Prior to joining AMMA, Geoff was the Principal Employee Relations Adviser with the Kellogg Joint Venture on the Gorgon Project and has had extensive legal and HR/IR experience including:

§ providing advice on legal issues affecting employers including corporate governance, contractual disputes, risk management and general drafting restraint clauses, insurance and indemnity clauses;

§ representing employers in courts and tribunals including the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Tribunal, the Coal Industry Tribunal, the Magistrate’s Court, the WA Supreme Court, the WA Administrative Tribunal and the Federal Court of Australia;

§ managing and resolving industrial disputes and negotiating and finalising employer/union agreements in the iron ore, gold and coal mining industries; and

§ providing consultancy services in resolving employee conflict, workplace restructuring and drug and alcohol policies.

Geoff has held roles as a Managing Director of CCI Legal and Migration Services. He has also worked in employee relations with Goldsworthy Mining, BHP Iron Ore and was the on site IR representative for the HI-Smelt Research and Development Facility.

Geoff’s Qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts with a Double major in Industrial Relations and Politics and Bachelor of Laws. He is a practicing Solicitor/Barrister of the Supreme Court of West Australia and the High Court of Australia.

While Geoff is currently based in the Perth office, he divides his time between there and AMMA’s Sydney office.

Based: Perth office

Phone: 08 9221 5444

Fax: 08 9221 5422

Email: waamma@amma.org.au