John Anderson (New Zealand businessman)

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Sir John Anderson KBE was the Chief Executive and Director of ANZ National Bank Limited and, will become the next chair of Television New Zealand as of April 2006 ^[1]. He was awarded the NZ Commemoration Medal in 1990 and was knighted in 1994.

Throughout his career, Anderson has overseen mergers with the Rural Bank - first with the Countrywide Bank, later National Bank and most recently, ANZ. ^[2] After ANZ's acquisition of NBNZ in 2004 he was responsible for ANZ's New Zealand businesses.

He began his career in accounting, followed by sharebroking in Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 1972 to help form the merchant bank South Pacific Merchant Finance (Southpac).

He became Chief Executive of Southpac in 1979 and continued as Chief Executive of National Bank in 1988, when Southpac merged with NBNZ.

Sir John was on a number of business boards in the 1980s, including New Zealand Steel and Petrocorp, where he was Chairman.

He was on the international board of the World Wide Fund for Nature for four years as well as being the New Zealand Chairman. He was also a member of the Prime Minister's Enterprise Council from 1990 to 1999.

He is currently Chairman of New Zealand Cricket and a member of the International Cricket Council Executive Board.

[edit] References

1. ^  Sir John bowing out of banking by ASB Business, from TVNZ 1 November 2005
2. ^  Sir John Anderson new TVNZ chair from TVNZ, 21 December 2005

[edit] External link

• ANZ National Bank Profile - John Anderson