Presiding over the public hearing will be Labor senator Deborah O’Neill, who brought the matter to public attention via a senate speech in March this year.
The most prominent attendee is Cricket Australia chair and former NSW premier Mike Baird, but the committee will also get to grill KPMG Australia’s former CEO Andrew Yates and senior partner Julian McPherson – who both abruptly resigned last month after the company confirmed confidential client data had been shared. Their former chair at KPMG Martin Sheppard will give evidence too.
Other KPMG board members, Patty Akopiantz and Jane Hemstritch, will also appear.
Lendlease CEO Tony Lombardo, and chairman John Gillam will also appear as will senior partners from the law firms called in by KPMG before the scandal became public: Ashurst and Allens.
