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Ralph Waters
CPEng, 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, Asciano and Fletcher Building Industries, and a former director of Fonterra Co-operative Group. He is 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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Mark Adamson
BA (Hons), ACA, ATII, Non-independent Managing Director
Mark Adamson is the chief executive officer and managing director of Fletcher Building. Prior to his current role, Mark held a number of positions with the Formica Group. He joined the Formica Group in 1998 as chief financial officer of the European division followed by the role of managing director UK and Eire and in 2004 became president of Formica Europe. Mr Adamson was appointed chief executive of Formica Corporation in 2008 and of the Laminates & Panels division in 2011. Prior to his positions at Formica he was financial controller of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. Mr Adamson is a member of the English Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Taxation and a director of Fletcher Building Industries.
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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 previously owning and operating several Mitre 10 hardware stores. He was also a director and later chairman of Mitre 10 New Zealand. Mr Carter is chairman of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and is also a director of ANZ National Bank, Air New Zealand and Fletcher Building Industries, co-chair of the NZ Initiative and a trustee of the Maurice Carter Charitable Trust.
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Alan Jackson
BEng (Hons), PhD (Auckland) MBA (IMD Management Institute), Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Nominations Committee
Dr Alan Jackson was Chairman Australasia, Senior Vice President and Director of The Boston Consulting Group until 2009. 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. He is a fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers, chairman of Housing New Zealand Corporation and New Zealand Racing Board, a director of Fletcher Building Industries and a trustee of The ICEHOUSE Auckland.
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John Judge
BCom, FCA, MPP, FInstD, Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairman of the Audit and Risk Commitee, Member of the Nominations Committee
John Judge has considerable experience in Australasian business and brings 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. Mr Judge is chairman of ANZ National Bank and the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, a director of Fletcher Building Industries and a member of the University of Otago Business School advisory board.
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Kathryn Spargo
LLB (Hons), BA, Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Risk and Nominations Committees
Kathryn Spargo has extensive business experience from advisory roles on strategic and governance issues following a career in legal practice in both the public and private sectors. She has a number of non-executive directorships, including ASX listed companies UGL and Sonic Healthcare, and of SMEC and Investec Bank (Australia). Ms Spargo also serves as a director on a number of not-for-profit businesses. She is currently chair of the Australian Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board, is a member of the International Ethics Standards Boards for Accountants and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Cecilia Tarrant
BA, LLB (Hons), LLM (Berkeley), Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Risk and Nominations Committees
Ms Tarrant has over 20 years’ experience in international banking and finance in the USA and Europe. In that time, she worked as a real estate finance lawyer in San Francisco and as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley in New York and London, culminating in holding the position of managing director in Morgan Stanley’s Global Capital Markets Group in London. Ms Tarrant is currently a trustee of The University of Auckland Foundation, where she is chair of the Investment Committee, a member of the Board of the Government Superannuation Fund Authority, a director of Fletcher Building Industries and an Executive-in-Residence at the University of Auckland Business School.
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Gene Tilbrook
BSc, MBA (University of Western Australia), Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit and Risk 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, Aurizon Holdings and the GPT Group. He is a councillor of Curtin University of Technology and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (WA).
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