Mr Hardie is a practising commercial lawyer and experienced General Counsel & Company Secretary with more than 20 years' legal, corporate advisory, and governance experience across a range of industry sectors including mining and resources, construction, manufacturing, and financial services. Mr Hardie also has extensive public company board experience in both non-executive and executive leadership roles, having been a chairman, director, non-executive director, legal counsel, company secretary and adviser to ASX listed companies.

Mr Hardie is a member of the Law Society of WA, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Ausstralia.