The disasters that have befallen Fletcher Building were meant to hold one clear lesson - the board needed construction experience.
The veteran banker's immediate priorities as the new chairman of embattled wealth giant AMP will be to renew its board and strengthen its governance framework.
The banking veteran has taken a swipe at the corporate watchdog for focussing on the wrong things.
David Murray is not known for mincing his words,and he is typically frank when describing the challenge he confronts.
Forget AMP's women problem,activists highlighted David Murray's climate scepticism.
Is AMP chairman-elect,David Murray,a ladies man? We're about to find out.
Is the grandfather of vertical integration really the best man to lead the embattled giant?
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has savaged AMP in confidential correspondence written in March.
Further questions have been raised about the independence of Clayton Utz's report on AMP's financial planning arm.