Spark NZ announces Heather Polglase as new HR Director

Spark New Zealand Limited
ARBN 050 611 277 Spark City, 167 Victoria Street West, Private Bag 92028, Auckland, New Zealand


MARKET RELEASE
6 August 2019


Spark New Zealand announces Heather Polglase as new HR
Director

Spark New Zealand announced today that Heather Polglase will become Group Human
Resources Director on the Spark Leadership Squad, effective 1 September 2019. Ms
Polglase will succeed Joe McCollum, who is stepping down after seven years in the HR
role.

In another change, Andrew Pirie, Corporate Relations Lead has decided to leave Spark
in December 2019, with a successor to be appointed in due course.

Currently Lead HR Partner, Ms Polglase joined Spark in 2013 and has since led a
number of important HR initiatives, including as a key architect of Spark’s Leadership
and Development programme. “Heather has proven herself as a very talented HR
leader with the courage to challenge the status quo and I believe she’ll be a fantastic
addition to the Spark Leadership Squad,” said Spark’s Chief Executive Jolie Hodson.

Ms Hodson paid tribute to Joe McCollum’s role in the transformation of Spark: “The
Spark of today is a very different company to the Telecom of 2012 and Joe has been
a guiding hand throughout. During his tenure Joe created a new way of working in
HR – with many local and large global companies coming to Spark to learn more about
this way of working. He has been an amazing supporter and friend to me throughout
my time with Spark and although he will step down from the HR role on 31 August
2019, I’ve asked him to help lead some specific projects on my behalf for the next
couple of months until leaving the company.”

Ms Hodson said Andrew Pirie had led Spark’s Corporate Relations function for the past
seven years, through an era of unprecedented change: “Andrew has done an
outstanding job managing some colossal communication challenges – particularly the
rebranding from Telecom to Spark, and more recently the Agile transformation.”

Effective 1 September 2019, the Spark Leadership Squad will be as follows:
Chief Executive Jolie Hodson
Customer Director Grant McBeath
Finance Director (CFO) David Chalmers
General Counsel Melissa Anastasiou
HR Director Heather Polglase
Marketing Director Matt Bain
Product Director Tessa Tierney
Technology Director Mark Beder

ENDS

Spark New Zealand Limited
ARBN 050 611 277 Spark City, 167 Victoria Street West, Private Bag 92028, Auckland, New Zealand




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