Executive Leadership Team

Nick Easy

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Nick has more than three decades of leadership experience in complex organisations across the transport, logistics and emergency services industries, Nick has strong business leadership, project management and transformation skills.

At Queensland Rail he is leading a strategic transformation program focused on delivering a modern, customer-focused, reliable and accessible rail network for customers.

Prior to commencing at Queensland Rail, Nick was the CEO of the Port of Melbourne, Australia’s largest container and general cargo port, where he managed $10 billion of land and sea assets.

Katarzyna Stapleton

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Group Executive Finance and Corporate Services

Kat is a high impact, agile and driven leader with executive experience in finance, commercial and operational roles, both locally and internationally.

Passionate about customer experience, Kat is recognised for driving strategic change through large scale transformation initiatives in highly complex and challenging environments across public and government organisations.

Prior to commencing at Queensland Rail, Kat held a number of executive roles with nbnCo and as CFO for Bahrain Telecommunications company.

Scott Cornish

Group Executive Safety, Risk and Assurance

Scott has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas, transport and logistics industries for major producers and railway operators across the globe.

He has held senior management roles focused on operations, health, safety and environment, risk management, security and the community.

Scott is a highly experienced leader with an outstanding track record of implementing innovative strategies and initiatives that deliver safety outcomes in high risk operating businesses.

As Group Executive Safety, Risk and Assurance, Scott is responsible for workplace health and safety, rail safety assurance and risk and compliance activities across Queensland Rail.

Rebecca Munn

Group Executive People and Culture

Rebecca is an adaptable and experienced executive with more than 20 years’ experience in management and senior roles, both globally and locally. She has worked across public, government and private organisations.

Rebecca is passionate, and results driven and is most effective in large, complex, challenging and diverse environments. She brings a broad range of external experience from multiple industries, including emergency services, mining and manufacturing.

As Group Executive People and Culture, she is responsible for people capability, employee relations, people services, planning our future workforce and supporting engagement and well-being at Queensland Rail.

Scott Riedel

Head of SEQ

Scott is a results-oriented and tertiary qualified business leader with a solid technical background and strong commercial acumen. Scott has more than 30 years' experience in the Australian, Asian and United Kingdom rail industries.

As Head of SEQ, Scott is responsible for the operational and strategic management of the Queensland Rail’s network. His team ensures Queensland Rail provides a safe and reliable network for the people of Queensland, and delivers progressive commercial outcomes for the government and Queensland Rail.

Natalie Roach

Group Executive Customer and Corporate Affairs

Natalie is a motivated and accomplished senior executive leader with 20 years’ international experience in driving strategic change, transformation and customer experience improvements in the global aviation and travel industries.

Natalie has extensive experience in operations management, stakeholder engagement, communications and business transformation and has demonstrated success in driving efficiencies in complex and highly regulated environments whilst improving the customer experience and service levels.

As Group Executive Customer and Corporate Affairs, Natalie champions a customer-focused strategy and culture across Queensland Rail. She is responsible for the Customer Experience, Accessibility and Corporate and Government Affairs (including media relations) functions.

Jim Benstead

Head of Regional

Jim has more than 30 years’ experience in the transport and logistics industries.

Throughout his executive career he has specialised in driving business improvement, delivering transformational change and leading outcome-focused commercial teams.

As Head of Regional, Jim is responsible for Queensland Rail’s Regional operating business including the valuable services we deliver to our Travel and Tourism and freight customers.

Christopher Gregg

Group Executive Strategy, Planning and Transformation

Chris is an experienced executive, with leadership qualities proven under tough circumstances and enjoys the opportunity of working with teams to deliver organisational transformations.

Having more than 40 years' of experience in the transport industry, he has core capabilities in strategy, commercial, operational planning, logistics, continuous improvement and change management. Chris previously held the position of Senior Vice President Freight for Aurizon, Australia’s largest freight railway operator where he managed the transport of over 100 million tonnes of wet and dry grocery goods, general cargo, iron ore, alumina, fertilizer grain and mineral concentrates.

As Group Executive Strategy, Planning and Transformation, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership and management of Queensland Rail’s enterprise strategies, integrated planning and transformation strategy.

Rupert Holloway

Group Executive Major Projects Integration

Rupert has 25 years' experience in the construction industry, having worked for both client and contractor organisations delivering rail infrastructure and civil engineering projects in the UK, Canada and Australia.

As Group Executive Major Projects Integration, Rupert is accountable for the performance of Queensland Rail’s project delivery, and for leading Queensland Rail’s activities in relation to the Cross River Rail and ETCS Projects.