Ms Anne Urlwin

Anne is a professional director, chartered accountant and business consultant with more than 20 years directorship experience in sectors ranging from energy, transport, health, information technology, infrastructure, construction, insurance, research, banking, forestry and the primary sector as well as education, sports administration and the theatre.

She commenced her professional career with KPMG before undertaking senior management roles in the corporate sector including in the IT and meat industries.

Anne is currently Chairman of commercial construction company Naylor Love Enterprises Ltd, and Deputy Chairman of Crown-owned Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd (formerly AMI Insurance Ltd). She became of a director of publicly-listed Chorus Ltd upon the Telecom demerger in late 2011, and in June 2013 was appointed to the board of Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd. She became a director of public-listed retirement village operator Summerset Group Holdings Ltd in March 2014. She is also a director of the ANZ Bank subsidiary One Path Life (NZ) Ltd, and serves as a board member of NZ Hockey and as the independent Chairman of the Te Rūnanga Audit and Risk Committee of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.

Anne is a former director of Meridian Energy Ltd and of New Zealand Cricket, and previously chaired the board of Queenstown Lakes District Council regulatory services provider Lakes Environmental Ltd, as well as the New Zealand Blood Service and technology infrastructure company .nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Ltd). She also previously served as Deputy Chairman of Crown companies Landcare Research NZ Ltd and Airways Corporation of NZ Ltd.

Her directorship experience – as director, chairman and deputy chairman – has been with a range of organisations at different stages of their life cycles, from start-up through to fully mature, and having varied shareholders including commercially-focussed owners in the private and publicly-listed sectors, as well as the Crown and local government sector, and stakeholders of not-for-profit entities.