CP Communications’ media releases

Bilfinger Berger Services (Australasia) Pty Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Louise Hicks as a director of the company and its subsidiaries.

Appointed a senior executive of the company in 2006, Ms Hicks has assumed the role of Executive Director Corporate Services.

Bilfinger Berger Services Managing Director, Mr Mark Elliott, said Ms Hicks is an experienced company director, commercial lawyer and chartered accountant with senior management experience in mergers, acquisitions and financing.

“Louise will bring considerable financial, management and corporate governance expertise to her directorship of Bilfinger Berger Services (Australasia) Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries,” Mr Elliott said.

Ms Hicks was formerly a Director of Ngarda Civil and Mining Pty Ltd, a Director and Audit Committee Chairman of the South Australian Superannuation Funds Management Corporation, Chairman of Flinders Consulting Pty Ltd and Deputy Chairman of the Resource Industry Development Board of South Australia.

Ms Hicks also served as Company Secretary and Corporate Counsel to the engineering and mining group, Henry Walker Eltin Group Limited.

Bilfinger Berger Services (BBS) is a specialist engineering contractor and high-end asset solution provider dedicated to relationship contracting. With over 3000 employees across Australia and New Zealand and an average revenue growth rate of 50% per annum over the past three years, BBS secured over $1.5 billion in new long term maintenance contracts in 2007.

Bilfinger Berger Services offers design, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, asset management services, automation systems and electrical switchgear manufacturing for clients in a diverse range of industries – power, mining and minerals, chemical and process, pulp and paper, telecommunications, transport, water and wastewater, health and oil and gas. For further details, visit www.bbsaa.com.au