James Lockie LL.B., B.C.A., FCIS, FFin, MInstD
Executive Chairman

James Lockie has degrees in law and business management from Victoria University of Wellington. He completed his professional law qualifications at Auckland University and has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

He commenced his career with Toyota New Zealand in the areas of corporate planning and treasury management. In 1986 he joined Omnicorp Investments Limited, as Financial Controller and Company Secretary, establishing their Hong Kong office as an international treasury centre, and was responsible for structuring acquisitions, raising debt and corporate planning.

Returning to New Zealand in 1989, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer and to the Board of TV3, prior to its commencing broadcasting. He oversaw the reorganisation of TV3’s corporate structure, and its initial public offering. After TV3 he founded Horizon Pacific Television, whose four regional television stations began broadcasting in 1995. James was a director of business magazine publisher, Profile Publishing Limited until 2007 and a shareholder and chairman of television and commercial post production company Central Post Operations Limited from 1997 to 2008.

James is currently a shareholder and director of Manuka Health New Zealand Limited, a company specialising in natural health products, and a director of a number of private companies.

He is a Member of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

William Cairns B.Com., Dip.Bus., FCIS, FFin
Executive Director
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William Cairns has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Canterbury University with post graduate finance qualifications from Auckland University.

He commenced his career with Mobil Oil in 1981 and later joined the New Zealand Dairy Board before entering the financial markets as a dealer with General Bills in 1984. During the late 1980s, he worked as a commercial lender with Advance Bank in Sydney (which became

St George Bank and is now part of Westpac Banking Group).

Upon returning to New Zealand in 1990, he was appointed Mortgage Manager with NZ Guardian Trust (a well established trustee company). In this role he was responsible for the Trust’s mortgage operation, managing of all types of mortgage lending (residential, farming and commercial).

One of his major achievements in this role was to more than treble the size of the mortgage book. When he left in December 1998, it had the largest mortgage book in the trustee company sector.

William served on the Hobson Community Board in Central Auckland, from 1998 to 2001 as a Community Board Councillor. In October 2001, William was elected to the Auckland City Council. He was a member of the Property and Finance Committee, Chairman of the Art Gallery Enterprise Board and a director of Metrowater (Auckland based water utility company).

William did not seek re-election in the 2004 local body elections and retired from his Council appointments. In 2009 William was elected to the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust, majority owner of listed electricity lines company Vector Limited

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.