BOARDROOM PRACTICE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Company Chairman
• Consultant
• Visiting Professor at the Cass Business School

Bob Garratt is a company chairman, consultant, and academic working on corporate governance; board and director performance, and strategic thinking issues. He is Chairman of Board Performance Limited in London and Organisation Development Limited in Singapore and Hong Kong. His extensive consulting experience of board and business issues on five continents covers many types of organisation from large corporates to family businesses and professional practices, from parastatals to not-for-profits, and from central governments to local communities. Bob is a Founder Member of The Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. He is on the Chartered Accreditation Committee, Examinations Board, and leads the Developing Strategic Thought programmes, of the Institute of Directors, London. He helped form the China-EEC Management Programme in Beijing in 1983 (the first Chinese MBA programme), and the ASEAN-EU Management Centre in Brunei Darussalam in 1992. He helped found The Global Coaching Partnership network for directors; The Learning Symposium group; and is on the Research Group of the Centre for Tomorrow's Company. He has worked with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority on developing corporate governance for Banking Supervisors. Bob is Visiting Professor at the Cass Business School, City University, London where his work spans the centre for Corporate Governance and the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change. He held previously that position at The Tanaka Management School, Imperial College, University of London, where he was also responsible for the board development of the "spin out" companies; and is ex-Senior Associate, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge. He is Chairman of the Education Group of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. He is Past Chairman of the Association for Management Education and Development, and led the management education side of both the Faculty of Management and Community Education, Ulster College, Belfast, and The Architectural Association School, London. He is a Freeman of the City of London. In 2002 Bob won the annual Shareholder Value corporate governance essay prize sponsored by the European Business Forum and PwC/IBM; and in 2004 The Academy of Corporate Governance, Hyderabad, Writing Excellence prize. His books include: The Fish Rots From The Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms (1996 and 2003); Developing Strategic Thought (ed) (1994 and 2003); Learning to Lead (1991); The Learning Organisation: Developing Democracy At Work (2000); and Twelve Organising Capabilities: Valuing People At Work (2000). His most recent book Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters was published in March 2003.

Job Titles:

• Economist

Dr Brent Wheeler is an economist with a background in new institutional economics as well as experience in both local and national government where he worked for the New Zealand Treasury. He is a former Chair of The Boardroom Practice Ltd, former Director of farming co-operative Ruralco, former Chair and Director of Fertco Limited, a niche fertiliser manufacturer, former director of GO Rentals (Auckland) Limited, East Bay Finances Limited and a former Director of Watercare Services Limited. He has worked extensively in finance and governance areas specialising in public policy issues. Brent has a PhD from the University of Otago and has worked as a tutor and senior lecturer at the University of Otago and Massey University in Economic Geography, Regional Planning and Statistics. He also spent six years in local authorities working as a Deputy City Planner and subsequently in the New Zealand Treasury in the regulatory reform, State Owned Enterprise and privatisation areas before starting his own business.

Job Titles:

• Independent Adviser and Coach

Dr Clive Morton, an independent adviser and coach on World Class Strategy and Board Development, leads The Morton Partnership, which specialises in organisational transformation, consulting to boards in Private, Public and not for profit sectors. He is a civil engineering graduate from Leeds University and spent the early part of his career in the British construction industry, working in both engineering and industrial relations. He also has a PhD in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics. In the early 1980s Dr Morton served as Director of Resources and Administration at Wimpey Offshore and Wimpey Engineering, before joining Komatsu (Japan's largest integrated maker of construction machinery) as Director of Personnel and Administration, at the outset of the company's UK manufacturing operations in Birtley, Co Durham in 1986. During this period he established the Northern Pinetree Trust, a charity for those with disabilities. In July 1992 Dr Morton was appointed Director of Personnel at Northern Electric and was awarded the OBE in the same year for services to manufacturing and the community. He became Personnel Director of Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group in April 1994 and then worked with Anglian Water from March 1996 until March 2000, first as Human Resources Director and latterly as Director of Business Development. He has a keen interest in the voluntary sector, believing that it can answer social needs, enhance business and develop people in totally different ways.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Company Director
• Principal

Janine has been a company director for over 20 years. Her wide ranging knowledge and expertise arises from her experience as a CEO, executive director and independent director with companies in the commercial, arts, and education sectors, both in New Zealand and overseas. She was awarded an MNZM (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to corporate governance. She is currently Chair of AsureQuality Limited, the independent member of Fonterra's Governance Development Committee, President of London Business School Auckland chapter and a director of several private companies. Previously she was Chair of McLarens Young NZ Ltd (now Crawfords) and Custom Fleet NZ, Deputy Chair of Kordia Group Limited, and Airways Corporation, a Director of Steel & Tube Holdings Limited, The Warehouse Group, Bank of New Zealand, Kensington Swan Legal and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and a Trustee of Venture Taranaki, Taranaki's economic development agency. Janine has also been a member of a number of advisory boards in tertiary education including the NZ Business Education Roundtable, University of Auckland Short Courses, University of Auckland Governance Centre, and Massey Business School. Her executive roles include GM / CEO and Executive Director of Arnott's New Zealand Limited, part of the Campbell Soup Company USA, and Executive Director of Telecom Directories Limited, then part of Telecom Corporation. Janine is a well-known judge and convenor of the New Zealand and Australasian Marketing and Advertising awards, Deloittes Top 200 awards and a current judge of the NZTE international business awards. She is an alumnus of the London Business School, the University of Auckland, AUT, and is a member of the Institute of Directors, ArcAngels and Global Women. Janine specialises in boardroom practice, strategic planning and organisational development and change issues for boards and management. Janine has a Bachelor of Commerce degree with majors in finance and marketing and a Master of Philosophy (Hons 1 st class) on governance, completed in 2010, where she researched the characteristics and factors of both effective and ineffective boards.

