ANZ management

David Hisco
Chief Executive Officer
CPA; B.Bus (Acctg); Exec MBA

David is CEO, ANZ New Zealand and is also responsible for leading ANZ's commercial segment globally. During his 30-year career at ANZ, David has held a number of senior executive roles in retail and commercial banking, including two years as Managing Director of UDC in New Zealand between 1998 and 2000. David is chairman of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association.

David Green
Managing Director, Institutional
NZICA (CA); INFINZ (CFIP); NZIM

David is responsible for managing ANZ's relationships with large Corporate and Institutional clients and providing them with specialised markets, transactional and financing products and solutions. David has held a number of senior Institutional banking roles at ANZ and Deutsche Bank in Australia and New Zealand and has more than 25 years of experience in the finance and banking sector in senior management, advisory, structuring, underwriting and markets.

Graham Turley
Managing Director Commercial & Agri
Dip. Hort; B.BS

Graham is responsible for ANZ’s Commercial & Agri team which is New Zealand’s leading provider of rural financial services. The business meets the needs of customers in the corporate, property construction finance and commercial sectors including UDC Finance.

Graham has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and debt capital markets and has been involved in many of New Zealand’s complex corporate finance transactions.

John is responsible for ANZ’s Wealth & Private Banking business in New Zealand. This part of the business provides private banking, insurance, investment, KiwiSaver and other retirement savings products and services to help New Zealanders build and protect their wealth.

John’s experience includes working for ANZ's markets business for 22 years. He has held a range of senior positions in Singapore, Melbourne and New Zealand.

Kerri Thompson
Managing Director, Retail
MBA

Kerri is responsible for leading ANZ’s Retail teams and our Contact Centres. She also has oversight of Products & Marketing. Kerri has almost 20 years of experience in financial services and has held a number of roles at General Electric, as well as Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in branches and at head office in Sydney.

Fred Ohlsson
Managing Director, Business Banking
MBA; BScience (Managerial Economics)

Fred leads the relationship management teams focused on our small business customers. He is also responsible for EFTPOS and strategy for the Bank's operations in New Zealand. Fred comes to ANZ New Zealand from Australia having joined ANZ in December 2001. He has held a variety of positions across the group including most recently General Manager Global Commercial Banking, and previous to that General Manager Commercial Products.

Craig Sims
Chief Operating Officer
MBA

Craig is responsible for ANZ’s Technology and Project portfolio along with Supplier Shared Services and Property functions. Craig led the New Zealand Simplification programme which launched the new ANZ in October 2012. Craig has more than 27 years’ experience in financial services with senior roles in Retail and Business Banking. This includes ANZ’s acquisition of selected Royal Bank of Scotland businesses in Asia and holding senior roles within The National Bank.

Antonia Watson
Chief Financial Officer
BCom (Hons)

Antonia is responsible for Finance, Taxation, Treasury and Internal Audit. Prior to accepting this role in December 2012, Antonia was ANZ New Zealand’s Financial Controller for three years. Antonia has also worked for Morgan Stanley in Hungary where she was General Manager of their business services and technology centre that served North America and Europe. She also worked for Morgan Stanley in Sydney, where she was Head of Finance and Infrastructure.

Craig Mulholland
BCom, LLB, LLM (Hons), MBA

Craig is responsible for legal and corporate governance matters for ANZ and its New Zealand businesses.  He has more than 20 years experience in legal and commercial roles across a range of industries in New Zealand and overseas.  Prior to joining ANZ in 2011, Craig worked in a leading private practice in New Zealand and held a number of high profile in-house legal roles in large listed and private companies. Craig has extensive governance experience as a director on private and joint venture companies and advising boards of directors. 

John Judge
Independent Non-Executive Director & Chairman

John Judge was appointed to the Board in December 2008. Formerly a Chief Executive of Ernst and Young New Zealand, John has considerable experience in Australasian business and brings extensive financial and analytical knowledge to the Board. He is a director of Fletcher Building Limited and Fletcher Building Finance Limited and is a former Chairman of the Crown organisation, Accident Compensation Corporation. John is also a member of the Otago University School of Business Advisory Board.

David Hisco
Chief Executive Officer and Director

David is CEO New Zealand and a member of the ANZ Group Management Board. He is also responsible for ANZ’s Commercial business globally. During his 30-year career at ANZ, David has held a number of senior executive roles in retail and commercial banking, including two years as Managing Director of UDC in New Zealand between 1998 and 2000. He was appointed CEO New Zealand in September 2010. David is chairman of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association.

Michael Smith
Non-Executive Director

Michael Smith has been Chief Executive Officer of ANZ since October 2007.
Prior to joining ANZ, Michael was President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; Chairman, Hang Seng Bank Limited; Global Head of Commercial Banking for the HSBC Group and Chairman, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad. He is a Member of the Asia Business Council, the Business Council of Australia, and the Australian Bankers’ Association Council.

Norman Geary
Independent Non-Executive Director

Previously a director of The National Bank, Norman Geary has continued to serve as a director on the board. Norman has considerable corporate experience and has held senior management positions with BP in New Zealand, Nigeria, Europe and the UK. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of Air New Zealand and was made CBE in 1991 for his long-term contribution to New Zealand aviation and tourism. He is a director of Otago Innovation Limited, a Board member of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and a member of the NZ Advisory Board of Rio Tinto Aluminum.

Shayne Elliott
Non-Executive Director

Shayne Elliott is Chief Financial Officer of ANZ, a position he was appointed to in June 2012. Shayne is responsible for all aspects of Finance as well as Legal, Treasury and Investor Relations. In this role, Shayne also has responsibility for Group Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions. Shayne joined ANZ (and the Board) in June 2009 as the Chief Executive Officer, Institutional, overseeing all businesses that deal with ANZ's large business, corporate and institutional customers. Previously, Shayne was Head of Business Development at EFG Hermes, the largest investment bank in the Middle East, and spent more than 20 years at Citigroup.

Tony Carter
Independent Non-Executive Director

Tony Carter joined the Board in August 2011. From 2001 to 2010, Tony was Managing Director of Foodstuffs (Auckland) and Foodstuffs (New Zealand), New Zealand's largest retail organisation. He has extensive experience in retail and has owned and operated several Mitre 10 hardware stores, and was a director and Chairman of Mitre 10 New Zealand Limited. Tony is a director of Air New Zealand Limited, Fletcher Building Limited, Fletcher Building and Finance Limited and Vector Limited and he is a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management.