Leadership Driving Essential Infrastructure
Mayfield Group Holdings is led by an experienced Board and executive team with deep expertise in manufacturing, engineering, infrastructure, and financial management. Our leadership brings decades of operational excellence, industry knowledge, and proven track record in building and scaling businesses.
Board of Directors
Simon Higgins
Non-executive Chairperson
Simon is an experienced executive in the mining, industrial and energy markets with expertise in large-scale remote construction projects. Simon was the CEO and Managing Director of multidiscipline contractor ECM until it was acquired by GenusPlus Group (ASX: GNP) in 2019. He later served as an executive for GNP until 2021. He was the past Chairman of the National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) WA Chapter. Simon has served as non-executive Chairman of Renewable Energy focused Volt Power Group (ASX: VPR) until 2022 and remains on the VPR board as Non-Executive Director. Simon currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Rae Capital, a privately owned investment company with a diverse asset, property and equities portfolio.
Lindsay Phillips
Non-executive Director
Lindsay is an experienced private equity investor. His experience includes seven years (1980-87) with Price Waterhouse and over 37 years in investment banking/ private equity commencing in 1987 with M.J.H. Nightingale & Co. Limited in the UK/USA/Europe and then Australia from 1995, including five years (2007-12) as Managing Director of Lazard Australia Private Equity. He is also the Chairman of two private equity investment companies (Nightingale Partners Pty Ltd and Phoenix Development Fund Ltd) and serves as a director on the Boards of a majority of their investee companies.
Alan Steele
Non-executive Director
Alan is a strategic and innovative thinker with broad-based experience in project and operational management, finance and business growth. Alan was part of the management buy-out of Mayfield in 2012 and served as CEO until January 2019. Drawing on his extensive experience in project and operational management, including 8 years of executive management with Schneider Electric in Australia, Alan excels in setting clear objectives and a vision for the businesses to enable clear market
differentiation and market-leading performance.
Rod Henderson
Non-executive Director
Rodney Charles Henderson (Rod) has been appointed as a Non-executive Director effective immediately. Rod has over 25 years of experience in electrical engineering and manufacturing, including CEO and Managing Director for 11 years of one of Australia’s largest privately owned engineering and manufacturing companies. During this time, Rod was also a director of a joint venture research and development company with the University of Newcastle and a director of a joint venture renewables manufacturing business with a West Australian power utility. Rod holds an MBA from the University of Newcastle, the Eng Exec Companion credential from Engineers Australia, the Fellow credential from the Australian Institute of Management and the Member credential from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Passionate about driving innovation, sustainability, and growth for Australian manufacturing, Rod has been an advocate at multiple levels of government across Australia.
Andrew Rowe
Executive Director
Andrew has over 31 years of experience across publicly listed and privately held engineering, construction, resource, and energy companies nationally and internationally. His previous roles include COO of Calibre Global, CEO of Perth Energy, and CEO of MSP Engineering. He has proven success in building high-performing teams and in establishing, transforming, acquiring, and growing businesses to improve profitability and achieve sustained growth.