CHAIRMAN
John King
Consultant with Russell McVeagh. Director of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited, Westpac (NZ) Investments Limited and The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited. Vice President of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) Inc., and Deputy Chairman of the Spirit of Adventure Trust. Member of the Council of the Auckland College of Education and the Council of Business New Zealand. Chairman of the Panel since it was created in 1994 and previously of the Takeovers Panel Advisory Committee. Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel.

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
David Jones
Principal of Jones Young, Auckland, specialising in commercial and company law. Personal adviser to the Minister of Justice on the company law reform programme 1991. Member of the Company Law Monitoring Group 1993. Lecturer in company law for the Institute of Directors. Member of the Panel from its inception as an advisory group.

MEMBERS
Denis Byrne
Brisbane-based commercial lawyer and company director. Chair of the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation, Director of Horticulture Australia Ltd, Total Care Technologies Pty Ltd, the Ball Solutions Group of Companies (Australia) and Birkdale Nursery Holdings Pty Ltd. Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel since 1997. Chair of the Queensland Gas Appeals Tribunal and the Dowlands College Foundation, Member of the Starlight Children’s Foundation Advisory Board. Appointed to the New Zealand Takeovers Panel in 2001.

Anthony Frankham
Principal and Director of Frankham Lyne Limited, Director of Auckland International Airport Limited, and a Director and Chairman of New Zealand Experience Limited. Board Member of the Spirit of Adventure Trust. Chairman of the Audit Office’s New Zealand Audit Committee and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Disciplinary Tribunal. Life Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Appointed to the Panel in 2002.

Colin Giffney
Principal of Giffney & Jones, specialist corporate advisers. Previously Partner and Managing Director of JB Were in New Zealand. NZX broker and a founding Member of the Market Surveillance Panel. Appointed to the Panel in 2001.

Alastair Lawrence
Auckland-based investment banker. Principal of Antipodes, a private investment bank which provides specialist mergers and acquisitions advice in addition to private equity. Director of a number of private companies. Member of the Panel since 1993.

Kevin O’Connor
Wellington company director. Chairman of utilities investment company Infratil Limited, Director of a range of private companies and a previous Chairman of the Market Surveillance Panel of the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Member of the Panel since 1994.

David Quigg
Partner of Quigg Partners, barristers and solicitors of Wellington, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and corporate law. Lecturer in takeovers and mergers and acquisitions law for the Institute of Directors. Appointed to the Panel in 2001.

Daphne Rawstorne
Wellington-based accountant, former Managing Partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, company director and business consultant. Member of the Panel since 1999.

Sue Suckling
South Island company director and business consultant. Chair of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, AgriQuality New Zealand Ltd., Baker Fruit Processors Ltd., Carsons (SI) and Wellington Ltd., and The Oxford Clinic Ltd. Director of Westpac (NZ) Investments Limited and Farmlands. Appointed to the Panel in 2002.