NGS Super has appointed John Battams as its independent chair, starting in the new year and replacing Geoff Newcombe who is stepping down on 31 December 2024.
Battams is currently the director and risk committee chair of QIC and chair of Queensland Teachers Union Health Fund, an APRA-regulated private health insurance fund.
Brett Lazarides is also appointed an independent director on the Investment and Risk, Audit and Compliance Committees, effective from 1 September 2024.
Lazarides has spent over a decade as an independent director of industry funds Combined Super and Prime Super, and held executive roles with UniSuper, Frontier, Perpetual, and NAB.