Industry Advisory Board

Belinda Bentley

Belinda is the Founding Director of 9Springs, a leading independent project management and property advisory group, and is responsible for the group’s social infrastructure projects on behalf of government, not-for-profit, listed and private clients.

Belinda is a Non-Executive Director of Link Wentworth Housing, one of Australia’s largest Community Housing Providers servicing 10,000 residents living in 6,400 social, affordable and specialist disability homes.

In the Asia Pacific region, Belinda is an appointed member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Asia Pacific Housing Council and is a Jury Member of the ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence. 

For her contribution to the property and construction sector, including diversity, equity and inclusion advocacy, Belinda has been the recipient of the NAWIC NSW Business Woman of the Year Award, UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Alumni Award, UDIA National and NSW Women in Leadership Awards for Excellence, Johnson Partners’ and Asialink’s Asian-Australian Leadership Award (Entrepreneurship Category Winner) and the ULI Australia Young Leaders Scholarship. 

Belinda is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a NAWIC NSW mentor and a member of the UDIA NSW Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Nick Champan

An environmental scientist by training, Nick’s recent work has focussed on community resilience building and place management in local government in Sydney. 

At the UTS School of the Built Environment, he has contributed guest lectures for various post-graduate planning subjects for over twenty years, was a senior lecturer on staff for four years and has tutored numerous student projects on resilience, place management and urban sustainability. 

He is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre and a member of the Committee for Sydney’s Resilience Policy Advisory Council. 

As a long-standing community activist and former GreenWay Place Manager, he has made a significant contribution to the establishment of the multi award-winning Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay in Sydney’s Inner West, which is due for completion in 2025 at a cost of $55 million. He is currently Resilience Specialist at Willoughby City Council. 

Married with three children and living in Sydney, Nick is motivated by the need to “think global, act local” and “don’t get angry, get involved”!

Anthony Esposito

Anthony’s exploration of professional knowledge stems directly from his working life from tradesperson, Master Builder, Defence Veteran, Contractor-side project manager, Client-side project manager/director, Technology Director and senior advisor and practitioner to Government and Industry. 

Anthony's field of professional expertise and business lies within Australia's National Security Infrastructure Sector. His focus, the transformation and critical turnaround of Defence Infrastructure outcomes. He strategically bridges knowledge and practice across technical, commercial, and behavioural disciplines at organisational, project team and individual levels. 

After an initial 10 years within the construction industry, Anthony returned to school to complete his Higher School Certificate. He successfully enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as aircrew. After 18 months of training, he was posted to No. 11 Squadron conducting Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions globally throughout the 1990's before returning to the construction industry in 2000. His service embedded strong behavioural and cognitive skillsets of teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and relationship management across diverse multi-disciplinary teams and cultural environments. 

A strong believer in professional growth through education, Anthony retains his qualifications as a Carpenter and Joiner and licenced Master Builder (NSW) as unique rites of passage within industry. He holds Certificate IV`s in Leadership and Management, a Diploma of Science (Data Analysis), and is an alumnus of the UTS Business School gaining his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in 2017. Anthony has previous held Board appointments across Construction, Construction Technology and Not-For-Profit sectors. In 2024, Anthony was appointed as an Industry Professor to the prestigious UTS School of Built Environment. He is a member of the Schools Industry Advisory Committee and guest lecturer. 

As a passion project, Anthony is invested in the professional development of Army Civil Engineers and RAAF Airfield Engineers students and the Defence/Industry relationship. In 2018 in concert with Defence and Industry, Anthony initiated the Civil Engineer Work Experience Program (CEWEP). The program coordinates and manages the bi-annual placement of civil engineer student/Junior Officers as future Defence Construction and Project Managers with industry hosts across Australia. He remains the programs industry steward and convenor. 

Anthony lives in Sydney and is lovingly married to his wife Inna. He has three adult children Jessica, Luke and Joseph, daughter in law Laura and grandchildren Ella and Hunter.

Nicholas Luzar

Nick Luzar is the Chief Operating Officer of Fredon Group, one of Australia’s most diverse Electrical and Mechanical engineering companies. Nick holds a Bachelor of Building (Hons) and and Executive MBA from the AGSM. 

While he has predominantly helped to deliver traditional commercial buildings such as hospitals, schools, universities and defence projects, Nick has also been involved in civil infrastructure, tunnelling, and rail projects, demonstrating his breadth of expertise.  

Nick is passionate about education and is deeply committed to developing the future of the Australian construction industry. This includes working outside of his executive roles as a part-time lecturer in the university environment and supporting the NSW Building Commissioner’s Office in developing better regulation for the construction industry.

Kim Samuel

Kim is an urban planner with over 20 years of experience across the public and private sectors. Kim
has worked on a range of high-profile and complex with a particular focus on policy development,
regulatory reform, project management, infrastructure planning, statutory planning, rezonings, master planning and sustainable development. 

Kim holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning and a Masters in International Environmental Law. She has extensive experience in a range of policy areas including affordable housing, place-making, designing for resilience and community development. 

Kim is currently Director City Plans at the Department of Planning Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) where she is leading the delivery of the City Plan for the Western Parkland City. She is also a lecturer on planning processes, planning law and sustainability at the University of Technology Sydney and is currently working on a Churchill Impact Project with the Australian Human Rights Commission to prepare a Design Guideline for Access and Inclusion in Residential Development.

Prior to joining DPHI, Kim was a Director in the Planning and Places team at WSP where she managed a large team of planners. Kim was also previously the Director of Service Reforms at the NSW Land and Housing Corporation where she facilitated and project managed major government reform and policy programs, particularly as they related to the Corporation’s significant asset base. Prior to that she spent over a decade in planning consulting including nine years at Ethos Urban where she worked as the project director and lead planner on a range of complex planning and development projects.

Kim is an experienced negotiator and works well with a range of stakeholders, forming strong working relationships.

Carl Schibrowski

Carl is a senior real estate executive with more than 25 years’ experience delivering sustainable growth and profitability for leading global real estate leaders - Brookfield, Charter Hall, Macquarie Capital and Lend Lease. 

As Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Brookfield Properties Australia, he has evolved the business and led end-to-end strategies, financing and execution for complex and high profile equity investments in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, including Brookfield Place Sydney, 405 Bourke Street Melbourne One the Esplanade (Chevron) Perth. 

Joining the Lend Lease graduate program following a First-Class Honours degree in Architecture from Melbourne University, Carl took on important projects including the Newington Olympic Village for the Sydney 2000 Games, and Aurora Place Sydney before moving to Madrid to bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. 

He then relocated to the US as a member of the team that established the Lend Lease Capital and Real Estate Services business in New York City. Following a productive five-year tenure at Macquarie Capital and Charter Hall Group with key projects including 171 Collins Street Melbourne, he moved to Brookfield Properties in 2012, forming a new integrated development business unit and building a strong, sustainable presence in Australia with specific skills in originating, structuring, brokering new solutions with joint venture partners, negotiating and securing innovative funding and capital-raising structures to deliver projects fully let and to operational stability with above benchmark return. 

Carl also holds a Master of Business Administration from Melbourne Business School and Sauder UBC majoring in finance and investment. He is a past National Board Member of the Property Council of Australia (PCA), past President of PCA NSW and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Committed to advancing social awareness, Carl led the development of Brookfield’s first Reconciliation Action Plan, delivering a program of development via local community-focused charities.