Emergent Group is evolving to position the business to meet the changing needs of Australian industries and to leverage and grow talent within.
Former Managing Director and Emergent Group employee of 34 years, Steven Smith, is stepping sideways to fill the new role of Executive Director – Strategic Projects. This role will focus on progressing initiatives identified by the Board.
Stepping up to oversee all aspects of the business in the role of Group Managing Director is Dr Glenn Platt, who formerly occupied the role of Executive Director – Strategy and Innovation. Glenn is well known in scientific and engineering circles as the former head of the CSIRO Energy Centre and as a recent inductee as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
Steven initiated these organisational changes, recognising that the business needed to transition the leadership of the Group in a controlled manner, rather than having to react to an unplanned event.
Glenn is very enthusiastic about leading the business into the future.
“It’s an honour and a privilege to be asked to be Group MD. Emergent Group is an incredible organisation with an amazing legacy that I look forward to working with the team to build on,” he said.
In addition to these two leadership changes at the Group level, Paul Reynolds, who held the position of Chief Operations Officer of Advitech, has become the Chief Executive Officer of the company. A new role, which reports to Glenn.
The Group’s remote communications company Acubis, with headquarters in Mackay, Queensland, also has a new CEO. Jeff Berg, who was the company’s General Manager, is moving into this newly created leadership role.
Glenn and Steven are both excited about these developments and are confident that the changes place the Group in an invigorated and stronger long-term position to meet the emerging challenges of Australian industry.
