Ian Farrelly
Former general manager of ASB Rural Banking, Farrelly has been appointed by the management board of First Mortgage Trust as an additional independent director on its seven-member board.
Keith McLaughlin
Publicly listed specialist financing and banking software company Finzsoft Solutions has appointed McLaughlin as its managing director. former managing director of Baycorp Holdings, he succeeds Barrie Shannon, Finzsoft’s founder and its managing director for the past 21 years.
Mark Toner
A specialist regulatory and competition law lawyer, Toner has been appointed partner at MGF Webb. He has worked previously in New Zealand, London and Brussels in complex regulatory proceedings across range of industries including telecommunications, energy and new media.
Chris Holmes
Oxygen Business Solutions has appointed Holmes as practice leader, Wellington, with responsibility for overseeing the SAP consulting and services company’s operations there, and expanding its market presence. Holmes is former EDS group manager.
Julia Stones, Angela Vale, Roslyn Bourke, Stuart Almao
New members of the Recruitment Solutions team in Auckland to be led by Stones, formerly director of UK global recruitment consultancy, are Vale, who will specialise in technical and operations roles, Bourke, who joins the executive leasing team, and Almao whose focus will be strategic workforce planning.
Alastair de Raadt
Fonterra has appointed de Raadt, currently Fonterra hub manager of the Indian sub-continent, as managing director of Tip Top. In this position he will lead both the New Zealand Tip Top business and the Western Australian ice cream and frozen foods business. He replaces Ray O’Connor who is retiring from Tip Top after 14 years as CEO.
Michael Nicholas
Expense Reduction Analysts (ERA), global cost management and procurement consultancy, has appointed Nicholas as regional training and development manager for its Australia/New Zealand operations.
Dr Stephen Stokes
Consulting firm Andrew Stewart (ASL) has appointed Stokes, an international environmental scientist, as director with responsibility for driving expansion in the company’s environmental consultancy area. former associate professor at Oxford University’s Centre for the Environment, Stokes has served on number of national and international scientific advisory boards.
David Joyce
Recently appointed as ihug’s new general manager of marketing, Joyce joins from Vodafone, where his most recent role was general manager of marketing strategy. Prior to that, he was the corporate strategy manager for Vodafone in the United Kingdom.
Olivia Tooby, Danya Williams, Keri McAdam
Frog Recruitment has announced three appointments: Tooby as client services manager; Williams as marketing and communications developer, and McAdam as head of the company’s contract and temporary services specialist division.
Janice Harland, Grant Hewison
Gwendoline Keel Brookfields Lawyers has promoted Harland from senior associate to partner; Hewison from consultant to senior associate, and appointed Keel as senior associate in its property group.
Rick O’Connor, Chris Powell
Two appointments at Phitek Systems strengthen the company’s global management team. Based in Canada, O’Connor, with 23 years’ industry experience, has been appointed vice-president of sales and marketing. Auckland-based Powell is the company’s new group financial controller. He has held senior financial roles with several leading New Zealand and multinational companies including Du Pont, SGS and Inland Revenue.
