Bruce Irvine
New Zealand’s new ‘heartland bank’ has appointed Irvine as chairman of the board of directors.
Building Society Holdings (BSHL) is the new entity which will be the listed holding company of the group formed by merging Pyne Gould Corporation (PGC), MARAC, CBS Canterbury (CBS) and Southern Cross Building Society (SCBS) into new New Zealand bank.
Irvine is chairman of PGC and its subsidiaries, including MARAC and Perpetual Trust. He is also director of listed companies Rakon and PGG Wrightson, and number of private companies including House of Travel Group, Market Gardeners, Godfrey Hirst NZ, Skope Industries and Scenic Hotels.
Martin Smith, Sharon Grant, Evan Mayson
GHD, global engineering, architectural and environmental consulting company, has appointed Smith, previously general manager of infrastructure at Manukau Water, as business group manager for Central-Southern NZ. Grant joins GHD as people manager; her previous role was manager – culture, engagement and diversity at the Bank of New Zealand. And Mayson, who joined GHD four years ago, is now business group manager for Northern.
Justin Boyes
HRV has appointed Boyes to the newly created position of general manager of marketing. He has over 15 years’ experience in all areas of marketing and promotions.
Quentin Christie
Scientific software company Biomatters has appointed Christie as general manager. He brings over 15 years of senior management experience in range of international ICT businesses, including Davanti Consulting (a division of Gen-i), Telecom, Telstra and Zeacom.
Paul Boshoff
Boshoff joins HP New Zealand’s Personal Systems Group (PSG) from HP’s South African office. Appointed as country general manager, he replaces Brent Kendrick who has transferred to HP Singapore.
Pete Boyle
Intellectual property law firm J Park has appointed Boyle as its chief executive. chartered accountant, he has worked extensively as management consultant, was partner in the corporate finance and management solutions team at Deloitte, formed Acuity Partners and was most recently group manager business development of NZ Defence Force-Defence Shared Services.
Andrew Donaldson
Smartpay has appointed Donaldson as chief financial officer. Most recently managing director of Brightstar New Zealand, his past experience also includes four years with Telecom New Zealand and extensive experience in senior management and finance roles in the UK as well as New Zealand.
Albert Naffah
Most recently MasterCard’s vice president of strategy, business development and corporate affairs, Naffah has been promoted to country manager New Zealand with overall responsibility for corporate positioning.
