Mark Johnson

Mark joined Stonehouse at inception in 2012 and as a Non-Executive Director in 2020. Mark has spent more than fifty years in Australian banking and corporate finance, and brings tremendous knowledge, experience, and networks to Stonehouse and its subsidiaries.

He retired as Deputy Chairman of Macquarie Bank in 2007 and as Chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group in 2010. He has also served as Chairman of AGL Energy, Alinta Energy and Guinness Peat Group, and been a Director of Westfield Group and One Market Limited.

Mark was Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force in 2009-10, an Australian Government initiative directed towards ensuring efficiency and competitiveness in the financial services sector.  From 2002-2013 he was one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and Chairman of the APEC CEO Summit in Sydney in 2007.  He was Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2005 to 2008.

Current affiliations include: Chairman of the ASIC External Advisory Panel, a member since 2019, Chairman of the US Study Centre Foundation at Sydney University, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the APEC Study Centre at RMIT University and Director of AsiaLink.  He has recently retired from the Board of Governors of the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide, and the Advisory Council of SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong. 

Mark was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010 and is a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Tonga) and a Life Governor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA from Harvard.  He is a Fellow of the AICD.