Judges: Young Executive of the Year

Joan WithersJoan Withers spent over 25 years in the media industry, including as CEO of Fairfax NZ and The Radio Network, and has significant corporate governance experience. She chairs The Warehouse Group and a steering committee working to increase Ma¯ori and Pasifika students taking jobs in the health sector and is director of ANZ NZ and Sky Network TV. She was chair of Auckland International Airport, Mercury NZ and TVNZ and held directorships on the boards of some of NZ’s largest companies including Meridian Energy and Tourism Holdings. She is a former Deloitte Top 200 Chairperson of the Year (2015).

Liam Dann

Liam Dann is Business Editor at Large for the New Zealand Herald. He has been a journalist for 25 years, covering business for the last 20 of them. He writes news, opinion pieces and commentary covering markets, economics and politics, and is host of the regular Market and Economy Hub video shows as well as the BNZ Connect SME podcast series. He has also worked in the banking sector in London and travelled extensively.

Rob Campbell, CNZM

Rob Campbell is the chair of SkyCity Entertainment, Summerset Group, Tourism Holdings and WEL Networks and a director of Precinct Properties NZ and Ultrafast Fibre. He has over 30 years’ experience in capital markets and is director of, and advisor to, a range of investment fund and private equity groups in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and the US. In 2019, he was awarded a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Victoria University. He was Deloitte Top 200 Chairperson of the Year in 2017.