Directors

STI-Global is managed by an experienced team including the following:

Kevin Reichelt
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Reichelt is a Principal of STI-Global and is an experienced project development and management executive. Over the last twenty years, he has been the Principal Consultant and Managing Director of Project Marketing Pty Ltd - a specialist technology development and commercialisation company.

He has consulted to a range of industrial and technology companies and was an inaugural COMET (Commercialising Emerging Technologies) Business Advisor for the Australian Commonwealth. He has also been engaged by the Western Australian government to examine and evaluate bulk handling materials in India and advanced composites in the US.

Donald Searle
Executive Director - Technical

Don Searle is a Principal of STI-Global and has in excess of 35 years experience in the development and commercialisation of Australian developed railroad technology which has been taken worldwide to Canada, USA, South America, Europe, Southern Africa, Asia and New Zealand.

Don has a speciality background in metallurgical fatigue of rail and considerable experience dealing with track and train GIS based risk management systems. Don is a graduate metallurgist from RMIT in Melbourne.

Perry Cooper
Executive Director, Finance

Perry Cooper, an investment banker with 20+ years of experience and leads the Company's Co-investment Partnership, M&A activity and the STI-Global Finance Division activities. Perry has worked in positions that encompassed Portfolio Management, Syndicated/Leveraged/Project Finance and Structured Credit at the highest levels of several financial institutions.

Perry was a Director at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore with the Portfolio Management Group; an executive at Investec Bank in Sydney, and prior to that was Head of Originations, Syndicated Finance for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Societe Generale in Paris and Head of Emerging Markets prior to this position. He has also worked in London with Royal Bank of Canada and started his career with JP Morgan in Canada. Perry has an MBA (hons.) from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary.

Robert Grant
President & CEO, STI-Global S.A.

Robert Grant is the President and CEO of STI-Global's Madrid based subsidiary in Spain. He has extensive senior management experience with a range of UK and Spanish corporations and has been CEO of the organisation since its inception in 1999 as AEA Technology Global SA, a subsidiary of the former Research and Development Division of British Rail.

Following university in the UK he worked at GEC Napier Turbochargers in Lincoln for two years with graduate engineers and gained detailed technical knowledge of Gas Turbines and other high speed rotating machinery. Robert then moved to Spain in 1982 and began marketing British equipment for the marine engineering, defence, electronics and transport industries.

In his current position he is using this experience to consolidate the launch of STI Global and its product range in Spain, as well as continuing to manage the core rail business of the company.

Frederick John Randall
Non-Executive Director, Engineering

John Randall is an experienced Mechanical Engineer. He held Board equivalent positions with Mt Newman Mining Co. (now BHP Iron Ore) Harnischfeger of Australia and WorkSafe WA, where he was Chief Inspector from the introduction of occupational health and safety legislation in that State.

He was Operations Engineering Manager at Mt Newman Mining Co before being appointed Engineering Services Manager with engineering responsibility for their heavy haul railway and the materials handling operations at Newman and Port Hedland. He was involved in developing solutions to technical problems being experienced by the various heavy haul railways in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Jose Calderon
Director, Finance

Jose Calderon who is based in Madrid is an experienced lease/rental specialist and has recently joined STI-Global to join Perry Cooper in heading up the Co-investment Partnership. He will provide structuring expertise for leveraged leases and other financial products and has in excess of 20 years investment banking experience.

Prior to joining STI-Global, Jose completed the establishment of a €1.3 billion leasing structure for The Royal Bank of Scotland's leasing division. He has been involved in setting up leasing companies for such prestigious financial institutions such as Indosuez Group (now part of Calyon) and GE Capital. He has also worked for Arthur D. Little and IBM.