Executive team

Bill Parker

CEO

Bill Parker is the Chief Executive Officer of the City of Wanneroo, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience across both metropolitan and regional local government in Western Australia. He holds extensive expertise in corporate services including property, finance and administration, strategic management, and community-focused governance.

Kirstie Davis

Director, Community and Place

Kirstie has more than 20 years’ experience in social policy and strategic planning has a strong background in community engagement and place management, with extensive experience planning and overseeing community facilities. She held previous roles at the Shire of Harvey, where she was instrumental in representing the needs of residents, ratepayers and visitors through the provision of key community, sporting and cultural assets as the Director of Community and Lifestyle.

Harminder Singh

Director, Assets

Harminder brings nearly three decades of experience in infrastructure planning, asset management, and community-focused service delivery. Since joining the City in 1996, he has held diverse technical and leadership roles, culminating in his appointment to the Executive as the City’s Director Assets in 2015. He is passionate about delivering sustainable, high quality infrastructure that supports a vibrant and thriving community.

Chris Leigh

Director, Planning & Sustainability

Chris Leigh oversees the City’s land use planning and development functions, from project inception, assessment and approval, through to supervising the construction and delivery of new developments and communities. He is the former Director of Planning and Community Development at the City of Joondalup and also held previous planning roles at the City of Stirling and in the private sector.

Emma Woolaston

Director, Corporate Strategy and Performance

Emma Woolaston brings more than 20 years’ leadership experience across strategy, organisational performance and corporate services. She leads the City’s corporate strategy and performance functions, supporting delivery of the Council Plan and strengthening how the organisation plans, measures and delivers for the community. Emma brings strong experience in leading strategic improvement and organisational performance.

Jeff Jones

Interim Director, Transformation

Jeff Jones is the City’s Interim Director Transformation, leading strategic initiatives across digital innovation, data, business improvement and organisational transformation.

With more than 30 years of experience in the local government sector, Jeff is driving efforts to build a more agile, efficient and future-ready organisation. 

His extensive leadership background includes roles in information technology, organisational improvement and strategic transformation.