Margie Seale

Margie has been a music lover and keen reader all her life. After an executive career which culminated in her being CEO of Random House Australia and New Zealand, and President of Asia Development for Random House, Inc, she joined the non executive world. Currently she is a non executive director of Westpac Banking Corporation, Westpac Scholars Trust and Scentre Group. Previously she served on a variety of other boards including Telstra Corporation, Ramsay Health Care, Penguin Random House, Chief Executive Women, Sydney Writers’ Festival and the Powerhouse Museum.

In 2015, with her husband, Margie founded philanthropic literary travel company Ponder & See, which funds literary adventures for interested readers. She donates funds and time to create, organise and lead the trips and gives away proceeds to writers’ festivals or individual writers.

She is an avid traveller, reader, and music lover, and undertakes arduous walking and cycling trips so she can eat delicious food.