Simone Robbers from 5 – 9 August 2024
Simone is Assistant Governor and General Manager of Strategy, Governance, and Sustainability at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. She is responsible for the Bank’s strategic planning and performance, enterprise delivery, communications, governance, and internal audit. Simone is also responsible for leading and coordinating bank-wide strategies including Climate Change, Financial Inclusion, Te Ao Māori, and South Pacific.
Simone is a member of the Leadership Group for Toitū Tahua: Centre for Sustainable Finance.
Simone has a wealth of experience gained from roles across both the public and private sectors, in financial services and legal firms. Prior to joining RBNZ Simone held senior leadership roles at the Financial Markets Authority.
Mark Tume from 18 – 22nd March 2024
Over the past 20 years, Mark has held governance positions in a range of listed and unlisted companies in Australia and New Zealand, predominantly in the infrastructure sector. He is currently a director of ANZ Bank New Zealand, RetireAustralia Pty and Precinct Properties and Chair of Te Atiawa Iwi Holdings. He recently stepped down as Chair of Infratil and has held governance roles on several of Infratil's subsidiaries and associated companies.
Mark also has experience in the Māori commercial arena, including his current role as Chair of Te Atiawa Iwi Holdings and previous appointments as Chair of Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation and Managing Director of Lake Taupō Capital.
Amelia Sharman from 12 – 15 September 2023
Dr Sharman has an extensive background in climate and sustainability policy areas, most recently as Head of Policy at Ara Ake, focused on supporting the transition to a low-emissions energy future. Previously, Dr Sharman worked for the New Zealand Productivity Commission, where she was at the forefront of the Commission's analysis of climate-related financial disclosures and subsequently developed the Commission's final recommendation on the disclosure regime for New Zealand.
Prior to this, Dr Sharman held project management roles in the United Kingdom, where she led a range of projects as a consultant to the European Commission. While at consulting firm Amec Foster Wheeler, her work included streamlining planning and reporting obligations for climate and energy policy. Dr Sharman was also responsible for developing and implementing Amec Foster Wheeler's European Climate Resilience Risk Assessment Framework, which focused on the insurance and health sectors.
Her work in sustainability includes responsibility for the international implementation of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, as well as management of a €1.2 million European Union LIFE+ funding project involving hydropower sustainability assessments and training of sustainability auditors across Europe.
Dr Sharman lives with her husband and two small children in Miramar, Wellington, and in her (limited) spare time, enjoys gardening, cycling and beekeeping.
Lindsay Zwart from 22 – 26 May 2023
Lindsay joined Vodafone New Zealand as the Chief Enterprise Officer and Director in September 2019. Lindsay is responsible for the end-to-end Enterprise business at Vodafone. Setting out an ambitious vision for evolving Vodafone NZ from a mobile company into an organization that provides digital transformation services through ICT capabilities to businesses. With so far, an impressive 22% growth vs a market of 4%. Lindsay’s charter is to empower commercial customers and partners to utilize the power of technology to deliver enhanced services to market. Leading a 450+ direct teams who build, deliver and sale to market.
Prior to Vodafone, Lindsay was a partner level Microsoft General Manager for the US Cloud & Enterprise Business Group. Lindsay ran a multibillion-dollar Cloud and Enterprise business consisting of Application & Infrastructure (Azure) and Data & AI elements of the Microsoft’s software platforms. Lindsay was responsible for ensuring execution of sales, marketing, strategies and tactics to further drive the business, including building deep audience insight, understanding segmentation, managing the investments in broad marketing and digital media outreach initiatives.
Before her career at Microsoft, Lindsay managed a large engineering business unit at IBM and worked with a handful of small and large companies with experiences in engineering development and support roles in the UK, New Zealand and South Africa.
Lindsay enjoys working in a vibrant, collaborative environment, and is an advocate for supporting women in leadership and empowering people through trust and accountability. Through her passion with women in leadership, Lindsay started the Microsoft & Women in Partner community which focuses on connecting, empowering and inspiring female leaders in technology across Microsoft & our partner community. When not working, Lindsay is married and has two girls, Mikayla and Hannah aged 16 and 14 years old who keep her busy. She is also involved in many leadership groups and enjoys traveling, sports, and outdoor activities.
Simon Allen from 27–30 April 2021
Simon has an established career as and executive and director. His current directorships include IAG NZ, New Zealand Refining, Antarctic Heritage trust and more. He was previously the CEO of ABN Amro New Zealand. Simon also has extensive experience working with government, for example he was the inaugural Chair of the Financial Markets Authority, the Inaugural Chair of Auckland Council Investments Limited and as Chairman, restructured the New Zealand Stock Exchange from a mutual society to a corporate listed company.
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James Miller from 2–6 September 2019
James was appointed a director in August 2010 and New Zealand Stock Exchange's (NZX's) Chair in May 2015. He spent 14 years working in the share-broking industry, with Craigs Investment Partners, ABN AMRO, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and ANZ Securities.
Jeremy Hill from 29 April–3 May 2019
Jeremy Hill has nearly 30 years' experience in banking having undertaken a variety of Operations and Business Management roles in locations around the world including London, Singapore and Sydney. Jeremy started out at JPMorgan and has worked for Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Jeremy is the Head of Investment Office for the Accident Compensation Corporation in Wellington.
Former Executives in Residence
- Lara Ariell, Chief Financial Officer, Inland Revenue
- Antonia Watson, Managing Director Retail and Business Banking, ANZ
- Warren Allen, Chief Executive – External Reporting Board
- Graham Crombie, Professional Director & Business Advisor
- John Judge, Chairman, ANZ