About
Companies
Directors
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.
Linda has been a fulltime company director since 2015 and is an experienced director, chair and committee chair. Her governance experience includes; listed, council controlled, government owned, co-operative and private companies, having held board positions since 1999.
Linda is currently the Chair of Crown Irrigation Investments and Central Lakes Trust. 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; and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for Central Otago District Council.
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 provides strategic, facilitation, mentoring, tax advisory and governance services to the start-up, commercial, local government, retail, rural, and professional services sectors.
He is the CEO of Malloch McClean Limited and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA). John is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, holds a Certificate of Public Practice with Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors.
John is both a Trans-Tasman and New Zealand Regional Councillor for Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Other governance roles include a local social enterprise company as well as several other private organisations. In addition, he serves on the Southern Institute of Technology’s Business Consultative Group and on the Board of Trustees at St John’s Girls School.
PETER CARNAHAN
Director
Peter has had a wide range of experience across a range of sectors included whilst a Chartered Accountant, in senior management positions as well as, as a Director.
Whilst continuing to hold a senior management role in a large privately owned company,
Peter is Chair of Southfuels Limited and Sicon Limited and a Director of Invercargill City Property 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 B Com 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 Governments 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.
He was recruited to establish NZs first Electricity Market Regulator. In this role he oversaw substantial new investment in the national transmission grid and the resolution of a number of important market function issues. Mervyn was also an Assistant Commissioner at the NZ State Services Commission responsible for the natural resources sector, was an executive in a Wrightson subsidiary, and Deputy Director General for Strategy and People at the Department of Conservation. Currently he lives in Southland and works part time for the Department of Conservation leading Treaty of Waitangi Settlement implementation work.
Mervyn has holds an MBA – Master of Business Administration (with distinction), has attended executive education programs at Harvard and the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Institute of Directors.