Former Google Head Maile Carnegie joins Taronga Group to advance energy and digital infrastructure innovation

Australia, 22^nd October, 2026 - We are delighted to announce yet another expansion of the team, welcoming Maile Carnegie AM as Senior Advisor with a focus on energy and digital infrastructure.

Maile will work alongside Taronga's institutional partners to address some of the critical challenges emerging from the rapid expansion of data centres and AI infrastructure. Her role will focus on supporting the identification and deployment of technologies that can improve energy efficiency, infrastructure resilience and asset performance, while helping address constraints around power, cooling and grid capacity.

Maile brings more than three decades of senior executive experience spanning technology, services and consumer markets. She was the Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand for Google from 2013 to 2016, before joining ANZ Bank, where she initially led Digital Banking and subsequently held responsibility for digital transformation and Retail Banking. Prior to Google, Maile spent more than 20 years at Procter & Gamble, including as Managing Director Australia & New Zealand and General Manager for Asia Strategy, Marketing and Design.

In 2026, Maile was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to corporate administration in senior executive roles and to governance and advisory positions.

I am delighted to be joining Taronga Group at such a critical point in the development of digital infrastructure. The extraordinary growth in AI and data infrastructure creates both a significant investment opportunity and an infrastructure challenge.

The next generation of data centres will need to be more energy efficient, resilient and responsive to the energy systems and communities in which they operate. Technology has an important role to play in enabling that transition and in ensuring the infrastructure being developed today is positioned for the demands of the future.

Taronga Group Managing Director Avi Naidu said data centres had rapidly become a core institutional infrastructure asset class, underpinned by unprecedented growth in AI and cloud demand.

"But delivering the next generation of capacity will require more than capital," Mr Naidu said. "It will require solutions to increasingly complex challenges around power availability, cooling, grid capacity, resilience and, importantly, community expectations."

Fellow Managing Director Jonathan Hannam said the firm's focus was on identifying and deploying technologies that improve the performance and resilience of new and existing data centres, while addressing some of the critical constraints to their development.

"Maile brings exceptional experience at the intersection of technology, large-scale organisations and strategic transformation," Mr Hannam said. "We are thrilled to have her working alongside our institutional partners as we navigate this rapidly evolving sector."