Directors & Officers
Tim Sole
BSc (Hons), MBA
Independent Chairman
Appointed: Independent Chairman - 1 December 2021
Independent Director - 9 October 2017
Tim is a recently retired actuary and chartered statistician and has spent 26 years of his career as a Chief Executive. He is a former Chief Executive of Royal and Sun Alliance Life, State Insurance, Public Trust, and New Zealand Local Government Insurance Corporation Limited and he has worked as an actuary in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Roles in New Zealand have included Chairman of the Life Office Association, Chairman of the Insurance and Savings Ombudsman Scheme and Chairman of the New Zealand Export Credit Office Advisory Board.
Tim resides in Waikanae, New Zealand.
Richard Davies
B Ec, LLb (Hons), MBA (Hons)
Executive Director
Not Independent
Appointed: 29 August 2014
Richard has over 21 years of broad financial markets experience with both public and private capital markets as an analyst, investor and director in both Australia and the USA. This experience includes founding Roadnight Capital and managing the investment portfolio of the Bori Liberman Family which involved backing and financing start up payments and financial services companies and turning around a $1b+ property business. Between 1998 and 2002 Richard worked at Tiger Management and Kicap Management in NYC. Prior to this Richard practised as a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie and Freehills.
Richard resides in Melbourne, Australia.
James Ogden
BCA (Hons), FCA, CFinstD, INFINZ (Cert)
Independent Director
Appointed: 16 October 2017
James provides consulting services to organisations in the private sector on mergers and acquisitions and investment strategy. His current directorships include the NZX and ASX listed companies Summerset Group Holdings Limited and Vista Group International Limited; chairs the Investment Committee of Pencarrow Funds IV, V and Pencarrow Bridge Fund; Chair of the Special Division of the New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Investment sub-committee of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust. Before becoming a consultant and director, James had extensive investment banking experience including six years as Country Manager for Macquarie Bank Limited and five years as a Director of Credit Suisse First Boston. James worked for eight years in the New Zealand dairy industry in chief executive and finance roles and in London for six years in finance roles. James has a professional accounting background with extensive experience in investment banking and capital markets. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Member of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Inc. and a former New Zealand Stock Exchange Broker.
James resides in Wellington, New Zealand.
Grant Piercy
MBA (Distinction)
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed: 29 August 2014
Grant has over 35 years experience in the financial services industry, where he has held senior management positions in insurance, funds management and banking sectors working for TOWER New Zealand and ANZ Bank. In his previous role, Grant was the Executive Strategy and Operations Manager at TOWER New Zealand.