The new appointments to GIAB are:
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Jo Brosnahan, chair Landcare Research
Andrew Ferrier, chief executive Fonterra Co-operative Group
Prof Roger Field, chair NZ Vice Chancellors’ Committee
Bryan Gould, chair Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
Sam Knowles, chief executive Kiwibank Limited
Dr Peter Lee, chief executive officer Auckland UniServices Limited
Jonathan Ling, chief executive Fletcher Building Limited
Prof Philip McCann, Economics Professor Waikato University
Nick Main, chair Deloitte and NZ Business Council for Sustainable
Development
Jon Mayson, chair New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Sue Suckling, chair National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Limited
Mark Tume, professional director.
Those reappointed to GIAB for another three years are:
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Stephen Tindall (GIAB Chair), founder The Warehouse Limited and Tindall
Foundation
Rick Christie, professional director
Dr Brian Easton, economist
Helen Kelly, president New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Jeremy Moon, chief executive Icebreaker NZ Limited
Phil O’Reilly, chief executive Business New Zealand
Sam Robinson, chair AgResearch Limited
David Shand, chair Tertiary Education Commission.
GROWTH AND INNOVATION ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER PROFILES
Stephen Tindall, Chair
Stephen Tindall is the founder of The Warehouse and the Tindall Foundation. He founded
The Warehouse in 1982 and grew the company into a billion dollar business before stepping
down as Managing Director in 2001.
He now focuses on the Tindall Foundation and environmental and sustainability type projects.
The Foundation invests in identifying and funding a number of diverse initiatives in business,
education and sport, designed to stimulate innovation and excellence in New Zealand society.
The Foundation has been involved in providing venture capital to youth leadership in the
community and enterprise.
Mr Tindall’s private venture capital company K1W1 has invested in over 100 young start up
businesses and entrepreneurs who are aiming at providing export revenues for New Zealand
from innovation and growth technologies.
Mr Tindall is Chair of the Climate Change Leadership Forum, the Broadband Investment
Forum and is a Co-Founder and former Chair of the New Zealand Business Council for
Sustainable Development. He is a founding member of The New Zealand Institute, CoFounder and Director, Kiwi Expats Abroad (KEA) and a Council Member of the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development.
He is a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit awarded in 2007.
Jo Brosnahan
Jo Brosnahan is a professional director and a consultant in leadership and strategy. She has
had a career focused around the transport and infrastructure sectors, environmental
sustainability and resource management. Ms Brosnahan is Chair of Landcare Research
Limited, Chair of Leadership NZ and a Director of Housing New Zealand, Hobsonville Land
Co and of the Testing Laboratory Registration Council.
A Harkness Fellow, Ms Brosnahan was a chief executive in local government for 14 years,
initially with the Northland Regional Council and then with the Auckland Regional Council.
Rick Christie
Rick Christie was the founding Chair of the Growth and Innovation Advisory Board and he is
the former Chair of AgResearch and the Science and Innovation Advisory Council. Mr
Christie is a professional director and company chairman with appointments in both the
private and public sectors.
Mr Christie spent 21 years in the oil industry in New Zealand and overseas. After nearly nine
years in the export sector, including six years as Chief Executive of Tradenz, he joined
diversified investment company Rangatira Ltd as Chief Executive. He retired from Rangatira
Ltd in 2003 to become a fulltime independent Director.
Dr Brian Easton
Brian Easton is a researcher, writer, consultant and tertiary teacher. He was a director of the
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research between 1981 and 1986 and has published
extensively on the New Zealand economy and public policy. He is currently economics
columnist for the New Zealand Listener and holds the 2007 J.D. Stout Fellowship, at the
Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, to write an economic history of
New Zealand.
Dr Easton has been a member of various government statistics, economics and policy
committees. In 2004 he was a Fulbright New Zealand Distinguished Scholar, which enabled
him to study globalisation at the Centre for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown
University, and at Harvard University. In 2005 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the
New Zealand Association of Economists. In 2007 he published ‘Globalisation and the
Wealth of Nations’.
