Rest appoints experienced governance leader as company secretary
The industry super fund has appointed a new company secretary with extensive governance experience.
Rest has appointed Ed Waters as company secretary, bringing more than 15 years of governance experience across the superannuation and financial services sectors.
Rest’s chief strategy and corporate affairs officer, Tyrone O’Neill, said Waters’ governance expertise will support the fund’s goal to make super simpler for its more than 2 million members.
O’Neill added that Waters is “highly focused with a strong commercial mindset and has a proven ability to build effective working relationships across different industries and jurisdictions”.
He further stated that Waters is “an experienced secretarial and senior legal professional, with more than a decade of in-house experience”, noting that his familiarity with profit-to-member super funds and the regulatory environment is particularly valuable.
“We are delighted to welcome Ed to Rest,” O’Neill said
Waters joined Rest from AustralianSuper, where he was the deputy company secretary since 2021, including two periods as acting company secretary in 2022 and 2023.
Before joining the superannuation sector, Waters worked at Bupa from 2008 to 2021 in a series of legal and governance roles, finishing as senior legal adviser – head office advisory.
In that position, he provided governance and company secretarial support for Bupa’s 13 subsidiary boards in Australia and New Zealand.
Since 2020, Waters also volunteered as board secretary for Ready Set, a charity supporting vulnerable job seekers through clothing and career coaching services.
He officially joined Rest on 10 November 2025.
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Adrian Suljanovic
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