ASB Bank appoints Kiwi as new chief executive
New Zealander Barbara Chapman will take up the role after a stint working in Sydney for ASB's parent company, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
New Zealander Barbara Chapman will take up the role after a stint working in Sydney for ASB's parent company, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
New Zealander Barbara Chapman has been appointed as ASB Bank’s new chief executive and managing director.
She will also become a non-executive director of Sovereign Assurance Company Limited’s parent company, ASB Group (Life), and will take up these positions on April 26.
Ms Chapman is returning to New Zealand and ASB after a five-year secondment with ASB’s parent company, Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
She is currently CBA’s group executive, HR and group services, and has been based in Sydney.
A career banker, she worked for 12 years as a senior executive at ASB specialising in marketing, human resources and retail banking roles, and then as managing director of Sovereign, before relocating to Sydney in 2006.
Ms Chapman has a bachelor of commerce degree and a diploma in industrial relations.
She was the inaugural winner of the TVNZ Marketer of the Year award, is an inductee of the NZ Marketing Hall of Fame, a past chairwoman of Oxfam New Zealand, past director of Oxfam International and the past chairwoman of NZ Equal Employment Opportunities Trust.
Former ASB chief executive Charles Pink resigned late last year for personal reasons.
Ian Park has been acting chief executive since then.