Andrew Ferrier
Andrew Ferrier is Chief Executive of Fonterra Co-operative Group.
During his career he has dealt continuously with free trade environments and heavily
regulated environments having spent sixteen years in the sugar industry in Canada, the United
States, the United Kingdom and Mexico. He headed GSW Inc in Toronto, Canada, a publicly
traded Canadian company selling branded consumer building and water products.
Mr Ferrier is founding Chair of Global Dairy Platform, an international organisation whose
mission is to provide insight and guidance in the promotion of healthy consumption of dairy
products.
Prof Roger Field
Prof Roger Field is Chair of the Vice Chancellors’ Committee and Vice Chancellor of
Lincoln University, Canterbury. He is involved with a large number of external organisations
and bodies that support university education and research, including the development of
policy. This includes governance roles with education, research and technology companies.
Prof Field has made major contributions to international education development, particularly
in Asia and Europe and been involved in basic and applied research.
Bryan Gould
Bryan Gould is Chair, Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. He has a record of
significant governance experience, strong and relevant connections to the research sector and
an excellent understanding of government processes.
Mr Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who served as a member of the UK parliament
for sixteen years before returning to New Zealand to become Vice Chancellor of Waikato
University, a post which he held for 10 years until his retirement in 2004. Under his
leadership, the University of Waikato undertook several significant initiatives, including the
construction of the WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts, the establishment of the
School of Maori and Pacific Development, and the creation of the Waikato Innovation Park.
He is currently a director of Television NZ and Chair of the National Centre for Tertiary
Teaching Excellence.
Helen Kelly
Helen Kelly was elected President of the NZ Council of Trade Union at the biennial
conference in 2007. She had been CTU Vice President since September 2003. She has a long
history in the union movement, primarily in the education sector, as an organiser for the
Association of University Staff and has held several positions including Assistant Secretary in
the New Zealand Educational Institute.
Ms Kelly co-chairs the Workplace Health and Safety Council and is responsible for CTU
international work through the International Trade Union Congress and the International
Labour Organisation.
Sam Knowles
Sam Knowles has held the position of Chief Executive, Kiwibank Limited, since its inception
in 2001 and has considerable experience in the banking industry.
Mr Knowles has been a senior manager for trading banks in New Zealand and Australia,
specialising in areas including strategic planning, retail services, marketing and business
development. He is an executive member of New Zealand Post Limited and holds a number
of private sector board appointments.
Dr Peter Lee
Dr Peter Lee is Chief Executive Officer, Auckland UniServices Limited. Prior to joining
UniServices, the research and commercialisation company wholly owned by The University
of Auckland, he spent most of his career in the United States.
Between 1988 and 2003 Dr Lee held executive positions with the $US30 billion International
Paper Company, including Global Director of New Product and Process Development and,
from 1995, Vice President, Corporate Research and Product Development. Dr Lee returned
to New Zealand in 2003.
Jonathan Ling
Jonathan Ling is Chief Executive and Managing Director of Fletcher Building Limited, New
Zealand’s leading building materials company with operations in New Zealand, Australia,
Asia, North America and Europe.
Prior to joining Fletcher Building in July 2003, Mr Ling was Executive General Manager of
the Nylex Division, Austrim Nylex Ltd. He was Chief Executive Officer of Visy Recycling
for four years and prior to that Manager Corporate Development with Pacifica Ltd where he
led Pacifica's extensive business build up in Asia.
Prof Philip McCann
Prof Philip McCann is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Waikato
Management School at The University of Waikato. He is a well respected, world renowned,
economic geographer. Educated at Cambridge University his research interests are in urban
and regional economics, economic geography, transport economics, and international
business economics.
Prof McCann has previously held positions at the University of Reading, UK, University of
Pennsylvania, USA, University of Cambridge, UK as well as Visiting Professorships at the
University of Tsukuba, Japan and Thammasat University, Thailand.
