David Harrison was appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director of James Hardie effective 19 May 2008. He is a member of the Joint and Supervisory Boards and the Remuneration Committee.
Experience: Mr Harrison is an experienced company director and has a distinguished finance background having served with special expertise in corporate finance roles as well as international operations and information technology.
He is Managing Partner of the US financial investor HCI Inc. and previously spent seven years at Pentair Inc. as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. His experience also includes roles as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Scotts Inc. and Coltec Industries Inc. and numerous accounting and financial roles held during 22 years at Borg-Warner/GE culminating in his appointment as Vice President Finance Europe/Canada and Director Finance North America.
Directorships of listed companies in the past three or more years: Current - Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for National Oilwell Varco (since 2003); Director and member of the Audit & Finance Committee for Navistar International (since 2007).
Other: Member of Ohio University MBA Advisory Board (since 2003) and of the Iredell County / Twin Cities / Charlotte Salvation Army Advisory Board (since 1995); resident of the United States.
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