Chair
Sir Brian Roche
Sir Brian is involved in a number of boards in the public and private sectors.
He is currently Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency. He was previously chairman of the New Zealand Transport Agency Board during development of the Waterview Connection project.
He was the Chief Executive, New Zealand Post until April 2017.
He is also a former chairman of the NZ Rugby Union and the Project Manager for the successful bid to secure the hosting rights to Rugby World Cup 2011.
During a 20-year tenure with PWC in Wellington where he was a senior partner, he undertook a range of top management roles on contract to the public sector, including education, housing, transport and Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Brian has a strong commercial bent and is also is someone who cares about people.
A Hawkes Bay born accountant, he has a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (Victoria University) and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA).
Directors
Russell Black
Russell is a civil engineer with extensive client delivery management experience on major infrastructure projects - predominantly urban and underground railways in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and China. Russell provides client governance and consultancy services on Australian urban rail projects.
Brian Harrison
Brian has a legal background with extensive domestic and international experience advising corporates, financiers, multilaterals and government bodies on major projects and infrastructure in a broad range of sectors, including rail, road, aviation, ports, property and public-private partnerships. His roles have included managing and executing complex projects with responsibility for overall corporate structures and governance, procurement and contract negotiation, capital and debt structuring and analysis and advice on execution and risk allocation.
Karen Jordan
Karen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a project manager with over 20 years corporate general management experience in Financial Times Stock Exchange Top 20 infrastructure companies. She has extensive commercial operations and asset management expertise; latterly with United Kingdom National Grid PLC across a £1 billion per annum construction programme. Prior to moving permanently to New Zealand, she was Director of Contract Management for UK Defence, with responsibilities across a multi-billion-pound project delivery portfolio. She is an independent member of the New Zealand Defence Force Risk and Assurance Committee.
Anne Urlwin
Anne is a professional director and chartered accountant with wide-ranging governance experience, including the infrastructure and construction sectors. Her current roles include directorships of Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd, Summerset Group Holdings Ltd, Tilt Renewables Ltd and Precinct Properties New Zealand Ltd, and she is Deputy Chair of Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd. Anne is a former director of Chorus Ltd and a former chairperson of national commercial construction group Naylor Love and has served on a number of central and local government entity boards.