Executive Team.
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Philip Kearns
Chief Executive Officer
Phil joined the AVJennings team as a Director of the Board back in March 2019 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2022. With over 15 years corporate leadership experience, he has been instrumental in driving cultural change, building new revenue streams and improving stakeholder engagement in banking, insurance and financial planning all with involvement in the property sector.
In 2017 Phil was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the community through support for charitable organisations, to business, and to rugby union at the elite level. He played 67 tests for the Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies (1989-1999) and captained the team ten times.
Stenio Orlandi
Chief Operating Officer
Stenio has held several senior roles at AVJennings, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. This follows on from Chief Financial Officer, then Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to these, he was the Executive General Manager, New South Wales, for AVJennings’ residential land development activities.
With over 25 years industry experience, Stenio’s work has encompassed an extremely broad range of activities in all aspects of residential land subdivision and development, covering projects from large homes through to major land subdivision schemes and apartments.
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Shanna Souter
Chief Financial Officer
Joining the AVJennings Team in early 2023, Shanna has more than 20 years’ experience with over 14 of those in the property industry holding senior management roles. Prior to joining AVJennings, she spent 11 years at Mirvac, most recently in the role of GM, Finance and Operations, Residential overseeing a wide range of finance and operational activities across its residential business. She also held previous roles within its construction business and as its Head of Internal Audit. She has also held roles at Brookfield Infrastructure and EY.
Shanna has a strong track record of transformation, stakeholder management and building high performing teams which fits in very well with the Company’s ambition and strategic direction.
Carl Thompson
Company Secretary & General Counsel
Joining AVJennings as Company Secretary in 2009, Carl has enjoyed a long and successful career in corporate and commercial law.
He was a partner at national law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth before becoming Company Secretary and General Counsel at Downer EDI Limited.
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Lisa Hunt
General Manager, Human Resources
Lisa Hunt joined AVJennings as General Manager Human Resources on 22 June 2009 and has over 20 years’ experience working in senior roles in HR and WHS in the Financial Services and Motoring and Services sectors across Australia and New Zealand. Prior to moving into HR roles, her career included over 10 years in banking.
As our General Manager Human Resources, she is an invaluable part of the AVJennings family. That’s because she leads our search for people who share our vision of building quality homes and communities.