Reed is an acknowledged expert in optimising the management of storage tank networks with a career spanning over 22 years in the Oil Industry.

Reed began his career at Shell Australia, staying for 8 years, where he was responsible for the management of Health Safety and Environment Australian Retail and Distribution Network. Recognising a need for the better management of storage and wet stock tank management through outsourcing, Reed then joined with Shell colleague, Steve O'Brien, to form Leighton O'Brien.

The company originally provided SIRA and compliance testing to the retail petroleum market in Australia. It has now grown to provide SIRA, Compliance testing, pre and post bury services, bio fuel management and changeovers, and tank and fuel cleaning services to retail and commercial users around the globe.

Reed consistently engages with clients to assist them in improving their business practices to maintain better management of their storage networks and wet stock and most importantly to improve their bottom line. Reed is a well know industry knowledge leader and is regularly seen on the industry speaking circuit.

Reed received a B.A in Business (with distinction) from Curtin University, Australia.

Steve is responsible for building the technology behind Leighton O'Brien's signature SIRA systems. He has developed the Intellectual Property of the SIRA systems and other elements of the Leighton O'Brien service offerings.

Steve began his career in UST technology solutions at Shell where he was Environment Engineer and responsible for all environmental standards for the Shell retail network. Steve co-founded Leighton O'Brien with his colleague Reed Leighton in 1995. Steve drives the research and development of all of the leading edge technology Leighton O'Brien provides to the petroleum majors. He is an industry thought leader who constantly observes current market practices and develops improved solutions that keeps Leighton O'Brien's solutions at the leading edge of the market.

Steve received a B.E in Mechanical Engineering (Honours) from Monash University

As a principle member of Leighton O'Brien's Board of Directors, Michael takes an active role in setting corporate structure to develop and expand the business. His business and legal experience adds valuable insight to the company on many levels.

Michael has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, including business restructuring, corporate succession planning, commercial litigation, intellectual property and intellectual property licensing. With over 20 years experience in Succession Planning, Michael regularly conducts workshops throughout Australia to assist businesses of all sizes in setting up an effective succession plan for both voluntary succession events such as retirement, and involuntary events such as death, illness or accident.

Michael is a Chairman and Director of a number of boards, both publicly listed and private companies, including aviation, financial services and environmental businesses. He is actively connected to national and international networks and has consistently demonstrated commercial acumen and leadership with a track record of commercially focused strategic advice.

Based in Leighton O’Brien’s headquarters in Melbourne, Andrew brings a wealth of experience into running the everyday financial activities of the company but perhaps more importantly adds to the strategic financial planning of the various products, services and licensing agreements.

He began his career at Leigh Mardon, a security printing and electronic banking terminal manufacturer, where from 1990 to 1999 he held various accounting roles such as divisional accountant and progressed to the role of group cost accountant. He then moved to an IT company as Financial Controller. Over his tenure at this SME he worked with staff to provide clients an integrated accounting solution to meet their business needs and successfully grew the business from 1M to 5M.

Andrew holds a Bachelor Business (Accounting) from Monash University

Based in Australia, Peter leads the operations team globally, Peter is a long standing knowledge leader at Leighton O'Brien.

Peter a mechanical engineer by training joined the company 10 years ago from the Petro Chem industry in Victoria where he spent 10 years at ExxonMobil working as an operations engineer and shift manager.

Peter then joined the Leighton O'Brien team managing testing in Victoria and New South Wales, he was then promoted to National Operations Manager for Australia. This role later expanded into NZ and Asia. Peter is responsible for the training and development of Leighton O'Brien's field technicians and setting operations standards and procedures for company.

Peter received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (with distinction) from RMIT University, Australia.

Located in Singapore, George leads a team of Local Service Providers (LSP) based throughout Asia. These LSP's provide Tank & Line Integrity Testing to major oil companies in their respective countries.

One of the most experienced members of the Leighton O'Brien team, George has over 25 years in the petroleum industry- working for Shell, Mobil and Exxon Mobil before leading the Asian operations team.