Craig has extensive experience in governance across a wide range of sectors. He is Chair of Ngāi Tahu Seafood, Chair of Wellington Zoo, a director on Aotearoa Fisheries (Moana New Zealand), Seafood New Zealand and the Sealord Group, an independent director on New Zealand Maori Tourism, and a trustee of Poutama Trust.

Danny is a third generation New Zealand Chinese, brought up in Wellington. His early career involved investment management and during this time he was also a part time lecturer and tutor in Managerial Finance and Business Analysis at Victoria University. In 1986 Danny was appointed by Fidelity Investments (the largest fund management company in the world) to head their Taiwan office and sit on the board of their Asia/Pacific operations. Danny is also a former Director of Airways Corporation, an SOE, and a former Director of Everbright Pacific Limited, a subsidiary of the Chinese government owned, China Everbright Limited.

Job Titles:

• Founding Member and Former Principal
• Member of the Institute of Directors

Mr Ron Hamilton brings to the Practice a unique knowledge of Directorship, as well as stakeholder and regulatory issues for state owned and crown entities, having worked with New Zealand and other governments at a senior level in governance policy and regulatory areas. He has spent over 20 years with the Treasury and related organisations such as the Asian Development Bank (where he was the New Zealand Alternate Director on the Board) and the State Owned Enterprises Unit. Ron was previously with the Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit where he was, until June 2003, the Director of Appointments and Governance. He has implemented a range of important governance oriented projects for Government. In his former position, Ron advised shareholding ministers on the appointment of appropriately qualified people and on issues underpinning "Best Practice" in the role, functions and responsibilities of Boards.

Job Titles:

• Chartered Management Accountant

Victor Hughes is a chartered management accountant who spent most of his career working in Asia Pacific for a major international group of companies. During that time he worked primarily in the finance function and was a Director of various types of companies i.e. joint venture, wholly owned and public quoted. Between 1990 and 1997 he was Finance Director on the Board of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited. Victor is active in corporate governance, was a council member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors (and its predecessor) and was its first Executive Director. In recent years he has designed and delivered courses and lectures in Finance and in Corporate Governance internationally and wrote the book ‘Becoming a Director'. He is on the Supervisory Board of two German finance companies.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of Commercial Construction Company Naylor Love Enterprises Ltd
• Professional Director, Chartered Accountant and Business Consultant

Anne is a professional director, chartered accountant and business consultant with more than 20 years directorship experience in sectors ranging from energy, transport, health, information technology, infrastructure, construction, insurance, research, banking, forestry and the primary sector as well as education, sports administration and the theatre. She commenced her professional career with KPMG before undertaking senior management roles in the corporate sector including in the IT and meat industries. Anne is currently Chairman of commercial construction company Naylor Love Enterprises Ltd, and Deputy Chairman of Crown-owned Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd (formerly AMI Insurance Ltd). She became of a director of publicly-listed Chorus Ltd upon the Telecom demerger in late 2011, and in June 2013 was appointed to the board of Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd. She became a director of public-listed retirement village operator Summerset Group Holdings Ltd in March 2014. She is also a director of the ANZ Bank subsidiary One Path Life (NZ) Ltd, and serves as a board member of NZ Hockey and as the independent Chairman of the Te Rūnanga Audit and Risk Committee of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Anne is a former director of Meridian Energy Ltd and of New Zealand Cricket, and previously chaired the board of Queenstown Lakes District Council regulatory services provider Lakes Environmental Ltd, as well as the New Zealand Blood Service and technology infrastructure company .nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Ltd). She also previously served as Deputy Chairman of Crown companies Landcare Research NZ Ltd and Airways Corporation of NZ Ltd. Her directorship experience - as director, chairman and deputy chairman - has been with a range of organisations at different stages of their life cycles, from start-up through to fully mature, and having varied shareholders including commercially-focussed owners in the private and publicly-listed sectors, as well as the Crown and local government sector, and stakeholders of not-for-profit entities.

Jo is a director of Cognition Education. She also contracts to the Icehouse, Auckland University's Business Growth Centre. Jo has a broad range of commercial experience in retail, manufacturing, building and professional services. She has held a range of senior executive and general management roles - including international assignments - with Mobil Oil, Fletcher Building and The Warehouse. She has an MBA and a B.Ed. from Otago University and joined The Boardroom Practice in 2011. Jo also works with a number of boards where she provides one on one coaching for their management teams. Additionally she advises and facilitates both planning and the strategic process. Jo also addresses capability and capacity issues within companies, and structure and resource requirements. She ensures that mechanisms are in place and that management are implementing plans and meeting the board monitoring requirements.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Co - Operative Bank Limited

Sarah is currently the Chair of The Co-operative Bank Limited; the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Ports of Auckland Limited; and a trustee of a charitable trust providing scholarships and fellowships for the University of Auckland and University of Otago. Sarah joined The Boardroom Practice team in 2012 and specialises in governance training and board reviews. Her broad governance experience backed by deep learning on the subject, matched with strong analytical skills ensure your Board review will result in output that can really make a difference to your effectiveness.