Toni Kerr joins Taupō-based investment and financial advisory provider.
Toni Kerr.
Taupō-based investment and financial advisory provider IWIinvestor has appointed a new non-executive director to its board, Toni Kerr.
Kerr – Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga ngā Iwi, Ngāti Waewae and Ngāti Pikiahu ngā Hapū, will join existing directors Debra Birch, John Bishara, and Steve Napier.
Kerr has more than 30 years’ experience in financial markets and private banking overseas and Aotearoa New Zealand. Offshore, she held senior positions with Societe Generale in Sydney and with BNP Paribas in Hong Kong. On returning home in 2008, she joined Kiwibank as head of treasury and international operations before joining HRL Morrison and Co in 2016 as manager, client operations risk and assurance.
More recently, Kerr has been focused on building Māori financial capability and economic development through roles at Te Puni Kōkiri and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
She also has extensive governance experience, having been a director of the Government Superannuation Fund Authority and New Zealand Community Housing Funding Ltd and as a member of the IHC Audit and Risk Committee. She is also a trustee and the treasurer of Hau Ariki marae in Martinborough. Kerr is a director of Raukawa ki te Tonga AHC and chairs the Sustainability, Audit and Risk Committee.
Kerr is a senior adviser at the RBNZ/Te Pūtea Matua, leading a project to enable Māori to better access capital. Prior to that she was principal adviser in the investment team at Te Puni Kōkiri and had responsibility for building financial and governance capability among whānau and communities.
She has a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in accounting from Sydney’s University of Technology and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
Board chair Debra Birch said: “Toni has skills and values that are well-aligned with IWIinvestor’s kaupapa. We welcome her to the board and look forward to working with her ...
“We would also like to thank Nat Vallabh for his contribution to IWIinvestor. Nat has been involved with IWIinvestor since 2008 as a member of the board’s investment sub-committee and as investment manager from 2011 to 2015.”
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