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Antony฀ (Tony)฀ Carter฀
Chairman
Appointed฀ 1฀ December฀ 2010
Mr Carter is Chairman of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, a director of Fletcher Building Limited and ANZ Bank New Zealand
Limited and Independent Chairman of Blues LLP.
He attended 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.
Janice฀(Jan)฀Dawson
Deputy Chairman
Appointed฀ 1฀ April฀ 2011
Ms Dawson is a director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited, Beca Group Limited, Goodman Fielder Limited, Meridian Energy
Limited and Westpac New Zealand Limited. Ms Dawson is a member of the University of Auckland Council, the Capital Investment
Committee of the National Health Board and a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum.
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 Fellow of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, 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. Ms Dawson is Chairman of the Air New Zealand Audit Committee.
Paul฀ Bingham
Appointed฀ 1฀ July฀ 2008
Mr Bingham is the Managing Director of Black Cat Cruises Limited, a tourism operation based at Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch.
His tourism background includes senior marketing roles at Tourism Holdings Limited and Air New Zealand Limited, and he is a previous
director of Tourism New Zealand and Chair of Christchurch & Canterbury Tourism. He was a winner of the PATA Young Professional
award. Across a 23 year career he has worked in the UK, USA, Singapore as well as New Zealand. Mr Bingham is also COO and
Executive Director of Shuttlerock Limited, which has developed a software platform to aggregate visual and user generated content
onto company websites.
Dr฀ James฀ (Jim)฀ Fox
Appointed฀ 21฀ November฀ 2006
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. After 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 Pharmaceuticals Inc (USA). Dr Fox is Chairman of the Air New Zealand Safety Committee.
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