Beca Group appoints Jan Dawson as Independent Director
Feb 2014 - The Beca Group recently appointed Jan Dawson as an Independent Director. As a professional independent
director for a number of New Zealand and Australian companies and the previous Chair and Chief Executive for KPMG New
Zealand, Ms Dawson brings valuable trans-Tasman insights and expertise in the professional services field. Her career
spans 30 years specialising in audit and accounting services in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.
This appointment follows the retirement of Mike Wilke, Beca Group Limited’s first independent director, at the end of
his three-year term last year. According to Beca Chairman Richard Aitken, Ms Dawson’s directorship skills are an asset
to the Board’s deliberations. “We are very pleased to welcome Jan Dawson to the Group. Along with Beca’s other
independent director, Catherine Drayton and our executive directors, Jan brings a great deal of experience and further
governance expertise to the board table.”
Ms Dawson is currently Deputy Chair of Air New Zealand Limited, and a director of Westpac New Zealand Limited, AIG
Insurance New Zealand Limited, Meridian Energy Limited and Goodman Fielder Limited. She is on the Council for the
University of Auckland and a Trustee for the Voyager Maritime Museum.
She also represents Oceania on the Council of the International Sailing Federation and was President of Yachting New
Zealand until October 2013.
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