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Zac Berridge has
joined the team
at recruitment
specialists Build
People as Senior
Recruitment
Specialist –
Merchant &
Supplier. Zac has worked in the building industry for 10+ years in senior roles across distribution, retail and supply chain (including time as a Carters Branch manager) and he joins Build People to specialise in sales management, regional management, branch management and senior operational roles in the merchant and supplier space.
Mario Brazzale has joined ITM as CFO. From an electrical supplies background, previously InterGroup’s interim CFO under contract, before that Mario was CFO at Rexel New Zealand (trading as Ideal Electrical Suppliers) for almost
six years, following a series of senior financial positions. A Canadian, he’s described as an experienced finance executive and Chief Financial Officer with both a commercial and audit background.
Dr Robert
Finch has been
announced as
Director of the
Timber Design
Centre. Formerly
Director of the
Quake Centre,
hosted at the University of Canterbury, prior to this he was the Chief Executive for the Structural Timber Innovation Company. The Timber Design Centre is being set up to encourage and facilitate greater use of timber in the design and construction of all building projects with a particular focus on non-residential buildings and multi-storey residential buildings.
Andrew French is Red Stag Timber’s new Business Development & Project Delivery Manager. Based in Auckland, Andrew takes over from Warren Trethewey, who concluded with Red Stag on 8 April and has a wealth of experience
in the industry, from building, specifying and supporting new product solutions into the construction market. Andrew’s CV includes over 19 years with Jacobsen Creative Surfaces lately as National Sales Manager – Facade Systems before which he was in commercial sales.
For his part, Warren Trethewey has stuck with timber and is now General Manager at South Pacific Timber following his two years at Red Stag and four years at Xlam before that, both in business development roles.
James Hinchco is the first of several new PlaceMakers appointments as the new Auckland Hub Sales Manager. Previously with Carters for the last six years, lately as Auckland Business Development Manager and Commercial Account Manager before that, James was also an Account Manager for Herman Pacific from 2014-2016.
Darren Jacobs, who may well be remembered for his time as Mitre 10 Regional Manager (2010-2012) has
just been appointed as Super Liquor Holdings’ new Chief Executive Officer. Darren is currently Chief Executive of retail co-operative Hunting & Fishing New Zealand, before which he spent six years with Foodstuffs.
Melissa Lam has joined PlaceMakers as People & Performance Manager, having left Restaurant Brands where she was Recruitment Manager for the last 3+ years.
Theo Knudtson is the new Store Implementation Coordinator at Mitre 10 Support Office in Auckland. From June 2021 to March this year, Theo was a Wellington-based Inventory Controller for Mitre 10, prior to which he was
the Wellington & Wairarapa Territory Manager for CDB Goldair and Sales & Service Manager for Farmers Trading Company before that.
Peter Reidy, most recently CE for the last four years of Fletcher Construction, is returning to a previous role, namely heading up KiwiRail. Peter was CEO of KiwiRail between 2014 and 2018, before
joining Fletcher Construction and held the roles of COO and other senior positions at Downer over 2009-2014.
Replacing Peter
Reidy is Phillip Boylen, who is currently responsible for both Brian Perry Civil and Higgins which together represent some 70% of Fletcher Construction’s operations, so he has a proven track record within FCC of driving both business performance and strong customer outcomes. Prior to this, he held senior leadership roles in United Group, Downer and Tenix.
Fletcher Building CEO Ross
Taylor says of the change at the top in Construction: “Over the past four years under Peter’s leadership, we have reset our construction business, set it on a strong pathway into the future, and completed most of the legacy projects.
“Importantly FCC has grown its forward order book from $1.2 billion to more than $3.3 billion, with a margin and risk profile that supports FCC returning to sustainable profitability levels of c 3-5% EBIT margins.
“Phillip is taking on his new role at
an exciting time for the business with a strong and well dimensioned future order book.
“I’d like to congratulate Phillip
on his new role and thank Peter for
his contribution to FCC. We will be confirming timing around the leadership transition in the coming days.”
Karl Parker is PlaceMakers’ new Regional Manager for Auckland/ Northland, having come from Shaver Shop where he was NZ Regional Manager for four years. Before that, Karl spent the best part of 25 years at The Warehouse, starting as a highly successful Store Manager in the South Island and finishing his time there as Head of Price Execution.
Carl Pauling is swapping appliances
for timber, as he leaves his role of the last 16 years at Monaco Corporation to join Des Bickerton as General Manager of the ITM stores in Warkworth and
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