Susan Heron - CEO Since 2004

Ms Heron is a current Board member of Museums Victoria and the Malthouse Theatre. Previous Board appointments include NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited, Southern Health Care Network and Water EcoScience Limited. She was also Chairman of the Defence Reserves Support Council (Victoria), Deputy Chairman of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) and was a member of the Victorian Government’s Finance Industry Consultative Committee.

Prior to joining AIM, Ms Heron held various senior management positions including Chief Operating Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy, ANZ Institutional Banking; Executive Director and Head of Banking (Melbourne), Rothschild Australia; and Chief Manager at Westpac responsible for one of Institutional Bank Victoria’s largest teams as well as responsibility for Institutional Bank Perth.

Earlier career highlights for Ms Heron include employment as the only female shipbroker in Australia and one of only three in the world. During Ms Heron’s six years as a shipbroker, she became the first woman in Australia to qualify as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (London).
Ms Heron has a Diploma of Applied Science from RMIT and a Bachelor of Economics Degree from Monash University in Melbourne. Away from work, Ms Heron’s interests include scuba diving, archeology, history and plagues.