Distinguished Fellow presentation and networking

Networking

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Speaker(s): Dame Rosanne Meo, Michael Simm
Date: 5:30pm — 7:15pm, 19 February 2025
Venue: The Northern Club
Location: 19 Princes Street, Auckland
Price: $0.00 incl GST

Overview

We look forward to celebrating our new Distinguished Fellows with a presentation and the opportunity to network over drinks and canapés.

The Distinguished Fellow Award is the IoD’s highest accolade.  Distinguished Fellow awards are awarded twice annually to IoD members who have had a prominent and distinguished career as a director and have contributed positively to business and society.

An invitation-only dinner for IoD Fellows will follow this event, starting at 7.20pm.  RSVPs to the emailed invitation. For further details please email charlie.vorster@iod.org.nz

Dame Rosanne Meo

DNZM OBE DFInstD

Rosanne has worked as a company director for over 30 years in New Zealand and Australia as well as extensive work as a trustee in the arts community and tertiary sector.
 
Her corporate career within the forestry and manufacturing sector predominantly working in marketing and human resources through to the early 2000s when she embarked rather ambitiously and tentatively into corporate governance.
 
Rosanne describes her career as a director and trustee as exciting demanding and extraordinarily rewarding. She is currently chairman of Briscoes, chairs two of AMP NZ staff Superannuation schemes and patron of Auckland Philharmonia. She is a mother of two marvellous daughters Annabelle and Victoria and now the grandmother of five grandsons who also play a very big part in her life.
 
Rosanne received an OBE in 1993 for services to business, Women’s Suffrage Medal also in 1993 and DNZM for services to business and for not-for-profit in 2011.

Michael Simm

DFInstD, JP

Mike’s governance career started some 30 years ago after a successful management career in manufacturing, construction and tourism. He moved to Northland at that time and became heavily involved in establishing an IoD presence there whilst holding board roles in a wide variety of industries and organisations including Tourism NZ, NZ Conservation Authority, Hawkins Construction, Top Energy, Fullers Bay of Islands, and chairing Waitangi Ltd, Competenz, Enterprise Northland , and a number of smaller SMEs, Trusts and various community groups. 
 
He chaired the Northland IoD sub-committee which was formed in 2009 and has continued to grow and provide networking and learning opportunities for local members and others. In addition to the annual networking functions the committee has focused on running many educational programmes designed to lift the understanding and practice of good governance in the region.

Mike was elected to the Auckland branch committee in 2012 and was inducted into the Northland Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame in the same year. 

Additional information

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