Lindsay Maxsted

Lindsay Maxsted is an Australian businessman. He served as the chairman of the board of Westpac.

Biography Maxsted was born and raised in Geelong, Victoria.

From July 1984 to February 2008, he was a partner of KPMG Australia and, from January 2001 to December 2007, was its CEO.

According to the Australian Financial Review, some of those payments may have gone towards "live-streamed child abuse". The bank was also accused of breaching money laundering and counter-terrorism finance laws, and was accused of 23 million breaches in total.

Maxsted was chairman of the board of Transurban and a director of BHP. He was on the board of the Victorian Public Transport Corporation from December 1995 to 1997, and was its chairman until 2001. He served on the board of trustees of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.

In January 2020, Maxsted announced that he would not seek re-election as a director of BHP.