Full background report
Deon Baddock
Managing Director Civil Infrastructure West
Career chronology
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Joined Decmil in November 2022 after NRW roles and joined Macmahon through its 2024 acquisition; managing director civil infrastructure west from September 2025.: Macmahon Holdings Limited — Managing Director Civil Infrastructure West. Annual Report FY2026 (physical PDF p. 44, executive biography)
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Before Macmahon acquisition in August 2024: Decmil Group Limited — Executive General Manager Western. Decmil Annual Report 2023 (pp. 24–25 management biographies); Acquisition of Decmil completed (p. 1 acquisition completion)
Education and qualifications
Qualifications and verification
Education dates not established · issuer reported · low materiality
The issuer reports civil/structural chartered professional status and postgraduate qualifications; independent register and award records were not reconciled.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer or professional biography reports qualifications; no direct independent verification is implied.
Relevance: Relevant to assessing professional preparation.
Annual Report FY2026 (physical PDF p. 44, executive biography)
Business failures and setbacks
Decmil prior financial setbacks
FY2022–August 2024 · documented · medium materiality
The Decmil scheme booklet’s independent expert reports company net losses of A$1.8m in FY2023 and A$1.8m in the half year to December 2023, following a A$103.2m loss in FY2022. Macmahon completed its acquisition of Decmil in August 2024. The FY2022 loss preceded Baddock and Barnes joining Decmil; Vaughan joined in 2019. These are company-level outcomes.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Executive roles overlapped some reported periods; the sources do not establish an individual causal contribution.
Relevance: Relevant to management of civil contracting and integration.
Decmil scheme booklet independent expert (independent expert section 5.6.1 financial history); Decmil Annual Report 2023 (printed pp.24–25 management biographies); Acquisition of Decmil completed (p.1 completed acquisition)
Suitability for the current role
Role-relevant professional experience
Through 2026-10-31 · analyst inference · low materiality
As an analytical inference, the reported experience is relevant to managing director civil infrastructure west: Joined Decmil in November 2022 after NRW roles and joined Macmahon through its 2024 acquisition; managing director civil infrastructure west from September 2025. The degree of individual contribution to past company outcomes is not established.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analytical assessment based on disclosed career; it is not a finding of personal delivery or misconduct.
Relevance: Matches documented experience to the role.
Annual Report FY2026 (physical PDF p. 44, executive biography)
Evidence gaps
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Independent verification of education, credential status, full prior-employer tenures and individual outcomes is incomplete.
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Focused public-source screening is not a comprehensive court, regulatory, criminal, sanctions or credential check; some historical employer records and local-language sources were not reviewed.