Mr Jason Comben,
Chairperson
CMPA Management Committee
Mr Drew Phillips,
Deputy Chairperson
CMPA Management Committee
Mr Jason Rudge,
Ass. Chairperson
CMPA Management Committee
Mr John Pititto,
Treasurer
CMPA Management Committee
John Pititto is a Chartered Accountant with over 18 years’ experience, he has been directly and indirectly involved with the quarrying industry for most of that time. John became treasurer of the CMPA in 2012 and continues with assisting clients in the industry.
In 2006 John became a Partner at Mead Partners Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors, where he has continued to be an influential partner to many of his clients in assisting them manage and grow their businesses.
Contact: enquiries@cmpavic.asn.au or Phone: 03 5781 0655
Mr Craig Banthorpe,
CMPA Management Committee Member
Craig is the Operations Manager for the Barro Group in Victoria and has been in this position since 2017. He has almost 30 years’ experience in the construction materials industry having held positions in sales, operations & transport.
He is a family man and enjoys travelling to see the sights locally and the world. He enjoys sports, particularly cricket although these days more as a spectator than a participant.
Craig has previously been involved with the CCAA and has more recently become a committee member of the CMPA. He has enjoyed being a participant in the CMPA due to the other members passion and knowledge for our industry.
Contact: enquiries@cmpavic.asn.au or Phone: 03 5781 0655
Mr Tim Bird,
CMPA Management Committee Member
Tim Bird is the Managing Director of Allstone Quarries Pty Ltd (ASQ). Tim has over 30 years of experience in extractive industries, C&D waste recycling, Premix and Precast concrete as well as transport. Over this time his experience has covered operational, maintenance, management and ownership of various plants and sites across the east coast of Australia.
Today the business has developed to encompass three integrated divisions: Quarries, Premix Concrete and Garden & Landscape Supplies.
Tim has been a Management Committee Member of the Construction Material Processors Association since 2005 and was Management Committee Chairperson from 2008 -2011, he is also an active member of the Bendigo Manufactures Group.
Website: asq.net.au
Email: tbird@asq.net.au
Mr Cameron Black,
CMPA Management Committee Member
Mr Andrew Burdett,
CMPA Management Committee Member
Andrew Burdett is on the Special Projects and Management Committees and has been a member of the CMPA since its inception where the Inaugural Meeting was held at the Epping Truckstop.
Andrew started in the family business as a teenager when Burdett’s was a Mum and Dad company with 4 trucks and a half share in a quarry. In the early years, together with his mother Pearl they went from strength to strength. Today with Andrew as Managing Director of the Burdett Group, the business has moved into the corporate world with a multi company dynasty comprising 3 Sand Quarries, a fleet of 65 trucks, a wholesale yard and retail garden supply outlet.
Andrew is well known throughout the industry and has a sense of humour second to none.
Contact: enquiries@cmpavic.asn.au or Phone: 03 5781 0655
Garry Cranny,
CMPA Management Committee 
Garry spent the first 27 years of his career in the Commonwealth Public Service, primarily administering facilities and entitlements for Victorian based Federal Parliamentarians, former Prime Minister’s and the Governor-General. He was also involved in several Royal Commissions, Government enquiries and the 1981 Melbourne Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
In 1996 Garry and several colleagues purchased DASCEM, a small environmental consultancy business from the Commonwealth and grew it to employ over 35 staff across four States.
A major DASCEM achievement was the National Halon Disposal Program and establishment of the Australian National Halon Bank (ANHB) at Tottenham in western Melbourne. The Halon Bank partnered in the development and introduction of new technologies for the safe environmental recovery and destruction of Australia and New Zealand’s surplus halons, CFCs and HCFCs.
The facility was the first of its kind in the world and was globally recognised by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA). In his DASCEM capacity, Garry was a member of successive Australian delegations to meetings of the Montreal Protocol, its associated technical working committees.
Garry delivered numerous presentations to UNEP international defence, environmental agency, fire protection and aviation industry conferences and was engaged by UNEP in the establishment of halon banking programs in a number of developing countries, e.g. China, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
From 2002 – 2005 Garry was based in the UK as a Director of an associated joint venture, DASCEM Europe. The JV was established to address the legislated European phase-out of ozone depleting substances across EC signatory countries.
In 2008, Garry commenced as Manager Sustainability at Dandy Premix following its acquisition of Yarra Valley Quarries (YVQ), Launching Place. The YVQ operation was subsequently extended for 20 years in 2010 with a further expansion option currently being explored.
In 2012 Dandy Premix acquired a Greenfield site at Grantville and subsequently commenced sand extraction and processing operations in early 2014. Expansion plans for the Grantville Commercial Sands (GCS) site are also under active consideration.
Garry is a Life Member and former seven year President of the Caulfield Football Netball Club, has been a Board Member of the Southern Football Netball League (SFNL) since 2007 and from 2010, has been League Vice Chairperson.
Mr Ashley Day,
CMPA Management Committee Member
Mr David McKelvie,
CMPA Management Committee Member
David began his working life in 1977 as a contract concreter and steel fixer in the residential and light commercial sectors of the construction industry.
In 1984 David began working in the construction materials industry, initially as a plant/operations manager in premix concrete, then a supervisor in hard rock quarries.
In 1994 David took on the inaugural and challenging role of Safety Manager Vic/Tas for CSR Readymix. In 2004 David became the National OHS Manager for Rinker Australia (now Holcim Australia) overseeing OHS Risk, strategy and performance for all Concrete, Quarries and Humes Pre Cast operations across Australia and for a period of time in China.
David left Holcim Australia in 2012 establishing Safe Mix in 2013 and has since worked closely with many Australian and New Zealand workplaces inclusive of family businesses, industry associations, law firms, public companies and local government.
Safe Mix is a Workplace Health and Safety Advisory business with a primary objective of providing OHS support to the Construction Materials Industry.
David holds a Graduate Diploma of Occupational Hazard Management, Quarry Managers and Shot Firers Certificate and is a Graduate of the IMD OHS Leadership Program undertaken in Lausanne Switzerland in 2010.
Working as a concreter, operations manager and safety manager has provided David with a unique insight as to what is required to bring people together to reduce risk and achieve sustainable safety results in a collaborative and respectful manner.
Website: https://safemix.com.au
Email: david@safemix.com.au
Phone: 0407 022 117
Contact: enquiries@cmpavic.asn.au or Phone: 03 5781 0655
