AusNet Services announced the appointment of a Non-Executive Director, Dr. Nora Scheinkestel. Dr. Scheinkestel has been appointed as a Director and as a member of the Audit and Risk Management and Nomination Committees. Dr. Nora Scheinkestel is an experienced company director having served for over 20 years as a non-executive Chairman and Director of companies in a wide range of industry sectors and in the public, government and private spheres. She is currently Chairman of Macquarie Atlas Roads Limited as well as a Director of its stapled entity, Macquarie Atlas Roads International Limited and of Telstra Corporation Limited and Stockland Group. In the utility sector, Dr. Scheinkestel has served as both Chairman and Director of a number of gas, water and electricity companies. The company also announced that Ms. Tina McMeckan has informed the Board that she will not seek re-election as a Director and will therefore retire from the Board at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting, which will be held in July 2017.