View Full Profile Henry van der Heyden DCNZOM, BE (Hons) Lincoln
Henry van der Heyden became Chairman of Fonterra Co¬operative Group in September 2002. He is a founding director of the Co-operative and has contributed to industry governance for 16 years, as both a director and chairman.
He also played a considerable role in the industry rationalisation that led to Fonterra’s establishment.
Mr van der Heyden currently serves on Fonterra’s Audit, Finance and Risk Committee, and is Chairman of the Appointments, Remuneration and development Committee and External Relations Group. He is also a director of the NZX, king St Advertising, Independent Egg Producers, Northern Feedmills, Elevation Capital and Manuka SA and is a member of Rabobank’s Food Agribusiness Advisory Board of Australia. He is a Trustee of Asia:New Zealand.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Agr) with Honours from Lincoln University.
View Full Profile Colin Armer
Colin Armer has a long history in the dairy industry. He was raised on a dairy farm in Te Puke and in 1978 bought his first herd. Over the last three decades he has built up his farming interests, particularly in the Bay of Plenty and Central Plateau region of the North Island and in the South Island.
Elected in 2006 Colin now chairs the Shareholder Relations Committee and the Milk Price Working Group and sits on the Appointments, Remuneration and Development Committee. Colin is also a Director of Dairy Holdings Ltd based in Timaru.
Colin is married to Dale and the couple have eight children.
View Full Profile Malcolm Bailey B.Ag. Econ. Massey
Malcolm Bailey was elected to the Fonterra Board of Directors in May 2004. He is a member of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee, the Shareholder Relations Committee, the External Relations Group and the Milk Price Working Group. He is Fonterra’s representative on the International Food and Agriculture Trade Policy Council.
Mr Bailey is a former National President of Federated Farmers, a former Fonterra Shareholders’ Councillor, and has been a Special Agricultural Trade Envoy for the New Zealand Government and an External Monetary Policy Adviser to the Reserve Bank.
He has nine years’ experience as a member of the Technology NZ Reference Group analysing research and development projects, and has served on the Animal Remedies and Pesticides Boards. He is a director of Embryo Technologies Ltd and Hawkes Bay Dairies.
Mr Bailey farms 205 hectares near Feilding and has other dairy farming interests in the lower North Island. He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics degree from Massey University and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
View Full Profile John Ballard MBA
John Ballard was appointed as an independent director in May 2006, effective from July 2006. He serves on the Appointments, Remuneration and Development Committee. Mr Ballard has a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, majoring in Marketing and International Business.
He has served on the boards of several prominent listed companies including Woolworths Ltd, CSR Ltd, Rinker Ltd, and Email Ltd. He is a former chairman of Wattyl Ltd and is a trustee of the Sydney Opera House.
In addition to his extensive governance experience, Mr Ballard has a strong track record in consumer goods, marketing brand and distribution management as a result of leadership roles in international companies including Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd (Australia), United Biscuits Asia Ltd, and Southcorp, where he was CEO prior to the company’s acquisition by Fosters Ltd.
His farming interests extend to a property producing milk-fed veal in New South Wales. Mr Ballard is married with two children.
View Full Profile Ian Farrelly B.Ag. Massey
Ian Farrelly was elected to the Fonterra Board in September 2007 and serves on the Shareholder Relations Committee, the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee and the Milk Price Working Group. He spent 21 years in the banking industry, including 14 years as head of ASB Bank’s Rural Division.
During his tenure, the Rural Business grew from a nil base to over $5 billion in lending and 15 per cent market share. He has a Bachelor of Agriculture from Massey University.
Mr Farrelly lives in Te Awamutu in the Waikato on a 400 hectare calf rearing farm with his wife Donna and three boys. They have established an array of business interests, including large scale beef and dairy farming operations. In 2004, he was profiled as one of 21 successful New Zealand business people in the best selling book ‘Growing Tall Poppies’.
View Full Profile Roger France BCom, CA
Roger France joined the Board of Fonterra in January 2003. The first 11 years of his professional career were with a PricewaterhouseCoopers predecessor firm, and included five years in audit supervisory and management positions in Sydney and London.
He spent 10 years as Chief Financial Officer with two New Zealand publicly listed companies, Allied Farmers Co-operative Limited and Freightways Holdings Limited, before returning to what was then Coopers & Lybrand as a partner in the Corporate Finance Division, subsequently serving as the Managing Partner in Auckland.
Following the merger with Price Waterhouse, Mr France sat on the Management Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers and led its Corporate Value Consulting practice in the Asia Pacific region for three years before retiring from the firm in June 2001.
He joined Air New Zealand’s Board in October 2001, acting as Executive Director until February 2002, and is now the airline’s Deputy Chairman and Chairman of its Audit Committee.
Mr France has been Chairman of the private investment company Tappenden Holdings since 1997, and is Pro Chancellor of The University of Auckland. He serves on Fonterra’s Audit, Finance and Risk Committee and is Chairman of the Fair Value Share Review Committee.
View Full Profile Greg Gent
Greg Gent has served the dairy industry as a director since 1993. He serves on the Appointments, Remuneration and Development Committee, the Trade Strategy Committee and the Milk Price Working Group.
He is also a director of FMG Insurance and began his career working for the Bank of New Zealand in 1972. After five years he made the move into dairying, with 700 cows on his farm at Ruawai, Northland.
In 2002 Mr Gent completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France.
View Full Profile David Jackson M.Com. (Hons), FCA
David Jackson was appointed to the Fonterra Board as an independent director in August 2007, effective September 2007. He serves on the boards of several leading companies including Pumpkin Patch Ltd, Nuplex Industries Ltd and The New Zealand Refining Company. He is also a member of the Securities Commission.
Mr Jackson spent more than 30 years with accounting firm Ernst & Young in a variety of roles. He served as Chairman of the Board of Management for Ernst & Young Ltd New Zealand from 1999 to 2002.
He has a Master of Commerce (Hons) in Accounting, is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and has extensive international experience in Asia, the United Kingdom, the USA and South America.
Mr Jackson is the Chairman of Fonterra’s Audit, Risk and Finance Committee and serves on the Fair Value Share Review Committee.
View Full Profile Stuart Nattrass B.Ag. Sc. (Hons) Lincoln
Stuart Nattrass was elected to the Fonterra Board of Directors in June 2003. He is a member of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee and the Fair Value Share Review Committee.
Mr Nattrass was involved in international financial markets, principally foreign exchange risk management, for 16 years. He was initially employed at the National Bank in Wellington and he left the industry having held the position of Global Head of Foreign Exchange Risk for Westpac, based in Sydney.
He has been involved in farming all his life, and his interests now include ownership of a 420 hectare pastoral property near Geraldine. He also has a share in a 1,200 cow spray irrigated dairy farm near Ashburton. Mr Nattrass has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science with Honours from Lincoln University.
View Full Profile Earl Rattray B.Ag. Econ. Massey
Earl Rattray has been a dairy company director for 13 years. He is Chairman of the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand and currently serves on Fonterra’s Audit, Finance and Risk Committee, Fair Value Share Review Committee and its External Relations Group.
Mr Rattray’s current dairy farming interests include a 110 hectare farm in partnership with his wife Joanne at Otorohanga. They are partners in an organic conversion at Tokoroa and shareholders in a Victorian dairy farm.
Prior to dairy farming, he worked as an economist for the New Zealand Meat and Wool Board’s Economic Service in Wellington. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics and is a member of the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Primary Industry Management.
View Full Profile Jim van der Poel
Jim van der Poel has been a dairy company director since 1999 and was elected to the Fonterra Board in 2002. He presently serves on the Fair Value Share Review Committee, the Shareholder Relations Committee and the Milk Price Working Group.
He is Chairman of DairyNZ and a director and chairman of a number of private companies in which he is a shareholder.
He and his family live and farm at Ohaupo in the Waikato but also have farming interests in the South Island. Mr van der Poel has won a number of farming awards including Sharemilker of the Year, The AC Cameron Award, Dairy Exporter Primary Performer Award and a 2002 Nuffield Scholarship to study the capital structures of co-operatives.
View Full Profile Ralph Waters CP. Eng. FIE Aust, M. Bus.
Ralph Waters was appointed to the Board as an independent director in July 2006. Mr Waters was Chief Executive of Fletcher Building from May 2001 until his retirement in August 2006.
Before joining Fletcher Building, Mr Waters was managing director of the Australian publicly-listed company Email Ltd, having previously held a range of senior management positions during his eighteen years with that organisation. He has also held a number of engineering and managerial positions in London and the Middle East prior to joining Email. Mr Waters has non executive directorships with Fletcher Building, Fisher & Paykel Appliances and Westpac New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia and has a Masters of Business degree.
Mr Waters serves on the Appointments, Remuneration and Development Committee.
View Full Profile John Wilson B. Ag. Sc. Massey
John Wilson was elected to the Fonterra Board of Directors in June 2003. He currently serves on the Appointments, Remuneration and Development Committee and the Fair Value Share Review Committee.
Mr Wilson was the first chairman of the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council and is the Chairman of SAITL. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors and holds a certificate in Company Direction. In 2000 he was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship and in 2003 he was selected for the Fonterra Advanced Development Programme.
Farming all his life, John lives near Te Awamutu with his wife Belinda and their four children, and has built a dairy farming business that includes their farm in Te Awamutu and joint ownership of farms in Geraldine, South Canterbury. Mr Wilson has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Massey University.
