Brian Wood
Chair
Brian is an experienced professional Director with a wealth of experience from a range of private and public sector roles. Brian is currently Chair of Buller Holdings Ltd, Westreef Services Ltd, Delta Utility Services Ltd, and Canterbury Linen Services Ltd.
He is a Director of Lyttleton Port Company Ltd, Harrison Grierson Holdings Ltd, Mainpower Ltd and Buller Recreation Ltd. He’s also Chairman of the Christchurch City Council’s project steering groups for the Library and Town Hall rebuilds. Brian is also Chair of the Oversight Group for the construction of the highway and rail line from Picton to Christchurch. He has held the role of Director on Dunedin City Holdings Ltd as well.
He is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and holds a Master of Business Administration (Otago).
Linda Robertson
Director
Linda is a professional non-executive director with over 30 years’ governance experience. In the corporate environment she has worked predominately in the finance and energy sector where she held various senior management roles.
She is a director of New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency, Kiwi Wealth, Alpine Energy, NETcon, Horizon Group and Kordia Group. Linda is also a member of the Risk & Audit Committee and the Capital Markets Advisory Committee for The Treasury, the Audit & Risk Committee for the Office of the Auditor General and Audit New Zealand.
She is a Certified Treasury Professional, a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand (INFINZ), a Chartered Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, a Fellow of Governance New Zealand and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Linda has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a Diploma in Banking.
John Schol
Director
FCA, CMInstD, Dip Grad, Bcom, NZDipBus
John is both a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Certificate of Public Practice with Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ).
As an executive director of the award-winning accounting firm +More Malloch McClean, John provides strategic, facilitation, mentoring and governance advisory services to the commercial, local government and professional services sectors. Other governance roles include South Port NZ Ltd, Plus MORE Capital Ltd, Busck Group Ltd and The Gap 2014 Ltd.
Peter Carnahan
Director
Peter brings extensive experience across a variety of sectors, including his work as a Chartered Accountant, in senior management roles, and as a Director.
While continuing to hold a senior management role in a large privately owned company, Peter is Chair of Southfuels Limited and Sicon Limited.
Previous directorships have included Blue Sky Meats (NZ) Limited and Invest South LP.
He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Otago University.
Mervyn English
Director
Mervyn has held senior roles in both the public and private sectors via roles such as leading the NZ Treasury SOE (State Owned Enterprises) team, and being in the senior executive teams for the Natural Gas Corporation and Transalta. His governance experience is broad, apart from the SOE leadership role where he was responsible for overseeing the Government's portfolio of commercial entities and setting up several new SOEs, he has been the Director of Governance in the Ministry of Health responsible for DHB Boards and other entities. Along with this he has been a director for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and the Hillary Outdoors Trust.
Mervyn holds a Master of Business Administration (with distinction), has attended executive education programmes at Harvard and the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
