nurseries and Boomaroo Holdings Non-Executive Director
One of Australia’s largest, privately held wholesale suppliers of seedlings to the fresh produce industry, operating at the intersection of innovation, agriculture and manufacturing with automated production facilities in Victoria and Queensland.
Iota Services Pty Ltd Non-Executive Director
Wholly-owned South East Water entity commercialising innovative products for the global water sector.
Feros Care Non-Executive Director and Chair Finance Risk Audit & Compliance Committee
Large charitable provider of residential and community aged care and disability care to 30,000 customers around Australia, and independent assessment services via wholly-owned subsidiary Aspire 4 Life.
Australian Community Services Organisation (ACSO) Non-Executive Director and member Strategy and Finance Risk & Audit Committees
Social services provider in the Vic, NSW and Qld justice sectors.
PREVIOUS BOARDS
EXECUTIVE CAREER SUMMARY
Lynn held Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Chief Digital Officer (CDO) roles, led strategic transformation and customer experience programs, and ran corporate services, technology, product and innovation teams in listed, public and private companies over her 25-year executive career.
Previously, she consulted to enterprise clients, including Nab, Origin Energy, Telstra and Coles, specialising in emerging technology applications and digital transformation.
She was awarded #7 in the CIO50 cohort of Australia’s most innovative CIOs in 2020, and received the Norton Rose Fulbright cyber law prize and ANU Chancellor’s Commendation 2022.
QUALIFICATIONS / AFFILIATIONS
Fellow, Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA)
Fellow and Certified Professional, Australian Computer Society (FACS) (CP)
Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
Master of Laws (New Technologies Law) (First Class Hons) Australian National University
Bachelor Arts & Information Science (University Medal, Hons), Charles Sturt University
Member, Chief Executive Women (CEW)
Member, ACS National AI Committee
EY Emerging Female Directors Program, 2023
AICD ASX Chairs Mentoring Program, 2022