Rainbow Tick certification
The chairman of SBS Bank, John Ward, has announced that Shaun Drylie has been appointed as SBS Group chief executive. Drylie replaces Wayne Evans who became chief executive in April 2014 but died suddenly in January this year.
Drylie has an extensive background across the New Zealand banking industry and started his banking career in Greymouth 30 years ago. Progressively moving into more senior and strategic roles, his diversity of experience includes retail banking, business development and transformation of business services both in New Zealand and abroad. He has been part of the ASB Banking Group since 1994 and in 2014 moved to Vietnam to take up a banking growth and development role with Commonwealth Bank VIB (Vietnam).
Chapman Tripp farewells the firm’s current chief executive partner, Andrew Poole, and welcomes his incoming replacement, corporate partner Nick Wells. Poole was originally one of the firm’s two managing partners, along with Mark Reese. Wells has been a partner at Chapman Tripp for 13 years, specialising in corporate and private equity transactions and fund formation. He is an expert on corporate structuring for Maori, private equity, businesses and charities and – as chief executive partner – he will continue as Kaihautū of Chapman Tripp’s Māori Legal Group, Te Waka Ture.
Godfrey Boyce has been appointed chief executive of KPMG New Zealand. He will join KPMG executive chairman Ross Buckley in leading the firm. Boyce has been with KPMG for more than 30 years. For the past three years, he has led the firm’s growing advisory practice – which has more than doubled in size during that time, and now has more than 240 specialists working with clients throughout New Zealand.
Well known Fijian-Australian Jarryd Hayne has been announced as a global ambassador for Fiji’s national airline, Fiji Airways. Supporting the airline’s efforts to promote Fiji to its key markets, the appointment sees the international sports star not only act as an ambassador for the airline, but also for the destination that he calls home.
Heritage Hotel Management has appointed Dylan Rushbrook as the new general manager of sales and marketing. Rushbrook is based in the Auckland corporate office and will be leading the national sales and marketing team activity for the group’s 19 hotels nationwide. He joins Heritage Hotels from Skycity Entertainment Group where he was director of sales, hotels and Sky Tower, for the past four years.
Heritage Hotel Management has also appointed Mike Garvey as general manager of Heritage Queenstown. Garvey joins Heritage Hotels from Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific where he has held a management role for the past four years. He has a wealth of hospitality experience with more than 20 years in hotel management. Following a six month audit process, commercial law firm, Russell McVeagh, has been awarded Rainbow Tick certification. The Rainbow Tick programme is a continual quality improvement programme designed to help an organisation ensure it is a safe and welcoming workplace for employees of diverse gender identity and sexual orientation and demonstrates a business is an inclusive organisation for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, takatapui and intersex.
Russell McVeagh CEO Gary McDiarmid says the firm is very pleased to have been awarded certification, yet sees it has only the beginning. “It sends a great message to our staff and our clients that we embrace diversity at Russell McVeagh. We place great importance on diversity and inclusiveness in our workplace although by going through this process, it has become clear that we still have a way to go on our journey. We are committed to building upon this achievement and continuing to work on making our environment a welcoming place for all of our employees to feel comfortable enough bringing their authentic selves to work.”