The company’s chief operating officer Joel Tissier will assume the role from January.

Bradley has spent more than 20 years with Domino’s in France, including as a franchise owner.

Flight expands its board

Kirsty Rankin has been appointed to the Flight Centre board.

Rankin is the chief executive of Pinpoint, a company specialising in customer loyalty. She is also a director of Azupay, Stone & Chalk and Skyfii.

Chair Gary Smith said Rankin had vast experience in areas that were critical to the Flight Centre business.

Tourism boss appointed

Elsa Delassio has been appointed the chair of the Queensland Tourism Industry Council.

Delassio has been a director of the organisation for about a year. She is also an executive at Brisbane Racing and a member of the Lord Mayor’s business advisory council and was previously a chief executive of Aviation and Tourism Strategy Company.

She takes over the position from Shane O’Reilly.

Earlier this year, Brett Fraser replaced Daniel Gschwind as chief executive.

UniQuest adds to board

UniQuest, the commercialisation company of The University of Queensland, has appointed Professor Mark Blows to its board.

Blows, currently UQ’s acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) previously served as UQ’s Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and the head of UQ’s School of Biological Sciences. He holds a PhD in Genetics from La Trobe University and was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2011.

Dr Julian Clark was also reappointed to the board, having first joined UniQuest in 2019.

Clark has 40 years’ international experience in governance and executive roles in technology transfer of biomedical and health innovations, both from academic and public research.

Professors Edwina Cornish and Matthew Morell were also appointed to the board in August last year. John Grant was made chairman in June 2021.

Bustech looks for growth

BusTech Group has appointed Martin Hall as its chief commercial officer.

His role will include oversight of the Burleigh heads facility and the company’s growth strategy in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.

Hall has 14 years of experience as an industry executive and has been responsible for implementing zero emission strategies.

Urbis gets transport planning boss

Urbis has appointed Andy Johnston as its new Director of Transport Planning in Queensland.

The company said Johnston had an expansive career with over 20 years’ experience as a traffic engineer and transport planner.

Johnston’s appointment would expand the company’s transport advisory service within Queensland. He joins Graham McCabe, Alison Lee and Supun Perera to help grow this aspect of the business across New South Wales and Victoria.

Halliday to lead medical college

The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine said Dr Dan Halliday would lead the college as President from October 2022.

Halliday will succeed Dr Sarah Chalmers whose presidency ends at the college’s annual general meeting in October.

Chalmers says she was proud to be handing the baton to Halliday, who had a long association with ACRRM.

“I have worked alongside Dan on College representative committees and College council for a long time, and am confident he has the commitment, skills and knowledge to lead ACRRM into the future,” she said.

“He is highly engaged in the profession, both within ACRRM and through advocacy and support of contributing stakeholder groups.

“I am sure through his strong but calm leadership style, ACRRM will continue its smooth transition to College-led Training, and remain a strong contributor to meeting the healthcare needs of rural and remote communities.”

Wilsons brings Catalano back to Brisbane

Stockbroker and private wealth manager Wilsons has repatriated Queenslander Sam Catalano from London to be its new head of natural resources within the equities research team.

Catalano has spent 16 years in the UK as a mining analyst and was more recently Canaccord Genuity’s Head of UK Mining Research.

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