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Tony Carter, Chairman
Tony Carter became a director in December 2010 and was appointed Chairman in April 2012. Mr Carter is a director of Fletcher Building Limited, Air New Zealand Limited, ANZ National Bank Limited, is co-chairman of the New Zealand Initiative and is a trustee of the Maurice Carter Charitable Trust. He served as Managing Director of Foodstuffs New Zealand Limited for ten years from 2001 to 2010. Mr Carter received his Master of Engineering degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom. |
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Michael Daniell
Michael Daniell became Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer upon completion of the reorganisation in November 2001. Mr Daniell served as the General Manager of Fisher & Paykel Industries Limited’s healthcare business from May 1990 until November 2001. From 1979 until May 1990, Mr Daniell held various positions in the healthcare business, including product design engineer and technical manager. Mr Daniell has more than 30 years of international healthcare business experience. Mr Daniell received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering with honours from the University of Auckland. |
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Nigel Evans
Nigel Evans became a director upon completion of the reorganization in November 2001. Dr Evans has served as principal of Quark Technology since June 1987. Dr Evans held a variety of management positions with New Zealand Steel Limited from August 1966 to May 1987. Dr Evans received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Zealand, a Master of Science degree from the University of Auckland, and a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Cambridge. Dr Evans has also attended the Senior Managers Program, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. |
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Roger France
Roger France became a director in February 2009. Mr France is Chancellor of the University of Auckland, Chairman of Tappenden Holdings Limited, Deputy Chairman of Air New Zealand Limited, a director of Blue Star Group Holdings Limited and was, until 2008, a director of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited. He was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and one of its predecessor firms, Coopers & Lybrand, for over 15 years and was the Chief Financial Officer of Allied Farmers Co-operative Limited and Freightways Holdings Limited for ten years. He was the Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand in Auckland for five years. Following the merger with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he led the firm’s Corporate Value consulting practice in the Asia Pacific region and served as a member of its Governance Board. Mr France received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Canterbury and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. |
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Lindsay Gillanders
Lindsay Gillanders has served as a director of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited (previously known as Fisher & Paykel Industries Limited) since May 1992. Mr Gillanders has also served as a director of Rangatira Limited since October 2002, Auckland Packaging Company Limited since October 2002, Dunlop Living Limited since November 2004 and as Chairman of Auckland Packaging Company Limited since September 2003. Until completion of the reorganisation in November 2001, Mr Gillanders was responsible for Fisher & Paykel Industries’ legal, regulatory, compliance and intellectual property rights, and worked on major commercial agreements including acquisitions and divestments by both the appliances and healthcare businesses. Mr Gillanders received his Bachelor of Law degree with honours from the University of Auckland. |
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Arthur Morris
Arthur Morris, became a director in February 2008. Dr Morris is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists, the Australasian Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr Morris trained in Dunedin, Invercargill and Auckland before spending 3 years at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA, returning to New Zealand in 1994. Dr Morris is Chairman of DNA Diagnostics Limited and the Chief Executive Officer of Diagnostic Medlab Limited. Dr Morris received his First Class Honours (Microbiology) and medical degrees from the University of Otago and his doctoral degree from the University of Auckland. |
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Gary Paykel
Gary Paykel has been a director since completion of the reorganisation in November 2001 and served as Chairman from that time until March 2012. Mr Paykel has served as a director of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited (previously known as Fisher & Paykel Industries Limited) since August 1979. Mr Paykel served as Chief Executive Officer from December 1989 and Managing Director of Fisher & Paykel Industries Limited from April 1987 until the completion of the reorganisation of the Company. Mr Paykel joined Fisher & Paykel Industries in 1960 and, prior to his appointment to the position of sales director in 1985, held a variety of positions in the manufacturing, engineering, purchasing and sales departments. Mr Paykel has also served as a director of Team New Zealand Limited since March 2004 and is a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. |