Ms Cade was appointed Chair of South East Water in October 2015. She has extensive experience in the utility, infrastructure and construction industries as a director, executive and an advisor, specialising in business strategy, organisational change, strategic stakeholder engagement, incentivised procurement models and major projects.

Ms Cade is Chair of the Australian WaterSecure Innovations Ltd, a Director of the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre and a Director of the Victorian Water Industry Association. She is a member of the Value Assessment Panel of the University of Melbourne School of Engineering and is a Global Advisor to the UN Global Compact – Cities Programme, based at RMIT. She was formerly Chair of Western Water and National President of the Australian Water Association.