George, a Mechanical Engineer, began his career at Shell before moving to Mobil and subsequently ExxonMobil. He held various roles during his tenure at these majors which included; responsibility for maintenance & repair in refinery and retail service stations and contracts and procurement services. Asian clients of Leighton O'Brien benefit greatly from George's depth of industry knowledge and his ability to use this in his daily practice and service delivery.

Based in Colorado, Steve JoHansen heads up the Western US division of Leighton O'Brien.

Steve brings over 30 years of sales, marketing and management experience to the Leighton O'Brien team. He is an industry expert in filtration as this has been his business focus for the past 20 years.

Steve began his career at Facet Filtration (a division of Purolator ) as Director of Marketing and Velcon Filters as New Business Development General Manager. He served as President of Algae-X, before joining Leighton O'Brien to set-up a new division in Colorado and surrounding states in October of 2008 as Vice President of Sales & Operations.

Steve attended Oklahoma State University.

Currently responsible for Leighton O'Brien's east coast US sales and operations, John's depth of experience is in the commercial sector and his international exposure.

John began his career in the military joining the US Marine Corps and then moving into Government Services as CIA Directorate of Operations where he worked around the world for 4 years. He then began his civilian career in South East Asia where he worked in an international sales role for a hand tool manufacturer. Returning to the USA, John held a succession of long term roles over the next 4 year selling electrical components, semiconductors, transformers, and power supplies for modems and test equipment. He then moved to build his knowledge in the Commercial Equipment sector selling Tanks, Leak Detection Equipment, Fuel Oil Pump Sets, Pumps and Boilers over the next 10 years before joining Leighton O'Brien.

John received his B.A. in National Security Policy and a B.A. Arabic, with a minor in Malay from Ohio State University.

Based in Australia, Tanith leads Leighton O'Brien's SIRA Team globally to ensure accurate and reliable delivery of all important tank monitoring data to individual and lager global contracts around the world.

Tanith began her career at BHP working as part of their Global Petroleum Exploration team. In 2000, after five years at BHP, Tanith used the experience she gained to become Leighton O'Brien's first SIRA analyst. As Leighton O'Brien and its customer base grew, Tanith moved into an account management role where she advised and managed large accounts. She then advanced to manage the Global SIRA Team and the associated functions in 2008.

Tanith received a Bachelor of Applied Science (Geology & Environmental Science) from University of Ballarat.

As Business Development Manager for Leighton O'Brien's SIRA offering in the UK, Leah is responsible for educating potential clients on the value and benefits of using SIRA to easily and comprehensively managing their total tank network.

The UK is the newest market for Leighton O'Brien, however, Leah draws upon her extensive experience gained as a SIRA Analyst handling Major global accounts at Leighton O'Brien. Leah joined the company in 2007.

Prior to joining Leighton O'Brien, Leah worked as a cytogeneticst at Cytogenic Services in Melbourne Australia. She has a BSc. degree in Genetics and Psychology from Melbourne University.

For much of Steve's career he has focused upon assuring delivery of technology-based projects through effective leadership of development and/or operational teams ranging in size from ten to forty staff across the Manufacturing, Distribution, Automotive and Banking/Finance industries.

Steve Began his career in the UK as an Database Developer within Polk UK, a UK based data mining and marketing company supporting the Automotive Industry. Steve was heading up technology support and development for key European Markets before being asked to establish a local IT operation in Australia which included procurement/commissioning of IT Infrastructure, hiring technology personnel and migrating proprietary software systems. Steve then lead the technology team within Australia for a further 8 years managing key technology deliveries for the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and major Vehicle manufacturers within Australia and New Zealand.

Steve then spent a year supporting National Foods in migrating their legacy database systems to a SAP, working with local and overseas teams by leading the Data Migration stream. This data migration was awarded the SAP implementation of the year award.

From here Steve spent nearly four years at National Australia Bank where one of Steve's more notable accomplishments was in managing the processing of the US Dollar Repo, (US economic crisis payout), within the Market Risk division of then nabCapital.