Board Members

Jeff Goss – Chairman & Non-Executive Director

Jeff has over 33 years experience in corporate Australia as a lawyer, in the areas of Banking and Finance Law and Corporate and Commercial Law, with an emphasis on work in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and as a company director.

Jeff has twice held the position of Chairman of Partners of Middletons Moore & Bevins (Sydney) and he has also been a board member of Middletons Lawyers. From 2001 to March 2004, Jeff was National Managing Partner of KPMG Legal, responsible for all aspects of that firm’s business and operations.

Jeff was previously managing director of Andelain Consulting, his own major projects consultancy responsible for advising on the Melbourne City Link Project, The Commonwealth Patrol Boat Replacement Programme and the acquisition of Delhi Petroleum. Until recently he was the Managing Director of Fox Legal Limited.

Jeff was the first Non Executive Director of Carson Group, a Trans-Tasman project management consultancy. He is currently Non Executive Chairman of Century Asset Management Group, an aggregator of renewable energy projects focused on the European markets.

Robin Jerome – Executive Director & CEO

Robin has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Management, he ran finance contract-recruitment divisions in London during the mid to late 90’s for Badenoch & Clark and subsequently grew the commerce division for Robert Walters in Australia.

Robin has worked in the recruitment industry for over 13 years and has managed recruitment divisions in London, Hong Kong and Australia. Working in senior management positions since the inception of Charterhouse, Mr. Jerome was a one of the Directors who set up the Charterhouse Sydney operation in 2003, he was then the Managing Director of Charterhouse Hong Kong during 2008 and is now currently the Managing Director of Charterhouse Australia.

Adrian Belle – Executive Director & General Manager, NSW

Adrian has close to 10 years recruitment experience and currently manages HJB, NSW.

Prior to joining HJB, Adrian worked for Charterhouse and formed an integral part of the foundation team which established the business in Sydney in 2003. In his last role at Charterhouse, Adrian was the Managing Director of Charterhouse Victoria; a business which he has managed from inception in 2006.

Prior to Charterhouse, Mr. Belle worked in the UK for Badenoch & Clark, a division of a Fortune 1000 recruitment company. He then subsequently returned to Australia and joined Robert Walters, a major UK listed finance Recruitment Company. Adrian holds a B.Sc from Curtin University of Technology.

Lancelot Fernandes – Non-Executive Director

Lance Fernandes is a Chartered Accountant, and has been Group Finance Director of the Charterhouse Group for the past 12 years.
Prior to this Lancelot worked for Siemens as the MIS Manager where he was responsible for the Country reporting/consolidation of the accounts for the Head Office in Germany and then for an international trading company.

Miles Hedge – Independent Director

Miles Hedge has over 35 years of commercial experience gained through appointments to a number of international businesses. Mr Hedge has a Bachelor of Economics degree from Sydney University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Mr Hedge was with Prime Television Limited as finance director for some years and then as GM Finance with Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific Limited, which was involved internationally in marketing mining explosives. Subsequent to that he became managing director of the Australasian operations of Ascom, a Swiss listed telecommunications group.

Prior to these appointments Mr Hedge gained international experience with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Sydney, London and Jakarta. He was also an associate director of the investment bank Gresham Partners Limited for some years.

In addition to Hamilton James & Bruce Group Limited (where he also chairs the Audit Committee) Mr Hedge is also chairman of SPAR Australia Limited and a non executive director of Stellar Group Pty Limited.