AJ Lucas Group Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Russell Eggers as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, effective immediately. His appointment follows a comprehensive executive search. Mr. Arnall, who has filled the role of interim CEO since January, will now relinquish this role and revert to being non-executive Chairman.

The company has also appointed two new non-executive directors, Mr. Ian Meares and Mr. Andrew Purcell. Mr. Martin Green, Mr. Mike McDermott and Ms Genelle Coghlan are all retiring from their directorships of the company. Mr. Eggers is the former CEO of Vinidex Pty Ltd. He is also the former CEO of Australian Drilling Services (renamed Easternwell).

Mr. Meares was recently an Executive Director, Engineering and Infrastructure, with Brookfield Multiplex where he had responsibility for the delivery of large scale infrastructure projects throughout Australia. Prior to this he was responsible for Mine Infrastructure Delivery at Leighton Contractors, Group Manager Business Development at Clough Limited and Managing Director of Bechtel Australia. More recently, Mr. Purcell founded Teknix Capital in Hong Kong.

Mr. Purcell also has experience across Asian markets, having been a Director of Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL and PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk.