Air New Zealand appoints three new directors

Air New Zealand has appointed three new directors to its board. Alison Gerry, Claudia Batten and Paul Goulter will take up the positions from their approval at the airline's annual shareholder meeting later this year. Chair Dame Therese Walsh said the appointments would provide further digital, strategic and employment relations expertise to support the airline as it moves onto the next phase of its strategic recovery from Covid-19. "Alison Gerry is currently a director at ANZ Bank New Zealand, Infratil Limited, is the founding Chair of Sharesies and is a director at Suncorp New Zealand," said Walsh. "The airline will benefit from her extensive experience in governance, capital management and audit and risk with those companies and via previous directorships at Spark, TVNZ, Kiwibank and Queenstown and Wellington Airports," says Dame Therese." Batten is the current chair of Serko, a director at Vista Group and the digital advisor to the Westpac New Zealand board. Goulter is the national secretary of NZEI Te Riu Roa (New Zealand's largest education union) and a director of the Co-operative Bank. Walsh said the appointments will fill the vacancies created by the retirement of long-serving directors Jan Dawson, Rob Jager and Linda Jenkinson.<br/>