CEO & Managing Director, Boral Limited

Member of the Australian School of Business Advisory Council

Following graduation from the University of New South Wales, Mr Pearse spent two years as a National Serviceman in the Australian Army.

Mr Pearse completed an MBA at Harvard University from 1971 to 1973.  He then returned to CSR in Australia and worked in CSR’s Iron Ore, New Business, Building and Construction Materials, Energy and Coal Divisions in both functional and general management roles between 1974 and 1989.

In 1989 he joined Shell where he was General Manager Drayton Coal JV in the Hunter Valley (NSW), Corporate Treasurer for Shell Australia (Melbourne), and Area Co-ordinator (Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa) / Finance Co-ordinator for Shell’s Latin American and African countries where he was based in London.

Mr Pearse joined Boral Limited from Shell in August 1994, as Managing Director for the Construction Materials Group in Australia.  In January 2000, Mr Pearse was appointed CEO & Managing Director of Boral Limited.

Mr Pearse is a Board member of the Business Council of Australia, Chairman of the BCA’s Sustainable Growth Task Force, a Councillor of the Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF), Chair of Outward Bound Australia and Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Sydney Walk Committee.

BCom (Hons) from University of New South Wales; MBA (High Distinction) from Harvard University.