Susan has been a Non-executive Director of listed and unlisted companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK since 2000. She is currently on a number of boards where she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee on the majority of them and is Chair of Resimac New Zealand Limited. Susan is the author of several books, with her Simply Finance now in its sixth edition.
Susan is an experienced facilitator having facilitated Executive courses at University of Auckland Business School since 2005 and the Amsterdam Institute of Finance since 2008 and now the Institute of Directors.
Susan believes many people are appointed to boards due to their existing skills, talents and experience, but being an effective board member requires governance skills too. Good governance is a critical success factor to long term business success and her hope is that she can share her knowledge and experiences so as to contribute to better board governance all over New Zealand.
Travel is one of Susan’s loves, particularly in nature and this has given her a great appreciation of wildlife, which she tries to capture in photos. She likes to visit the great walks in New Zealand and the rest of the world, which coincidentally lead to a few vineyards.
