Grant Milne
Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh has appointed Milne as country head of its New Zealand business. He succeeds Kirk Williams who will now focus on leading the business’ major client accounts, sales opportunities, colleague development and specific regional initiatives. Milne has over 23 years’ insurance industry experience including establishing the Marsh & McLennan Agency.
Greg Thompson
Zeacom has appointed Thompson as global marketing director, responsible for market development and brand awareness internationally. He has over 20 years experience in international sales and marketing for high growth New Zealand technology companies and was most recently marketing programme manager at Jade Software Corporation.
Steve Barrett
Former Contact Energy chief executive Steve Barrett has been appointed chair of Meridian’s United States-based subsidiary company Meridian Energy USA (formerly known as Cleantech America).
Arun Patel, Jeana Abbott
The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants has announced two new executive appointments. Patel is NZICA’s new chief financial officer. His previous roles were as acting chief financial officer for Te Papa and general manager support services for Housing New Zealand. Abbott is the new director of human resources. She was previously head of human resources at the Accident Compensation Corporation.
Mark Bramley
PricewaterhouseCoopers has new partner in its Dunedin office. Bramley has worked as partner in the PwC Central and Eastern Europe firm for the past 15 years, and in the last two years has divided his time across two large BRIC economies – Moscow and Mumbai.
Nicola Sutton
English Language Partners New Zealand has promoted Sutton to deputy chief executive recognising her strategic, HR, policy and operational skills.
Kylie Archer
After five years with Skycity Auckland Archer returns to Wellington to manage the New Zealand major events team at the Ministry of Economic Development. The major events team aims to retain, grow and attract major events that complement New Zealand’s image, existing infrastructure and achieve greater contribution to economic growth.
Jonathan Tudor
Professional Public Relations has appointed Tudor, an experienced communications specialist with an extensive international background, to the new position of general manager New Zealand. He has worked in account director and senior management roles in the UK and New Zealand and has been with Asda’a Burson-Marsteller in Dubai since 2006.
Joe Asghar
Diabetes New Zealand has appointed Asghar, qualified pharmacist, as its new chief executive. He was most recently manager, external affairs with the Royal Society of New Zealand contributing to international activities, policy development and relationship building.
David Glover
Chief executive of New Zealand-owned educational services company Learning Media, Glover has been elected to the board of US-based Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). He is the first non-American to sit on the board of this prestigious association.
Mads Moller
New Zealand software company Jade has appointed Moller in senior sales role. He has sales and marketing background in European markets, including roles with Google, Vodafone and IBM.
