Alan Bougen, Catherine Savage, Hinerangi Raumati, Rob Fyfe, and Shane and Lynnette McManaway also recognised.
She is a director of two of the country's highest-profile companies but Justine Smyth has managed to keep beneath the public radar, until now.
The operator of Burger King in New Zealand posted a small loss in 2012.
Co-op posts strong opening milk price forecast but economic crisis in Sri Lanka hits quarterly earnings.
New editors take the reins at New Zealand’s premier business news service.
Earshot's James Bell-Booth wants to grow global sales and raise up to $2 million from institutional investors.