Robert Stewart
Chairman
Rob Stewart was National Managing Partner of Minter Ellison, one of Australia’s leading law firms, for 11 years, retiring in June 1999. He spent five years with Pacific Dunlop from 1976 to 1981 in a variety of general management positions within the Footwear Group.
He is a Director of Melbourne IT Limited, an ecommerce infrastructure company providing key products and services such as domain names on the internet required by companies entering the digital economy; Chairman of C E Bartlett, one of the leading manufacturers in Australia of quality products in the fabrication of synthetic and canvas fabrics; Chairman of JobsJobsJobs Pty Ltd, an online jobs board; and a director of QSR International Pty Ltd, which produces qualitative research software. He is also a director of RMIT Training Pty Ltd and the Australasian Cardiac Surgery Research Institution Limited.
He was also a non-executive director of Memtec Ltd, a high technology filtration company, from 1988 until 1997. Memtec listed on NASDAQ and then the New York Stock Exchange prior to being taken over by a US company in 1997.
He is a former President of the Business/Higher Education Round Table and a former member of the Council of Wesley College.
