Naomi is Channel Infrastructure’s CEO, a role she previously held for Refining NZ.
Naomi was appointed at the start of 2020, and has led the company through a huge period of change, commencing a comprehensive strategic review when she joined, to determine the best way forward for the business. She has led a major business simplification, enabling the company to continue to operate through extensive periods of low refining margins and COVID impacts on demand, creating time for stakeholder engagement on future plans and negotiation with customers, before a final decision was made to shift to import terminal operations from April 2022.
Over this period Naomi has been committed to ensuring the safe and reliable supply of fuel to New Zealand, and to supporting the Refining NZ workforce to get ready for the future changes.
Prior to joining Refining NZ, Naomi was Executive Vice President at Santos Ltd, one of Australia’s largest independent oil and gas producers, where she was responsible for Santos’ midstream infrastructure assets including oil, gas and LNG processing facilities. Prior to Santos, she held leadership roles in steel and iron ore businesses.