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Ralph Waters
CP Eng, FIE Aust, M Bus, Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Directors
Chairman of the Nominations Committee
Ralph Waters has extensive management experience in the Australasian building products industry including as managing director of Email, a major Australian industrial company, and until 31 August 2006 as the chief executive officer and managing director of Fletcher Building. Mr Waters is a director of Woolworths, Fonterra Co-operative Group, Westpac New Zealand and Fletcher Building Industries. He is deputy chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the ICC World Cup 2015. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. |
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Tony Carter
BE (Hons), ME, MPhil (Loughborough), Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees
Tony Carter was previously managing director of Foodstuffs (Auckland) and Foodstuffs (New Zealand), New Zealand’s largest retail organisation, and a director of a number of related companies. He has extensive experience in retailing, having joined Foodstuffs in 1994 and from having owned and operated several Mitre 10 hardware stores, and was a director and later chairman of Mitre 10 New Zealand Limited. Mr Carter is also a director of Vector, Air New Zealand, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and Fletcher Building Industries, chair of the NZ Institute and a trustee of the Maurice Carter Charitable Trust.
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Hugh Fletcher
MCom (Hons), MBA (Stanford), BSc, Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Nominations Committees
Hugh Fletcher has had extensive management experience and now holds a number of directorships and advisory positions. He is a director of Rubicon, Fletcher Building Industries, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Vector and Insurance Australia Group, a member of the Australia and New Zealand advisory board of L.E.K. Consulting and a trustee of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
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Alan Jackson
BEng (Hons), PhD (Auckland) MBA (IMD Management Institute), Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committees
Alan Jackson was until 2009 chairman Australasia, senior vice president and director of The Boston Consulting Group. He has been an international management consultant since 1987 with The Boston Consulting Group and has proven experience at the most senior levels of international and government business. Dr Jackson has worked across a range of industries including resources, diversified industrials, building products and construction sectors. Dr Jackson is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers. He is chairman of Housing New Zealand Corporation, a director of New Zealand Racing Board and Fletcher Building Industries and a trustee of The Icehouse Auckland.
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John Judge
BCom, FCA, Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairman of the Audit Commitee, Member of the Nominations Committee
John Judge has considerable experience in Australasian business and brings further financial and analytical knowledge to the board. His career includes various roles within Ernst & Young culminating in the position of chief executive of Ernst & Young New Zealand. He is a director of ANZ National Bank and Fletcher Building Industries and chairman of the Accident Compensation Corporation and the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation and a member of the Otago University Business School advisory board.
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Jonathan Ling
BEng, MBA, FIPENZ, Managing Director
Jonathan Ling is the chief executive officer and managing director of the company. He has extensive management experience in competitive manufacturing business through his senior management roles in the Laminates & Panels division from 2003 to 2006, and before that in Pacifica, Visy and Nylex. Mr Ling is also a director of ASB Bank and Fletcher Building Industries. He is a member of the Business Council of Australia Sustainable Growth Taskforce and during 2008 and 2009 served on the New Zealand-Government appointed Capital Markets Development Taskforce.
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Cecilia Tarrant
BA, LLB (Hons), LLM (Berkeley), Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Risk and Nominations Committees
Cecilia Tarrant is an executive-in-residence at The University of Auckland Business School after having 20 years' experience in international banking and finance in the USA and Europe. In that time, she worked as a real estate finance lawyer and as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley, culminating in holding the position of managing director in Morgan Stanley's Global Capital Markets Group in New York and London. Ms Tarrant is currently a trustee of The University of Auckland Foundation, and a director of the Government Superannuation Fund Authority.
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Gene Tilbrook
BSc, MBA (University of Western Australia), Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Nominations Committees
Gene Tilbrook was finance director at Wesfarmers Limited until his retirement in May 2009. He led Wesfarmers’ business development group, becoming executive director, business development in 2002 and finance director in 2005. Mr Tilbrook is chairman of Transpacific Industries Group and a director of Fletcher Building Industries, QR National, the GPT Group and the Australian broadband company, NBN. He is a councillor of Curtin University of Technology and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (WA).
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