Aurizon Holdings Limited announced that Tim Longstaff and Samantha Tough will join the Aurizon Board as non-executive directors with effect from 1 June 2023 and 1 September 2023, respectively. Tim is a chartered accountant and has had a 25-year career in investment banking, including a decade with Deutsche Bank where he was a Managing Director of Investment Banking focussed on mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. More recently, Tim served as Senior Advisor to a Federal Cabinet Minister in the Trade and Investment, and Finance portfolios.

Tim is a non-executive director of Snowy Hydro Limited and The George Institute for Global Health, and the ASX-listed Inghams Group Limited and Perenti Limited. He is also a member of the Takeovers Panel. Samantha initially trained and practised as a lawyer before moving into business where she has had a broad executive and director career in many sectors including energy, resources, engineering, agriculture, water, capital markets, law, and tertiary education.

Samantha's current executive role is with the University of Western Australia as Pro Vice Chancellor Industry and Commercial, with responsibility for the commercialisation of research and strategic industry partnerships. Samantha's non-executive roles include Chair of the West Australian energy utility, Horizon Power, and a director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Fluence Corporation Limited and Rumin8 Pty Ltd. As advised at Annual General Meeting in October last year, Kate Vidgen will be retiring as a non-executive director of Aurizon with effect from 31 May 2023.