Governance

Gibsons JBS is proud to be 100% staff-owned and run company. Our senior management team is
responsible for the day-to-day running of the company, whilst our Board of Directors:

is established to govern—it addresses the ‘end’ and delegates the ‘ means’ to the management group; looks to the future—it devotes the majority of its time to considering the future and providing strategic leadership; is responsible to the shareholders for the management and performance of Gibsons JBS; and supports and maintains a culture of good governance, performance, accountability and communication within Gibsons JBS.

We can guide you through the implementation of a sound corporate governance protocol and also assist with the many other compliance issues that businesses face today.

Our Board of Directors includes the following prominent individuals:

Governance and Social Responsibility

Dr Miles Jakeman—Miles is the Managing Director of Gibsons JBS. He has significant overseas working experience with multinational companies in sales, marketing and business development capacities with full profit and loss responsibilities. His key skills cover business strategy, program management and security risk management.
Grant Kippen — Grant is the Chief Operating Officer of Gibsons JBS. Since leaving the Australian Army seven years ago, he has undertaken a range of consulting tasks for government and commercial clients. During his 25-year Army career, Grant gained significant experience in strategic management, business planning, facilitation, project and program management, training and leadership. He also participated in international peace keeping operations, managed high value government projects, worked extensively in regional Australia and contributed to strategy and policy development at Departmental level in Canberra. Grant holds tertiary qualifications in management and economics and has significant experience working with utility, banking and small business clients in Queensland and nationally.
John Spence Thomas — John is a Director of Gibsons JBS. He has a wide range of experience in regional and rural economic development, business development, community consultation, new project feasibility, planning and start-up work and marketing. He is recognised throughout Queensland as a leader in the field of effective community and business development and has substantial experience in leading multi skilled project teams. He led the team that carried out the Feasibility Study and Business Planning for the Museum of Tropical Queensland and developed the Strategy and Business Plans for the Qantas Founders Outback Museum, a QHTN project.
Geoff Thurgood — Geoff is a Director of Gibsons JBS who holds qualifications as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) backed by over 20 years of professional business consulting experience. His career includes work experience in several countries and he has extensive experience in consulting throughout Queensland.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility

We value our responsibilities as global corporate citizens. We take regular account of social,
environmental and ethical matters seeking to embed good practice into our business strategies
and operations. We benchmark externally with initiatives like FTSE4Good and the Dow Jones
Sustainability Indices to measure achievements, identify shortcomings and take appropriate
corrective action. We also comply with all requirements identified in the internationally recognised
Social Accountability 8000 standard.

Our corporate values include ‘Behaving with integrity’, ‘Valuing and trusting our people’ and
‘Respecting our communities’. These are enshrined in a ‘Code of Business Conduct’ to guide all staff
and to ensure that they act with integrity and impartiality.

We deliver services to a number of countries with different languages, ethnic and religious bases.

We reflect this diversity in our values and in the international quality of our services. We provide staff
training at all levels to motivate our employees, and offer opportunities for career development.

We are committed to a policy of non-discrimination and we champion diversity throughout our team.
We are members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which aims to uphold the highest
level of professionalism in directorship and to empower company directors and boards to attain
excellence in performing their duties and responsibilities. The Gibsons JBS Board has responsibility
for our Human Rights policy and wherever we operate we comply with local labour laws.

We make no political party donations, but engage with the government of the day on the issues
of importance to our business. We always consult stakeholders about community affairs and
environmental programmes because our business can touch local communities the world over and
successful interaction with the community is vital to success. We respect the cultures of our guests
and the rights of our employees.

We promote the exchange of ideas between employees and management, encouraging constructive
dialogue through a range of communication systems.

We regularly contributed to the Australian Red Cross, Australian Cancer Council and
The Shepherd Centre charities as part of a long-term commitment to return a percentage of profits
back to the communities in which we operate. In response to the 26 December 2004 tsunami in
Asia, we are also funding children in Indonesia through the Christian Children’s Fund.