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Chairman
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Mr Palmer has considerable experience as a director and chairman of companies in the agricultural and finance sectors. Mr Palmer is
Chairman of Rabobank NZ Limited and serves as a director of AMP Limited, AMP Life Limited and Rabobank Australia Limited. Since 2001
he has led the board through a successful period of rebuilding Air New Zealand, and was named as Company Chairman of the Year in 2007
and 2009.
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Deputy Chairman
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Mr Carter is Chairman of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, a director of Fletcher Building Limited and ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited
and Co-Chairman of the New Zealand Initiative.
He aended the University of Canterbury where he studied chemical engineering, graduating with a Bachelor in Engineering with honours
and a Masters in Engineering in 1980. He then went on to study at Loughborough University of Technology in the United Kingdom and
graduated in 1982 with a Master of Philosophy degree.
Mr Carter worked for his family company, Carter Group Limited, in Christchurch until 1986 when he purchased a Mitre 10 hardware store,
also eventually serving as a director of Mitre 10 New Zealand Limited and becoming Chairman of Mitre 10 New Zealand Limited in 1993.
In 1994 Mr Carter was appointed General Manager and Chief Executive designate of Foodstuffs (South Island) Limited. In 1995 he was
appointed Chief Executive of Foodstuffs (South Island) Limited and in 2001, was appointed Managing Director of Foodstuffs (Auckland)
Limited and Managing Director of Foodstuffs (New Zealand) Limited until he retired in December 2010. The Foodstuffs Group is New
Zealand’s largest retail organisation.
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Mr Bingham is Managing Director of Black Cat Cruises Limited, an award winning cruise operator based at Banks Peninsula, near
Christchurch and a director of Shulerock Limited. Prior to his current position, he had a number of senior marketing roles at Tourism
Holdings Limited and Air New Zealand Limited. He was a winner of the PATA Young Tourism Professional Award in 2003 and under his
leadership Black Cat Group has won numerous accolades, including the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Tourism Awards in 2003 and
the SKAL International Eco-tourism Award in 2004.
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Ms Dawson is a director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited, Meridian Energy Limited, Westpac New Zealand Limited and Goodman
Fielder Limited. She is Deputy Chair of Counties-Manukau District Health Board, a member of the University of Auckland Council, the Capital
Investment Commiee of the National Health Board and a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum. Ms Dawson has been President of
Yachting New Zealand since 2007 and was appointed Chair of the Audit Commiee of the International Sailing Federation in 2009.
Ms Dawson was a partner of KPMG for 30 years, specialising in audit and risk advisory, and the Chair and Chief Executive of KPMG New
Zealand from 2006 until 2011.
Ms Dawson holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered
Accountants, a Member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, a Fellow of FINSIA, a Paul Harris Fellow and a North Shore Business
Hall of Fame Laureate (2010). Ms Dawson was named Chartered Accountant of the Year in 2011 by the New Zealand Institute of
Chartered Accountants.
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Dr Fox has more than 25 years’ experience as a public company director across a range of internationally based businesses. His particular
track record is in the building of innovative, technology based companies in competitive international markets. Aer eight years working
around the world with a large international management consulting company, he started his own technology based product and service
company in 1987. Following the merger of Dr Fox’s company with the then listed Vision Systems Limited in 1993, he took over as the CEO of
the combined group. In December 2006, Dr Fox retired as the CEO of Vision Systems Limited following a heavily competed takeover of the
company by a large USA based corporate which resulted in significant returns (close to $1 billion) to shareholders. Dr Fox is also a director
of TTP Group (UK) Plc, Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia Limited, Genmark Diagnostics Inc (USA) and BIOTA Holdings Limited. Dr Fox is
Chairman of the Air New Zealand Safety Commiee.
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