Board of Directors

The Ngāi Tahu Holdings Board of Directors is comprised of five directors. The role of the Board is to exercise due governance over the effective management and guardianship of the assets within the Ngāi Tahu Holdings Group to ensure the businesses can realise profits and efficiencies for the shareholder.

Trevor Burt

Trevor was appointed to the Board in August 2009.

He has had an extensive career with the global industrial gas company BOC Group, working and living in Australia, China, and the USA. Following the acquisition of BOC by the Linde Group, Mr Burt moved to Germany to join the executive board of the Linde Group.

On his return to New Zealand Mr Burt joined the boards of a number of South Island companies, including Lyttelton Port Company Ltd, Mainpower NZ Ltd, and Silver Fern Farms Ltd.

Catherine Drayton

Catherine Drayton has 15 years of experience acting as a consultant on mergers and acquisitions in Western, Central & Eastern Europe.

She is also the former partner in charge of the Assurance and Advisory business of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Central & Eastern Europe. As a result of these roles, she has significant multi-cultural, multi-jurisdictional managerial and cross-border transactional experience.

Ms Drayton currently serves as a Councillor of the University of Canterbury, is a Director of Meridian Energy Limited, Christchurch International Airport Limited, Industrial Research Limited, and the New Zealand Hockey Federation.

Sandy Maier

Sandy was appointed to the Board in August 2010.

Sandy has over 35 years experience working with global investment companies including 15 years with Citicorp/Citibank in various management positions in Jamaica, Brazil, the United States and Australasia. From 1990 – 1992 he was the Statutory Manager of DFC New Zealand.

He has his own consulting firm specialising in corporate strategy and governance, and financial and human resource issues. In December 2009 he was appointed CEO of South Canterbury Finance.

Among the many board memberships he currently holds are: Chair of Learning Media, Radius Property, Pathfinder Asset Management, Oyster Bay Vineyard and the Australasian printing group, GEON.

Until his appointment to the Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation Board Sandy was Chair of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu's Investment Advisory Sub-committee that has helped develop an investment framework providing direction on how the iwi's assets are managed.

Quentin Hix

Appointed to represent Arowhenua Rūnanga in 2009, Quentin Hix has had extensive experience in voluntary and professional governance roles in organisations at a local and national level. Over the years he has held a variety of roles with Te Rūnanga O Arowhenua Society Inc., including time as Chairman and Secretary.

Tutehounuku Korako

Tutehounuku Korako Tutehounuku (Nuk) was appointed the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Representative for Ngāi Tūāhuriri on 6 December 2009.

 

 

Paul Silk

Paul's profile coming soon.