Nick Main
Nick Main is Chair of Deloitte in New Zealand. He is an audit partner who specialises in
financial audit. He leads the Climate Change and Sustainability group for Deloitte in New
Zealand and is a member of the Deloitte Global Corporate Responsibility Council. He is a
member of the Government’s Climate Change Leadership Forum.
Mr Main is Chair of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development, Deputy
Chair of the Excelerator (New Zealand Leadership Institute) and a Board Member of the New
Zealand Institute, the Committee for Auckland and the NZUS Council.
Jon Mayson
Jon Mayson is Chair, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. He has extensive experience in
exporting, international supply chains and management and is a full time company
chairman/director with a variety of New Zealand companies.
Mr Mayson was Chief Executive of the Port of Tauranga from 1997 to 2005, during which
time the Port grew to be the largest export port and established its Metro Port operation in
Auckland. During his years in operational management Mr Mayson undertook consultancy
work for the Asian Development Bank and private consultants involving port privatisation
and development in South East Asia.
Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon is Chief Executive of merino outdoor clothing company Icebreaker, a brand
launched in 1995 and now New Zealand's largest adventure-wear exporter. Icebreaker
clothing is now sold in 2000 stores in 30 countries and has been listed on the Deloitte New
Zealand "Fast 50" for two years. Icebreaker also won the 2003 Design in Business award.
Mr Moon is also the Chair of the Better by Design Advisory Board and a member of the
Business Advisory Board for the Otago University School of Business.
He is a member of the New Zealand order of merit, awarded in 2008.
Phil O'Reilly
Phil O'Reilly is Chief Executive of Business NZ, New Zealand's largest business advocacy
organisation. He has a background in business, advocacy and communications in enterprises
in New Zealand and Australia.
During the 1980s he was Industrial Advocate, Auckland Employers Association Inc and in
1990 he became Executive Director of the Newspaper Publishers Association of New
Zealand. In 2000 he was appointed Head of Employment Policy and Communication at
Westpac Bank in Sydney before returning to New Zealand to his role at Business NZ.
Sam Robinson
Sam Robinson has extensive experience in the farming industry and strong links with the food
and beverage sector. He is a sheep and beef farmer in the Hawkes Bay and was a former
Chair of Richmond Ltd.
Mr Robinson is Chair, AgResearch and a member of the Meat Industry Taskforce, a director
of AsureQuality and a former member of the Food and Beverage Taskforce.
In the private sector he is a director on the board of the Port of Napier, Farmlands Trading
Society Ltd the Public Service Investment Society and Centralines Ltd.
David Shand
David Shand has extensive international finance experience, working for both the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and he has worked with the OECD on public
sector reform issues. He has held a number of senior positions in state and federal government
in Australia. In the 1970s, he spent six years in local politics as a Wellington City Councillor.
Mr Shand is Chair of the Tertiary Education Commission and in 2007 chaired the
Independent Commission of Inquiry into Local Government Rates established by the Minister
of Local Government. He is also a director of Meridian Energy Ltd.
In October 2007 he was one of three commissioners appointed to the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into Auckland Governance.
Sue Suckling
Sue Suckling has extensive experience as a governance practitioner. She is, and has been, a
director of a large number of private companies and public entities.
Ms Suckling is Chair and Director of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research, Chair of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and is a member of the
Takeovers Panel and the Climate Change Leaders Forum. She was a former Chair of stateowned enterprise AgriQuality Limited and was Deputy Chair of GNS Science.
Ms Suckling was awarded the OBE in 1996 for her contribution to NZ business.
Mark Tume
Mark Tume has had a career in the finance sector and has held senior roles in areas such as
investment banking, capital markets, asset and liability management, and risk control.
Mr Tume holds a number of directorships, including Transpower New Zealand Ltd, Ngai
Tahu Holdings Corporation, the New Zealand Refining Company Limited, and Infratil
Limited. He is a member of the Board of the Guardians of the New Zealand Superannuation
Fund and was a former President of the New Zealand Financial Markets Association.