Spark announces new emerging technologies entity

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MARKET RELEASE
22 November 2018

Spark New Zealand announces new emerging technologies
entity, leadership squad changes

Spark New Zealand has announced today that Dr Claire Barber will take on a new
role with Spark to establish and become CEO of a new subsidiary business entity
that will focus on long-term, large-scale new business opportunities arising from a
range of emerging technologies. As this entity will operate distinct from Spark’s core
business, effective 31 December 2018 she will vacate her current role as Product
Director on Spark’s leadership squad.

Effective 1 February 2019, Tessa Tierney, currently tribe lead for Managed Data at
Spark, will be promoted to Product Director and as such she will join the leadership
squad.

Managing Director Simon Moutter commented: “Over recent years, Claire has played
a critical role in leading the almost total transformation of Spark’s IT stack and
digital experience capabilities – something few other major telcos have been able to
achieve – meaning we are now in a position to leverage this new capability in ways
that simply would not have been possible a couple of years ago.

“Having completed this transformation, I have asked Claire to step away from her
day-to-day responsibilities as a member of the Leadership Squad, and set up and
lead the development of a new business entity, reporting directly to me, to address
similarly transformative opportunities arising from technologies such as blockchain,
self-sovereign identity (SSI), artificial intelligence (AI), cross reality (XR), and
hyperscale / edge computing.

“Claire will move across to establish this new business – which we have yet to name
– from February 2019. While we have yet to confirm resource and people
commitments, she will start with a small, focused team and build from there.”

Tessa Tierney joined Spark three years ago firstly working in senior business sales
and marketing roles after previously having had leadership roles at Vodafone and in
the not-for -profit sector. In late 2017, she became lead of one of Spark’s

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“frontrunner tribes” that laid the pathway for Spark’s company-wide transformation
to Agile at scale from July 2018.

Simon Moutter commented: “Throughout our Agile journey, Tessa has been an avid
supporter of Agile and her contribution has been outstanding. She now ranks as one
of Spark’s most experienced Agile practitioners and, importantly, that experience is
focused around product development – which is very much at the centre of Spark’s
Agile operating model. Her promotion is well-deserved and I’m particularly pleased
that this represents another demonstration of how our new Agile operating model
encourages Spark’s internal talent to be recognised and flourish.”

With effect 1 February 2019, Spark’s full leadership squad line-up will be as follows:
Managing Director Simon Moutter
Customer Director Jolie Hodson
Finance Director (CFO) David Chalmers
General Counsel Melissa Anastasiou
HR Director Joe McCollum
Marketing Director Matt Bain
Product Director Tessa Tierney
Technology Director Mark Beder

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