Michael Boggs

Michael has led New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) as Chief Executive Officer since March 2016, following his role as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Under his leadership, NZME continues to execute a comprehensive growth strategy, accelerating development across the group's brands with particular focus on subscription and classified offerings, digital and video content, while ensuring sustainable growth of our traditional print and radio platforms. His extensive executive experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer at Tower Limited, where he managed multibillion-dollar assets, Pacific Islands operations, the earthquake recovery programme, and the strategic divestment of Tower's life insurance, health insurance and investment management businesses. This transformative work earned him CFO of the Year at the 2014 New Zealand CFO Awards. Michael brings significant telecommunications and technology sector expertise from executive roles in finance, commercial and business functions at major organisations, including Telstra's New Zealand operations.