Pip Greenwood confirmed as an independent director
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MARKET RELEASE
30 May 2019
Pip Greenwood confirmed as an independent director
The Spark New Zealand Board has today determined that as at 30 May 2019 Ms Pip
Greenwood is reclassified as an independent director.
Ms Greenwood joined the Board of Spark on 30 April 2018 and was at that time a Partner and
board member of Russell McVeagh, a law firm that continues to provide professional services
to Spark. At that date the Board determined Ms Greenwood to be independent.
As noted in Spark’s 2018 Annual Report, following Ms Greenwood’s appointment as interim
CEO of Russell McVeagh on 16 August 2018, the Board determined that she was no longer
independent, due to the increased risk that while serving as interim CEO Ms Greenwood could
be perceived to be materially influenced when making decisions as a director of Spark.
Ms Greenwood subsequently stepped down as interim CEO of Russell McVeagh in October 2018
and, having also ceased to be a Partner of Russell McVeagh on 31 March 2019, no longer has
any professional relationship with Russell McVeagh. As such the Spark New Zealand Board has
now determined that Ms Pip Greenwood is independent.
Ms Greenwood is also a director on the boards of Westpac New Zealand and Fisher & Paykel
Healthcare, and has been appointed as a director of The a2 Milk Company Limited with effect
from 1 July 2019.
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